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Mon Jun 23 16:37:57 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> mircea_popescu yes in a sense, I know a guy who was offered a fortune for his finance site but held on
Mon Jun 23 16:37:27 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> HeySteve no timing involved. if you sell your corp in the bubble and walk away you shorted the bubble.
Mon Jun 23 16:37:01 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> I hear what you're saying, the art is in the timing
Mon Jun 23 16:36:35 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> investors not so much
Mon Jun 23 16:36:28 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> I think mostly the guys who sold their companies during the mania made out like bandits
Mon Jun 23 16:35:42 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> few were wise enough to sell or short at the top
Mon Jun 23 16:35:33 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> hmm many got rich then poor in quick succession
Mon Jun 23 16:34:44 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> well... it seems many startups are raking in king's ransoms just because there's a lot of enthusiasm around Bitcoin... so by shorting, you are risking exposure to these kind of bubbles?
Mon Jun 23 16:33:08 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> HeySteve on their alleged funding, yes.
Mon Jun 23 16:32:51 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> HeySteve: Here's last year's line up of bowl games. http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls
Mon Jun 23 16:32:48 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> so it's decided purely on their funding?
Mon Jun 23 16:32:17 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> ah ha
Mon Jun 23 16:31:13 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> HeySteve that they announced a 10mn round. from the article :
Mon Jun 23 16:30:48 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> right, and BitGo, what is the reasoning behind including them?
Mon Jun 23 16:30:22 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> HeySteve yeah, i suppose it would be.
Mon Jun 23 16:30:02 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> so is to correct to F.DERP as a hedge fund?
Mon Jun 23 16:28:50 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> HeySteve: It will be on ESPN with the fifty or so other bowl games that happen in december
Mon Jun 23 16:28:08 UTC 2014 <HeySteve> BingoBoingo, yeah I saw that... will it at least be seen on national TV?
Mon Jun 23 16:27:32 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> HeySteve: Bitpay is sponsoring a fucking bowl game. They probably spent ~10% of their last round on a notoriously poor form of advertising.
Mon Jun 23 16:27:08 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> HeySteve yes, as mentioned in the article. any corps that make bold claims in the future will go in there.