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trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Robawesome posted:

Giving homeless people and the needy a Bitcoin QR code for their 'please help' sign (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 53 minutes ago * by phrackage

Would this work? Some might end up with their picture (and QR code) on social networks and newspapers get reshared and therefore receive donations from people who weren't even there. Most bums don't have smartphones (although some do), and many have an email address (they used to be normal not that long ago!). There are plenty of ways to cash out these days.

We could print them a QR code, write down the details for how to get their money, and leave a phone number for help/instructions. The part for the usual 'sign' could just be: [ "I accept Bitcoin ] My name is Fred [ QR code ] Please help - need money to get into shelters, so I can have stability to find jobs. [1mybitcoinaddresgoeshere ]

Possibly then to back up their private key for them - since there's a good chance they'll lose it. Ask them regularly how they are, and offer to convert the BTC to fiat (at the spot rate, or better than spot for extra kindness) if they are not in the right state to do so.

Yeah, let's keep he private key just in case. If for some freak reason the homeless dude were to get any actual amount of dollars you can bet your mining rig that the buttcoiner would grab that poo poo as fast as possible. (And then probably give thee dude five bucks or so, because that's what he deserves, not like he printed the QR code or anything.)


Nintendo Kid posted:

i really wish people in general would stop pretending journalism has an actual history of being all about facts and standards

Well, duh. But, honestly, poo poo is getting even worse.

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jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?




:fuckoff:

also

CoolCab posted:

end english economic domination! begin much, much harsher german economic domination!

:wiggle:

Greyhawk
May 30, 2001


my god this is genius everyone is going to be rich why has no one thought of that before?

quote:

What is wrong with this bitcoin investment idea? (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 10 hours ago by AtomicMynah

Consider the following hypothetical scenario, and please tell me what is wrong with it, since it sounds too good to be true:

Say that one day I have $10000 and the price of bitcoins is $500. I spend all of my money to buy 20 of them. I watch the prices of bitcoins all day and notice that at one point they reach $510. $510 is a high price for that day so I sell all 20 of my bitcoins instantly, giving me back $10200. That is $200 for one day’s work, which to me seems like a lot. Now I know that this isn’t entirely realistic since they take off a small percent off each trade, so I’ll lowball it and say that it would be $150 a day. That is still well more than enough for me for a day’s work.

I am not super experienced with bitcoins so I know there must be some unforeseen problem with doing this. Doing this seems too good to be true. Perhaps there’s a limit on how much you can trade in one day or something else? I don’t know, so please tell me what is wrong with this idea. Thank you very much!

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

JewKiller 3000 posted:

how bad is goodwill because i don't think doctors without borders needs my old crap

Goodwill uses a legal loophole to pay disabled employees less than minimum wage, and they're very supportive of reducing the minimum wage. And sometimes their executives get caught paying themselves absurdly large amounts of cash (in the $1M range). And they keep lobbying in various states for rules that would let them corner the thrift store market, for some reason

People are poo poo everywhere

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Nintendo Kid posted:

depends on regions, since they all operate fairly independently.

however they're still gonna be the best place to offload your poo poo locally like 9 times out of 10 especially because they take a lot of stuff other charities won't.


give them your blood

lol they wont take my dirty gay blood

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Greyhawk posted:

my god this is genius everyone is going to be rich why has no one thought of that before?

a captain of industry who thinks $150 a day is a lot of money

more like an ensign of industry

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

more like a redshirt of industry, and it's his turn to go on the next away mission

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


http://bitcoinbountyhunter.com/about.html

just click this

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
i could have sworn that i'd already seen that in the last thread but then he said september 17 2014

ellie the beep
Jun 15, 2007

Vaginas, my subject.
Plane hulls, my medium.

SynthOrange posted:

lol they wont take my dirty gay blood

hey there filthblood buddy

:sigh::respek::sigh:


Sham bam bamina! posted:

i could have sworn that i'd already seen that in the last thread but then he said september 17 2014

iirc he offered a bounty on whoever hacked all his bitcoin accounts a while ago

he also posted a video where he was obviously reading off of a screen declaring MtGox completely solvent like a month before it was revealed lolnope

MORE CURLY FRIES
Apr 8, 2004

roger likes posting videos of him talking about bitcoin to camera while he reads the script he hasnt rehearsed which is hanging just above and to the right of the camera

so i can see why you would get this video confused with any of his other ones

Wayne Knight
May 11, 2006

SynthOrange posted:

lol they wont take my dirty gay blood

Edminster posted:

hey there filthblood buddy

:sigh::respek::sigh:

you gays can have my blood (O- woot woot)

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

FrozenVent posted:

a captain of industry who thinks $150 a day is a lot of money
no because then the next day you'd be able to use $10150 to do it!!

CraigK
Nov 4, 2008

by exmarx

uplink was fun im glad theyre making a sequel

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

Oh Miss Merkel, I've been so irresponsible :wiggle:

Mastodon Henley
Aug 12, 2003

So... how's your girl?

proud to bring you bitcoin bounty hunter from this lobby with the curtains closed

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

SynthOrange posted:

lol they wont take my dirty gay blood

you're allowed to be gay and give blood

you just ALSO have to be really bad at getting laid lol

RZA Encryption posted:

you gays can have my blood (O- woot woot)
O- crew checking in. my blood is the most valuable

(also it is the type they are least likely to have in an emergency, i should donate more often than i do)

also doesn't japan have a weird thing that's like horoscopes, but for blood type

theflyingorc fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Sep 17, 2014

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

SynthOrange posted:

lol they wont take my dirty gay blood

tell them you're not gay

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Nintendo Kid posted:

tell them you're not gay

really shouldn't lie to the blood donation people even if it is a bullshit reason.

they don't want my blood because i spent more than a couple days in england before 1996 or whatever

neonbregna
Aug 20, 2007

Nintendo Kid posted:

tell them you're not gay

I thought you could be gay just no butt stuff

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

neonbregna posted:

I thought you could be gay just no butt stuff

i believe the wording is "are you a man who has had sex with another man in the last X amount of time"

there's a lot of countries that if you spent extended time there the blood people are like NOPE. most common one being military people who were stationed in US bases in Germany

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

it's "any sexual contact"

what if you definitively don't have hiv, is it ethical to lie and give blood?

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

someone quote the bloodcoin guy who tried to make an alt coin around blood donations after losing his money to mt gox.

Wayne Knight
May 11, 2006

theflyingexecutive posted:

it's "any sexual contact"

what if you definitively don't have hiv, is it ethical to lie and give blood?

i mean, they test the blood, right? if it's clean it's usable? idk how it works, all I know is it's a pain in the rear end to remember all the places the cruise ships stop when they ask.

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

RZA Encryption posted:

i mean, they test the blood, right? if it's clean it's usable? idk how it works, all I know is it's a pain in the rear end to remember all the places the cruise ships stop when they ask.

tests are not 100% they're pretty good, but there's a reason they allow you to use the "do not use my blood" sticker. not getting blood from risky sources is the first line of defense against not making a horrible, horrible mistake

theflyingexecutive posted:

what if you definitively don't have hiv, is it ethical to lie and give blood?
lol i assume you're making a joke, but in case anyone else is really stupid, don't do this. the list of people who are sure they definitely don't have HIV is "basically anybody not named Magic Johnson", which includes a really large number of people who totes have HIV

theflyingorc fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Sep 17, 2014

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

theflyingorc posted:



also doesn't japan have a weird thing that's like horoscopes, but for blood type

it's somewhere between astrology and phrenology

edit: whoa, what an apt post for the bitcoin thread

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
they wont take my british blood in the usa because i lived in england when there was the mad cow disease

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

look at these scrubs giving away blood instead of selling it on open bazaar.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

TVarmy posted:

look at these scrubs giving away blood instead of selling it on open bazaar.

the free market is on it!

http://www.generalblood.com/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2012/06/27/blood-money-the-guys-who-trade-your-blood-for-profit/

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

Just don't be gay, don't you realize its your choice to jump mens butts

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003


this is incredible.

dude couldn't even give enough of a poo poo to memorize his spiel

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

RZA Encryption posted:

it's a pain in the rear end to remember all the places the cruise ships stop when they ask.

dont go on cruises you retard

also

5

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
i thought police were the evil men with guns and slaves to the fed why would bitcoin want to sully itself by dealing with that?

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007


so I'm in the msm risk group, which is (supposedly) higher risk than other sexual groups. however, the risk is for sti transmission. I am also in the group of people who gets regular sti screens, which would be in a lower risk category than the general public would be and far lower than the standard msm group.

im in another exclusion group, so don't worry I won't donate

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
this guy always look a little lost and confused in his videos, I want to give him a cookie

Wayne Knight
May 11, 2006

fool_of_sound posted:

dont go on cruises you retard

lol cruises own

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

unpacked robinhood posted:

this guy always look a little lost and confused in his videos, I want to give him a cookie

take a bite out of it first and call it a bitcookie.

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

RZA Encryption posted:

lol cruises own

they're pretty ok, people are super weird about hating on them because of some weird vacation supremacy thing

Wayne Knight
May 11, 2006

theflyingorc posted:

[yospos is] super weird about hating on [everything] because of some weird supremacy thing

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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

trucutru posted:

Well, duh. But, honestly, poo poo is getting even worse.

nope

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