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So there are people still believing in the eternal dream of Bitcoins after the poo poo hit the fan? Libertarians own. Need to get them interested in some tulips.
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I think being able to pay my bills with the components of the current monetary system makes it sane enough for me
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2011 15:13 |
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I cannot fathom how someone can think "Heh, these assholes think they crashed my currency with their one forum post, we'll rally back like we never even lost 66% of our worth overnight  "
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2011 17:38 |
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davebo posted:Here's all I need to know about any currency on the planet: can I slide it under a stripper's g-string? If the answer is no, then you've got yourself a useless currency. You could print out some bitcoin coupons -- maybe you'll find a stripper who enjoys bitcoins as much as you! That's a woman to marry if you ever found one.
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2011 18:27 |
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Barudak posted:I agree completely, and if they had done something like that it would have been brilliant. Make the drat thing do research functions, sell those functions off to various groups, and then reward people with the BTC and you suddenly have a currency with backed value that doesn't fluctuate insanely when a single seller decides to get out. Our market is super stable as long as everyone involved is super passive in their buying and selling.
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2011 19:05 |
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PainBreak posted:Those songs are awesome! Did Kara Dioguardi pen this one, or was it someone from the Bitcoin forums? I can't tell! I think it was Bruno Mars, but there's no confirming it, they were paid in BitCoins
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2011 21:32 |
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It's doubly funny because isn't a large reasoning for the buttcoins to avoid a central agency controlling the currency? I mean, MTGOX doesn't control the distribution, but it controls all transfers; the dark pool is even more evidence of control Probably all blabber
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2011 22:49 |
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Bitcoins : Beanie Babies With a White Paper
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| # ¿ Jun 12, 2011 23:11 |
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You want to buy a couch? Are you sure you wanna risk your money like that? Tomorrow you might be able to get this couch for half those coins brah.
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 00:25 |
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ChuckHead posted:I will be picking up some AMD stock tomorrow and hold them into to their earnings release on july 21. It has sold off hard in the last few weeks and I'm expecting them to say they have seen strong sales in older graphic card sales During their conference call. Okay this is a good idea, but it has me worried. My dad is a hawk on most hardware related news, and if he somehow gets a waft of this bitcoin stuff via someone pointing out increased AMD sales potentially due to all of this, he's going to bite. He's a real big believer in uses for GPU processing at home stuff and he would love for a reason to buy 4 big graphics cards to crunch something. I mean, I guess no big harm if he just mines and is happy seeing numbers move as a kind of hobby, but I hope he doesn't get the speculation bug  Of course this is probably worrying more than I need to, but buttcoins got me on edge son
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 00:51 |
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:He's trying to burn an Australian $20 note. They're made of waterproof, fire resistant polymers. Those polymers that bond that note together are the polymers that bind your freedom to the government, never to be owned by one's own self.
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 01:15 |
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XboxPants posted:How many can you even hook up in a single rig? As a nerd it would actually be cool to get a picture of the setup for someone running many dozens of cards at once in a home-made facility. I think 4 is the most you can (ie you can get at most 4 graphics slots for those cards on one board) but I would think they are maybe doing at most 3? I could be totally off though, they could be doing something totally different.
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 03:10 |
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Lolie posted:It's bizarre how they have so much faith that the "currency" will rise in value but they don't trust the founder, the early adopters, or the exchange. I think you'll find there are a quite large amount of loonies in any crypto-centric circle
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 03:35 |
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:For all the amount of money they're dumping on this, I'm surprise they're not going out of their way to backup whatever wallet file has all their moneys in 10 different locations. That gives a greater chance of the CIA finding their wallet file whenever the government take over happens -- how will they be able to preserve the currency if the feds get everyone's supply???
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 03:41 |
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raezr posted:The thing that gets me is that, to me, BitCoins are a silly internet thing that exist on the internet and on internet forums. There's no real community, business, organization, or even significant individual who I can associate with them. Do people just read a bunch of posts on internet forums and decide that BitCoins are a great investment, worth putting your entire life savings into? I can't even imagine this. heck of a salesman i am hoping, that way i can at least commend some one in this process
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 03:50 |
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drive_the_hive posted:bought at $13, cashed out now played $50 dollars on red, cashed out at $100 why do people poo poo talk roulette?
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MD2020 posted:I'm pretty sure that Oklahoma's Premier Wedding Cake And Sugar Artist is a bit more than a "small business", buddy. I wonder if I can get my Slim Jims decorated
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Uglycat posted:That fluctuation should be absolutely EXPECTED as it's in it's 'early adopters' phase. There are new people entering (and leaving) the market DAILY. Like, enough people to count as a significant portion of their userbase. It is fundamentally impossible to have a stable value for a scarce commodity while the number of investors buying the commodity is growing sharply. This could be me just making a dumb observation, but is the shift from Bitcoin striving to be a stable currency to being a stable commodity a notable change? Or is it all semantics?
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 20:48 |
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I think if the USD is in danger of devaluing your paycheck by 1/2 we will have bigger problems on our hands than "Golly I wish I got some Bitcoins"
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 22:31 |
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homerlaw posted:I still have no idea what people are doing with dozens of graphics cards, how are they hooking them up to their computers to mine? You just slot a bunch of them into a motherboard capable of holding a sizable amount of the cards, the actual software uses the processor on the cards to do the computations for mining. This is possible due to advances in software stuff that allows GPU processing to be used for things other than just display of graphics (things like CUDA and OpenCL)
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 22:52 |
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Xel posted:There actually is, and now that the bitcoin difficulty went up it may actually be more profitable to mine them instead. I'm getting in on this so hard Bitches don't know my Namecoins
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| # ¿ Jun 15, 2011 16:56 |
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anotherone posted:if he could have found a buyer, sure. Though if you don't cash out super carefully you'll probably crash the market through people flipping the gently caress out
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| # ¿ Jun 15, 2011 17:35 |
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:just saw this on Twitter Man would I hate being the UPS guy delivering all this loving stuff
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| # ¿ Jun 16, 2011 00:10 |
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Devian666 posted:I am disappointed. There does not seem to be a site to convert bitcoins into dong. There's a niche to be filled! Quick!
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| # ¿ Jun 16, 2011 01:11 |
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homeless snail posted:Bad programmers comment like that. They know they're supposed to make comments, but they don't know which lines need them or what they should be saying. "My professor said I need more comments... hm. for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++){ //loops until i is equal to 10, increments by one each time DONE!"
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| # ¿ Jun 16, 2011 22:23 |
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On a slip and slide down to $14 and below!  Just the weekend crash, don't mind it.
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| # ¿ Jun 17, 2011 17:38 |
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quote:
truth
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| # ¿ Jun 17, 2011 21:31 |
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Devian666 posted:Somehow a bitcoin is worth $19 two days ago, $16-17 last night and $13 now. Normal market fluctuations, untainted by governmental regulations! Freedom at last!
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| # ¿ Jun 17, 2011 21:50 |
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Orange Sunshine posted:Bitcoins have been going up in value for the past year. Yeah it only goes up
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| # ¿ Jun 18, 2011 07:42 |
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adamarama posted:I've just heard of Bitcoins, and don't really understand where their value lies. They have a fairly stable supply, in that you can predict how many are available and how many will be produced, based on the computing power in the network? Yet despite there being a steady supply, there are wild swings in demand. So is the entire Bitcoin market based on speculation? And people are spending real money on this? It's a commodity literally based upon speculation, weed, and slim jims. A nerd's wet dream, essentailly Oh and because of no regulation scamming and theft are very large and real problems for it! More things for them to whinge about to their moms
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| # ¿ Jun 18, 2011 20:40 |
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Smite posted:She should have covered her mouth and coughed when she said each coin was worth $18. The best would be if at the end of the report she reported "And now each coin is worth $14."
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| # ¿ Jun 18, 2011 21:41 |
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Ahahaha MTGOX is getting too many connections, SELL SELL SELL
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2011 17:50 |
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Nibiru posted:
Considering how much bigger sites do the same, I wouldn't doubt it.
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2011 19:21 |
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raezr posted:How the hell do people not salt their hashes? I remember dicking around with PHP five years ago and every tutorial on the first page of google told you to salt them. The PHP manual even tells you to salt passwords. It literally just takes 45 seconds to type the code to do it. I don't think you understand the lengths people go to to be lazy with their coding.
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2011 22:39 |
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Orange Sunshine posted:According to the bitcoin forums, at http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?&topic=19751.0 This should be good.
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| # ¿ Jun 20, 2011 00:58 |
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barking frog posted:"Right now we don't have any plans for [SSL certificates]. If we have any suggestions for low cost security, we will implement them." Wait, they seriously just said this? This has got to be a front for a scam.
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| # ¿ Jun 20, 2011 03:10 |
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barking frog posted:It was the interviewer responding with the wanting to keep it simple comment, I should've made that clear. Mostly at this point the interview has completely exposed them as rank amateurs. Still, jesus christ.
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| # ¿ Jun 20, 2011 03:15 |
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I've been out of this stuff for a few days, apparently MTGOX is dead? Huh. And the live ticker is now measuring a site called tradehill? Trading at $13? Bitcoins, you never stop amazing me.
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| # ¿ Jun 21, 2011 20:53 |
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alreadybeen posted:Seriously, why is there a chat room at all, honestly. The world must voice their opinion on the nature of the Bitcoin. Bruce must know the people's opinion, because he is the people's Bitcoin hero.
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| # ¿ Jun 22, 2011 00:53 |
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alreadybeen posted:is ANYONE on the chat not form this thread? I'd imagine Bruce's mom is in there.
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