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This is indeed awesome.
However it has occurred to me... and this actually is not really to do with you at all (or let us say, one surely hopes it is not)... how easy it could be for someone to just make stuff like this up. It'd be even better than pirateat40's bunch of OTC ratings of 10, it might never even occur to people to think anyone would make this stuff up.
SO I do hope that someday the big fish who made the loan does 'fess up, or something, so the next big scammer doesn't get to point at this great story to "prove" how "legit" his or her own great backstory is...
Again, I am not at all suspicious of this story.
It is the next one I am worried about...
-MarkM-
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GLBSE used to have all clients sign their orders with their private key, pretty soon because obvious that this wasn't going to scale as more and more people lost their keys
As long as its them losing their keys not me losing their keys that is fine. They are free to lose their keys, I am free to lose mine. Whether people should be free to invest in ponzi schemes or not I am still willing to allow them the freedom to lose their keys. -MarkM- |
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The service is under full control of Nefario (who is already proven to be a cheeky crook) and there is no way for anyone to prove that Nerafio stole anything from him at GLBSE.
Just like there was no way for nedbert9 to prove that Nefario stole 3k of his ASICMINER.
But the common sense says that he is the obvious thief, since he refused to revert the stealing transactions.
Pirate would have to be crazy, like I used to be, to open an account on this fucking thief's server.
I am realy glad I have taken the tiem to work with FellowTraveler on getting Open Transactions working, so if people like you end up using my server every asset balance they have will be signed with their own secret private key that only exists on their computer, so if they try to claim I stole something their own digital signature will refute their accusation. -MarkM- |
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Well hey, Black Pearl Investments pays 15% per week so maybe Pirate was just running a passthrough to a reputable investment of that kind!
-MarkM- (What, sarcasm? Where? Oh, up there! Well yeah, duh.)
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How is it that it does not have a GUI? I see a bitcoin-qt.pro file in the toplevel directory, did they do something to break the ability to compile the -qt version? Normally if the daemon works the GUI does too as its mostly just a pretty front end onto the same code...
-MarkM-
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Anyone have any other ideas on how I can 'earn' some BTC ?  Maybe set up a Black Pearl passthrough? -MarkM- |
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If I were you, I would wait till Christmas 2013 at which time BurtW will have over 1,000,000 BTC in his account from Interest and he can cover everyone's debts Wow, guys like that should come play in the Galactic Milieu, we have operations there that borrowed a grand at one percent a day (compounded hourly) well over a year ago, are up to 168370.06907000 this hour and are still expected to pay up. Though in fairness it should be acknowledged that they are now being run by repossession corps not by the original debtors... -MarkM- |
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Of course they're not. Pirate is contacting all the passthrough operators as we type to arrange the payouts, it just took a little longer than he hoped.
-MarkM-
Oh he is is he? Should I stay up then? If we are both being sarcastic/ironic, then absolutely. Otherwise maybe not... -MarkM- |
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Oh dear, no one is going to get their money, call the police!
Call the police?!?! Are you crazy, then no one will get their money...
-MarkM-
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Hey now! The presence of Klingons in the outer solar system is classified information! The official secrets act folk will be after you now!
-MarkM-
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Don't worry guys you can make your money back very quick. Black Pearl Investments shall provide a much bigger return than pirate ever could.
Watch this space.
Coming Soon - Black Pearl Investments
15% weekly interest. Anybody can open an account!
Don't bother asking where the bitcoins go, we wont tell you.
You know how this works, come get some of the booty!
Please remember to include in the contract explicitly that no more than comes in will go out thus all estimated percentage earnings are subject to truncation in the event of insufficient incoming funds, or some such clause... -MarkM- |
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Yeah it would have made more sense right at the start, not after the $30+ bubble.
-MarkM-
Before or after the bubble it's still a giant BTC-wide pump and dump. You're saying all the big hands (Pirate backers) are in it to wring the later masses dry? Bitcoiners may be dumb but I don't think the community is rotten to the very core like you're saying. Why so negative? It wouldn't be a pump and dump, it'd be a pump up to some decent operating level and keep on trucking. All this hovering in the low double digits is silly, its peanuts, way to small to make bitcoin useable as a unit of account in any decent size projects. It needs to get into at least the three digits range and stay there, still on a good strong steady bull-run. -MarkM- |
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Wow landing on the treasurydirect site I thought I'd landed on a parked domain. Something about the page style seems somehow just like one. The snippet from wikipedia the google search shows said it allow US people to blah blah blah. What, no buying of treasury bills by aliens?  -MarkM- |
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Of course they're not. Pirate is contacting all the passthrough operators as we type to arrange the payouts, it just took a little longer than he hoped.
-MarkM-
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Yeah it would have made more sense right at the start, not after the $30+ bubble.
-MarkM-
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Remember that bitcoin looked back then to many observers as if it was tanking. Its not like you could have sold a few tens of thousands to finance a business without driving the price into the ditch...
-MarkM-
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Yeah that is not very clever. I made a really simple one in my BBS that was cleverer seeming than that. All it did was build aliases. That is, whatever you entered was assumed to mean something else, unless it recognised it (meaning it already knows what it means). For extra lols, it manipulated the timing of its keystrokes, made typographical errors, sometimes backspaced over the typo to correct it, in short it looked very much like live human full duplex chat typing. So a conversation would go like U: Hi, you there? B: I don't understand, can you rephrase that? U: Mark is that you? B: I do not recognise that command, could you say it another way? U: Mark? B: Meaning Is this chat? B: Meaning what is this? B: Meaning is this some kind of bot? B: Meaning quit B: Quitting back to BBS... Turns out most commands either meant exit back to BBS or drop connection.  -MarkM- |
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Actually I am not yet convinced you absolutely have to have some tail risk. Consider that baskets can be nested, and even if they are not nested the ballast asset could be an arbitrarily complicated instrument.
Possibly an instrument could be designed that cannot possibly ever be worth less than a dollar.
At the risk of being overly simplistic, suppose for example I used a two-dollars coin as the ballast?
(Merely a proof of concept.)
As to my walking off into the sunset with your bitcoins, I dunno about that, seems like a lot of facebook friends might unfriend me or something if I did something like that... And its not like the RCMP don't have my fingerprints though I don't think they ever got around to taking a retinal scan yet.
-MarkM-
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He has to inform them that his Nigerian Prince brother in law cannot get the money past customs without a little grease to grease the wheels...  -MarkM- |
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Sounds good. Gotta be somehow trustable though, we don't want executables made by our fiendly local Anon reps...
-MarkM-
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