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"Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"



On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:28:29PM -0300, Juan Garofalo wrote:
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> --On Monday, March 24, 2014 2:56 PM -0500 Troy Benjegerdes
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Why in the world do we need a centralized trade matching engine when the
> > commodities (corn) and customers (grocery stores) are fundamentally
> > distributed anyway?
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> 	Good question.
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> > I mean, I've got to have *something* to do while the babysitting the GPS
> > guidance system ....
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> 	Isn't gps completely centralized and run by you-know-who?

You-know-who costs me significantly less money than JpGoldKochMorgan's
centralized high-frequency trading. Besides you-know-who would rather 
tax the middle class to buy fuel from me than have to send more kids 
to drive fuel tankers over IEDs.