Heresiarch posted:

everything is terrible but some things are more terrible than others

theflyingorc posted:

pizza is actually pretty good

FMguru posted:

especially with pineapple

Mido posted:

wow way to ruin pizza you worthless piece of goat door opening poo poo

Raluek posted:

i like both goats and doors on my pineapple pizza

theflyingorc posted:

pizza is actually pretty good

Weatherman posted:

someone 'shop a pineapple pizza into the goatse void, tia

Mulatto Butts posted:

turns out if you look at butts long enough you start to like them

Mido posted:

welp I'm holding it

reddit posted:

Also I think we need to incorporate the Reality Distortion Field strategy implemented by Steve Jobs and Apple, inadvertently or otherwise, to the masses. I am not a personal fan of this (sorry Apple), but the difference is that Bitcoin is not bound by a private entity like Apple is.
Andreas has become our de facto "evangelist", but how do we optimize this to the level of how Jobs managed to amass a number of followers?

Mulatto Butts posted:

turns out if you look at butts long enough you start to like them

Crust First posted:

emphasis not mine. comes from some random poster in a thread where someone suggests all merchants offer discounts (like 10%) for bitcoins forever to drive consumer adoption, because they're saving 12% on credit card processing fees. claims to not be an ideas guy, just a guy with ideas who is paying 12% credit card processing fees.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Don't cc merchant companies give you a big old slap if you go round offering discounted prices for non-cc transactions?

theflyingorc posted:

Counterpoint: Video games are pretty good.

Mulatto Butts posted:

turns out if you look at butts long enough you start to like them

quote:

$1,000...$350... I couldn't care less. I'm more excited about Bitcoin today than ever before: (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 4 hours ago by CryptoDonDraper

There's a lot of money to be made in money. And this is obviously the path civilization is on now. I have been telling friends and family about Bitcoin for a couple years now.

Only recently have they started coming to me asking questions about it. "I heard Dell is accepting it?" ... "This could be really big, couldn't it? Will Apple Pay start allowing it do you think?"

These are the sorts of questions my non super tech savvy friends are asking. That's encouraging to see. I think we are much closer than we realize. I also do not think we need to worry about the alt coins; 95% of them will die out, the 5% that remain will be the ultimate fail safes in case Bitcoin falls victim to some unforeseen flaw or systemic government/centralized banking infiltration.

I don't see any threats on Bitcoin's horizon. Demand should pick up over the holidays.. lot of media coverage can be expected from Bitcoin Black Friday deals. We are rapidly becoming an apex predator in the financial world. Banks don't like us but they certainly are not laughing any more.

quote:

TIL the "Federal" Reserve is privately owned (globalresearch.ca)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ke1ly/til_the_federal_reserve_is_privately_owned/

quote:

[–]nimanator 77 points 15 hours ago*
Yes, that's a pretty popular myth, I've written about it in my blog extensively: http://www.economicsjunkie.com/is-the-federal-reserve-bank-public-or-private/
Summary:
The Fed and all rules associated with it were created by the U.S. Congress
Membership is mandatory for national banks by government law
Ownership of Fed stocks is mandatory for national banks by government law
The Fed’s Board of Governors is appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is under majority control by the federally appointed Board of Governors
The products that the Fed deals in are produced and sold by the Department of the Treasury
The Fed is protected by the U.S. Government from competition in the products it deals in
The U.S. Government has, via a succession of different court rulings and laws, made the acceptance of Federal Reserve Notes required as a means to discharge all debts public and private
The U.S. Government receives around 98% of the Fed’s annual profit
I know there may be cases where the question of rather public or rather private may be difficult to decide, for example an oil company that competes with others in a market environment, yet receives government subsidies, or GSEs such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before they were completely nationalized, etc.
But I don’t see how the US central bank could pose such a challenge by any stretch of the imagination – can there be any doubt that for all practical purposes the Federal Reserve System is a 100% public institution of the U.S. Government?

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[–]i_wolf 8 points 11 hours ago*
"public institution"
It seems to me people confuse "public" and "government". The main point of saying that Fed is "private" is to say that it doesn't serve public interest. But that's the thing about government - it never serves public, it only follows its own interests, even when on the surface it seems otherwise. "Public" != "government"! "Government" = those who govern by force, everything else is irrelevant. Every law has private lobbyists who benefit from it, if that make it "private", then what does "government" mean?. FED is a monopoly created by government, protected by government, which essentially means it is a government.

quote:

[–]knight222 5 points 14 hours ago
Care to explain why the government has to borrow its money from the FED paid back with interest if they own it and receive most of its profit?

quote:

[–]Vibr8gKiwi 18 points 14 hours ago
And who do they appoint? Bankers. It's a group of banks run by banking insiders for banking interests. The perspective of these people is what is good for banks is what is good for the country. Just look at what has happened since 2008... who got bailed out (banks) and who got hung out to dry with average pay levels back down at the levels from the 90's (ordinary US citizens)?

quote:

[–]PrimeDice 2 points 4 hours ago
Great research!
/u/changetip 5000 bits

[–]changetip 1 point 4 hours ago
The Bitcoin tip for 5000 bits ($1.76) has been collected by nimanator.
ChangeTip info | ChangeTip video | /r/Bitcoin

surebet posted:

i'll only quote this bit because gently caress off going through 300 replies of libtard poo poo

Chocobo posted:

what should i buy with 50 bitcoins?

surebet posted:

i'll only quote this bit because gently caress off going through 300 replies of libtard poo poo


(cue insane ramblings that omit the fact that lol having congress in charge of the fed)

then this beacons of not stupid appears on the horizon:


then of course




etc etc


lol

Chocobo posted:

what should i buy with 50 bitcoins?

Greyhawk posted:

bitcoin - apex predator of money

Chocobo posted:

what should i buy with 50 bitcoins?

Chocobo posted:

what should i buy with 50 bitcoins?

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Just anything here: http://www.reddit.com/user/Bitcoinbaby222

quote:

You are spot on sir. Bitcoin will be known as THE largest revolution in the history of mankind. Bitcoin will end bankers, government, end wars and poverty. Bitcoin will replace ALL money on Earth. For the first time EVER we will have money used for the benefit of the people.

AlsoD posted:

i'm calling Poe's law on this one, no way is this person genuine

AlsoD posted:

first thing i saw:


i'm calling Poe's law on this one, no way is this person genuine

AlsoD posted:

first thing i saw:


i'm calling Poe's law on this one, no way is this person genuine

Heresiarch posted:

don't ever assume that a libertarian must be a troll/parody/etc

in these very forums we had ron paul supporters arguing in all seriousness that the deaths that would be caused by shutting down the fda would be worth it because blah blah market corrections something something freedom

i'm not talking about tobleronetriangular, either

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Heresiarch posted:

don't ever assume that a libertarian must be a troll/parody/etc

in these very forums we had ron paul supporters arguing in all seriousness that the deaths that would be caused by shutting down the fda would be worth it because blah blah market corrections something something freedom

i'm not talking about tobleronetriangular, either

neonbregna posted:

raw milk crazies are the craziest

Heresiarch posted:

don't ever assume that a libertarian must be a troll/parody/etc

in these very forums we had ron paul supporters arguing in all seriousness that the deaths that would be caused by shutting down the fda would be worth it because blah blah market corrections something something freedom

i'm not talking about tobleronetriangular, either