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Wealth. Most of the publicly known early adopters don't spend as much (or any) time trolling about (and getting trolled) on IRC. http://search.bitcoin-assets.

by Adlai 11y ago

Wealth. Most of the publicly known early adopters don't spend as much (or any) time trolling about (and getting trolled) on IRC. http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu

ikeboy 11y ago
Do we know how much he's actually worth?
- Adlai 11y ago
  His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade). If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five thousand coins; tracking down the rest is left as an exercise for the skeptical sleth. [1] http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE [2] https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co
  - ikeboy 11y ago
    Oh, and who the hell is paying 50 btc to open an account at mpex?
    - Adlai 11y ago
      crickets
  - sanswork 11y ago
    Maybe I'm reading it wrong but according to that there is ~10m shares outstanding at a price of 0.00028btc per share. Doesn't that make it worth around 2800 btc not 2.8m?
    - Adlai 11y ago
      We're both wrong. One billion shares, half of which he can't sell: CL-USER> (* 1/2 (expt 10 9) (parse-float "0.00029087" :type 'rational)) 145435
grubles 11y ago
Possibly some people have been exposed to mircea through hearing about his insane quotes such as: The most you can do, after having been educated/raped, is picking the what and the how for other, later, virgins. http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody-likes-living-in-a-world-populated-by-little-girls/ http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody... Or they have read his Guide To Beating Women blog post: http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ Or perhaps they have read how his site for betting with bitcoin screwed someone over for about $7,000 in bitcoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0

by Adlai 11y ago

ikeboy 11y ago

Do we know how much he's actually worth?

Adlai 11y ago
His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade). If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five thousand coins; tracking down the rest is left as an exercise for the skeptical sleth. [1] http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE http://mpex.ws/?mpsic=S.MPOE [2] https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co
- ikeboy 11y ago
  Oh, and who the hell is paying 50 btc to open an account at mpex?
  - Adlai 11y ago
    crickets
- sanswork 11y ago
  Maybe I'm reading it wrong but according to that there is ~10m shares outstanding at a price of 0.00028btc per share. Doesn't that make it worth around 2800 btc not 2.8m?
  - Adlai 11y ago
    We're both wrong. One billion shares, half of which he can't sell: CL-USER> (* 1/2 (expt 10 9) (parse-float "0.00029087" :type 'rational)) 145435

grubles 11y ago

Possibly some people have been exposed to mircea through hearing about his insane quotes such as: The most you can do, after having been educated/raped, is picking the what and the how for other, later, virgins. http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody-likes-living-in-a-world-populated-by-little-girls/ http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody... Or they have read his Guide To Beating Women blog post: http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ Or perhaps they have read how his site for betting with bitcoin screwed someone over for about $7,000 in bitcoin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0