Account created February 10, 2012. 4th post made February 28, 2012. 5th post made March 05, 2013. So...you bought it?


Account created March 24, 2013.

Soo...there was some sort of solar flare in March or what? Did you actually read and comprehend the linked material or are you yet another one of the hands in ears "lalala I know better than all of you because I'm me and rain doesn't exist because my three weeks' experience doesn't contain rain"?

That's ok, you have to really try to manage offending me.


You don't need a yubikey (nor is it actually very useful). A STAT is just that, you type out STAT and gpg-sign/gpg-encrypt it.


Some meme thing.


Actually if you use pympex (and I think pretty much everyone does), which is simply a python script, you can run it on any platform (windows, linux, mac, anything that has python and gpg ported which pretty much means everything).


Transferred where you mean?




There's no assignment whatever. If you can use the registered key to sign you can issue orders, they will be honored.


Can you rephrase this?


Can you rephrase that too?


Security. MPEx is both theoretically (because of pgp, for instance) and practically (because of its history, for instance) pretty much the only secure service in all of Bitcoin (and yes, anything website-based is insecure by that very fact).

Professionalism. Too much stuff to list, not to mention too many people will get severe acute butthurt if I do. Reading my post history may be a good proxy.

Economic reasons. 0.2% fee sell side only is still by far the lowest fee in BTC. S.DICE raised ~50k BTC on its IPO, this is yet to be matched by anyone. Stuff like that.

This'd be the first time you had a point. What was it again?

If this weren't so stupid it would be just a plain lie.

Listen here: what MtGox did for the community is deny and ignore reports about their security being poor for two weeks before being actually hacked, which nearly destroyed Bitcoin. That going from 30 to 0 did not destroy it is a testament to the power and worth of everyone else. What MtGox did do is pose the largest threat to Bitcoin's existence, unsurpassed in the entire interval and likely to never be surpassed.

After that what they did was ignore requests from the community to fix their engine, which to this day consists mostly of lag, alongside a litany of other perfectly legitimate requests I'm not going to bother to list for your noobish benefit.

All the while they sucked millions of dollars from the same community in fees, which they have utterly squandered.

MtGox is the enemy of Bitcoin. More so than any state and more so than any government, more so than any one person, MtGox is the one thing that is Bad For Bitcoin.

He doesn't. The link made me chuckle too.

Notable in that they've stolen every bit of IP conceivable. There's the hobbit franchise or w/e, but then there's the (doubtlessly unauthorised) casascius coin used as a backing for the "referrer", and on it goes.

This thing must be Chinese.

http://www.google.com/search?q=merlinsmagicbitcoins.com

They're everywhere already, moneymakergroup.com talkgold.com realscam.com you name it.

From that last site,


Turns out it's not Chinese.

Cool. Get in the WoT would you.

It's not a X vs Y debate. Coin* (all of them, base, lab, whatever) are teh Yfail. This has no bearing on MtGox being teh fail, unrelated topics. We're not electing politicians here, to be confronted with a choice between self-entitled clueless arrogant fuckwit vs partially reanimated corpse. We can reject the entire slate no problem.


Lmao Bitcoin's master troll to date has been playing Civ, too.

Go to Timisoara after your recuperation, you can buy each other wine and cigars.

For the record: Korbman is some failed wannabe financier (loosely associated with some wannabe competitor for that matter). Take what he says with a grain of salt (not because what he says about MPEx is wrong, which it is, but because what he says about finance is stupid, which he is).

Other than that: fee is still 30 BTC. There were > 100 paid accounts in January (sauce). You can easily calculate how many accounts are paid monthly/cumulative seeing how they're itemized in the S.MPOE monthly reports.

On a more general note, the set of people making negative assessments of S.MPOE/MPEx and the set of people that are either too lazy to read or functionally illiterate (for either an intellectual or educational deficit) converge greatly.

The former group is somewhat larger, as it also contains a naive contingent that (wrongly) imagines itself able to impose error as commonly accepted truth through winning some sort of marketing contest, in spite of this never having worked before and without bothering to notice the pain inflicted on those who have so far tried to. Partial list of people you might have heard of includes Amir Taaki, Nefario, Goat - who after six months spent in an opium den to try and forget his previous beating is back again apparently looking for more - Gigavps, Patrick Harnett, Kludge, Meni Rosenfeld, rpietila and on and on it goes. The forum is littered with the decomposing carcasses of those who thought they know better than MP, they can more than MP and whatnot.


Well according to the crowdsourced wisdom in the other thread the right time to buy a stock is when it's expensive and the right time to sell it is when it's cheap.

Before you laugh, this is in point of fact exactly the advice "financial advisors" were even recently giving their well paying, high powered customers such as Stanford etc.

Dude, totally. 0.036 aka 2%, you've completely proven me wrong.

People buying past March 9th will make back on average 30% of their investment. The golden section of Bitcoin mining investments.

Book it ye buncha herpderps.

Two weeks? Now where have I heard that one before....

We know and don't care/aren't particularly impressed. Max Keiser, another utterly anonymous famous person also made very similar claims for very similar reasons at about the same time, with the same pretense and everything. Do you see a pattern here?

Same as in the neighboring country, I would guess? (Many boys just after a war, many girls just before one).

Thank you for your expert judgement calls based on nothing whatsoever.

OTC trade is up a good 50% in the past three months. The thing with Bitcoin is that idiots/noobs believe in the website model, and so agglomerate themselves in the killing fields (aka websites). People who know what's what use the WoT and trade OTC.

This trend will continue, the combined "exchange" market will likely continue dropping in relative value and eventually mature into the < 1% it's supposed to be (to which add, of course, all their own wash trading, fake walls and whatnot).

There was recently a relatively large scam (fractionary reserve "exchange" + "investments") that popped in that part of the world. Not surprising another one is coming up, made by the same people or just contenders.

Wouldn't trust it with Kludge's wife's (they personally consider themselves married, but legally, they are individual and thus have rights they'd otherwise forfeit) 401(k).

Seems that the well known yet little discussed fact that the majority of people "in Bitcoin" have a mental age of about nine is finally being recognized and exploited commercially.

Herp.

Bitcoinica Scamsultancy busy at its usual work I see.

There's exactly one that so far has. You can read up on the details here and here.

The problems with services (such as low end Cloudflare or slightly higher end Black Lotus and its rebranded resellers) are many and numerous. You may pay MP for consultancy on the topic (cheaper) or discover them for yourself, just as MtGox & co have (more expensive).

Yes, MtGox is doing down. /topic

Actually there is ample room here for a cherry truck argument. "They are both equally something or the other because they both were involved and that's all it takes" or some such Joel Katz level idiocy.


Not in Bitcoin. Which is precisely why people like Bitcoin. You can't have both ends.


Ditto.