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Mon Mar 14 17:06:17 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> (notably, refused, for his entire reign, to sell mineral resources from his country to foreign devils. successors IMMEDIATELY began this burning of furniture, culminating in modern ru 'pipe economy.')
Mon Mar 14 14:33:09 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 13-03-2016 20:57:48; mircea_popescu: hence my comment about fragility. there are two main threads here that would-be bitcoin entrepreneurs must heed quite closely. one is that - your expense structure is not either a) in your own control or b) specificable. for as long as your business model involves bitcoin as it currently exists, you're doing the economic equivalent of linking remote dlls.
Sun Mar 13 20:57:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hence my comment about fragility. there are two main threads here that would-be bitcoin entrepreneurs must heed quite closely. one is that - your expense structure is not either a) in your own control or b) specificable. for as long as your business model involves bitcoin as it currently exists, you're doing the economic equivalent of linking remote dlls.
Sun Mar 13 20:05:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i must say the experience has been rather sobering as to all sorts of naive assumptions as to value, wealth and economics in the bitcoin world.
Fri Mar 11 13:52:51 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> for offspring you need sane world + economic surplus (at least at the not-being-in-labour-camp level)
Thu Mar 10 23:04:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i wouldn't take this failure to be more informative than it is. the technology never entered into discussion, it failed on economic grounds.
Thu Mar 10 22:46:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> maybe the economics are just not there, let's try and quantify this.
Thu Mar 10 02:44:10 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 09-03-2016 23:44:28; mircea_popescu: pretty much the only way he could have made economic sense was by marketing the spare cycles of well connected people here - outside.
Wed Mar 09 23:44:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> pretty much the only way he could have made economic sense was by marketing the spare cycles of well connected people here - outside.
Tue Mar 08 18:54:25 UTC 2016 <nubbins`> PeterL october 2014 is the most recent month there was any economic activity in/out
Tue Mar 08 17:01:32 UTC 2016 <nubbins`> in fact, F.MPIF has not performed any economic activity since October 2014
Sat Mar 05 22:06:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> why the fuck did you imagine the various items and pillars to build a coherent world-envelloping system come to me so easily ? i'm not coming up with fucking wot-economy and pgp-corporations and all this de novo, i'm just applying to pre-existing items!
Fri Mar 04 18:32:19 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform recall the lulz i had in the logs when it was discovered the icbc, an economic institution with a sheet larger than the entire us banking sector, was actually NOT EVEN TRADED in the us ?
Fri Mar 04 18:16:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform much like soviet economy endgame, stuff isn't being replaced. simply removed.
Fri Mar 04 02:08:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> derpy soviet take on economy.
Fri Mar 04 01:31:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and that only because it abstains from discussing the economy.
Thu Mar 03 15:17:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "you can have your own opinions, but we want to move from this situation where harvard & mit lied to you about you being smart enough to resolve any real word conondrum 'if you just got the facts [as officially branded facts by harvard and mit]'" to a much more economical "you can have your own opinions just as long as they're what we say they should be".
Wed Mar 02 17:42:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is what it does for its living : tries to extract value out of the greatly economically valuable bitcoin thing.
Tue Mar 01 23:55:13 UTC 2016 <ben_vulpes> waiwut how does it make economic sense to not release blocks?
Thu Feb 25 02:01:22 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> http://www.vedomosti.ru/economics/articles/2015/12/09/620202-finlyandiya-550-evro << finland 'plans to pay all adult citizens 550 eu. independently of all other income; the sum will not be taxed. in return, the finns will have to disclaim all other government benefits, which add up, on average, to 600 eu., but no greater than 1500' (????) 'the government will ... consider this idea in nov. 2016 ... ... right now, it is unprofi