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The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

how do I get in on this anti-bitcoin shilling money? all this time I've been considering it charity work

# ? Sep 19, 2014 05:19

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# ? May 30, 2024 13:16

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

uploading ur brain to the blockchain would take roughly one to two millennia, so glwt

# ? Sep 19, 2014 05:49

Agile Vector: May 21, 2007; scrum bored

theflyingexecutive posted:

uploading ur brain to the blockchain would take roughly one to two millennia, so glwt

well, and some guy takes a percentage of it as a fee so things could get a little loopy

# ? Sep 19, 2014 06:19

vOv: Feb 8, 2014

i know i'm late for onionchat but this is one of the best clickhole articles i've ever seen

# ? Sep 19, 2014 07:07

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

The Management posted:

how do I get in on this anti-bitcoin shilling money? all this time I've been considering it charity work

oh god, if only, all the actual effort i've put into this poo poo over the last couple of years

okay it was maybe eight hours of actual work and the rest of it was technically a sport, i think

# ? Sep 19, 2014 11:06

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

The Management posted:

how do I get in on this anti-bitcoin shilling money? all this time I've been considering it charity work

ask about it at your next lodge meeting. the grand master will give you the details

# ? Sep 19, 2014 11:06

jre: Sep 2, 2011; To the cloud ?

Loads of college funds are being burned to keep the price above 400 on bitstamp :suspense:

# ? Sep 19, 2014 11:15

Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005; Can't post for 9 years!; Buglord

Bitcoin weNot an hour without a block during a massive downturn. Bad luck? Miners turning off? Diuble spend attempt?

# ? Sep 19, 2014 11:41

RubberJohnny: Apr 22, 2008

Nearly at $380

# ? Sep 19, 2014 12:01

an AOL chatroom: Oct 3, 2002

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Bitcoin weNot an hour without a block during a massive downturn. Bad luck? Miners turning off? Diuble spend attempt?

literally anything but the truth

the price is plummeting because they're dumb and nobody wants them.

# ? Sep 19, 2014 12:01

Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005; Can't post for 9 years!; Buglord

bisticles posted:

literally anything but the truth

the price is plummeting because they're dumb and nobody wants them.

Block time, not price. An hour went by with no blocks being found by any miners.

# ? Sep 19, 2014 12:24

A Pinball Wizard: Mar 23, 2005; I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands; College Slice

surebet posted:

so apparently this thing is a huge something for bitcoin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nob0wutM-Xo

if there's any ruskies reading this now's your time to shine

e: easter egg at 4:20

tried to watch this and YouTube tried to make me watch a Bruce rauner (candidate fr IL gov) commercial

Motherfucker I already can't watch TV for 5min without your bullshit get the gently caress off my webs

# ? Sep 19, 2014 12:24

neonbregna: Aug 20, 2007

395

I chortled at this

neonbregna fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Sep 19, 2014

# ? Sep 19, 2014 12:36

Ron Paul Atreides: Apr 19, 2012; Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

neonbregna posted:

395

I chortled at this

Today is going to be a good day

Ron Paul Atreides fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Sep 19, 2014

# ? Sep 19, 2014 13:19

Robawesome: Jul 22, 2005

387 lol

# ? Sep 19, 2014 13:45

unpacked robinhood: Feb 18, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

someone made airquote 15$ pretending to be a teenage girl on the reddit sub

# ? Sep 19, 2014 14:10

surebet: Jan 10, 2013; ａｖａｔａｒ
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reminder: 6 month low is 339, we got to 379 this morning

i have the weirdest boner right now

surebet fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Sep 19, 2014

# ? Sep 19, 2014 14:27

Dr. Honked: Jan 9, 2011; eat it you slaaaaaaag

it's on its way back to the moon now, panic over

# ? Sep 19, 2014 14:47

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

TVarmy posted:

of course, we know what happened, in that something happened at gox, either involving an inside trading bot with unlimited funds, transaction malleability, or some other kind of hack Karpeles can't or won't explain due to ignorance and/or bankruptcy proceedings.

i thought it was just that krapeles was an irresponsible childe and spent all his customers' money on flashy offices, importing japanese cars from europe into japan, and miscellaneous anime figurines/katanas

# ? Sep 19, 2014 14:59

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

jony ive aces posted:

i thought it was just that krapeles was an irresponsible childe and spent all his customers' money on flashy offices, importing japanese cars from europe into japan, and miscellaneous anime figurines/katanas

don't forget the coffee shop

# ? Sep 19, 2014 15:00

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Sham bam bamina! posted:

lmao

of all the things for an ostensible libertarian to invoke

decentralised :pcgaming:

system of literal furnaces, proposed by idiots with no idea what they were doing, that people had to sacrifice a lot of their possessions to establish and maintain, but ultimately produced nothing of value

but with bitcoin!!!

# ? Sep 19, 2014 15:14

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

also something about falsely-reported economic figures i guess

# ? Sep 19, 2014 15:17

surebet: Jan 10, 2013; ａｖａｔａｒ
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Dr. Honked posted:

it's on its way back to the moon now, panic over

one could argue that in fact, some bits of the challenger space shuttle made it to space

# ? Sep 19, 2014 15:20

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

surebet posted:

one could argue that in fact, some bits of the challenger space shuttle made it to space

bits of the challenger made it to space many times

# ? Sep 19, 2014 15:23

Dren: Jan 5, 2001; Pillbug

I was reading this article about José Mujica today and this part about global markets stuck out to me as one of the chief things that bitcoiners do not understand:

quote:

The newly pragmatic Mujica no longer fights the globalisation which, by linking Chinese dinner tables to Uruguayan farms, funds this remarkable transformation. �It is like when I look in the mirror and see my wrinkles,� he told me. �I don�t feel sympathetic towards them, but they are inevitable. I have to fight to administer it as best I can, because if I start wailing like a baby I am not going to change it.� Globalisation�s glaring failure, Mujica said, is a lack of political oversight. �It is bad because it is only governed by the market. It has no politics or government. National governments are only worried about their next elections, but there are a series of global problems that no one deals with.� That does not mean capitalism has won outright. �I don�t think it inevitable that the world should live in capitalism,� he told me. �That is the same as not believing in man, and man is an animal with many defects but also with startling capabilities.�

He's talking about globalization but his statement is extremely applicable to the whole, stupid decentralization ideal.

article if you want it

# ? Sep 19, 2014 16:13

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

Dr. Honked posted:

it's on its way back to the moon now, panic over

moon is on the other side of the earth right now, it's trying to get there by going through the floor

# ? Sep 19, 2014 16:34

TVarmy: Sep 11, 2011; like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

well, looks like the narative is going back to "blame the Chinese."

quote:

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/alibabas-us-ipo-may-have-crashed-the-bitcoin-price/
Alibaba�s US IPO May Have Crashed the Bitcoin Price
...
The Bitcoin price has plummeted by more than $60 or 12.5% this week. Just yesterday the Bitcoin price went from 450 USD per bitcoin to $407. The price has not been this low since April 2014, after a long decline from the massive spike during the Chinese fall where one bitcoin was worth almost 1200 USD. View the chart below, the intersection shows April 8th to 10th 2014.

As Ian Worrall from Sembro Development told us:

quote:
The Alibaba IPO has generated a lot of noise in the financial markets as the IPO date has drawn closer� The largest Bitcoin exchange by volume, BTC China, which covers an average of 38% of the total Bitcoin transactions has averaged around 19,000 Bitcoin per day in trades. �the volume is currently up over 52% at 29,400 Bitcoin and rising.

On top of increased volume on Chinese exchanges, the volume on the European exchange platform Bitstamp is up well over 100% today at around 21,400 Bitcoin compared to the monthly average of 9,200 Bitcoin. This is right after many of the leading German analysts from renowned investment banks have indicated that Alibaba is a strong buy� Based on this information, we have concluded that many large Bitcoin investors from China and Europe have exited their positions in Bitcoin to put into the Alibaba IPO.

So what will happen with the Bitcoin price now? Did Bitcoin just lose some of its biggest investors (Chinese as well as Americans)? The price of one bitcoin is record low, and other investors might see this as a great opportunity to get a stronger grip on the Bitcoin market. My guess is that it will soon rebound, big time.

my theory is that bitcoin exchanges have no volume except when they are crashing. otherwise, bitcoin rises up on the updraft made of mousefarts of wage slaves dropping pennies into a get rich quick scam.

e: also, I am the bitcoin blogger getting upset people are dumping bitcoin to invest in a company that provides a real and useful service more efficiently and reliably than previous systems.

# ? Sep 19, 2014 17:07

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

TVarmy posted:

e: also, I am the bitcoin blogger getting upset people are dumping bitcoin to invest in a company that provides a real and useful service more efficiently and reliably than previous systems.

i have an 800 number for you

# ? Sep 19, 2014 17:18

Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005; Can't post for 9 years!; Buglord

One of the top posts in /r/bitcoin right now is

"Bitcoin prices are dropping, but the community is still rallying to help evacuees from Typhoon Mario (imgur.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by helloluis"

The top post in that thread is

"[�]GeorgeForemanGrillz 5 points 3 hours ago
I know one of the Board of Directors for the PRC and she is telling me that she has not heard of any Bitcoin related fund drives for the typhoon. Please be careful who you donate to."

# ? Sep 19, 2014 18:15

Same Great Paste: Jan 14, 2006

how bad would it suck to be the one person who bought at the all-time-high price. spending months helplessly watching any hope of any kind of recompense crumble away. living the rest of your life haunted by the knowledge that there will never ever ever be a greater fool.

# ? Sep 19, 2014 18:37

surebet: Jan 10, 2013; ａｖａｔａｒ
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# ? Sep 19, 2014 18:38

surebet: Jan 10, 2013; ａｖａｔａｒ
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Same Great Paste posted:

how bad would it suck to be the one person who bought at the all-time-high price. spending months helplessly watching any hope of any kind of recompense crumble away. living the rest of your life haunted by the knowledge that there will never ever ever be a greater fool.

[�]BitBacchus 16 points 3 hours ago
No kidding. I'm buying back every coin I spent between November 2013 and now. For example: $100 Gyft cards - bought back at $40.

# ? Sep 19, 2014 18:39

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

vOv posted:

i know i'm late for onionchat but this is one of the best clickhole articles i've ever seen

i thought this was p. funny http://www.clickhole.com/article/10-things-we-hope-george-takei-likes-enough-share--866 if only because he did https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/posts/1055404077822378

# ? Sep 19, 2014 18:43

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

best clickhole article

# ? Sep 19, 2014 18:53

theflyingorc: Jun 28, 2008; ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS; Young Orc

haveblue posted:

best clickhole article

you are absolutely correct, that is the best video

# ? Sep 19, 2014 18:56

AlbieQuirky: Oct 9, 2012; Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

The end of the Pirateat40 saga is here (unless the state of Texas brings any criminal fraud charges against him).

# ? Sep 19, 2014 19:20

Magrov: Mar 27, 2010; I'm completely lost and have no idea what's going on. I'll be at my bunker.

If you need any diplomatic or mineral stuff just call me. If you plan to nuke India please give me a 5 minute warning to close the windows!

Also Iapetus sucks!

Techknowledgy posted:

Re: BFL fucks us over again
Today at 04:54:31 PM

Did somebody mention the FTC? Apparently the FTC showed up with US Marshals today and closed the place down, seized their assets, and sent everyone home. I only have personal confirmations of this at the moment as I am a former employee but I expect this to be verified in the news soon. You heard it here first.