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smickles: oh yeah, are you making the claime for the etf?
mircea_popescu: any newspaper has to do 1.5x more than any blog for the same attention.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the bar should be against old press
smickles: yeah, the line should be drawn at quality, not labels
mircea_popescu: there's no newspaper in the world that can compete with the top blogs. in any respect.
mircea_popescu: ftr, the entire "blogs are not a source" like of wikipedia, while they take utter junk such as news sites into account...
smickles: since 2007, that's decent
mircea_popescu: i guess they're mostly linden
mircea_popescu: Born in 2007 as a Second Life insurance company, The Rock has evolved in a full featured virtual financial institution. Based in US, founded by EU citizens, run by long-standing virtual experts.
smickles: "While it has been said that the ECB report doesn't deny or disprove that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, it doesn't accuse it of being a Ponzi either. The Reuters source is just a headline (as far as it saying anyone even mentions Ponzi and Bitcoin in the same sentence). Headlines are often written by people other than the article's author for the purpose of attracting eyeballs, not communicating relevant information. The other citation (currently us
mircea_popescu: i wasn't even aware they existed last year.
smickles: 219 btc last year too
mircea_popescu: check out the 24 hour volumes on the right
dub: fishgame jumped the shark eh?
mircea_popescu: they were .3 nominal bonds too, not 1.0 like giga's.
smickles: if you only have 5 bonds then the effort to maintain a secure wallet is a higher cost than the value of the bonds
smickles: I can't imagine this giga issue would require anything above the 'inked rubber stamp' variety tho
mircea_popescu: one of those hologram things
smickles: 50 euro must get you a hight quality stamp impression from the notary
mircea_popescu: smickles i'd guess it's anywhere from free to 50 or so euros here
smickles: SudoGhost (as expected) ignoring the point of my comment
smickles: "And how do you expect anyone to find a reliable source pointing this out about the vast majority of appreciating assets?"
smickles: "I wrote earlier “That characteristic being that early adopters are benifited greater than the latecomers. But this can be said of any appreciating asset.” in reference to the only submitted evidence for Bitcoin being anything near a ponzi scheme in the statements citations.
PsychoticBoy: I am almost at the point to invest another 2k btc in giga
jcpham: can i tera-mine yet?
jcpham: how are you today?
smickles: heh, tell that to mtgox when you hit their aml limits
PsychoticBoy: so you took my money and now walks unless..... strange
PsychoticBoy: I did not need an ID to buy from you so I wont need it now
PsychoticBoy: I will let the staff of bitcointalk vote for you to be marked as scammer before making a public scammer tag request, cause these requirements make no sense at all
gigavps: PsychoticBoy tbe only person keeping you from making the claim is you
smickles: it's cheap to free in 'merica
gigavps: many people have already submitted the info
gigavps: well, that is your assumption
PsychoticBoy: no one would do that
gigavps: should be pretty easy to write a note that said you own the bonds and the bitcoin addy
PsychoticBoy: probably point 6 is impossible so there you go
PsychoticBoy: at this point no one in the right mind would do all 6 points mentiont in the mail
PsychoticBoy: I wait till you get back to your senses and pay just like its meant to be
PsychoticBoy: I can pay 2k on tor to hunt you down but I wont
PsychoticBoy: no you are tricking ppl with your unsigned lawyer note
gigavps: i'm sorry you feel this way
gigavps: thanks for the advice
PsychoticBoy: so best thing is to just pay to the addresses in the info you got from glbse
gigavps: i am trying to pay people legally
PsychoticBoy: and after that you probably see the same future as trendon shavers
PsychoticBoy: You re up for scammer tag, since you have shareholders data and thus are able to pay up
mircea_popescu: i wonder if that could work as an entropy source
smickles: so, it has come to this http://www.encyclopediabitcoinica.com/wiki/GIGAMINING
smickles: Nice thing, that blockchain
smickles: then dooglas posted a tx log, and was liek " 'tis you bro"
smickles: he hawa all coy, like, "i won't tell you how I was betting"
mircea_popescu: ya but they talk loud enough then for both cases.
smickles: funny thing too:
gigavps: gamblers only talk when they win
smickles: he was braggin' about it too
smickles: some guy doing a martingale got lucky, then lost it
smickles: and ~.6% before that
smickles: up from the previous ~.8% tho
gigavps: PsychoticBoy if you would like to say things about me, say them when I'm here
mircea_popescu: who did this! has to be fired!
matthewh3: plus I'd only ever use a Windoze PC that is locked down like in a library.
mircea_popescu: if then xmas is going to plow right into your nude ass ?
mircea_popescu: jesus fuck, what is the point of making a black friday event
mircea_popescu: "the only thing that comes up for "Christmas" on bitmit is a Canadian silver coin."
mircea_popescu: that part is true.
mircea_popescu: matthewh3 smpt is plaintext and trivial to sniff.
mircea_popescu: smickles what's the figure ?
smickles: Update on the S.DICE month >> http://blog.smickles.com/bitcoin/bitcoin-finance/a-good-month-for-s-dice-shareholders-in-the-making/?preview=true&preview_id=46&preview_nonce=ddeb71c330#update_23nov12
mircea_popescu: what happens if you lose the email box/someone jacks it ?
matthewh3: I'm moving RSM to - https://btct.co - they email the asset issuer a full shareholders list every twelve hours. So no problem if the exchange ever goes dark. There based in Belize and have a lawyer.
mircea_popescu: pity the glbbq name is too long and so it'll never take
mircea_popescu: GLBSE'D Definition: You invest coins in a bitcoin project and that project uses your coins to hire a lawyer who proceeds to use legal avenues to make it practically impossible you will get your bitcoins back.
mircea_popescu: i guess there's White Collar Crimes in there too.
mircea_popescu: Drug Trafficking
mircea_popescu: there is a funny aspect of the entire glbse thing. the mylawyr people specialise in :
PsychoticBoy: I think so too mircea
mircea_popescu: it almost hit it today in that sense
smickles: it hit .0034 in the past 30 days, eh?
mircea_popescu: btc is worth it just for that
mircea_popescu: smickles teh funs of history.
PsychoticBoy: Still hoping Gigavps will make up his mind and just pay divs and final buyback to our addresses
smickles: "What I don't understand is why S.DICE is going to IPO on this penny-ante exchange instead of GLBSE. I think that Mr. E.V.'s ideological fetishes might be putting the business sensibilities in the back seat. Which is dangerous for investors."
PsychoticBoy: hmmmnz should not be long till someone hires a hitman on tor
PsychoticBoy: thats what i think, He covers his ass and does not pay shit, << scammer action
PsychoticBoy: before asking a scammer tag i n public, I will make a thread in the staff forum and let the staff vote
PsychoticBoy: giga`s lawyer does not need my ID to pay me back so whats the point
PsychoticBoy: He got the shareholders info so.... he can pay us
PsychoticBoy: I have 300btc in yabmc and more than 500 btc in Giga
PsychoticBoy: He fed himself with my btc so now its time to pay
JWU42: So if YABMC were to follow a similar claims process then I egt a scammer tag too ;)
PsychoticBoy: not extreme, a lawyer taking over<< thats extreme
JWU42: PsychoticBoy: that seems a bit extreme
smickles: < PsychoticBoy> gigavps << scammer tag request @ theymos
PsychoticBoy: he is even worse than nefario
smickles: if the trend holds, in a month, the entire planet should be reading my blog
PsychoticBoy: gigavps << scammer tag request @ theymos
smickles: according to my log, i started with about 100 'unique' visitors, and it has been doubling every day since
mircea_popescu: cause there's a sudden change in how they run, so.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i think someone sorta-competent bought a chunk of bitfinex interest or some sort of deal