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killhamster
Apr 15, 2004

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Dr. Honked posted:

The Shocking Truth That They Don't Want You To Know

let's get jesse ventura in on this

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The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

you could do a better job selling the fact that they were rejected several times and eventually submitted an app that had the objectionable features removed only to be enabled at a later time

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

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

Robawesome posted:

Banks making their own cryptocurrency (centralized) (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 4 hours ago* by gutigen

http://translate.google.pl/translat...18.html&act=url

It seems that EU banks are trying to squeeze cryptocurrency market for themselves before Bitcoin and Co. becomes more popular.

EDIT: Guys, try not to discuss with /u/tulipfutures. It's a 2 days old account and judging from his comments in other threads, he is either a troll, a troll from banking system or a troll from gov.


this guy argues against bitcoin he must be a troll

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

killhamster posted:

let's get jesse ventura in on this

didn't you hear? he's "off the grid" now

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Ripoff posted:

if the magic the gathering online exchange goes down i seriously wonder if that economist that predicted the final crash of bitcoin prices in mid-2014 will be spot on

because without mtgox's price manipulation i can foresee bitcoin farting down to oblivion during the next panic sell-off, unless the other exchanges adopt their practices as well

are the otehr exchanges any more reliable than gox? I can't imagine they are. Doesn't even coinbase have some retarded wait time for withdrawals, even more so for large amounts?

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

Robawesome posted:

he is either a troll, a troll from banking system or a troll from gov.

:laffo: the idea of the government or a bank paying some guy to post on reddit and argue with buttcoiners

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

FrozenVent posted:

this guy argues against bitcoin he must be a troll

I've been downvoted so hard I need to wait 10 mins between posts, lmao

killhamster
Apr 15, 2004

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The Management posted:

you could do a better job selling the fact that they were rejected several times and eventually submitted an app that had the objectionable features removed only to be enabled at a later time

edited to add

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.

tweeted this myself instead of retweeting from @buttcoin, thanks for the effort

killhamster
Apr 15, 2004

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Robawesome posted:


a troll from banking system


this is literally me

i worked for a bank for a few years and i love telling them i'm a "bankster" just to get them all worked up

Robawesome posted:

I've been downvoted so hard I need to wait 10 mins between posts, lmao

lol me too, i have to carefully choose my shitposting now


Heresiarch posted:

tweeted this myself instead of retweeting from @buttcoin, thanks for the effort

no prob, i've been meaning to do this anyway

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

killhamster posted:

edited to add

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.
isn't "memorydealers" roger ver or something? or am i getting my bitcoin dipshits mixed up?

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

tulipfutures 3 points 58 minutes ago*

You're claiming that the $10,000 you give Gox in Nov. should be valued at $10,000 today because "this is the only officially verifiable transaction and considering current market situation, a person suing, will obviously don't mind." but you're just totally ignoring that you didn't give your money to a bank, it was basically a stock exchange and there's no legal cause for relief to you.

You bought x amount of volatile unregulated internet funbucks. You chose to keep them in volatile unregulated super-good time japanese funbank. If your funbucks are now worth zero because the unregulated bank/exchange you chose to store them at vanished, there's no legal basis for you to regain the full USD value of your original investment simply because you didn't like the ride. That's literally how this unregulated, decentralized, trustless economy is supposed to work.

[–]Ponulens[S] 1 point 1 minute ago

This is all true in reality, but you pointed it yourself, from legal perspective, this whole ordeal is turning out to be some unregistered, unregulated "funbank in Japan", therefore for the judge, whatever happened inside is of no concern. The strongest argument here s that being a funbank, MtGox had no right to accept the deposit on the first place. A judge simply is looking at two obvious things: 1. Person made a deposit. 2. Same person cannot get ANYTHING out. Judgement: give the original deposit back to this person.

killhamster
Apr 15, 2004

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Heresiarch posted:

isn't "memorydealers" roger ver or something? or am i getting my bitcoin dipshits mixed up?

yeah, that's one of his failing companies along with bitcoinstore

quote:

He is one of BitPay's investors, and was involved/invested with BlockChain.info/MyWallet as well.

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.

killhamster posted:

yeah, that's one of his failing companies along with bitcoinstore

okay i'm not completely flowers for algernon yet

post that image too, it's really clear that they knew they were violating apple's guidelines

Squatch Ambassador
Nov 12, 2008

What? Never seen a shaved Squatch before?

Dr. Honked posted:

The Shocking Truth That They Don't Want You To Know

One weird trick to bypassing Apple's ToS discovered by a Captain of Industry.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

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

Robawesome posted:

The strongest argument here s that being a funbank, MtGox had no right to accept the deposit on the first place.

litterally "they should have known better than to let me be an idiot"

killhamster
Apr 15, 2004

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Heresiarch posted:

okay i'm not completely flowers for algernon yet

post that image too, it's really clear that they knew they were violating apple's guidelines

ok but this is the last time it's a blog not a wiki :negative:

i mean if you really want i can start the wiki

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

[honest question] What bitcoin sites are currently using a form of offensive security? (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 11 minutes ago by CAPTAIN_FCKN_OBVIOUS

This has been on my mind recently, I wouldn't expect anyone to be employing people for this yet, but once:

1 satoshi = 1 US penny, I know it's going to be needed.

[–]tippecanoe42 1 point 7 minutes ago

Offensive security?

I don't really know what you mean by that...

[–]Miner_Willy 1 point 8 minutes ago

"Offensive security" to me means that the Bitcoin sites are deliberately attacking other market participants. Is that what you're asking?

[–]CAPTAIN_FCKN_OBVIOUS[S] 1 point 1 minute ago

Like this in a metaphorical sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_ICE

Black ICE will follow the intruder back to their computer, and completely destroy it, possibly harming the intruder.

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

Gov't jacking into wireless devices to ID users (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 5 minutes ago* by HOTWAX

Saw this on another /r/

In light of all the NSA stories about the Snowden leaks about Prism etc. What do you all think about the Govt accessing devices without permission with these wifi hubs situated on street lamp posts. It looks like it will be wide spread in large cities and possibly on all major highways and junction points

What would this mean for the future of $B?

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.

killhamster posted:

ok but this is the last time it's a blog not a wiki :negative:

i mean if you really want i can start the wiki

nah, that ought to be enough, it's pretty much an admission of guilt right there

killhamster
Apr 15, 2004

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Konjuro posted:

One weird trick to bypassing Apple's ToS discovered by a Captain of Industry.

you joke but this was basically an article that was being posted a bunch on phone-smashing day

turns out it was just some html5 goon project-esque thing http://coinpunk.org/

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

My new coin idea. Molan Labe Coin [MOLe] Algorithm not yet determined. (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 2 minutes ago by eagleeyemining

This is my idea. I need as much feedback as I can get, so please post at will. This is not a premined, instamined, pump and dump vanity junkcoin. I am very serious about this endeavour. Go with me here! I am developing a coin named Molan Labe [MOLe] (come and take!) that has 5 blocks + the genesis block, 6 blocks total. Each block is worth 500,000 MOLe That is a total of 3,000,000 MOLe. I will release the git repository for review but will not release the nodes to connect to the network. STAY WITH ME! The entire mining process(Genesis block through block 6) will be videotaped and immediately uploaded to Youtube to ensure there was no tampering with the process. I will also randomly pick six unknown unbiased witnesses to view the event in a disclosed location. The wallet balance of 3,000,000 will then be equally divided onto 500 USB thumdrives (in .dat form). This would give each thumbdrive 3000 MOLe. 500 of these .dat files will be available for torrent on a specified date. The other 500 will be randomly mailed to individuals across the US. The envelope will include instructions on what it is and how to use it. This will increase awareness of the coin as well make it more widely accepted. This process will also be videotaped and witnessed by six different individuals to keep everything fair. Once all wallets have been distributed and confirmed the working nodes will be released through our website. And Voila! Crypto currency has no barriers to entry and is free to use for whoever is willing to use it. LET THE COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS BEGIN!

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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just for shits and giggles i posted it to r/bitcoin, let the downvote avalanche begin

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xhekk/the_real_reason_the_blockchain_app_was_removed/

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

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

killhamster posted:

you joke but this was basically an article that was being posted a bunch on phone-smashing day

turns out it was just some html5 goon project-esque thing http://coinpunk.org/

that's htmlpunk as gently caress

InShaneee
Aug 11, 2006

Cleanse them. Cleanse the world of their ignorance and sin. Bathe them in the crimson of ... am I on speakerphone?
Fun Shoe

Robawesome posted:

[–]CAPTAIN_FCKN_OBVIOUS[S] 1 point 1 minute ago

Like this in a metaphorical sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_ICE

Black ICE will follow the intruder back to their computer, and completely destroy it, possibly harming the intruder.

i'm the metaphorical irl cyberpunk technology

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
apparently the sean bithomelessswamp is named after was a magic: the gathering player

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
What do you think MtGox will say next? (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 10 hours ago by ehmatthes

It's been an interesting weekend watching the markets after MtGox stopped ("paused") withdrawal requests. We've seen the price dip across the exchanges, and we've seen MtGox drop below most other exchanges. I have nothing in MtGox, happily, but it is still interesting to watch this play out.

What do you think MtGox will say later today, when it's Monday morning in Tokyo? Do you think they will give an honest update, or even say anything at all?


[–]CaptainColeslaw 63 points 9 hours ago
All your coin are belong to us.

[–]abillionhorses 12 points 7 hours ago*

Anybody placing bets on this? Because I highly doubt that this is what's happening. I think you are all freaking out...ahhhhhh FREAKOUT! (in true BTC fashion) Settle down...if GOX messed up that badly and used users funds/were stolen they are hosed and most likely going to jail or at least facing large legal charges...so I highly doubt anything nefarious is happening.

[–]ehmatthes[S] 12 points 6 hours ago

My money would be on incompetence, driven by arrogance. That's coming at it from a developer's perspective.

I have written plenty of code without a proper testing environment, but holy hell I've never written any live financial software. Their professional practices sound like they are lacking to the point of negligence.

I don't spend a whole lot of time trying to sort out intent, when the net result of negligence and incompetence is about the same as a criminal operation.

But I always hope that people will learn from their mistakes, so a small part of me hopes they finally recognized how deep in they are, and they are working hard at putting a proper infrastructure together. But I have no naive belief that this is the reality.

[–]fryg4r 2 points 3 hours ago

I concur with your assessment. I am a self-taught coder and have made many arrogant moves. Reading about the 'php can do anything' and the errors using the coinbase API it seems like their best move would be to bring in an outside team to shore them up.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x2sy3/contacting_the_bitcoin_foundation_on_mtgox/cf7xhny

[–]Roobotics 2 points 17 minutes ago

If only they could make their back-end as functional as their front-page is pretty. Draw you right in then "Ooops, looks like our entire withdraw system is no longer functional, sorry!"

They better be using this time to implement a proper testing environment! Else we're going to be hearing "Due to a bug in how our hot-wallets function and a recent attack.." you get the idea.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


FrozenVent posted:

apparently the sean bithomelessswamp is named after was a magic: the gathering player

yup

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
hasnt gox already been hacked once?

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
not gonna ...! this one up, but it's worth a glance:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xfcig/the_simplest_bitcoin_integration_googleyoutube/

tl:dr : google should offer users the option to tip in bitcoin instead of watching ads on youtube

bitcoiners discuss this for ten pages or so

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Robawesome posted:

Banks making their own cryptocurrency (centralized) (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 4 hours ago* by gutigen

http://translate.google.pl/translat...18.html&act=url

It seems that EU banks are trying to squeeze cryptocurrency market for themselves before Bitcoin and Co. becomes more popular.

EDIT: Guys, try not to discuss with /u/tulipfutures. It's a 2 days old account and judging from his comments in other threads, he is either a troll, a troll from banking system or a troll from gov.


Robawesome how do you respond to accusations you are a troll from banking and/or government?

Please be true

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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[–]koppakoppas 1 point 1 minute ago
Isn't it obvious? Apple Hates Freedom.

:freep:

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

FrozenVent posted:

not gonna ...! this one up, but it's worth a glance:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xfcig/the_simplest_bitcoin_integration_googleyoutube/

tl:dr : google should offer users the option to tip in bitcoin instead of watching ads on youtube

bitcoiners discuss this for ten pages or so

result: No bitcoiners actually bit tip

dogecoiners on the other hand...

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
apple is breaking the law by suppressing my freedom to break their rules

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Boxturret posted:

apple is breaking the law by suppressing my freedom to break their rules
true economic freedom means forcing other people to do what you want

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.
i'd take these complaints a lot more seriously if these weren't the same kind of people who think that ron paul was right to oppose the civil rights act because businesses should be allowed to discriminate if they want to

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

I feel like we kind of got wrapped up in the whole Mt. Gox thing without taking the time to appreciate one guy was saying that he'd stick it to Apple by taking a paperclip and ruining his iPhone's headphone port to get a new iPhone via warranty and repeat it until he was satisfied they were punished enough.

These really are the kind of people that justify the existence of chargebacks.

EDIT:

quote:

goxBTC to BTC - but then I got goxxed (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 8 minutes ago by goxxed_once_again
Background: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1xdl5n/new_trading_market_goxbtcrealbtc/
I, like many others wanted to get out of Mt Gox so I sent a trusted person an "internal transfer" (gox account to gox account) in order to exchange for real BTC.
Except it never arrived...
Have I been goxxed again?

TVarmy fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Feb 10, 2014

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

TVarmy posted:

I feel like we kind of got wrapped up in the whole Mt. Gox thing without taking the time to appreciate one guy was saying that he'd stick it to Apple by taking a paperclip and ruining his iPhone's headphone port to get a new iPhone and repeat it until he was satisfied they were punished enough.

These really are the kind of people that justify the existence of chargebacks.

bitcoiners base arguments on chargeback fraud because they are the instigators of chargeback fraud

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Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

Bitcoin Will Give US Government 2.0

quote:

Bitcoin is gaining worldwide approval thanks to its free and frictionless protocol, but more importantly it is a tool that meets the needs of our increasingly flat world.

It’s about time we had a system that matches the reality of the world we actually live in. For example, The American government really has no right to enforce OSHA at the same time we buy cheap iPhone’s from Chinese laborers treated like slaves.

Why is it fair that we hold our companies to a certain standard, but then import goods from companies that treat their overseas employees poorly. Remember the Wal-Mart, Gap and J.C. Penney factory fires in Bangladesh?

As bitcoin becomes more ubiquitous, workers in poor nations can stop doing all the hard math converting their rupees, rubles and dongs into dollars. A bitcoin is a bitcoin, and many workers will wonder why they get paid .002 BTC to produce a shirt that sells for .8 BTC even though the materials only cost .0004 BTC.

And maybe this is why it scares the establishment.

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