Who is Mircea Popescu??

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

And why is Gavin so concerned that he specifically agrees to the fork?

http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-01-2015#985304

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[dropt]

MP is a nutbar, but I kind of enjoy his persona.   He owns MPEX and is a massive mouthpiece.  He also owns a shitload of BTC.


Edit:  I don't know why GA cares so much about MP tho.

[knight22]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=271711.0

 

[OgNasty]

And why is Gavin so concerned that he specifically agrees to the fork?

I don't think Gavin cares at all about Mircea Popescu. Not sure what you read that implies otherwise.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

And why is Gavin so concerned that he specifically agrees to the fork?

I don't think Gavin cares at all about Mircea Popescu. Not sure what you read that implies otherwise.

Luke-Jr: mircea_popescu: Gavin wants to know what has to happen for people to agree to it - he isn't trying to force it through without consensus

[OgNasty]

And why is Gavin so concerned that he specifically agrees to the fork?

I don't think Gavin cares at all about Mircea Popescu. Not sure what you read that implies otherwise.

Gavin wants to know what has to happen for people to agree to it - he isn't trying to force it through without consensus

You're reading way too much into it if you somehow got that Gavin cares about Mircea from that.

[manselr]

He's some guy who runs an unlicensed stock exchange from his bedroom in Romania. A stock exchange that costs 20BTC to sign up to and has pictures of unicorns on it. He also runs a 4chan clone on the same domain as the stock exchange, or used to. When the SEC contacted him as part of an investigation into a listing on his stock exchange his reply was "contact me on IRC pls I don't like email". He used to spam bloggers in order to get free advertising and he used to hire some girl to post on bitcointalk on his behalf because he's better than us, but then she got banned and she wasn't missed by anyone.

Im not commenting on this guy because I have no idea about him but I find it funny how there's so much weird people that got rich with bitcoin like Karpeles turning a card trading site into a BTC exchange. I also could picture Karpeles wearing my little pony t-shirts. I cant believe these fucking morons got so rich. Fucking early being-at-the-right-place investor luck.

[Morecoin Freeman]

I cant believe these fucking morons got so rich. Fucking early being-at-the-right-place investor luck.

Skills pay the bills. Get with it.

[ElectricMucus]

M. Poopscoop provides a solid foundation to comedy gold. With the current pace of events, in particular coinbase and the DPR trail he doesn't get as much laughs as he used to. I don't have the impression that is going to change anytime soon with the comedy features at an ATH.

[bit tired]

I cant believe these fucking morons got so rich. Fucking early being-at-the-right-place investor luck.

Skills pay the bills. Get with it.

I would not describe them as morons, they figured out bitcoin would be big when most people thought of it as a joke.

[Elwar]

BlindMayorBitcorn: Gavin wants to know what has to happen for people to agree to it - he isn't trying to force it through without consensus

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

He's this guy: http://thecoinfront.com/andreas-antonopolous-threatened-with-murder-over-twitter/

 

[Last of the V8s]

http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-05-2015#1148699

1 Background

Popescu grew up in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania and graduated from Avram Iancu University. He has lived in several countries including United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and Egypt, where he co-authored the novel Asylum.[4]
2 Career

Popescu founded Polimedia, a Romanian enterprise resource planning firm, in 2007.[5]

He began writing Trilema in his native Romanian in late 2008.[6] Popescu began writing about Bitcoin in early 2012[7] and switched to coverage in English later that year.[8] He has since published prolifically on the topic, notably arguing for the inelasticity of the cryptocurrency amidst changes in supply and demand[9] and describing what he sees as the future of contractual agreements based on cryptographic protocols.[10] He is also outspoken about Bitcoin related scams;[11] Popescu suggested in April 2013 that since-defunct exchange MtGox was headed for failure[12] and expressed similar concerns about Labcoin in July 2013[13] before the scheme's closure.[14]

MPEx, which Popescu started in April 2012,[15] attracted initial media attention[16][17][18][19] internationally[20] following its listing of the bitcoin gambling site SatoshiDice, which sold in July 2013 for a total of over 125,000 BTC.[21][22][23]
2.1 Romanian Corruption Scandal

On July 13, 2009, the Romanian press [24] reported that Mircea Popescu had filed a complaint with the country's special prosecutor for graft and administrative fraud on the grounds that the ex-president of the Romanian Academy had spent over $1mn in public funds on a project to scan and make publicly available the notes and other materials left by the poet Mihai Eminescu, which failed to produce any usable results. The matter was not prosecuted, but Eugen Simion withdrew from public life.
2.2 OpenBSD fundraiser

The exchange's sponsorship of the operating system OpenBSD in January 2014[25][26][27][28][29][30][31] was largely seen as an unexpected rescue for the project, which Popescu said he admired for its “clamped down, security-minded approach”.[32] This came after OpenBSD's benevolent dictator Theo de Raadt warned that OpenBSD would indeed shut down if funding could not be secured. [33]
2.3 Berkshire vs. Bitcoin Bet

In March 2014 BitBet.us made headlines[34] for a 1,000 BTC bet[35] by Mircea Popescu [36] speculating that Bitcoin would prove to be a better investment than Berkshire Hathaway's BRK-A shares in a year's time.
2.4 SEC request

The same month, Popescu revealed that he had received a request to disclose details of MPEx' users and at least one security issuer from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[37] His candid responses to the commission's request exemplify Popescu's unconventional stance on regulatory authority and sparked widespread discussion[38][39][40] of Bitcoin's relation to traditional regulatory bodies.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

^^Such summary

He's also got an impossibly big bag of the bitcoins, as I understand it.

[hdbuck]

True bitcoiner

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1077651.msg11521639#msg11521639

It isn't over yet. We'll slipery slope down all the way to 10$ during next 365 days because the coin sucks ass.

[mably]

http://deedbot.org/deed-393913-1.txt

[hdbuck]

http://deedbot.org/deed-393913-1.txt

lulzy

[mmortal03]

So, he's the DAO attacker?: http://trilema.com/2016/to-the-dao-and-the-ethereum-community-fuck-you/

[hdbuck]

the asswhole is right.