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scorp31 posted:What if the Bitcoin Police get to you first? Return 49% of what you stole?
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Lolie posted:I can just imagine someone trying to file a $10,000 claim for their stolen laptop. I'd hate to be the poor insurance assessor who has to deal with that claim. It'd be a pretty quick claim to process, really - "i'm sorry sir but data isn't covered by any policy, so games are not covered. i suggest contacting the retailer you purchased them from. ... ...i'm sorry, your anonymous crypto-currency of the future is not covered then, whatever, i have actual things to do here."
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so not a single mention of the laptops getting stolen by bruce or anyone on bitcointalk, if i had an account i'd bring it up but 
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Remember, positive energy.
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The-Mole posted:Remember, positive energy. NOW AND FORVER.
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Nnep posted:OnlyOneTV.com global television network Never stop believing Bruce.
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Dexo posted:Return 49% of what you stole? It's like some wierd libertarian blackjack. House always wins.
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The LIVE VIDEO STREAMING COVERAGE Bruce promised us has been dead most of the day. Bruce, can't you do anything right? BRUUUUCE! 
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themrguy posted:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=177c23c920f303015ea8a1324cdd2afe&topic=38364.0 These people are so disconnected from reality it's no longer as funny. Every scheme they cooked up has to be one that they can run from their parents' basement. To get your stuff on the shelf of stores, they need to know who you are, retard. The real world is NOT like a forum on the internet. I really don't think there's anyone in there who actually believe their crypto-currency is the way of the future because of freedom. Every single one of them are there because they think they could and want to gently caress over other people. It's a cesspool of sociopaths.
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gnarlyhotep posted:The LIVE VIDEO STREAMING COVERAGE Bruce promised us has been dead most of the day. Bruce, can't you do anything right? BRUUUUCE! Maybe the Swede came back and stole their camera.
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Lolie posted:Maybe the Swede came back and stole their camera. Good point. He probably was thinking, drat that was an easy score, I could clean these idiots out! Then went and hired some movers. Bruce is going to come back to bare rooms. Maybe a few cables lying around and a 7-up bottle.
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Aren't half of them on that forum in high school? I think the enthusiasm for a lot of the kids boils down to not having any job or real concept of money, government, or electric bills; so installing a program on mom's computer is amazing free money for no work, and makes them feel like they are doing something important and 'adult.' Give half of 'em 5 years to grow up a bit and I would bet their opinion will change. The adults have no excuse.
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FuzzyPickles posted:The adults have no excuse. What about being stupid and much too libertarian for their own good?
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gnarlyhotep posted:The LIVE VIDEO STREAMING COVERAGE Bruce promised us has been dead most of the day. Bruce, can't you do anything right? BRUUUUCE! "Don't bring me down, Bruce!" - A historical bitcoin conference feed
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Interesting that the *big announcement* still hasn't happened and Saturday was supposed to be the major day of the conference.
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Lolie posted:Interesting that the *big announcement* still hasn't happened and Saturday was supposed to be the major day of the conference. Maybe the speech was saved on one of the stolen laptops.
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Lolie posted:YOSPOS thread says that one of the laptops stolen by random Swedish guy reportedly contained a wallet file worth USD 10,000. This really is just perfect. It just wouldn't be a bitcoin event without somebody losing thousands of dollars to blatant theft or fraud.
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The Bible posted:This really is just perfect. It just wouldn't be a bitcoin event without somebody losing thousands of dollars to blatant theft or fraud. It pretty much sums up bitcoin, doesn't it?
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Clearly the reason for BitCon's failure was its centralized single point of failure. Bruce Wagner, move over and let the Bitcoin network take care of things!
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I think they had their conference in a storage room. It looks like an abandoned water heater at the back of the room in the 6th photo and gently caress knows what's hiding behind that badly tacked up drape. http://buttcoin.org/
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Lolie posted:I think they had their conference in a storage room. It looks like an abandoned water heater at the back of the room in the 6th photo and gently caress knows what's hiding behind that badly tacked up drape. When you're in a venue this pathetic you can only go up up UP!
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The big announcements...quote:There's going to be future Conferences obviously, so there's gonna be https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38469.msg471319#msg471319 Bruce is becoming adept at over-promising and under-delivering. They're clearly happy to continue the "Bitcoin is great for buying drugs" image - there's no way that Amsterdam and Thailand were random choices.
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Coincidentally, I was in the area of bitcon this morning(technically yesterday) and tried to walk in and take a look. Sadly, a woman was sitting at the entrance to the reasonably crowded space and told me it would be $53 to get in. Oh well. All I got was a glimpse of some men with suits and some big Mt. Gox banners. History in the making.
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I told my friend about bit coins. He thinks its stupid. I then told him about the conference. And the email on how to it correctly. He was honestly floored about how anyone can poo poo of good advice. How does Bruce have any money....when will the free market (God?) deal with him.
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Delthalaz posted:Coincidentally, I was in the area of bitcon this morning(technically yesterday) and tried to walk in and take a look. Sadly, a woman was sitting at the entrance to the reasonably crowded space and told me it would be $53 to get in. Oh well. All I got was a glimpse of some men with suits and some big Mt. Gox banners. Why does it cost USD to enter a bitcoin convention?
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Well according to Bruce: "We certainly don't want anyone turned away because they can't afford the admission price.... No no no! ( if anyone is in that situation, email me ) No one will be turned away because they don't have $26. Not on my watch." Guess the entrance fee has fluctuated a bit. Like a BitCoin. Only up.
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Air is lava! posted:You know what bitcoin was missing? More religious zealots, who misqoute the bible. Traxxus posted:So Bruce gets some excellent advice for free on how to properly do the conference instead of his thing he is doing now, thankfully (for us) he ignores it. Unrelatedly, someone seems to have launched yet another Bitcoin fork called SolidCoin. It has some interesting design choices, and I mean that in the sense that they obviously don't realise why Bitcoin didn't do it that way. (In particular, the fast difficulty adjustments make it easier for someone with a botnet to partition the SolidCoin network into two parts and double-spend like mad.)
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Gutcruncher posted:Why does it cost USD to enter a bitcoin convention? Because Ed doesn't want to lose even more money so paying for the conference with worthless (but stable!) U.S. fiat money makes more sense. Bitcoin, the currency of the future (that cannot trusted to be stable next week).
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I heard some guy talking about a masterplan, but he isn't wearing a fursuit. Given the large collection of nerds I'm wondering why they aren't playing D&D. e: Who's the creepy guy in the shorts playing with himself?
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Does it make financial sense (yes yes, I know) to mine CoinBits on the Amazon cloud? They should have more processing power than GPU's, right? e: vvv The more you know! Thanks.
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brylcreem posted:Does it make financial sense (yes yes, I know) to mine CoinBits on the Amazon cloud? Some guy tried this. The cost of the cpus and tesla gpus didn't stack up when the price was around $22 and the difficulty much lower. The amazon hardware is not well suited or priced for shitcoin mining.
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Devian666 posted:e: Who's the creepy guy in the shorts playing with himself? What? Please tell me you got a screenshot.
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Lolie posted:The big announcements... ...Amsterdam? Thailand? Is there really a market there? I imagine most bitcoiners are in the US so NYC made sense since they lived there anyway. I mean dumb conference but the location was reasonable. They really expect people to fly to Thailand? No major airlines take bitcoins I'm pretty sure but lemee check... Edit: nope.
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If you're willing to try extorting money with terrorism, to get some value out of your Bitcoins, why not just extort money with terrorism?
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RagnarokAngel posted:...Amsterdam? Thailand? Is there really a market there? I imagine most bitcoiners are in the US so NYC made sense since they lived there anyway. I mean dumb conference but the location was reasonable. Looking at the picture of these middle income IT working "winners" I'm pretty sure a lot of them are often in Thailand for certain purposes.
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That dude that gave himself heat stroke from his mining rigs cracks me up.
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:What? Please tell me you got a screenshot. You want to see this? Try the onlyonetv mobile stream it may still be there.
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What was this thing about baby food jars and poison that got snipped off the bitcoin boards. That sounds awful but I missed it. Anyone have a screenshot or saved the text?
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notMordecai posted:What was this thing about baby food jars and poison that got snipped off the bitcoin boards. That sounds awful but I missed it. Anyone have a screenshot or saved the text? Someone saved it in the old YOSPOS thread: quote:The following scenario seems like it's potentially the perfect crime. You can extract money through extortion without ever being traced to the event. Heres how it works:
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RagnarokAngel posted:...Amsterdam? Thailand? Is there really a market there? I imagine most bitcoiners are in the US so NYC made sense since they lived there anyway. I mean dumb conference but the location was reasonable. There's an NYC Bitcon 2012 as well. The idea of regional conferences isn't necessarily a bad one - it happens in politics and in business all the time - but the choice of cities for Europe and SE Asia/Oceania is an "interesting" one. It's very easy for Westerners to find themselves in deep poo poo in Thailand.
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