I made a bad joke a day or two ago stating I received the magazine, giving a review, and posting a tracking number from a free Grainger catalog I ordered. Now, there are people in the BTCMag thread wondering why they haven't received a magazine yet when so many others have.   

 

Works fine for me.

A day when we don't use simple online calculators and spreadsheets.

HA!

- but I'll bite and order a hosting package to try some out (wouldn't dare host bitcoind on a server, though). I haven't really done anything involving setting up a website since I sold wristbands uhh.... a long while ago. What're folks using these days - the wizzy-wigs?    

ETA: Drupal's pretty darn easy to configure, install extra modules, and change settings in. I thought I'd have to learn how to use MySQL or something... thank God for hand-holding automation.

I think it just means he'll (we'll, I guess) dox him if something goes horribly wrong. IIRC, there's a fairly large fellow near Thailand who's well-in with Goat who'd be able to sit on him.

What? It's the implicit "mediation fee" I charge.


... In other news, the price of TyGrr-Bank just recovered. 

I expect Goat's assets to be unfrozen within 24h, likely within 12h, and ideally, within about an hour. I believe Goat's gone to sleep now, so dividends wouldn't be paid until he wakes up. I'm just waiting on securing the documents so I can verify and give Nefario the green-light. Glad this will all be less than a footnote soon. 


Cheers,

Ben

The plan is for me to hold Goat's ID in "escrow." I provided Nefario with my own ID and intend to verify Goat's ID, then update Nefario. However, it's a bit past Goat's normal sleep-time, so until that time, I'll be increasing my stake in his assets while confidence is low.


The information's now public, so it isn't insider trading.... right?

No. It's also not reasonable to threaten to close all the assets (after fairly quickly freezing them) when Goat's already said he's not liable for you creating terms of service out of thin air, then denying service for not complying with those made-up terms. You'd effectively ensure his assets "default." Already, prices of his assets have been plummeting over this, which personally affects me.

This is a silly argument and the stakes are too high. What's more ridiculous is that Goat's already provided gov't ID to investors (honestly, I'm surprised nobody's just submitted them to Nefario behind Goat's back, yet). Neither Goat's nor Nefario's arguments are reasonable given the stakes, and the whole thing's meaningless. Both Nefario and Goat are set in their ways, and the lines have been drawn. Nobody's going to change -- you've both dug in. Either GLBSE or Goat-related assets will lose credibility, and most likely, both will, quite significantly. In either case, they both negatively affect each other, which negatively affects me -- this's gone on long enough.


Goat: Please just upload your gov't ID. IIRC, you do not need to provide anything beyond that. You've provided it to others without this drama. Granted, they didn't freeze your accounts anywhere and create a lot of FUD through that action, but it's detrimental to allow it to continue. I swear to the King of All Fuck I will stop investing in your projects if you don't submit ID to Nefario within a timely manner.

Nefario: Please don't allow these situations to happen in the future. State in the terms you demand ID prior to asset creation, and demand it from all current asset-creators, not just when the asset's become large in your mind and you suddenly have a whim to collect ID on the asset-creator. I swear to the King of All Fuck I will stop investing in assets listed on your site if you don't unfreeze Goat's assets within a timely manner.

Received another large deposit a short while ago. I'm doing another buy-in soon to increase ownership equity to a level I'm more comfortable with.

63D CDs are no longer available and fwiw, I'm expecting to lower CD rates in May (not dramatically, but significantly) due to being less able to find investing opportunities I like outside of partnerships in future ventures (which have no guarantee of RoI), Pirate, and low-return opportunities. I have no qualms investing in those with my own money, but I don't want to be liable to pay out CDs when I'm receiving either much lower revenues or much higher risk. Also toying with the idea of cashing out. Will likely need to greatly reduce my stake within a few months assuming my house ever sells.

Tomorrow or "soon," I'll once again start accepting loan requests from people I don't have a long-standing relationship with. I'll start another new BDK thread for it, and lock this one. Will look into the different ways other lenders have developed to ensure the lending process is both smooth and relatively secure. Anonymity (pseudonymity, rather) is ideal, but it requires a big leap of faith -- it's quite likely I'll be requiring lendees wait a few days for a postcard with a code on it, then have them repeat the code to me via PM, on top of other methods to ensure identity and ability to repay. I'll see if the other lender has decided to make that website public yet or not. Now that I have the equivalent of well over $8k of others' money, this is no longer an experiment. As they say, shit's getting real. 

In other recent news, due to how what the middleman-insurer between Pirate & I wants (which is deleveraging), I will not be putting a total of 2k BTC into Pirate's programs between uninsured & insured loans as intended. ~250BTC will be insured, ~1000 will be uninsured - by June. Again, ownership equity far exceeds potential losses in Pirate's programs or Goat's programs. Other news... BDK has honored a 6.2-ish BTC pledge to BTC100, as well as a small sum to IBB. No loans are currently "forked," so all interest income off current loans will have a % taken out and donated to IBB & BTC100. Other news... For a fee, I will sell BTC for USD -- PM me. I do not care to sell more than 100BTC at a time. I might be willing to consider selling for PPUSD if I trust you very much and you're extensively involved in the community.


Cheers & good night,

Ben

ETA: BancoKluge.com purchased. More on that soon.

ETA2: CDs are no longer being accepted. I'm quite pleased with what I currently have. This may change ~next week, but rates will likely be reduced.

explicit = clearly laid out, made obvious -- "explicitly stated"

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I was told to delete my posts until I have the copy of the magazine intended for publishing.

I no longer live in the house for sale.

Confirmed. Thanks again.

If ever implemented in GLBSE, a stock split would be nice. Triple the stocks out there, everyone's shares increase proportionally (3x what they currently hold). People can buy into GLBSE with less. As the purpose of GLBSE is to introduce investing opportunities to the public without extra overhead, it makes sense to make the stocks as accessible as possible, which includes pricing them low enough for the skeptical or BTC-poor to grab a share or two.

Wouldn't it make more sense to not force users to solve Captchas until at least one login attempt has failed since last successful login?

Roasted preferred. No preference otherwise - it's easy to adjust for.

Bump. Contest ends on the 4th.

Confirmed. Thank you. 

When I went to Battle Creek, MI (totally random-looking city -- I'm guessing there are no zoning laws) for a funeral, I stopped by a place called Horrock's. Most amazing place I've ever been. I saw their selection of cheeses and almost cried. They have a live pianist, a large selection of plants, gift shop, pharmacy, ridiculous selection of wines, cheeses, and meats - crackers, spices, flour, bird feed, even batteries -- just about everything.


I'd have no problem at all honoring a $500/year pledge at that place. They have another location in Lansing, MI which my uncle told me is similar in selection and entertainment.

No, but they sent me a tracking number. Don't understand why they sent for a magazine... maybe I was hassling them a bit much. Looks like the special issue & gift is included, too.

http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?HTMLVersion=5.0&loc=en_US&Requester=UPSHome&WBPM_lid=homepage%2Fct1.html_pnl_trk&trackNums=1Z1WE9340365599431%0D%0A&track.x=Track