Daniel P. Barron

Daniel: I wish you’d make bark shavings. I could use a million of those things. Such a pain to make them because of the heavy ingredients. Even if I had that part figured out, it’s still a waste of my time to make them myself. I don't know how mp ⁱ is getting 1mn ⁱⁱ pops ⁱⁱⁱ on slag. ^iv I can only assume he gets one of his girls ^v to do the clicking for him.

Some guy: So you guys are playing Minecraft with bitcoins. Sounds nerdy but if you’re profiting more power to ya.

Daniel: I wish it were like Minecraft in the terrain hacking sense, but it’s more like a traditional mmorpg. ^vi Very strong focus on the economy, trading with other players. It’s kinda like a massive room full of different slot machines, where the house promises a 50/50 in the long run, except that your inputs and outputs sell for more than what the house considers them, so you can make money if you correctly price things. Oh and the owner also promises that there is no cap on what you can win from a single gamble. Guy is pretty good with math — calculus kinda good. So I take it to mean that he has somehow balanced the two infinities of possible output and the corresponding odds of getting said output in such a way as to maintain that 50/50 assurance. I have personally hit a “jackpot” so-to-speak of 0.81 bitcoin from a click that cost me practically nothing. And that score is still only the #2 in the all time list of “top pops.” It’s altogether unclear how much that 0.81 is actually worth, seeing as how it consisted mostly of an item that recently sold in public auction for something like 5000%

1. Mircea Popescu. ^
2. One million Euloran coppers is 0.001 bitcoin. ^
3. A "pop" is when some activity performed yields a great amount of output, usually far exceeding the value of any inputs used. ^
4. Slag is an ingredient used in a variety of other recipes, primarily towards making explore tools. ^
5. Mircea has a harem of slave girls. ^
6. "Massively multiplayer online role playing game." ^