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FabianB:
mircea_popescu: that was my guess after seeing 19:27 <+thestringpuller> !jd MPIF
moiety:
mircea_popescu: what does 'switch' mean? re the piecharts
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: did you offer to help him take his picture?
benkay: <
mircea_popescu> on one hand, having a third party involved in any bitcoin transaction, in any way, is breaking the protocol. << not a fan of multisig?
benkay:
mircea_popescu: ah i was wondering if the gentleman had his own outlet
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: do you remember that email asciilifeform passed you
benkay:
mircea_popescu: where is Wywiał writing?
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: because WP is so badly written...I wrote a plugin for it years ago, and that was honestly the most painful experience in shitty PHP coding
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: i wish you had a tag on trilema for articles about being so stupid you don't know how stupid you are
BCB:
mircea_popescu, the gox ddb dump ends 2013-11-30
BCB:
mircea_popescu, the numbers on the had info do not add up. It is missing early data and the final three months
BCB:
mircea_popescu, not the complete contents
BCB:
mircea_popescu, That's obviously one person of interest. "he" obviously bought several bitcoin gaming sites.
ThickAsThieves:
mircea_popescu:BCB uh, the entire sd db is publicly in the ledger. --- dammit i signed in just to say this
BCB:
mircea_popescu, not the buyers info
BCB:
mircea_popescu, not the Users db
BCB:
mircea_popescu, I never followed it much. But the Voorhees SEC inquery is interesting
BCB:
mircea_popescu, somethings rotten in Denmark
Apocalyptic: <
mircea_popescu> you're a very ux minded fellow aren't you. // I concur
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: so the zonefile is signed, pub key published. addresses sign domain alias and domain pub key. alias gets published
punkman:
mircea_popescu: just selling other people's stuff, using a lot of these marketplaces and networks and whatnot
punkman:
mircea_popescu: I'll give it some thought then, I have like 9-10 years of experience in aff things
punkman:
mircea_popescu: how would that btc clickbank you mentioned work? surely not a marketplace for crappy infoproducts
jurov:
mircea_popescu: how is the appeal onto nanotube's wot website different from running whois?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: does that make me marketing scum?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: amongst other things (domaining, seo blah blah) but not for some years now
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: it's just an obscene amount of money, on what sorta time line does it reach that price?
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: the problem is we come full circle back to the adoption problem - as much as you want to keep Bitcoin in the hands of the techno-competent, it is going to spread, and the n00bs are going to need n00bish solutions because they aren't going to learn to use GPG no matter how often people get hacked / lose money
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: don't be too pedantic with the newbies :-P
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: I think the word has been coopted by the Jimmothy School of Smart Investmenting
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: I invited him in here as he was expressing an interest in investing in crypto-based stocks
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: nickserv says otherwise
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: our Internet is shitty tho
peterl:
mircea_popescu: having somebody actively market making for the fund should also encourage lively trading, I think
artifexd:
mircea_popescu: Do you expect to increase the fee again?
peterl:
mircea_popescu: mpex.co still lists S.MPIF as upcoming, shouldn't that be removed now that there is a link to F.MPIF in the "funds" section?
benkay:
mircea_popescu: why chase pennies from paupers when there are guys out there willing to spend single-digit integer fractions of btc for tits?
midnightmagic:
mircea_popescu: a.k.a. crypto-virology, a fairly well-studied problem that primarily (imo) affects closed-source crypto products.
benkay: i dunno why anyone would be going for mcdonald's when there are
mircea_popescu's out there
mikaeldice: Thanks,
mircea_popescu, I've read that post before and enjoyed it.
moiety: lol fair enough
mircea_popescu moiety: i think you should send me some sauce so i can test this statement
mircea_popescu moiety: <
mircea_popescu> my black stony heart is so satisfied today. << what did you eat?!
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: jesus google has gotten good meanwhile ?! << haha
mircea_popescu has a love hate relationship with google
benkay: submit to the personalization,
mircea_popescu fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: inbetween and all around
artifexd:
mircea_popescu: What is the way in which purchasers of f.mpif are expecting to make money? Increase in nav? Dividends?
HoreaV:
mircea_popescu: hey back, Naphex is still setting me up with the console and explaining. i'll be done in a sec
moiety: re rtust this is true
mircea_popescu but shouldn't you be able to trust your doctor to keep professional at least while in an appointment?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well rather than an institutional investor I've just assumed you've transcended to being the institution
moiety:
mircea_popescu: well he was actually. to everyone. but she was also nuts, so it did make things difficult. he is still working
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: yeah, which was the number 1 reason why I never went to another IRC meet after my first one in 1997
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: question on the gpg wot
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: that's what I was commenting on above, he sounds like an ideal Bitcoin Foundation candidate
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: It's what he refers to his urologist office mate as
HeySteve: this is not widely recognised,
mircea_popescu HeySteve: <+
mircea_popescu> "Without a hierarchical structure it is not possible to transform freedom from a fable into a fact." <- there should be a science of resilient hierarchical structures which resist corruption and decay. it should draw from historical fact, military tactics and decentralised methods. it should inform a technocratic leadership.
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: I've been flipping through the MPOE account statements for a blog post on running a profitable BTC business, is there a cumulative count of dividends paid per share that you've published at any point?
mod6: (17:27) <+
mircea_popescu> mod6 %lb ? << i'll make this change too, i'll change the commands so their much shorter.
peterl:
mircea_popescu: looking at mpif contract, "The General Manager may also destroy Fund shares the Fund holds at any point", does the manager take out btc, or do the shares just get destroyed?
assbot: Really,
mircea_popescu?
Ken`:
mircea_popescu: I trade options (US stock market) and bitcoin
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: pfffft, then you should go and change authorised to authorized :-P
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: otherwise it looks all good
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: 2.2 (c) - one year should be hyphenated
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: yeah it puts stuff into perspective
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: speaking of, when are we expecting mpif?
benkay:
mircea_popescu: it's for superheating a real ejection mass
jurov:
mircea_popescu: since the fiber is very light, major factor will be air drag (should be minimal in case first 100km of takeoff is vertical takeoff)
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: my paternal grandmother is a very traditional, superstitious, short Italian woman (who cooks accordingly). she says my dad was the most successful of her 3 children because "he steal alla of tha calcium from me, he leave none for Daniele and Sonia"
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: coinbase yo, coindesk is the news site
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: no you have to create an account to use them, not based on a cookie'd ID
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: who is this minerpart dude on the phorumz? him and jimothy seem to have personal grudges
mircea_popescu: <
mircea_popescu> that's no criteria. obama has been trying to be a president for a while, he still sucks at it.