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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.
the articles in question are no longer on buttcoinfoundation

a good first step, now they just need to either teach "nicsho" about the concept of brevity, or just cut him loose because guuuuh walls of text

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Clockwerk
Apr 6, 2005


I can sympathize with raw milk crazies because farm fresh milk is amazing, especially if the cream was never scooped off the top and you can stir it back in, at least until you get a batch of milk from the cow who made it into the onion patch. also getting pathogenic ecoli from their poo poo-stained teets

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Clockwerk posted:

poo poo-stained teets

mooooooooooods

neonbregna
Aug 20, 2007

Clockwerk posted:

I can sympathize with raw milk crazies because farm fresh milk is amazing, especially if the cream was never scooped off the top and you can stir it back in, at least until you get a batch of milk from the cow who made it into the onion patch. also getting pathogenic ecoli from their poo poo-stained teets

it's you you are the raw milk crazy

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
frarm-fresh raw pilk

Dren
Jan 5, 2001

Pillbug

Clockwerk posted:

I can sympathize with raw milk crazies because farm fresh milk is amazing, especially if the cream was never scooped off the top and you can stir it back in, at least until you get a batch of milk from the cow who made it into the onion patch. also getting pathogenic ecoli from their poo poo-stained teets

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duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Clockwerk posted:

I can sympathize with raw milk crazies because farm fresh milk is amazing, especially if the cream was never scooped off the top and you can stir it back in, at least until you get a batch of milk from the cow who made it into the onion patch. also getting pathogenic ecoli from their poo poo-stained teets

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

im the food and drug adminstration

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

unpacked robinhood posted:

im the food and drug adminstration
why do you hate freedom? answer me this!! :mad:

The Leck
Feb 27, 2001

theflyingorc posted:

oh my goodness i have one of these in my life

also paleo and crossfit

these are all the same person, i could only be more disappointed if they were a bitcoiner
maybe they're just too busy telling you about crossfit and paleo to mention the bitcoins

Wayne Knight
May 11, 2006


badass

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

agg stop posting
College Slice

Mido posted:

welp I'm holding it



i almost bought one of these to put on my desk to laugh about stupid purchases until i realized that thing is $90

Wells
Sep 21, 2008

THIS IS A BIZ!!!
Lipstick Apathy

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Greyhawk posted:

Bitcoin Black Friday deals

yess

i can't wait for more

"I accepted bitcoin on bitcoin black friday and got some sales but since then absolutely no one has used it. Why is that?"

"Maybe your hemp store should start selling computer parts and other stuff bitcoiners want."

Dren
Jan 5, 2001

Pillbug

Boxturret posted:

yess

i can't wait for more

"I accepted bitcoin on bitcoin black friday and got some sales but since then absolutely no one has used it. Why is that?"

"Maybe your hemp store should start selling computer parts and other stuff bitcoiners want."

"yeah sell something useful like pictures of fake korean daughters that don't show up on GIS"

ponzioptions
Nov 10, 2006

provide faster nudity
Lipstick Apathy
what kind of a man transfers tens of thousands of real money to some site on the internet
what kind of a man tries to save him
dodos didnt die because they wired money to hamsterdance they died because they were simple-minded

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

badfeel posted:

what kind of a man transfers tens of thousands of real money to some site on the internet

now i don't use the word hero often...

Greyhawk
May 30, 2001


what can change the account balance of a man?

wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?
more news that can only be good publicity for buttcoins

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/wo...h.X7QROXZV.dpuf posted:

PRAGUE (AFP) - Blackmailers are threatening to spread Ebola in the Czech Republic unless Prague pays them a million euros' worth of the virtual Bitcoin currency, police said Monday.

An e-mail allegedly from the blackmailers claiming they had "biological material" from an infected patient in Liberia was published by the country's top commercial TV station, TV Nova, on Monday.

"An unknown perpetrator or perpetrators are blackmailing this state, threatening to spread the Ebola virus," the country's deputy police chief Zdenek Laube told reporters.

"From the very beginning these culprits have been seeking to spread panic, which is their primary goal," he added.

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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loving

lol

http://www.gyft.com/points/

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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welp back to buying shady gift codes bought with stolen credit cards on bitcointalk

[–]Dyran504 2 points 13 minutes ago
We could always boycott gyft and use one of the multiple other services that do the same thing as them

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/special/bitcoin
New Scientist is going all out, 7 bitcoin articles. i haven't read any but i imagine that they are all going to be pretty stupid.

Mastodon Henley
Aug 12, 2003

So... how's your girl?

Greyhawk posted:

what can change the account balance of a man?

for twelve years you have been asking: how her sister towel could smell like sperm?

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?




I don't see what's so fun-

welp. wrap it up bitcoinalures.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


idgi is it the apple pay thing

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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jre posted:

I don't see what's so fun-

welp. wrap it up bitcoinalures.

i think they added a (limited time only) in panic just now because of complaints to the south korean embassy twitter or something

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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Happy Noodle Boy posted:

idgi is it the apple pay thing

basically because bitcoin has no fees* the saved costs from 23% credit card fees can be passed to the consummer

except now basically two new flavors of paypal have a better discount

lol

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
and also isn't gyft primarily a bitcoin thing?

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
the bitcoiners' "threat" to go to a competitor is always funny because every other competitor has never accepted bitcoin in the first place and never will, so exactly what message do they think they're sending? other than "never accept niche nerd pretend money"

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

gyft is a giftcard buying service that has an app to display the giftcards you buy through them. they sell gift cards to a lot of major stores, like amazon, target, home depot, etc.

bitcoiners like it, because they can buy a giftcard to a place and buy something with the giftcard, and then brag "i just bought combos pizza flavored pretzels, with bitcoin!" it also feels less dirty than selling their bitcoins for FIAT.

there are a lot of other gift card stores, and gyft isn't even on the first page of google results if you search for a place to buy a gift card. however, they were one of the first few places to sell gift cards in exchange for bitpay payments.

bitcoiners also really liked that they had a "3% discount" for bitcoin, although it was actually a point system where you'd need to save up enough points to buy another gift card, with the smallest card you can buy being $10. so if you spent $334 or more dollars on gift cards paid with bitcoin, congratulations, you finally get $10 to reward you for all that extra time and hassle using bitcoin and paying for poo poo with gift cards. bitcoiners like to assume the 3% discount is because bitcoin is so much cheaper to process and there are no chargebacks.

now gyft is offering steeper discounts to other payment processors, and bitcoiners are deeply confused, as bitcoin is supposed to be better than the competition.

and yes, it is all denominated in dollars. why do you ask?

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
somewhere logansryche stirs, cocks an eyebrow. "honey," he says to his fat disgusting life-mate, "strap on your harness and carry me to WalMart. I have a plan"

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

TVarmy posted:

there are a lot of other gift card stores, and gyft isn't even on the first page of google results if you search for a place to buy a gift card. however, they were one of the first few places to sell gift cards in exchange for bitpay payments.
wait, they're still only taking bitpay?

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug

Dren posted:

If you can tell that the person is not genuine then it's not Poe's law.

So Nathatn Poe, Bertrand Russell and Monty Hall walk into a bar...

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

basmati posted:

for twelve years you have been asking: how her sister towel could smell like sperm?

5

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

theflyingorc posted:

wait, they're still only taking bitpay?

yep, i just checked. their faq is ambivalent, as it says they accept bitcoin at the rates from bitpay's website.

so i set up a burner spam4.me email to see what their checkout screen looks like, and yep, they have bitpay handle the poop for them.

Greyhawk
May 30, 2001


theflyingorc posted:

wait, they're still only taking bitpay?

i think overstock are the only ones actually opting for bitcoin payout (well a 10% bitcoin payout)

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

TVarmy posted:

yep, i just checked. their faq is ambivalent, as it says they accept bitcoin at the rates from bitpay's website.

so i set up a burner spam4.me email to see what their checkout screen looks like, and yep, they have bitpay handle the poop for them.

so, to "shop at walmart with bitcoin", you send bitcoins to bitpay, who then pays gyft for a giftcard, which you can then use at walmart (which they sometimes don't take)

the best case scenario is like a money laundering wet dream of misdirection

Dren
Jan 5, 2001

Pillbug

Bananalogue posted:

So Nathatn Poe, Bertrand Russell and Monty Hall walk into a bar...

…and begin daytrading bitcoin

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indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
I'm glad of that every company who accepted bitcoin and held onto them has lost money

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