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    BingoBoingo: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/03/12/an-overview-of-betable-sports-part-1-baseball/
    
    ozbot: An Overview of Betable Sports Part 1: Baseball | Bingo Blog
    
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    KRS1: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://25.media.tumblr.com/0ca88e524f2463725ceaeac331d25aa9/tumblr_msufbwEiAp1qz9pzzo1_1280.jpg
    
    KRS1: per-fect
    
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    dub: !ticker mp s.mpoe
    
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    jurov: ;;prevdiffchange
    
    gribble: 11.38694
    
    BingoBoingo: .d
    
    ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1964 blocks | Estimated Change: 29.2943% in 9d 15h 15m 43s
    
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    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete the quote is good, but why does it come with a lower scrollbar ? it's unreadable this way.
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    mircea_popescu: also it's dubious practice that you take the painstaking care to mention whatever bitcoiny site but somehow omit to point out on what venue you heard this entire thing about berkshire.
    
    mircea_popescu: that's not how it's done.
    
    mircea_popescu: "2 of my students wrote a Google Glass trojan that secretly takes photos and uploads them to a 3rd party. Oh, and got it into the Play store."
    
    mircea_popescu: lol.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo clearly loves baseball :D
    
    mircea_popescu: "great conflict between the Apollonian grace and Dionysian chaos is a root of great art", listen to that, you've made generations of middle aged jocks tear up.
    
    mircea_popescu: if only you were there, o cyrano of bingoiac, to whisper in their ear at '80s raves and whatnot. all the professional cunt they could've ravished...
    
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    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I plan on covering most of the sports. Next is probably Basketball because it is the least betable.
    
    BingoBoingo: Well, least betable if you discount football/soccer because that shit ends in a draw way too often
    
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    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how come you're not actually trying to run a book then ? is it illegal where you live or something ?
    
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    VanCleef: hi, whats a good investment? my daughter really needs this operation
    
    jurov: VanCleef: bitcoin, half a year ago?
    
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    [\]: jurov: bitcoin, 3 years ago
    
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    bitcoinpete: ;;later tell mircea_popescu very sorry about the dubiousity. it's been corrected… the formatting on this one has a mind of its own on the blogs-b-a site but seems to be working well on the blog itself. my guess is the copy/pasting messed it up. thx for taking the time to read it and provide feedback!
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    mircea_popescu: yee.
    
    Neil: mircea_popescu: So do you ever take a holiday?  Or is your life so fulfilling doing your thang that you never want to chill out so that delivering statements in the first few days of each month is never an issue?  Is that job subordinated to anyone else yet?
    
    mircea_popescu: well, to split your q up in answerable bits,
    
    mircea_popescu: i'm a reputed workaholic (also see http://trilema.com/2013/zonehedge-wow-such-durden-much-info-about-useless/#footnote_2_51568 )
    
    mircea_popescu: also exact arrangements have never really been disclosed, so nobody actually knows.
    
    Neil: I see, curious why you're waiting for someone to disclose so that you know.
    
    Neil: You robot or sthg?
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 85 @ 0.00387499 = 0.3294 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    Neil: In a parallel universe with no risk you see, I mighta been interested in investing in some of your ventures.  Though the terms are clear, it's also the problem, as a) a 30BTC fine to "play" means there's gotta be something worth playing for, and b) I worry about you getting run over by a bus, for example, because c) it's all really quite opaque and I rate b) as ~2% annually, which is quite a JTD risk.
    
    ThickAsThieves: dont forget coinbr exists
    
    Neil: I've had enough of 3rd parties
    
    mircea_popescu: you can just use a broker.
    
    mircea_popescu: or w/e, be a broker
    
    ThickAsThieves: not all 3rd parties are created equally
    
    Neil: Good incentive to get off my ass and do something useful myself I guess.
    
    mircea_popescu: Neil and now you're coming to the why things are structured this way.
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoin is not about serving a consumer market.
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoin is about encouraging people to create.
    
    Neil: Is JTD an understood acronym?  Just curious if it's a product of my history
    
    mircea_popescu: which is why we don't want more "adoption". we want more actual penetration. get off your ass do something, cause it ain't gonna do itself.
    
    mircea_popescu: jump to default ?
    
    Neil: Well spent my life getting off my ass doing stuff for others, but no more
    
    Neil: mp: well done
    
    mircea_popescu: i didn't dop anything lol
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a good chance you misrepresent what "doing for oneself" means in this context.
    
    Neil: Actually 2% is also low; probably 3-4% is better.
    
    Neil: mp: plz elaborate
    
    mircea_popescu: well, it'll be lengthy. the whole story is in an article i wrote about romanians a while back, http://trilema.com/2011/povestea-celor-trei-imparati-smecheri-si-a-celor-trei-negustori-fraieri-fabula-in-versuri-ilustrata/
    
    Neil: impressed by the speed at random linking
    
    mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's something like this : romania emergend in 1989 incredibly poor,
    
    mircea_popescu: with about twenty million people who not only owned nothing at all (literally, a pair of jeans would get you unlimited bjs cca 1988)
    
    mircea_popescu: but more importantly without any of the mental structures that'd allow them to work productively.
    
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    mircea_popescu: because 50 years under a state directed economy destroys entrepreneurship, something romanians never were very good at anyway
    
    mircea_popescu: (which is a very lengthy discussion also found on my blog, but really not too interesting here, as to why)
    
    mircea_popescu: so this put them in this strange position whereby even if they wanted to, they couldn't do anything.
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean think about it, a country that suddenly needs everything. everything!
    
    Neil: Yeah; the state destroying incentives is something that has gotten so clear to me in the last 2-3 yrs yet I'm baffled by how few around me see it.
    
    mircea_popescu: imagine a town the size of akron, ohio, which has exactly one restaurant in it
    
    mircea_popescu: could you easily make a living for yourself in such an environment ? surely.
    
    mircea_popescu: people need food and plumbing and fguckin shoes and everything.
    
    mircea_popescu: but that's you.
    
    mircea_popescu: the average romanian was too fucktarded to understand even the basics of how economy works. at all.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.0925 = 0.185 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the state out of some sort of revolutionary excess or idealistic confusion or whatever, decided it will allocate all its resources to the population. just like that.
    
    mircea_popescu: this yielded two direct results : on one hand, everyone got his house.
    
    blackwhite: morning gents
    
    mircea_popescu: the way it worked was that as long as you maintained employment, you got free housing from the govt dept of housing.
    
    Neil: It's interesting how people believe automation will eliminate their ability to do anything.  But it's clear that people always want something more - that's the nature of being human after all.  So there is always demand for more products / services.  Why isn't that obvious?
    
    mircea_popescu: new govt allowed everyone to "buy back" this at nominal prices. due to inflation the average 800 sq foot apt everyone had ended up costing less than a computer.
    
    Neil: They just want the job they thought they could keep for life, rather than having to think and do something else
    
    mircea_popescu: on the other side of things, the govt decided to split up all the industry, and create a bunch of "shareholders".
    
    mircea_popescu: so, 20 mn coupons were printed, and distributed to each individual.
    
    mircea_popescu: all the companies the state owned allowed the subscription of thes coupons
    
    mircea_popescu: then the yallocated ownershiop exactly the way the original MPOE shares were allocated :
    
    nubbins`: email?!
    
    mircea_popescu: if a company got 10 coupons, every one guy got 10% of it.
    
    nubbins`: o.
    
    mircea_popescu: if a company got 10mn coupons, each person got 0.0001% etc.
    
    mircea_popescu: so suddenly, a bunch of romanians without a clue were real estate and industrial capital owners.
    
    mircea_popescu: what happened ?
    
    Neil: the fittest survived?  the rest got eaten.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;google caritas ponzo
    
    gribble: Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme>; Oral history collection - Library of Congress: <http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=2696>; Concordia Discors. Turin Background Report: <http://www.concordiadiscors.eu/assets/BR_Turin1.pdf>
    
    mircea_popescu: "Mugur Isărescu, the president of the National Bank of Romania, estimated that it held a third of Romania's banknotes at one point."
    
    mircea_popescu: this is a story of idiocy and unbridled enthusiasm, and of how very stupid people fail to fall in step with economic structure.
    
    mircea_popescu: while it's easy to laugh at these particular retards, such as the parents of every romanian girl i ever fucked, this is a bit like picking fun at the special olympic people.
    
    mircea_popescu: moreover, the sort of mistake they made, we're not immune from.
    
    mircea_popescu: which is why random fuckwit discovering bitcoin is all about how "I WILL MAKE MY OWN EXCAHGE" rather than "i wonder where i could add my incremental effort"
    
    Neil: mp: I'm curious - how much of your current beliefs are your own, and how much from your parents / schooling etc.
    
    mircea_popescu: in general, ventures made and wholly operated by people who are unable to act economically (which means, collaboratively) are doomed.
    
    mircea_popescu: a point often underscored by buffet re owning a fraction of the hope diamond rather than a whole lump of coal.
    
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    mircea_popescu: Neil well how would one know ? probably the best test would be, "how well does your school/parents/etc recognise itself in your beliefs", in which case they're pretty much mine.
    
    Neil: OK, so what led you down your path?
    
    mircea_popescu: what led me ?!
    
    mircea_popescu: nothing leads me dood, i lead it.
    
    Neil: cmon my meaning is clear
    
    mircea_popescu: maybe to you.
    
    Neil: What life experiences changed your thinking from what your were taught to believe to what you actually believe
    
    mircea_popescu: uh.
    
    jurov: Neil, I was profoundly discontent with what i was told
    
    mircea_popescu: what, you actually think that's how it works ?
    
    jurov: and just had to find out on my own
    
    jurov: it's not complicated
    
    Neil: mp: don't understand how your qn relates
    
    mircea_popescu: Neil what people think is not controllable by their life experiences.
    
    mircea_popescu: if it were, education'd be trivial.
    
    mircea_popescu: just put them in a well designed educatron/gauntlet and let them be
    
    TomServo: mircea_popescu: Thanks for the nudge to look at the Berkshire letters.  Interesting stuff there.
    
    nubbins`: controllable, no
    
    mircea_popescu: TomServo the guy is definitely more worthy of being read, on a ROP basis, than pretty much any economics professor. and he doesn't even charge.
    
    nubbins`: influenced by, sure, if you let it
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` well what's that do.
    
    TomServo: You seem to have some level of respect for Buffet.. so I'm curious what you'd say regarding his comments around the purchase of BNSF
    
    mircea_popescu: sure, it works to a large degree, i can educate my slaves on a very similar process.
    
    TomServo: specifically: At the time, I called the transaction an “all-in wager on the economic future of the United
    
    TomServo: States.”
    
    mircea_popescu: but this doesn't excuse me from having to pick them first.
    
    Neil: jurov: well I realized about 3 years ago that all I'd been told about money (which was almost nothing - an amazing and likely deliberate gap of the education system) didn't make any sense.  And I wanted to understand money.  Started reading, and 6 months later find bitcoin (2011) and think wow, and then many things all became a lot clearer.  Perhaps I'm slow, but in most things I'm not.  Just never had really been given the right
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    Neil: context to think about it.
    
    nubbins`: fancy way of saying that being exposed to ideas will inspire curiosity in the receptive
    
    nubbins`: but being receptive? well, that's your job
    
    mircea_popescu: TomServo yeah. it kinda was.
    
    TomServo: also: And the dynamism
    
    TomServo: embedded in our market economy will continue to work its magic. America’s best days lie ahead.
    
    Neil: mp: I don't understand your point.  Deeply held beliefs that are not handed down to you must have been formed by life experiences, I suspect.
    
    mircea_popescu: Neil money is a transcendent you know.
    
    mircea_popescu: there's a three part bit on trilema about essences, which really i'll have to have translated, it's too important.
    
    mircea_popescu: Neil beliefs and experiences aren't telling the whole story.
    
    mircea_popescu: TomServo perhaps he's senile. or perhaps he has a point.
    
    mircea_popescu: i dun see much future in the us, let alone any magic manifest destiny sort of future. then again, im not from there and ostensibly don't much care.
    
    nubbins`: scary place
    
    nubbins`: everyone bought into the hype and now assumes the hype will carry them through
    
    mircea_popescu: see the thing is : there are indeed some hard working us folk.
    
    mircea_popescu: they are surrounded by the night, and the likely result is they will revisit romania's folly
    
    mircea_popescu: each a little emperor on his little lump of coal
    
    mircea_popescu: that's at least two decades of unlimited economic collapse
    
    Neil: So I was at a bitcoin meetup this evening.  Japan.  Which has recently learned about bitcoin (there was basically zip in Japanese 1 year ago on the internet, now it's on a par with the information / misinformation content that exists in English).
    
    mircea_popescu: by which point other major infrastructural points start suffering, ie, life in town will no longer be possible, but it is required for a certain post 1700 level of social an economic life.
    
    mircea_popescu: so the whole thing can go africa quite easily.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47650 @ 0.00080012 = 38.1257 BTC [-]
    
    ughlol: Hi, I am looking for investment for a startup! :) Some friends over at bitcoin-otc said this might be the right channel to find potential investors!
    
    mircea_popescu: ughlol sure, lurk for half year or so.
    
    Neil: Dude, who works for a media company, says "but bitcoin's not stable.  Not robust.  I worry about ... " and I'm thinking "WTF are you talking about?  I can hardly imagine anything more stable/robust".  I don't think I can relate on the same level any more.  Too many people want "authority" to tell them what to do / think.
    
    ughlol: Half year? Im sorry, I don't understand.
    
    Apocalyptic: "Too many people want "authority" to tell them what to do / think." // sadly true
    
    jurov: ughlol: have youread the MPOE-PR forum post on bitcoin enterprises?
    
    Neil: Just coz the price bounces around a fair bit has nothing to do with the robustness of the system.
    
    ughlol: jurov: no I havent. Can you please link me?
    
    mircea_popescu: ughlol see either http://trilema.com/2014/la-firma/ or http://trilema.com/2014/pro-idiotas-which-obviously-means-people-who-have-ideas-ie-idiots/ depending on which level you're working on
    
    mircea_popescu: which i don't know because you just dropped here and started talking randomly.
    
    Neil: Fscking Japanese pension system - they lost the records of 20 million people FFS.  And then local govt employees were found pocketing money because the records were so inadequate they just could.  You can't make something disappear from the block chain.  Guy got up and walked off.
    
    ughlol: thanks mircea_popescu
    
    mircea_popescu: Neil actually the best measure of bitcoin robustness per se, i would think, is the time - to - hash mechanism.
    
    jurov: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124441.0 i meant this, but above applies too
    
    ozbot: So you think you're going to start a Bitcoin business, right?
    
    Neil: But we need to regulate bitcoin, not the govt or local govt employees, coz they must be good and proper.
    
    ughlol: not a bitcoin business
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoin has managed to maintain the time needed to get 2k blocks within one to three weeks in spite of infinite % growth of hash power.
    
    ughlol: But a social network. Im looking for investment.
    
    mircea_popescu: i know of  no previous instance of a mechanism working so efficiently in all human technical history.
    
    jurov: ughlol: as soon as you want bitcoin investment, it *is* one
    
    ughlol: oh, I see.
    
    ughlol: ok
    
    ughlol: WOT account as in World of Tanks account? :/
    
    jurov: ;;gettrust ughlol
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user jurov to user ughlol: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=jurov&dest=ughlol | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=ughlol | Rated since: never
    
    jurov: ^ no, this one
    
    ughlol: Oh i see.
    
    ughlol: Im on localbitcoins.com
    
    ughlol: I have quite some good rep there.
    
    mircea_popescu: how the shit was that app facebook bought called ?
    
    mircea_popescu: i can't even remember it ;/
    
    nubbins`: whats app?
    
    mircea_popescu: a ty
    
    nubbins`: i had an app that let you send sms messages via email
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 47 @ 0.00385 = 0.181 BTC [-]
    
    nubbins`: stopped updating when whatsapp stole all the customers ;(
    
    ughlol: And if you're worried about who i am, and if im a fraud, I'll give you my real name, and you can google me! :)
    
    nubbins`: well. "stole" is a bit much
    
    Neil: mircea_popescu: It's nice, but nothing special.  Just a self-adjusting mechanism.  I think the economics / incentives of bitcoin are the smartest part.  And the fact (other than block size which was a short-term expedient solution to a short-term problem) that so much was left to just float (including the creation of altcoins for example).  I think that took balls and real insight.  Satoshi was a cool dude for whom I'd love to buy
    
    Neil: a beer.
    
    mircea_popescu: but... stability.
    
    nubbins`: ughlol: you may find that the barrier to entry is significantly higher here than many, many other places
    
    mircea_popescu: a self adjusting mechanism that turns maxint variation into [.5,1.5] ?
    
    ughlol: Oh, I see.
    
    mircea_popescu: that's something.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 204 @ 0.00386999 = 0.7895 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    ughlol: And I have to trade through bitcoin-otc or something to get some rep, otherwise nobody will be interested in investing?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 59 @ 0.0038704 = 0.2284 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    Neil: maxint variation?  difficulty is bound by [0.25,4] factor per adjustment.
    
    Neil: perhaps I misunderstand
    
    Neil: The fact that transactions (other than coinbase) are equally valid on both sides of a split is also an under-appreciated awesome stability feature.
    
    ughlol: wow
    
    ughlol: mircea_popescu: you wrote one scary-ass post
    
    mircea_popescu: yw
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.00387 = 0.387 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: ughlol well ideally you want to be known. you're not currently known. how you resolve this problem is entirely up to you, but sure, wot helps a lot.
    
    ughlol: Im not known here
    
    ughlol: but in the security world, at least in India, quite a bit
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 50 @ 0.00387 = 0.1935 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: yes, but you're not trying to deal with the security world of india, are you ?
    
    mircea_popescu: so you'll have to somehow bridge these.
    
    ughlol: I agree.
    
    ughlol: But the real question seems to be identity. Because neither did you ask for my idea to judge. You obviously wonder where your investment will go to.
    
    ughlol: And I understand that, I've seen many fraudsters as well.
    
    jurov: just lurk and you'll certainly find out something to offer and gain rep
    
    jurov: wot is not meant for -otc trading only
    
    ughlol: oh
    
    ughlol: i see
    
    chetty: sit on the actual idea while you get to understand how best to pitch it here
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.5860002 BTC [-]
    
    ughlol: Now I understand why the rich get richer and poor get poorer! :)
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3651 @ 0.00080012 = 2.9212 BTC [-]
    
    Neil: ThickAsThieves: b.t.w. with you on your discussion of 16hrs ago that I had to abandon for work
    
    mircea_popescu: ughlol there is no such thing as "an idea".
    
    ughlol: of course there is
    
    ughlol: imho
    
    ughlol: nobody trusts in individuals with ideas anymore
    
    ughlol: and that sucks
    
    ughlol: :(
    
    ughlol: Looks like I'll never get investment for anything
    
    ughlol: Have to do a stupid engineering degree and get a stupid job.
    
    mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/google-exploring-the-botomless-pit-of-irrelevance-since-2004-or-so/
    
    ozbot: Google : exploring the botomless pit of irrelevance, since 2004 or so. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mirce
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 400 @ 0.00345783 = 1.3831 BTC [-] {9} 
    
    mircea_popescu: ughlol well a constructive approach is always more indicated.
    
    ughlol: mircea_popescu: is that for me?
    
    mircea_popescu: nah.
    
    mircea_popescu: i jhust finished it.
    
    ughlol: mircea_popescu: constructive approach how?
    
    mircea_popescu: as in read those two things, do what you're told, take the time to do it well.
    
    mircea_popescu: finance is a profession, not something happenstance like picking up a coin you found in the bus station.
    
    ughlol: I can't understand how investors dont understand that a two man team can't make a very great app, not in the desired timeframe. They say that they'll invest when they see a prototype.
    
    mircea_popescu: try understanding this part : nobody cares.
    
    ughlol: Yeah
    
    mircea_popescu: the world isn't structured so as to make it possible for you to survive.
    
    ughlol: I agree :(
    
    ughlol: and thats just so sad
    
    mircea_popescu: why is it sad ?
    
    mircea_popescu: i happen to think it's great.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 15 @ 0.07 = 1.05 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 199 @ 0.00080012 = 0.1592 BTC [-]
    
    ughlol: Its sad for people that want to do something but cant
    
    mircea_popescu: fuck them ?
    
    mircea_popescu: tell me, do you like girls ?
    
    ughlol: Im one of them! :)
    
    ughlol: Yes, I do
    
    ughlol: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: okay. do you like girls generally or do you like pretty girls ?
    
    ughlol: I like pretty girls..
    
    mircea_popescu: me too.
    
    ughlol: haha
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 15 @ 0.07 = 1.05 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: so here's the scoop : if we don't kill the ugly ones, they will slowly multiply and take over.
    
    mircea_popescu: we don't want that, so, unless she's pretty, she's screwed. (otherwise, she's fucked).
    
    ughlol: Omg. You're right.
    
    mircea_popescu: which i suppose is very sad for the ugly girls,
    
    mircea_popescu: except nobody gives a shit what ugly girls think on any topic.
    
    ughlol: Thats true.
    
    ughlol: :O
    
    ughlol: OMG
    
    mircea_popescu: so then there you go. same applies.
    
    ughlol: That makes so much sense.
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah, it makes so much sense, because you told me you're from india and i knew how to construct it.
    
    mircea_popescu: if i didn't know that it'd have never made sense.
    
    mircea_popescu: which is the fucking point here. we gotta know you in order for anything you say to make any sense
    
    mircea_popescu: which is why there's no such thing as "an idea".
    
    ughlol: Yeah, you're right..
    
    mircea_popescu: (ask all these other dudes who live in western countries, the entire girl thing makes 0 sense to them, for isntance)
    
    ughlol: hmm
    
    ughlol: I wish I was born elsewhere
    
    ughlol: the economy in India sucks so bad
    
    ughlol: and Indian investors dont give a shit about anybody :(
    
    ughlol: thanks for enlightening me mircea_popescu
    
    ughlol: Honestly, I first thought you were some random guy full of ego and trolling me
    
    ughlol: Im sorry about that.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30884 @ 0.00080038 = 24.7189 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 12 @ 0.586 = 7.032 BTC [-]
    
    ThickAsThieves: <ughlol> But a social network. Im looking for investment. /// boy did he come to the wrong place
    
    ughlol: yeah :(
    
    ughlol: I have 0 luck
    
    ughlol: and was born into the wrong damn community of misers
    
    ughlol: lol
    
    ughlol: but thats just my problem
    
    ughlol: sorry to disturb you all
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.07 = 0.28 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: well it's okay
    
    ughlol: :)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 40 @ 0.0057102 = 0.2284 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: mp your google article seems to make my Search Party "idea" seem that much better
    
    ThickAsThieves: essentially by outlawing guns, google made it so only outlaws have guns
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 58 @ 0.00369999 = 0.2146 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: (SEO penetration)
    
    ThickAsThieves: for reference: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2014#466597
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20150 @ 0.00080029 = 16.1258 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 34 @ 0.00571005 = 0.1941 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: relevant to yesterday's Top 500 conversation: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20bh0w/richest_address_since_2011_until_2014_has_made/
    
    ThickAsThieves: youre welcome for the idea mircea! ;)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 140 @ 0.0037 = 0.518 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: well fuck me, Deprived is back https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228327.msg5677176#msg5677176
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 9 @ 0.07 = 0.63 BTC [+]
    
    dexX7: haha well, not much explaination
    
    dexX7: was he in the us?
    
    imsaguy: Did you know that the venom from the Brazilian Wandering Spider (World's deadliest spider) causes an erection in men?  They want to use it in place of viagra.
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: ughlol_afk that's ok, you're not the first one.
    
    dexX7: i'm asking about deprived, because there was also creativx, another us issuer who vanished after btct who had a rock solid reputation
    
    ThickAsThieves: well, ask Deprived, we surely don't know
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves search definitely could use some help. the problem is that by now, it devolved into the www equivalent of the check \cashing service
    
    mircea_popescu: only the [intellectually] poor actually rely on it, and that's a community you never want to serve
    
    
    
    ThickAsThieves: all i'm asking for is 20 minutes with Brin, and a fat check
    
    mircea_popescu: imsaguy i knew that, actually.
    
    nubbins`: nothing gets me hard like lethal poison
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 28 @ 0.07199999 = 2.016 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    nubbins`: priapism FTW
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves now how the fuck did that end up there http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20bh0w/richest_address_since_2011_until_2014_has_made/cg1mo8a
    
    mircea_popescu: whoa look at that, deprived is back form the dead to call craigate a scammor ?!
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: "If anyone incurred costs taking legal advice in respect of my absence then please PM me and I'll look at reimbursing it (copies of invoices would be required)."
    
    asciilifeform: the 'trezor' stuff is almost physically painful to read. it's as if they knew every single correct design decision, and did... the exact opposite.
    
    mircea_popescu: interesting approach.
    
    mircea_popescu: i could trivially have any of my counsel write me infinity bills and bleed him dry.
    
    mircea_popescu: i wonder wtf people be thinking.
    
    dexX7: i bet most people don't try to exploit stuff
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of these days write the specifics out rather than the vague summary, you can join the club of slanderous souls.
    
    mircea_popescu: dexX7 yeah. and most people are too naive to be involved with tools as powerful as btc.
    
    mircea_popescu: either one.
    
    dexX7: ^_^
    
    ThickAsThieves: i think Deprived is just claling bullshit on anyone actually seeking counsel and confident everyone is too lazy to get back-invoices
    
    ThickAsThieves: technically he did exactly what he said he would
    
    ThickAsThieves: not communicate until he had news
    
    asciilifeform: dexX7: i bet most people don't try to exploit stuff << 'you may not be interested in war, but war is certainly interested in you.'
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13100 @ 0.00080038 = 10.485 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2014/03/13/j-p-morgan-customers-tweet-complaints-about-anti-money-laundering-policy/
    
    ozbot: J.P. Morgan Depositors Tweet Complaints About Anti-Money Laundering Policy - Risk & Compliance - W
    
    dexX7: well, i never would rely on it, but i think most act in good faith, others are like "omg someone will exploit this" but don't do anything and a tiny subset may actually try something nefarious
    
    nubbins`: showed pascale nude-yoga.com
    
    dexX7: asciilifeform: what do the trezor guys wrong for example? i didn't really follow the progress
    
    nubbins`: she was mightily impressed
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 10 @ 0.07199999 = 0.72 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] [PAID] 0.23396500 BTC to 320`500 shares, 73 satoshi per share
    
    ThickAsThieves: well shit, now Kate is back the same day as Deprived...
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 46300 @ 0.00080083 = 37.0784 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: this is all contributing to my spider sense beginning to tingle yesterday
    
    dexX7: kate already "came back" a few days ago
    
    ThickAsThieves: expect notable btc/usd price movement in 3-5 days!
    
    dexX7: or 2-3 weeks, not sure anymore
    
    ThickAsThieves: well now she's actually posting
    
    ThickAsThieves: surprised all it took was threats
    
    Apocalyptic: on litecointalk ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: yeah
    
    ThickAsThieves: and now on btctalk
    
    dexX7: "we can't pay divs because of the size of the smallest output" oh well
    
    ThickAsThieves: in case you didnt figure it, BondHolder is me
    
    dexX7: good job then
    
    ThickAsThieves: i got caught with pants down trying to trade that shit
    
    ThickAsThieves: when BTCT closed
    
    dexX7: how much does b1 earn per week in btc per share?
    
    ThickAsThieves: it
    
    ThickAsThieves: 's based on USD
    
    ThickAsThieves: so not much
    
    dexX7: or it was 0.34 usd or so, right?
    
    ThickAsThieves: i dont even track it honestly
    
    ThickAsThieves: i'd be happy just to redeem them
    
    ThickAsThieves: never intended to hold them
    
    dexX7: i remember what you said at the very beginning via pm when i asked about your standpoint. in the end i can only say: you were right
    
    ThickAsThieves: i shoulda listened to myself
    
    ThickAsThieves: hehe
    
    ThickAsThieves: just the buying pressure was strong
    
    ThickAsThieves: of course you probly more mean the PT
    
    ThickAsThieves: than the bond
    
    dexX7: yup
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.19372696 BTC to 3`708 shares, 59162 satoshi per share
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 25 @ 0.07459999 = 1.865 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] [PAID] 19.93320684 BTC to 3`708 shares, 537573 satoshi per share
    
    ThickAsThieves: the tiny dividend excuse is obnoxious
    
    ThickAsThieves: thats why i offered to pay to round it up
    
    ThickAsThieves: probably not even $1 expense to solve
    
    dexX7: the dust limit is 0.0000564 btc which is about 0.036 usd
    
    ThickAsThieves: she also makes it like there are 1000s of holders
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 6 @ 0.08733334 = 0.524 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: this is nonsense
    
    ThickAsThieves: AM100 on BTCT probably had the largest qty of shareholders
    
    ThickAsThieves: and i processed tons of shit by hand to render those people whole
    
    ThickAsThieves: i recall it being far less than 1000 holders
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 25 @ 0.08519288 = 2.1298 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    dexX7: yea
    
    ThickAsThieves: but i'd have to look it up
    
    dexX7: "For the purposes of the examples below we have used a price of €85.00 EUR/BTC. An interest rate of ~22%/year (0.38%/week) based on EUR/BTC value at time of issue (eg. ~€0.0032 / bond / week)." ... "100,000 bonds"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 13 @ 0.0404 = 0.5252 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 13 @ 0.08013076 = 1.0417 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 5 @ 0.11950724 = 0.5975 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: and most of the bonds are held by like 5 people
    
    ThickAsThieves: me, Deprived, Kate (surely)
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves kate has been "back" for weeks
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 9 @ 0.11950724 = 1.0756 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: Neil since you mentioned jtd, you ever read the original mpoe prospectus ?
    
    asciilifeform: http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/trader-throws-self-in-front-of-train-in-finance-worlds-latest-suicide/
    
    ozbot: Trader kills self in finance world’s latest suicide | New York Post
    
    ThickAsThieves: are finance deaths always this common and merely now more publicized?
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the "nazis are losing the war" joke ?
    
    
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 8 @ 0.078 = 0.624 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the profession has one of the largest suicide rates.
    
    ThickAsThieves: i assume, but larger lately?
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform coupla jews, awaiting to be shot by the nazis. at the last moment, a courrier arrives with orders to hang them instead
    
    mircea_popescu: one jew to the other "heh heh see ? they're clearly losing the war, can't even afford the bullets anymore"
    
    asciilifeform: aha
    
    mircea_popescu: apparently even nails for the guns are in short supply
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 22 @ 0.0748227 = 1.6461 BTC [-] {12} 
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well that i have no idea.
    
    ThickAsThieves: i dont count one bullshit statement as being "back"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 43 @ 0.0404 = 1.7372 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 49 @ 0.07204081 = 3.53 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: you'r eback when you tcb
    
    mircea_popescu: well in that case neither are back
    
    ThickAsThieves: now she has 3mos padding
    
    ThickAsThieves: bleh
    
    mircea_popescu: i remember back before xmas when we were mocking her cuntdown
    
    mircea_popescu: apparently it got overrun a little /
    
    ThickAsThieves: just a lil
    
    mircea_popescu: and speaking of tcb
    
    mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/a63a1a0b736ae648248af1671b51023c/tumblr_muqjsa8HXc1r2dyqzo1_1280.jpg
    
    ThickAsThieves: i had someone from CT soliciting me to list a PT this week
    
    ThickAsThieves: after speaking, he was like well shit, this really is toxic huh
    
    ThickAsThieves: dunno if he was anyone important enough to stop the madness though
    
    mircea_popescu: the madness shan't be stopped.
    
    mircea_popescu: we just wanna fish bits from the river.
    
    benkay: i'm having police state nightmares and i haven't even done anything
    
    benkay: i blame you guys in general, and mp in particular.
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: o look, they're moving in
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay what did i do!
    
    mircea_popescu: Merry Lopan / Jolly Lopan. let the cutsy translation live 4ever :D
    
    benkay: you know what you did mircea_popescu. you shattered my faith in the ever-victorious empire of capitalism.
    
    mircea_popescu: what, we're gonna win.
    
    benkay: well OBviously
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 15 @ 0.04191666 = 0.6287 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.voice-online.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/455/lead-racist_soap.jpg
    
    rbones: .
    
    mircea_popescu: "Top Of Mind scraped Bottom Of Barrel interviewing curmudgeon, Luddite, ignoramus, Statist and low brow unthinker Ken Hess. RLOL!"
    
    mircea_popescu: ok which one of you guise is this ?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 96 @ 0.0421 = 4.0416 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48600 @ 0.00080084 = 38.9208 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.04217999 = 0.2109 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bim4lUsIQAIxojO.png << from the "i can prove anything" department
    
    mircea_popescu: apparently, working more is bad for you.
    
    benkay: what's the counter-thesis?
    
    mircea_popescu: that uncorrelated variables are uncorrelated
    
    asciilifeform: u.s. steel production vs. salmonella incidence in france. log-log plot.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 47 @ 0.11950724 = 5.6168 BTC [-]
    
    chetty: http://www.alt-market.com/articles/2041-deluded-currency-cultists-believe-the-dollar-is-invincible
    
    ozbot: Deluded Currency Cultists Believe The Dollar Is Invincible
    
    dexX7: cm.b1 backup: http://archive.is/XZ9PC
    
    mircea_popescu: dexX7 so basically what was it, a combo btc principal + fiat coupon deal ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: word
    
    ThickAsThieves: like any other bitcoin 'perpetual bond' except divs are based on USD rate
    
    ThickAsThieves: so mostly downside on divs
    
    ThickAsThieves: but still positive
    
    mircea_popescu: but wait i don't understand. work me through this will you ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: assuming redemption is possible
    
    mircea_popescu: so i buy 100 btc worth of bonds, when btc is 100 usd.
    
    mircea_popescu: on first coupon due date, btc is 200 usd.
    
    mircea_popescu: how much is my coupon ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: An interest rate of ~22%/year (0.38%/week) based on EUR/BTC value at time of issue (eg. ~€0.0032 / bond / week.
    
    mircea_popescu: so i get 0.0038*100 btc * 100usd/200usd ?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 52 @ 0.00575 = 0.299 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: "After 12 months, each bond may be redeemed at any time by bondholder for 0.01 BTC." seems it was a proper bond.
    
    ThickAsThieves: i believe so
    
    ThickAsThieves: i honest;y never checked the divs
    
    mircea_popescu: ok so basically it's a "get no interest and wait for a year to hear which excuse i pick up for not redeeming" ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: well, get rapidly dwindling interest
    
    mircea_popescu: reference being 85dollars/btc...
    
    mircea_popescu: myeah.
    
    ThickAsThieves: if btc had gone down it wouldve given more
    
    ThickAsThieves: only reason i paid attention was as a trader
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah, right, because random dragon-in-human-skin mental patient is very likely to efficiently conserve value.
    
    mircea_popescu: it'd have paid more in what, hormones ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: and i got what i deserved in that regard
    
    ThickAsThieves: btct closed, kate got married
    
    ThickAsThieves: etc
    
    mircea_popescu: it boggles me that these ever sold for as premium
    
    mircea_popescu: what did they trade as ?
    
    dexX7: the good old btct times
    
    ThickAsThieves: they were going at like 5% premium
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.04168 = 0.2084 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    imsaguy: hmm
    
    imsaguy: I need to start fancy paper stuffs
    
    ThickAsThieves: but i suspect Kate as also playing the market
    
    imsaguy: start selling*
    
    dexX7: yea pretty sure
    
    ThickAsThieves: wait
    
    ThickAsThieves: she openly said so
    
    ThickAsThieves: if i recall
    
    imsaguy: so who did kate marry?
    
    imsaguy: goat?
    
    mircea_popescu: hqahahaa
    
    ThickAsThieves: deprived obv
    
    mircea_popescu: srs ?
    
    imsaguy: I don't follow days of our forum
    
    mircea_popescu: "Fed is 'about to' propose capital surcharge on largest financial firms."
    
    imsaguy: so obv isn't obv
    
    mircea_popescu: that should go over well
    
    mircea_popescu: imsaguy i think he's being sarcastic
    
    mircea_popescu: i... hope he's being sarcastic
    
    ThickAsThieves: mostly
    
    imsaguy: mircea_popescu: they mostly come out at night, mostly
    
    ThickAsThieves: but they do have very coincidental availability
    
    mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BinwxJqCYAAoCcZ.jpg << "daytrading on scamsites" is strangely absent
    
    imsaguy: probably the same person
    
    imsaguy: deprived probably named his right hand kate
    
    mircea_popescu: so your theory is that deprived is actually kate's ex male personality ?
    
    benkay: here's a surcharge
    
    mircea_popescu: meanwhile deprived of c0k ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: nah
    
    ThickAsThieves: i spoke with deprived once
    
    imsaguy: no mircea_popescu
    
    benkay: stop lending them money at 0% and letting them lend it to the usg at 2 or whatever
    
    ThickAsThieves: i find it very hard to believe he is a tranny
    
    imsaguy: kata ala rosie palmer
    
    imsaguy: kate*
    
    ThickAsThieves: he's a happy-go-lucky soccer/pub-lover
    
    dexX7: kate != deprived
    
    chetty: benkay about that police state problem: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-appeal-in-second-amendment-case-refuses-to-prohibit-police-from-using-lawful-gun-ownership-as-a-trigger-for-no-knock-police-raids/79786#more-79786
    
    mircea_popescu: spoke with ie, you went to a bar ?
    
    dexX7: large gap between knowledge and style of writing
    
    ThickAsThieves: voice over internet
    
    ThickAsThieves: he was on his way to a bar though
    
    ThickAsThieves: hehe
    
    mircea_popescu: dexX7 i agree, was kinda curious what his theory is.
    
    ThickAsThieves: i do think they have some sort of connection
    
    ThickAsThieves: family, friend, or something
    
    mircea_popescu: well sure, he fell for her dog and pony show about respectable uk business woman.
    
    mircea_popescu: that's a connection.
    
    ThickAsThieves: it would of course be aweome drama if they are husbands
    
    imsaguy: what ever happened to mr. glbse?
    
    mircea_popescu: why not wives ?
    
    mircea_popescu: imsaguy he's waiting at the chinese border for his btc to be worth enough to allow him passage.
    
    ThickAsThieves: well i'm not lifting those skirts
    
    ThickAsThieves: you do it
    
    imsaguy: lol
    
    imsaguy: 1,2,3 not it
    
    benkay: noes goes
    
    benkay: nose
    
    
    
    dexX7: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://24.media.tumblr.com/5e3a7342a73f477fbc5952bf184ea4ab/tumblr_mu3o7p4YE01s8tt3vo1_500.jpg
    
    benkay: chetty: in my dream every seat but the mid-row passenger seat in my truck was filled with a cop, and as I went to hop in my truck to do something, other cops stuffed me in the empty seat. and i haven't even been watching movies lately?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35480 @ 0.00080127 = 28.4291 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    benkay: anyways the part that stuck with me was how they thought i'd been in louisiana, and had derped their butts out to the Cascades to have a "talk" with me. all eight of them.
    
    ThickAsThieves: sounds like you feel trapped in your own "home"
    
    chetty: You sure that was dream benkay? Sounds like daily life
    
    mircea_popescu: whats in louisiana
    
    benkay: that's whats got me antsy this morning. "just because i'm paranoid does not mean they're not out to get me."
    
    benkay: rotting manses from the sugar days? iono, i dont touch that part of the continent.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 100 @ 0.07501403 = 7.5014 BTC [+] {9} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 11 @ 0.0766 = 0.8426 BTC [-]
    
    VanCleef: i'm looking fowardto mircea's new bitcoin tv showcalled "Why Mircea is better than you."
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.59888998 = 1.1978 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 10 @ 0.07589999 = 0.759 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    benkay: i'm looking forward to mircea's new sexual exhibitionist show "you thought she looked good in the studio!"
    
    mircea_popescu: i'm looking forward to mircea's new female body, "you thought he's just a guy ?!?!?!"
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49988 @ 0.00080143 = 40.0619 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    VanCleef: /semihard
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16251 @ 0.00080029 = 13.0055 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15799 @ 0.00080135 = 12.6605 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 19 @ 0.07326315 = 1.392 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13084 @ 0.00079918 = 10.4565 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.07689999 = 0.3076 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    
    
    ozbot: Pussy Pussy Marijuana Verse - YouTube
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 20 @ 0.00572 = 0.1144 BTC [-]
    
    benkay: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://25.media.tumblr.com/25554fcb3c82a37a564f2379a63d652a/tumblr_mtwi01x1Gd1rfz6a4o1_1280.jpg
    
    nubbins`: bait should start sourcing from naked-yoga
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 20 @ 0.0424765 = 0.8495 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9500 @ 0.00080225 = 7.6214 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 12 @ 0.07325 = 0.879 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 5 @ 0.0769 = 0.3845 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 18 @ 0.04249999 = 0.765 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: from the circus:
    
    asciilifeform: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/ukraine-the-sovereignty-argument-and-the-real-problem-of-fascism
    
    ozbot: Ukraine: The Sovereignty Argument, and the Real Problem of Fascism » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts,
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12418 @ 0.00080069 = 9.943 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] 65 @ 0.00220032 = 0.143 BTC [-] {8} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 13 @ 0.01729509 = 0.2248 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 17 @ 0.01600797 = 0.2721 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 10 @ 0.03810001 = 0.381 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56500 @ 0.00079866 = 45.1243 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [7C] 39 @ 0.0037691 = 0.147 BTC [-] {7} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [7C] 40 @ 0.00365188 = 0.1461 BTC [-] {7} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.585501 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.0059338 = 0.5934 BTC [+]
    
    blackwhite: is there some data source to get the trading volume, price etc?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 10 @ 0.04289993 = 0.429 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 10 @ 0.04314428 = 0.4314 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    mike_c: !t h rent
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK:RENT] 1D: 0.00600100 / 0.00623437 / 0.00647960 (373 shares, 2.32542147 BTC), 7D: 0.00550000 / 0.00560099 / 0.00900001 (28538 shares, 159.84093509 BTC), 30D: 0.00550000 / 0.00555348 / 0.00900001 (53890 shares, 299.27693509 BTC)
    
    mike_c: i don't know about etc, but there is price and trading volume
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 10 @ 0.0438 = 0.438 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 11 @ 0.07698998 = 0.8469 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 9 @ 0.04466666 = 0.402 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 21 @ 0.045 = 0.945 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    mjr_: whats up everybody
    
    mjr_: I am trying to work out details to come to lovely timisoara
    
    blackwhite: mike_c like this http://www.coinometrics.com/bitcoin/btix?utm_content=bufferfd226
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 16 @ 0.073 = 1.168 BTC [-]
    
    mike_c: blackwhite: for stocks?  mpex stocks here: http://www.btcalpha.com/mpex/stocks/s-mpoe/  havelock here:  http://coinflow.co/chart/HAVELOCK/RENT
    
    blackwhite: so I want the actual data source (for my own visualization)
    
    mike_c: mpex here: http://bitcoin-assets.com/mpex-socket/
    
    mike_c: and that's it, the link store is closed.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.0059338 = 0.5934 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27124 @ 0.00079978 = 21.6932 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.5855 = 4.0985 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 12 @ 0.07698998 = 0.9239 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8359 @ 0.00079828 = 6.6728 BTC [-]
    
    benkay: mircea_popescu: your footnotes make for inconsistent line heights
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10500 @ 0.00080225 = 8.4236 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.0769 = 0.1538 BTC [-]
    
    mike_c: i need a quick little pile of atc.  can anybody sell me 1k atc @ 200 satoshis per?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.00379799 = 0.3798 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21839 @ 0.00079762 = 17.4192 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 34 @ 0.0058 = 0.1972 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 27 @ 0.00638286 = 0.1723 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    thestringpuller: ;;ud trapstar
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trapstar | trap star. one that is good at drug dealing, or someone that makes alot of money from drug dealing. See Trapper. Dat niggas sold so much weight this year, hes a  ...
    
    ozbot: Urban Dictionary: trapstar
    
    thestringpuller: ;;ud trapping
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trapping | to set up on the corner and sell dope. man im bout to go to the trap and make some cheese. by monolog May 06, 2003. 1207 191. Mugs & shirts Buy “trapping”  ...
    
    ozbot: Urban Dictionary: trapping
    
    thestringpuller: ;;ud trap star
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trapstar | trap star. one that is good at drug dealing, or someone that makes alot of money from drug dealing. See Trapper. Dat niggas sold so much weight this year, hes a  ...
    
    ozbot: Urban Dictionary: trapstar
    
    thestringpuller: ;;ud trapper
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trapper | drug dealer, mainly this word is used in the south. that nigga is a straight trapper fo life. by Auguste October 17, 2005. 538 56. Mugs & shirts Buy “trapper” mugs ...
    
    ozbot: Urban Dictionary: trapper
    
    thestringpuller: ;;ud trap
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trap | The area where drug deals are carried out. The dope boy is in the trap tonight. by Shipp December 03, 2003. 4691 1533. Mugs & shirts Buy “Trap” mugs & shirts ...
    
    ozbot: Urban Dictionary: trap
    
    benkay: thestringpuller: you know gribble responds in private chat, right?
    
    ThickAsThieves: bet you didn't know it's derived from
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 20 @ 0.0063834 = 0.1277 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: ;;crab trap
    
    gribble: Error: "crab" is not a valid command.
    
    ThickAsThieves: ;;ud crab trap
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crab%20trap | When the recipient of anal sex squeezes his or her sphincter trapping the giver's penis so he cannot pull out easily.
    
    ozbot: Urban Dictionary: crab trap
    
    ThickAsThieves: no not that
    
    ThickAsThieves: hehe
    
    ThickAsThieves: they used to call it a crab trap
    
    ThickAsThieves: which became trapping
    
    ThickAsThieves: cuz they all stuck in the pot
    
    ThickAsThieves: and got a crab mentality
    
    ThickAsThieves: etc
    
    mike_c: hm, what is a crab mentality?
    
    
    
    ozbot: Crab mentality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    
    benkay: related to:
    
    
    
    
    
    ozbot: Law of Jante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    
    ThickAsThieves: well to think like a base animal
    
    ThickAsThieves: like the trap is the whole world
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 46721 @ 0.00079947 = 37.352 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: fighting for the food
    
    ThickAsThieves: tearing eachother up
    
    ThickAsThieves: stuck
    
    ThickAsThieves: wiki says it better
    
    ThickAsThieves: of course like many things in that culture it transformed from an insult to a compliment
    
    mike_c: sounds like bitcointalk
    
    mike_c: or perhaps that is the reverse. they are all too willing to shove some stupid crab up into the spotlight.
    
    ThickAsThieves: yeha not really similar
    
    ThickAsThieves: the older hip hop heads still call it a crab trap though
    
    mike_c: and mpoe-pr stands above smacking stupid crabs back into the pot.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39300 @ 0.0008004 = 31.4557 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    benkay: btctalk is more like "anyone can be a special fairy!"
    
    benkay: it's more like "those doods launched an exchange and so can derp!"
    
    mike_c: lol. special fairy.
    
    ThickAsThieves: i cant come up with a choice analogy for btctalk, but I'd say Idiocracy is close
    
    benkay: group delusions of competence
    
    ThickAsThieves: trappers even prop up the concept of being ignornat
    
    ThickAsThieves: ignorant
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's like being tough or real
    
    ThickAsThieves: fuckit i ignant
    
    ThickAsThieves: acknowledging sometimes they just wanna let loose
    
    ThickAsThieves: and be hood
    
    ThickAsThieves: so many awesome cultural phenomenons on the hood
    
    ThickAsThieves: in
    
    benkay: you'll note that the successful hustlers like the jiggaman actually do take a certain amount of pride in their ability to do accounting and such: http://rapgenius.com/Jay-z-no-hook-lyrics#note-38838
    
    dexX7: http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-13-at-08-20-39.png leah is hiding and practising how to shoot to be ready for "the nice pre-puberty bitcoin community"
    
    benkay: notably unlike the bitcoin "businesses"
    
    benkay: who've yet to catch up to the drug dealers in terms of financials.
    
    ThickAsThieves: black people always can find pride in what they arew
    
    
    
    ozbot: 56 Bitcoin Icons - Imgur
    
    ThickAsThieves: i know that's a generalization
    
    nubbins`: nice
    
    ThickAsThieves: but in sense ive met many more "real" black people than white
    
    nubbins`: wait, so she's giving up "journalism" and becoming a hunter?
    
    nubbins`: ;(
    
    ThickAsThieves: she's so stupid...
    
    dexX7: in this case we'd at least don't hear any trash reports from her again
    
    dexX7: but i don't believe she'll stop ;)
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 76200 @ 0.00079546 = 60.6141 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 8 @ 0.044475 = 0.3558 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: she'll stop because she's a husk now
    
    ThickAsThieves: no one wants her
    
    ThickAsThieves: she'll need to go solo
    
    ThickAsThieves: and be a sensationalist blogger
    
    benkay: is she married?
    
    ThickAsThieves: i'd bet no
    
    dexX7: ^
    
    ThickAsThieves: her staying with a gf and all
    
    ThickAsThieves: she's obv the type to blame things on everyone else
    
    Apocalyptic: ^
    
    ThickAsThieves: i imagine her personality to be much like Lena Dunham's character on Girls
    
    benkay: it's never to late to snag one, i guess.
    
    ThickAsThieves: hopelessly lost in self importance
    
    ThickAsThieves: i guarantee she can't cook either
    
    benkay: f that
    
    benkay: while making dinner with a babe is a wonderful, potentially very sexy experience, i expect dishes on the dinner table.
    
    thestringpuller: You know the characters on Girls are pretty much spot one with the youth of today. It's really sad. Fucking American young people suck.
    
    thestringpuller: "I hate doing actual work I just want experiences and want to be free and feel fulfilled without any effort.:
    
    Apocalyptic: not only American thestringpuller
    
    thestringpuller: It's like fuck off and die already.
    
    dexX7: sounds like you're 60+
    
    dexX7: jk :)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.074 = 0.296 BTC [+]
    
    thestringpuller: I'm 26 and feel like I'm going on 60
    
    thestringpuller: fucking 22 year olds I hire can't do shit
    
    thestringpuller: 15 year olds are better at hustling
    
    thestringpuller: 15 year olds from the hood*
    
    asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what were they hired to do?
    
    dexX7: what kind of business do you run? :D
    
    dexX7: tree farms?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 6 @ 0.04446666 = 0.2668 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    thestringpuller: asciilifeform: hired one person to be an Executive Assistant. Siri was better at his job than him...so we let him go.
    
    thestringpuller: hired an engineer who didn't know what a for loop was
    
    thestringpuller: literally didn't know what a for loop was; you can't make this shit up
    
    thestringpuller: college grad with CS degree and all
    
    asciilifeform: graduate of Spam U ?
    
    thestringpuller: Essentially. Cept not the online kind.
    
    thestringpuller: Local community Spam U
    
    
    
    ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
    
    asciilifeform: usg steals a few irc botnets.
    
    asciilifeform: laugh/cry
    
    benkay: what is this "quantum" referencing?
    
    asciilifeform: name for a particular malware-production group at nsa
    
    asciilifeform: no actual quanta harmed.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3238 @ 0.00080013 = 2.5908 BTC [+]
    
    dub: was the spearfishing/mitm/injection atttack called quantum too?
    
    dub: s/f/ph
    
    dub: ie, the delivery
    
    HowardF: lol
    
    dub: helps to click links I guess
    
    Apocalyptic: thestringpuller, you get what you pay for I guess
    
    thestringpuller: Apocalyptic: if that were the case I would pay everyone under minimum wage until they stop complaining about not being able to do their job
    
    Apocalyptic: sounds fair
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 197 @ 0.0008546 = 0.1684 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 281 @ 0.0008546 = 0.2401 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2730 @ 0.00015195 = 0.4148 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 3 @ 0.04300066 = 0.129 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    asciilifeform: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-samsung-galaxy-backdoor
    
    ozbot: Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy backdoor — Free Software Foundation — working
    
    dexX7: i'd be interested in something that could log any usage ofthis backdoor
    
    
    
    ozbot: How to Get Bitcoins - 3 Step Guide
    
    nubbins`: "alternative methods"
    
    nubbins`: i wonder what planet the person who did that rendering is from
    
    nubbins`: and if they ever stacked blocks as a child
    
    dexX7: :D
    
    asciilifeform: photos of casascius coins in unrelated context seems to be a good heuristic for scammitude.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 33 @ 0.04458762 = 1.4714 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    nubbins`: heh
    
    nubbins`: those aren't casascius coins, just an impossibly unbalanced stack that someone did up in Blender or something
    
    dexX7: the context is "offline"
    
    nubbins`: seriously, look at the stack on the right
    
    nubbins`: i fuckin DARE ya to stack seven coins like that.
    
    asciilifeform: imagine if every media piece on, say, 400 horsepower mercedes benz, had to include a picture of... that many actual horses
    
    nubbins`: hahah
    
    ughlol: mircea_popescu: mind if I pm?
    
    nubbins`: that would be great
    
    ughlol: lol
    
    ThickAsThieves: i see bitstamp isnt invited to the blockchain.info hot to buy page
    
    ThickAsThieves: nor coinbase
    
    ThickAsThieves: such good friends they all were to kick gox's corpse tho
    
    ThickAsThieves: how to buy*
    
    benkay: how to butt
    
    benkay: bitcoin-central doesn't seem to be on that list either
    
    ThickAsThieves: indeed
    
    dexX7: ThickAsThieves: only one per region: us, gb, eu, au, sg
    
    dexX7: at least that's what is shown, if you log into a blockchain.info wallet
    
    ThickAsThieves: i see that casascius sells blanks, but do people sell sticker printing kits?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31900 @ 0.00080246 = 25.5985 BTC [+]
    
    ughlol: Im trying to create a rape intervention service in India
    
    ughlol: and looking for investment for the same
    
    ughlol: anybody interested?
    
    ThickAsThieves: a social media rape service?
    
    ThickAsThieves: sounds fishy
    
    ughlol: rape intervention
    
    ughlol: social network with such a feature
    
    ughlol: but rape prevention/intervention is the USP
    
    Azelphur: how would that work? O.o
    
    HowardF: how would such a thing make profit?
    
    benkay: nubbins` yeah lol what is even center of gravity?
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: Imagine you're a girl, if you feel you'll be raped, all you'd need to do is press an SOS button and your location will be relayed to the nearest PD and the friends who are within a few km's radius and your family.
    
    ughlol: HowardF: Ads, etc..
    
    Azelphur: so this is a hardware device?
    
    ughlol: no
    
    ughlol: a software
    
    benkay: apps!
    
    benkay: apps for everyone and everything!
    
    ughlol: Android app that takes advantage of location services
    
    ughlol: benkay: precisely
    
    Azelphur: I see
    
    ughlol: "A seven-year-old-girl was raped on a train traveling through the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, and discarded near a market in Bilaspur City. The rape is believed to have taken place sometime between Friday night, August 9 and Saturday morning, August 10.  The perpetrator had forced his way in while the child went to use the toilet, and thrust an Indian 10-rupee note in her hand when he was done."
    
    Azelphur: and yea, where's the profit?
    
    ughlol: I feel pathetic about the condition of girls in my country (India)
    
    ughlol: and how they have no freedom due to some pathetic people (rapists)
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: profit is through ads in the app, and also sponsorship from govt etc.
    
    ughlol: This would be the USP for my app
    
    HowardF: i like the idea, but see any kind of profit unlikely.  however asking for donations rather than investments may get you somewhere...
    
    ughlol: USP == Unique Selling Proposition
    
    Azelphur: ads in the app...that sounds like a ridiculously terrible idea for something like this
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: It will be a social networking application that revolves around location services and the rape intervention will be a major feature of the app.
    
    HowardF: agreed.  last thing someone about to get raped needs to see is an ad for condoms..
    
    ughlol: Social networks can earn tons of revenue from ads.
    
    ughlol: FlappyBird made around 50,000USD per day from ads
    
    Azelphur: heh
    
    TomServo: How would this work in the train rape scenario you quoted?
    
    ughlol: I think a social network can make similar amounts
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: yes, but flappy bird was an app people repeatedly use, your app isn't, it's one time use
    
    HowardF: ( having written and worked for several very large social networks by the way, let me assure you, ads don't make as much as you think )
    
    ughlol: TomServo: I was thinking of having people register as helpers. People that have reputation, whose identity we can verify.
    
    ughlol: these 'helpers' can help in such emergencies
    
    TomServo: Right.. but the location?
    
    ughlol: HowardF: oh, then I am mistaken.
    
    punkman: ughlol, you need DRONES
    
    ughlol: TomServo: the location would be inaccurate, but it is possible to send an sos message to nearby people based on last seen location etc.
    
    HowardF: i still think there are places and countries where this wouldn't be a bad idea though.  india, but also large areas of africa, etc.
    
    ughlol: punkman: haha, i doubt i can afford drones. Cant afford a 2nd hand server.
    
    ughlol: lol
    
    ughlol: HowardF: thank you for the support sir, that means a lot.
    
    Azelphur: yea, I like the idea, there's lots of things that could be done (alarm, contract nearby, just like he says)
    
    Azelphur: but, there's no profit in i
    
    Azelphur: t
    
    ThickAsThieves: ughlol
    
    ThickAsThieves: your idea is horrible
    
    ThickAsThieves: scrap it
    
    ughlol: India is my prime target. I've seen a video that literally made me tear. I would link you, but it is in Hindi..
    
    ThickAsThieves: try again
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: I believe profit can be integrated. If not ads, there are probably other ways.
    
    HowardF: looking for profit while writting this is the wrong idea though.  look for donations / goverment / non-profit support instead
    
    ughlol: ThickAsThieves: really? You think so?
    
    ThickAsThieves: also dont go calling things social media (or any other trendy word) just to get attention
    
    Azelphur: HowardF++
    
    ThickAsThieves: it has the opposite reaction
    
    ughlol: HowardF: I agree.
    
    ThickAsThieves: yes
    
    ughlol: ThickAsThieves: You think Im trying to get attention?
    
    ThickAsThieves: you dont advertise to possible rape victims
    
    benkay: ughlol: you're making the mistake of looking at a random event as a reproducible event.
    
    ThickAsThieves: and an app is not social media
    
    ughlol: ThickAsThieves: http://www.satyamevjayate.in/Fighting-Rape/EPISODE-1watchvideo.aspx?uid=E1-EV-V1&lang=hindi
    
    benkay: all app successes are accidents of timing and positioning.
    
    ughlol: Watch it with a translator and then tell me Im trying to seek just attention and scam away some bitcoins.
    
    ThickAsThieves: firstly
    
    ThickAsThieves: you said scam
    
    ThickAsThieves: not me
    
    ughlol: benkay: A rape happens every 18 hours in India's capital city.
    
    ughlol: ThickAsThieves: think what you may.
    
    benkay: ughlol: you fail to make a point.
    
    ThickAsThieves: second, nevermin
    
    
    
    ThickAsThieves: this deserves no more attention
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: there also seems to be apps that already do most of what you're suggesting
    
    HowardF: in south africa rapes happen every few minutes...  there are places where this kind of app could definately be take seriously.
    
    ughlol: benkay: you meant that rape is a radom event?
    
    ughlol: There is currently NO rape intervention/prevention app in the market.
    
    Azelphur: HowardF: agree with you :)
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nebulastudios.meagainstrape what's this then?
    
    ughlol: Yes, you're right HowardF
    
    benkay: no i mean that you can't use flappy bird as an example of how much money you'll make, ughlol.
    
    ughlol: oh
    
    ughlol: i see
    
    ughlol: sorry
    
    benkay: it's not going to prevent rapes.
    
    Azelphur: yea, the flappy bird thing was pretty crazy xD
    
    benkay: rapist smacks phone out of girls hand.
    
    benkay: continues to rape.
    
    benkay: your app has failed.
    
    benkay: NEXT.
    
    HowardF: benkay, even if it succeded in calling out for help / support after the fact, it could be useful
    
    Azelphur: yea, that's why I think an alarm would be better, that at least gets the attention of people around you
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: doesn't create an SOS signal with current location using GPS.
    
    Azelphur: an alarm MIGHT have prevented the train one, for example
    
    benkay: or not letting your girl go to the bathroom unattended in fucking india
    
    benkay: this is a human problem, not a technological one.
    
    ughlol: benkay: it may fail. but it will help many.
    
    ughlol: even if it helps 1 person, it succeeds.
    
    benkay: and how will it make money? because that's basically all we care about in here.
    
    ughlol: technology is moving towards changing peoples lives.
    
    benkay: ads are out.
    
    Azelphur: benkay: I think we already established that it won't
    
    ughlol: HowardF: based on your experience, is there no way for an app like this to make money?
    
    ughlol: Maybe not in the millions, but at least a break-even?
    
    HowardF: difficult at best.  asking for money to install the app would be insulting.  ads would be insulting.
    
    Azelphur: HowardF: my thought with ads was one that it's single use, and 2 accidental clicking lol
    
    ughlol: Ads might not be insulting. After all, its a great service for free..
    
    joecool: <benkay> or not letting your girl go to the bathroom unattended in fucking india < why go to india in the first place
    
    joecool: could go just about *anywhere* else better in the world
    
    HowardF: donations / non-profit status is the only path i could see, but done correctly, that could certianly be a viable option
    
    ughlol: and they can understand that to develop and maintain something like this, we require som emoney.
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: clicking the SOS button can't be accidental.. will implement a simple code or pattern or something so that it cant be pressed accidentally.
    
    ughlol: HowardF: any idea who might be interested to donate to something like this?
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: getting more useless, also re-read what I said, that's not what I suggested.
    
    HowardF: trust me, ads ALWAYS insult people... even on facebook they still get crap for showing ads.
    
    ughlol: oh
    
    Azelphur: I was talking about accidentally clicking an advert during a crisis situation
    
    ughlol: ok
    
    ughlol: ah, i see Azelphur
    
    Azelphur: and if you're having codes and patterns...yea that's so not gonna work
    
    HowardF: i would look for / seek out help from organizations that already deal with rape and rape victims.  there are lots, and they would be a good place to start
    
    Azelphur: tl;dr what you want is a rape whistle, it's better than anything you've mentioned
    
    HowardF: some larger ones may well be willing to sponsor or provide a grant.
    
    Azelphur: 1) cheaper, 2) more widely available, 3) has a much higher chance of success
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: Little girls scream for help, and nobody cares. Nobody wants to interfere.
    
    ughlol: This isn't America.
    
    ughlol: Nobody wants to be the hero.
    
    Azelphur: ah, that's shitty
    
    HowardF: also, no reason you couldn't combine a rape whistle function / ping for help in one button press
    
    ughlol: This is India.
    
    Azelphur: but yea, GPS is too far man, that won't work
    
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    ughlol: Why so?
    
    ughlol: I think GPS should do the trick.
    
    ughlol: It should give a very accurate location.
    
    Azelphur: best case scenario to get to the destination is 10 minutes I'd say, even if it was just around the corner
    
    Azelphur: by then the attacker is probably done and gone
    
    benkay: .bait
    
    
    
    benkay: mm wow
    
    benkay: .bait
    
    
    
    HowardF: based on the assumption someone is being raped / hurt, i imagine it only has to be accurate enough to get within earshot of someone screaming
    
    ughlol: ^
    
    ughlol: true
    
    benkay: what if they're on a train?
    
    Azelphur: ^ that too
    
    benkay: fat load of use this thing will be.
    
    jcpham: train rape
    
    ughlol: benkay: pls scroll up, we discussed that a bit..
    
    benkay: fat load of use this thing will be anyways.
    
    ughlol: yeah
    
    HowardF: and again, even if it can't stop a rape, it could at least call out for first responders / medical help
    
    ughlol: its better than doing nothing
    
    ughlol: and just bitching about every idea that exists
    
    Azelphur: HowardF: yea that was my thinking, it'd be good for after care
    
    ughlol: thinking that it can't help 100% of the rape victims
    
    Azelphur: but that's about all it'd be good for
    
    benkay: nope, shooting down shitty ideas makes the world a better place.
    
    ughlol: To me, even if it helps 1%, its a success.
    
    benkay: to you, just talking about it makes you feel like you're doing something to help
    
    ughlol: i want to make it.
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: that's the thing, I can't even think of any situation where this app would work, at all
    
    ughlol: Not just talk about it.
    
    benkay: so go make it and quit bullshitting.
    
    Azelphur: then go make it, you don't need money
    
    benkay: prove me wrong.
    
    benkay: you don't need money to change the world, just passion and drive, right guys?
    
    ughlol: benkay: do you have a twitter profile?
    
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    ughlol: I'll prove you wrong.
    
    ughlol: benkay: you're wrong.
    
    benkay: less talk, more do.
    
    benkay: go.
    
    ughlol: resources count as well. not just passion and drive.
    
    HowardF: also, if you actually look at rape statistics, its rarely a quick thing, and often theres a period of lead up before the actual rape, so its usefulness may be greater than you guys think...
    
    joecool: wat
    
    benkay: what about a fucking whistle?
    
    ughlol: Thank you HowardF.
    
    benkay: what about martial arts training?
    
    benkay: those are things that i'll buy might have a shot at changing a rape event's outcome
    
    HowardF: your missing the point benkay.  everybody already carries a phone.  no need to change existing habits
    
    benkay: no, you're missing the point. this app on a phone isn't changing anything.
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: dowhat...I built fuckloads of shit
    
    Azelphur: I started on $20 and a computer I built from shit in a skip
    
    Azelphur: so don't start crap about you need capital, you're in the wrong place for that ;)
    
    ughlol: I doubt Azelphur.
    
    Azelphur: really?
    
    ughlol: Yes, really.
    
    Azelphur: ...ok then
    
    ughlol: I myself am a developer and security consultant.
    
    benkay: famous in india, we hear!
    
    ughlol: not exactly, but kinda
    
    ughlol: lol
    
    HowardF: i would say working on a prototype before asking anyone for an investment is top priority though.   money for ideas doesn't happen without something to back it up
    
    benkay: so go hire some $10/hr indian android devs for 2 months of work
    
    benkay: ;;calc 10*80*8
    
    gribble: 6400
    
    ughlol: I agree. I'm currently working on the prototype.
    
    benkay: shouldn't cost you more than seven grand.
    
    Azelphur: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3832397/Photos/From%20Google/DCFN0033.JPG observe, shit from a skip :)
    
    HowardF: if you know java, it shouldn't cost you anything but time
    
    Azelphur: note the CRT monitors with tube burnout, laptop with a piece of string supporting the screen, and TV with smashed in buttons.
    
    Azelphur: those were the days folks, those were the days.
    
    ughlol: Yeah, 7000usd = 4,28,190INR. And thats more than 4months of my fathers salary.
    
    ughlol: benkay: ^
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: wow. That does look nice :)
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: that was to disprove the whole you can't start from $20 and skill argument.
    
    Azelphur: here's what I have now, just to contrast. http://i.imgur.com/YOuK4UK.jpg :)
    
    ughlol: $20 cant even buy me a second had server capable enough to handle location services etc.
    
    ughlol: (assuming i coded the app on my own)
    
    ughlol: these things require some amount of investment
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: no, but it can pay for like 4 months of VPS service, which is what I did.
    
    ughlol: but yes, I wont argue anymore considering that there is no profit in the idea.
    
    Azelphur: I had to go to the host and specifically request a 32MB VPS, they didn't sell them, and the host actually told me I was crazy and that I couldn't even get the OS to run in that. But I did, and everything else I needed :)
    
    Azelphur: I probably still have the chat logs from that somewhere, haha
    
    ThickAsThieves: does india not have a polic emergency line?
    
    ughlol: You can get a VPS for 4months for $20?
    
    ughlol: ThickAsThieves: no
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: hell yes, even less now man, this was 10 years ago
    
    Azelphur: now you can get like 512MB for $2, it's awesome
    
    ThickAsThieves: so what happens when rapee uses your app
    
    ughlol: police actually lockup the victim, and also rape her a couple of times.. thats the reality in inda
    
    ThickAsThieves: who comes running?
    
    ughlol: or they tell the victim to compromise and drop the case
    
    ughlol: ThickAsThieves: family, nearby friends and nearby 'helpers'
    
    ThickAsThieves: so it's like a digital rape whistle
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: https://bluevm.com/ $2.50/mo, for example
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: link me? I'll buy it right now..?
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The biggest obstacle I'd face putting together a book, especially a BTC one would be getting lines and bettors on those lines such that I could make vig intsead of propping up the otherside of every line.
    
    ughlol: ThickAsThieves: yes, and more effective (imho)
    
    Azelphur: there's another host that is even cheaper, I just can't remember its name off the top of my head
    
    HowardF: actually that again brings up the point of support rather than prevention.  it could also summon a human rights / free lawyer to prevent indias corrupt police from harrasing victims
    
    Azelphur: actually, here it is, http://buyvm.net/ $15 / year
    
    ThickAsThieves: the app would be so easy to replicate
    
    ThickAsThieves: i dont see how it can make money
    
    Azelphur: HowardF: now that's a good idea
    
    ughlol: Whatsapp isn't difficult to replicate.
    
    Azelphur: although again, it's all unprofitable
    
    ughlol: There are so many services like whatsapp.
    
    ThickAsThieves: whatsapp had value cuz user data
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Legality wise I'm sure I could just say the book is part of the "Enhanced Reality game Bitcoin" like Micon does
    
    ThickAsThieves: surely you dont intend to sell user data
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: see what I'm saying? Starting up on $20 isn't hard ;)
    
    Azelphur: just gotta be smart.
    
    Azelphur: heck, you could startup on $0
    
    ughlol: HowardF: yes, thats another great idea. Wow. I love discussing this here! :D The lawyer idea.. amazing. Thanks. *Noted*
    
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    HowardF: profit with this app is pretty much out.  but non-profit support isn't
    
    ThickAsThieves: yes you might be able to get a DV shelter to get a grant for it
    
    HowardF: i think you're just in the wrong room to discuss this particular project
    
    Azelphur: I tend to aim at $0 initial when I'm making new things
    
    Azelphur: but I'm crazy. xD
    
    ughlol: How about asking rape victims to donate after they get saved due to the app.. just to help other future rape victims?
    
    ughlol: Would that also be insulting?
    
    ThickAsThieves: well the problem is that's how he started
    
    ThickAsThieves: who has money for me?!
    
    ughlol: Not highly profitable, but we can make the break-even.
    
    ThickAsThieves: social media!
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: nope, this idea is a nonprofit
    
    HowardF: not as insulting, no, but probably also not anywhere near enough to make it worth while.
    
    ughlol: ah
    
    ughlol: ah well
    
    ughlol: some friends sent me here from bitcoin-otc..
    
    ThickAsThieves: you could make the app and charge DV shelters to implement custom localized versions
    
    ughlol: sorry to waste all your time guys
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: doesn't seem like a waste, you got some ideas, and you have more of an idea of what you can/can't do now
    
    ughlol: Yes, thats true..
    
    ThickAsThieves: you may even make a living of it yourself
    
    ThickAsThieves: but it's not an investment opportunity
    
    Azelphur: hopefully you can make a nonprofit app that does the things we mentioned, like sending out a humanitarian lawyer and someone to help
    
    ThickAsThieves: off*
    
    Azelphur: at the very least you can help some people after the fact, I'd think
    
    ughlol: haha, I wish to make an investment from my social network and leave the USP to actually help rape victims.
    
    ughlol: Azelphur: definitely
    
    ughlol: I will do that..
    
    HowardF: indeed... just a few tweaks and i actually think you have a workable idea.
    
    Azelphur: ughlol: good luck, keep your code lightweight and you can run it on a 128MB buyvm server no problem
    
    HowardF: focus more on support than prevention (though you can definately do both), and focus on grants from non-profits
    
    ughlol: Thats great! :) Thanks guys.. will do. Saved this chat for reference and to remember the suggestions.
    
    ughlol: I'll come back on this chan when I have the app ready and runny, and then make fun of benkay! (Just kidding).
    
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    benkay: did we rid -assets of the rapist?
    
    benkay: BingoBoingo: can't you use Bitbet to hold the line?
    
    benkay: hold/build/whatever the appropriate terminology is
    
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    mike_c: bitbet is showing that parimutuel sports betting isn't that big yet..
    
    ThickAsThieves: 'When it comes to currencies, “community is everything,”'
    
    ThickAsThieves: 'Mr. Pierce said GoCoin’s analysis of the dogecoin community revealed a demographic very different from bitcoin’s, including many more women and less-tech-oriented users. He believes this in part stems from dogecoin’s logo'
    
    ThickAsThieves: (WSJ)
    
    BingoBoingo: mike_c: It seems more likely that BTC denominated sports betting is shrinking in terms of BTC bet
    
    
    
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    benkay: "Its very bad news why are you going to do this I am very upset need to rethink about this"
    
    BingoBoingo: So far their winddown doesn't seem scammy. I managed to get my coins out. It's also likely that running the thing just was too much of a hassle. Then again, it could get really scammy.
    
    benkay: best way to not lose btc is to not do anything with 'em
    
    BingoBoingo: Pretty much.
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-13/benchmark-backs-bitcoin-storage-provider-xapo.html
    
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    benkay: one of the funds that got hammered is behind that
    
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    twizt: pankkake: someone pretending to be you PMing me
    
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    Neil: This MH370 thing is like a real-time slapstick farce.
    
    
    
    ozbot: #bitcoin-assets log
    
    nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: the privkeys are just printed on regular paper
    
    nubbins`: upon which the sticker is laid
    
    
    
    benkay: gimme the lulz, Neil
    
    benkay: it's kinda lolarious these vehicles aren't in touch with controllers at all time via satellite
    
    benkay: unless of course i'm as usual missing an important part of the situation
    
    asciilifeform: benkay: the funniest bit is that there is a real-time sat link - including remote control.
    
    asciilifeform: this was introduced in a hurry after '9/11' and vanished from the media as quickly as it appeared.
    
    ThickAsThieves: nubbins` do the blanks come with stickers?
    
    asciilifeform: has anyone offered a prize for snarfing the key from an intact coin?
    
    asciilifeform: i'm reasonably certain that it is possible to do so, but have no wish to steal from anyone.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.11950724 BTC [-]
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's been done at hacker conferences and/or in a blog post I believe
    
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    asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: link?
    
    asciilifeform: if i recall, the current state-of-the-art involves a careful removal and replacement of the hologram
    
    
    
    ozbot: Casascius Physical Bitcoins Cracked at Defcon - Coding In My Sleep - A Bitcoin Blog
    
    nubbins`: old news ;D
    
    nubbins`: apparently they left evidence of tampering
    
    asciilifeform: not what i had in mind at all (if you want to know what, read the channel logs, no reason to repeat)
    
    ThickAsThieves: i recall you talking on the topic before
    
    ThickAsThieves: i'm not interested in them as a foolproof secure storage
    
    ThickAsThieves: more a way for family member to store some
    
    asciilifeform: i have very little interest in the subject of casascius in particular, but in general i like the idea of 'blowing' systems that make false promises of security.
    
    ThickAsThieves: i trust my mom could keep a coin safe, a bitcoin however
    
    benkay: safe + drives + paper backups
    
    ThickAsThieves: + solvent ink vinyl backups
    
    benkay: bwaat?
    
    nubbins`: like business signs
    
    nubbins`: i'm not sure if blanks come with paper
    
    nubbins`: err sorry
    
    nubbins`: they do come with stickers
    
    ThickAsThieves: drives can corrupt, aqueous ink can dissolve, paper can disintegrate
    
    ThickAsThieves: solvent ink can only be removed with solvent
    
    ThickAsThieves: vinyl has different weaknesses than paper
    
    nubbins`: aluminum strips and embossing tape
    
    benkay: sometime this year i hope to have an etching process up
    
    
    
    ThickAsThieves: not bad nubbins
    
    asciilifeform: consider clay tablet.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24430 @ 0.00080355 = 19.6307 BTC [+]
    
    nubbins`: ooh that too
    
    ThickAsThieves: does aluminum surive house fire?
    
    nubbins`: doubt it
    
    nubbins`: you can probably melt that tape with a bic
    
    benkay: fast conduction tho
    
    KRS1: alum melts easily
    
    benkay: maybe instead of etching, i'll buy a small mill
    
    nubbins`: <asciilifeform> has anyone offered a prize for snarfing the key from an intact coin? << not afaik. would have to be a hefty reward
    
    nubbins`: since any failed attempt would mean the loss of not-insignificant value
    
    ThickAsThieves: not sure who would fund such
    
    asciilifeform: could offer prize specifically for reading the key without physically altering the coin.
    
    asciilifeform: likewise it is not unreasonable to expect players to purchase their own test coin.
    
    nubbins`: you can get brass coins for a premium of ~0.2btc
    
    ThickAsThieves: loaded?
    
    nubbins`: yeah
    
    nubbins`: 2013 1btc brass ones fetch 1.15-1.3 on the forums and -otc
    
    nubbins`: i've seen some sellers offer 2013 0.5btc brass for 0.69
    
    nubbins`: but i wouldn't sell mine for that low
    
    nubbins`: the silvers fetch a higher premium, you wouldn't see a 1btc silver sell for less than 2.0-2.1
    
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    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 3 @ 0.046 = 0.138 BTC [+]
    
    dexX7_: gox trades and balances partly deanonymized with the help of the 2011 leak
    
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    ozbot: Newsweek Reporter Bashes ‘Fanatical’ Bitcoiners on Facebook | Betabeat
    
    Duffer1: in before S.MKNY turns out to be a search engine
    
    Duffer1: MNKY*
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 53 @ 0.0063834 = 0.3383 BTC [-]
    
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    turbo_ac100: The MoNKeY? Google bash on trilema? Sounds about right.
    
    dub: wat
    
    dub: oh mp discovered that google suck?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1929 @ 0.00015196 = 0.2931 BTC [+] {5} 
    
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    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33200 @ 0.00079882 = 26.5208 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    nubbins`: ThickAsThieves lel toffoo is in that list!
    
    nubbins`: ;;rated toffoo
    
    gribble: You rated user toffoo on Fri Jan 31 10:30:17 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: his btc for my merchandise! he sent first!.
    
    nubbins`: ooh lightbox too
    
    Duffer1: oh snap Deprived is back
    
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    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 7 @ 0.073 = 0.511 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo_: ;;later tell mircea_popescu ATC trading statement has been mailed.
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.0037 = 0.37 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 29 @ 0.0037 = 0.1073 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6500 @ 0.00079961 = 5.1975 BTC [+]
    
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    decimation: asciilifeform I assume you saw the ios security document?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: which one?
    
    
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 530 @ 0.0059186 = 3.1369 BTC [+]
    
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    decimation: I would give apple credit, they are a cut above the usual silicon valley crowd security-wise
    
    decimation: except you just have to trust apple
    
    decimation: of course, white papers are on thing, actually showing the details of the code is a different matter
    
    francis_wolke: http://www.theonion.com/articles/malaysian-airlines-expands-investigation-to-includ,35524/
    
    ozbot: Malaysia Airlines Expands Investigation To Include General Scope Of Space, Time | The Onion - Americ
    
    asciilifeform: i see nothing remarkable in this document.
    
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    decimation: I wish they would release the firmware code
    
    decimation: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2012/Q3/new-system-could-predict-solar-flares,-give-advance-warning.html
    
    ozbot: New system could predict solar flares, give advance warning
    
    decimation: The system works by measuring differences in gamma radiation emitted when atoms in radioactive elements "decay," or lose energy. This rate of decay is widely believed to be constant, but recent findings challenge that long-accepted rule.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 20 @ 0.072 = 1.44 BTC [-]
    
    asciilifeform: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-judge-dismisses-charges-in-Devyani-Khobragade-case/articleshow/31913140.cms
    
    BingoBoingo: Slow news day, but for the bored: http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/invertebrates-inject-a-bit-of-romance-during-sexby-stabbing-each-other/
    
    benkay`: "discretely arrested by US department of state agents outside her children's Manhattan school"
    
    benkay`: i suppose that's discreet, if you're the gestapo.
    
    asciilifeform: note the role of the famous preet bharara - the roland freisler of our day.
    
    decimation: no one can accuse USG of racism, that's for sure
    
    decimation: why does a visa application list the salary of a housekeeper?
    
    
    
    benkay`: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/in-turkey-renewed-anti-government-protests/100698/
    
    ozbot: In Turkey, Renewed Anti-Government Protests - In Focus - The Atlantic
    
    benkay`: ignore those neo-nazis in crimea
    
    benkay`: who's paying for all of these banners? http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/turkey031314/s_t07_78148535.jpg
    
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    decimation: Communists?
    
    benkay`: is that who's trying to assume the mantle of power in turkey?
    
    MisterE: Koch
    
    BingoBoingo: Gambling and the regulation thereof http://www.bnd.com/2014/03/13/3107196/no-dice-amended-gambling-bill.html
    
    benkay`: "concern about the impact on the neighboring Casino Queen prompted him to exclude Fairmount Park from getting gaming machines"
    
    benkay`: that being the government's business, of course.
    
    BingoBoingo: Of course, the Queen being 40% of East Saint's revenue and somehow managing to at the same time be a bigger shithole than East Saint
    
    MisterE: and that boys and girls is how special interests run our government
    
    MisterE: hahah
    
    MisterE: I bet those jobs are monimum wage too
    
    MisterE: minimum*
    
    BingoBoingo: Oh, it is an "employee owned casino"
    
    MisterE: while the execs and shareholders clean up
    
    MisterE: oh
    
    BingoBoingo: Whatever that can mean
    
    MisterE: yea
    
    BingoBoingo: I imagine it is like a reverse Berkshire
    
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    MisterE: man if Turkey destabilizes much more shit is gonna get real in the ME
    
    MisterE: I should get over there
    
    benkay`: what kinds of mischief would you get up to?
    
    MisterE: Hmm maybe protest porn?
    
    benkay`: naked ladies at the protest?
    
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    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.07799118 = 0.156 BTC [+]
    
    chetty: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-13/chinese-authorities-halt-virtual-credit-card-payments-tencent-yahoo-crashing
    
    ozbot: Chinese Authorities Halt Virtual Credit Card Payments; Tencent, Yahoo Crashing | Zero Hedge
    
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    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7900 @ 0.00079961 = 6.3169 BTC [+]
    
    
    
    ozbot: Twitch
    
    Duffer1: heroes of the storm
    
    MisterE: who Duffer1 ?
    
    Duffer1: new blizz moba, it's just total biscuit playing
    
    BingoBoingo: Kinda related to my writeup on basketball
    
    
    
    ozbot: There's No Basketball Crowd Like One Close To Free Big Macs
    
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