Bitcoin: Of Freemasons, Free Markets and Bill Cosby Related Investment Schemes

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Inevitable: Jul 27, 2007; a sense of growing unease...

Oh poo poo, guy on the left couldn't figure out how to button his loving SHIRT.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2011 03:17

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# ¿ Jun 18, 2013 06:45

Inevitable: Jul 27, 2007; a sense of growing unease...

Meanwhile, Mt. Gox's weekly sell party is in full swing: the price has gone from 11 to 9.7 in just a few hours.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2011 22:48

Inevitable: Jul 27, 2007; a sense of growing unease...

WAFFLEHOUND posted:

I just realized that goons are just as religiously convinced it's the end of bitcoin as bitcoiners are that it'll be adopted by everyone everywhere. Meanwhile we're all stuck in the Samsara that is the MTGox charts.

Reborn into the same cycling of sell and buy.

Not a single skillful person looking for a way out.

I'm pretty sure it's impossible for bitcoin to "end," but I'm equally sure that the crazy speculation bubble has already burst and the market is slowly deflating down, down DOWN to where it will only be of interest to a handful of hobbyist die-hards who are content to trade their bitcoins back and forth for a few pennies apiece and maybe, every once in a while, splurge on the odd slim jim or two. And I'm enjoying watching it happen, each and every scam-filled week.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2011 23:02

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Zexerous posted:

We're almost at 7.00 even.

Rebuttal:

That guy in the picture? Total wolf.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34940.20

# ¿ Aug 6, 2011 23:55

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spidoman posted:

So what are we assuming the bottom actually is? $5? $1? Please let it be 50 cents or lower.

Bottom? I think that for the bitcoin speculation market to have a bottom, the bitcoin itself would have to have an inherent worth beyond the hopes and dreams of its supporters. And it doesn't.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2011 00:41

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Orange Sunshine posted:

A new bitcoin has been developed, and is in testing now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34586.0

I don't know how popular this one's going to be. It's called devcoin, and 90% of the coins generated go to "open source developers", leaving the miners a meager 10%. In case anyone here didn't know, this is (at least) the 3rd blockchain being run on the bitcoin software, the first being Bitcoin itself and the second being Namecoin. Namecoin is some odd alternative Domain Name System which is never gonna work.

Probably not the best time for them to have launched their new bitcoins, seeing as how the original appears to be collapsing right now.

This is an interesting problem for bitcoins: Because they are a 'currency' backed by an algorithm and a p2p network, as opposed to, say, a powerful governing body, the field is opened to people working on ways to improve the system behind their generation/distribution/security and thereby introducing competing currencies that offer variations on the same principals behind bitcoins but that only serve to water down the market. If bitcoins ever were adopted for transactions by a meaningful number of merchants, what impact would the parade of "bitcoins 2.0" have? Would you find yourself unable to purchase your favorite brand of cocaine because the dealer has decided to only accept Drugcoins, due to their increased anonymity factor? Would there be a glut of knock-off bitcoins designed solely to scam new entrants into the cryptocurrency world? What would a world where currency itself is opened to the free market actually look like?

# ¿ Aug 7, 2011 04:51

Inevitable: Jul 27, 2007; a sense of growing unease...

Aw, poo poo guys. I think that bitcoin's about to make it BIG!

(from the bitcoin forums: http://tinyurl.com/3dw9f6f)

Justin Bieber & Bitcoin posted:

One of the most loved young singers of the moment, Justin Bieber enjoys mostly a female following, which would go to great lengths to show their love and support for him.

I snatched the above quote from some website to drive the point I'm about to make, home.

What if Justin Bieber donned a small Bitcoin symbol somewhere on his apparel? All he has to do is wear it, not be a spokesperson for Bitcoin. In fact, it's best he not even talk about it. Just wear it wherever he goes. The conversation of him doing such would go viral.

Now, you may wonder why he would do this if there's nothing in it for him doing it. I'll address that concern with a question: What if he, or his manager, purchased X amount of Bitcoin prior to his start of donning the Bitcoin symbol for the sole purpose of cashing out once their position reaches a predetermined point?

And it doesn't have to be JB, for this idea to work. Any well known personality could do this, thereby increasing the awareness for Bitcoin, and everybody wins.

Then again, perhaps I'm overloading the cart for the donkey, again. (from the idiom: the cart before the horse)

See!? All they have to do is get Justin Bieber on board! THIS PLAN IS FOOLPROOF

# ¿ Aug 18, 2011 02:02

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blacksocks posted:

Whatever happened to 50 Cent when he tried the pump-and-dump scam on twitter a while back?

He made $8 million dollars overnight and never faced any legal consequences, near as I can tell. Maybe he'd be interested in bitcoins too?

# ¿ Aug 19, 2011 01:15

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Oh, hey! Lovable loser/con-man Bruce Wagner is also a surprise sex apologist!

Bruce Wagner posted:

However, most women have ABSOLUTELY NO CONCEPT of the POWER that sexual attraction has on a man. Women are not men. Men are driven by sex first, feelings second. Women are driven by feelings first, and sex second.

Dressing as sexually provocative as a streetwalker who�s late on the rent�. and parading around in front of men in public like this� Can be like smoking crack in front of a crackhead. Or at the very least, playing drinking games till everyone is in a drunken stupor� in front of a recovering alcoholic.

Sorry, I don�t drink in front of alcoholics in recovery. I DO claim some responsibility for being a thoughtful compassionate human being. I don�t GET MY JOLLIES TRYING TO TEMPT PEOPLE BEYOND THEIR HUMAN ABILITY TO WITHSTAND THAT TEMPTATION� Only to watch them cave�. And then to declare them weak� And criticize them and blame them and laugh at them�

I think MANY women get their jollies � cheap thrills � playing with the sex drives of healthy adult men. They play with them as if they are teasing the animals at the zoo with hints of food�

And then laughing at them� for the sake of entertainment.

And if they get raped�

They had no responsibility for it whatsoever.

Because politically correct society in 2006 gives them blanket immunity to blame.

That wacky Bruce Wagner!

http://brucewagner.wordpress.com/20...oming-a-rapist/

# ¿ Aug 29, 2011 04:30

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Women are just begging to be raped, paying a child for sex is making a love offering of human energy, bitcoins are going up, up, up...

Bruce Wagner... is... the worst... human... being.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2011 18:00

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mAlfunkti0n posted:

This is important information, the people NEED TO KNOW!

Edit : This and, what the heck has happened in this thread? I left it like, two days ago and it is a totally different topic. Anyone care to give a recap?

Bruce Wagner of Onlyonetv is a surprise sex apologist and, probably, a pedophile. And the goons don't like him anymore.

Edit: And bitcoins are crashing again, but *yawn*

# ¿ Aug 29, 2011 18:04

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makomk posted:

Am I the only person that has ethical issues with turning sex workers into the police for being sex workers? Even if they are otherwise utter scumbags.

Yeah, don't rat him out on his Fleet Week moonlighting, the Pattaya stuff is the really creepy thing.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2011 19:29

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Bruce Wagner posted:

By the way, for a little more clarification...

In that excerpt from 2006, in that forum... which is being attributed to me... The FACT is.... My post was the one at the top. The message I was REPLYING TO was the one at the bottom...

In other words, my words were at the top --- before the word "QUOTE(tdperhs..." etc.

The words after "QUOTE(tdperhs..." ....is the other guy's post..... the post to which I was replying.

Those words about a "virgins and newbies" and "a three pronged attack".... were NOT my words.

That clarification effectively undermines the most damning of the "pedophilia" quotes attributed to Bruce. At this point, I don't think there is any evidence of him being interested in sex with children.

He's clearly had a strange life, and possesses some repugnant opinions (or, at least, he did a few years ago,) but I don't think he's the monster that this witch hunt has made him out to be. A naive and kind of seedy bungler? Yes. A pedophile rapist? No.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2011 16:58

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Sammus posted:

Could we get her and her boyfriend/pimp/whatever he is to roll poop into balls and throw it at each other?

Don't let this turn into a "Find a moron to perform your disgusting fetish" thread.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2011 02:41

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From a bitcointalk thread called "Paranoia will destroy ya'":

WiseOldOwl posted:

Every other post is people accusing users of being clones or puppets of other users.
Please we need to brainstorm a way reduce this,
This is a classic divide and conquer technique, not sure who it is being used by.

"This paranoia is tearing us apart! Just like "They" planned!"

# ¿ Sep 9, 2011 19:06

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SynthOrange posted:

Man, slow news day for Bitcoin. Comedy value is crashing, sell sell sell!

It's scorched earth comedy. Bruce was exposed and embarrassed to the point that he is now essentially in hiding, and the bitcointalk forums are so saturated with goon sock-puppets that one should assume that anyone posting anything ridiculous is yet another troll. And so, a slow trickle of posts beating the cosbycoin joke to death is all we're left with.

Weep, goons, for the goose is dead and her golden eggs will come no more.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2011 17:51

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Nuclearmonkee posted:

I was listening to NPR today while they did some kind of show with a couple of Libertarians from CA somewhere. There were a few times where I wanted to kill my radio because of the amount of stupid spewing forth, but I'm glad I left it on. Eventually they asked a question about monetary policy and one of them actually shilled Bitcoin.

Yeah, sorry, that was me and a buddy, actually, just seeing how far we could take it before the interviewer caught on.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2011 20:14

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# ¿ Jun 18, 2013 06:45

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Ugh, you guys are grasping at straws, and as this thread drifts further away from bitcoin it just gets more embarrassing. Congratulations on finding some furries on the internet, I guess.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2011 14:42

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