bitcoin: a sisyphean nightmare, forever trapped in an endless wall of sperg

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surebet: Jan 10, 2013; ａｖａｔａｒ
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Heresiarch posted:

i'm sorry fckgw but he's awful

humor requires brevity

the highest ranked article on the previous site was literally "look at the poo poo forum user surebet found" followed by 60 some pics

also i bootstrapped the most popular article on buttcoin.org :smug:

# ? Nov 6, 2014 14:05

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# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:19

a cyberpunk goose: May 21, 2007

this isn't about writing this is about ethics in butt journalism

# ? Nov 6, 2014 14:06

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Hammerite posted:

they must have had people involved in setting that thing up who had some limited expertise in data centre operation, like enough to know how to wire poo poo together but not competent enough that the incredibly unsafe and hacky way they were doing things (we don't need cooling or fire suppression systems, this is the technology of the future!) rang alarm bells

i think that bitcoin ventures attract people of that type - people who know a bit about a thing but not enough to really do everything fully correct. because of the general principle that if you properly know what you are doing (in wiring a data centre/setting up a website that handles money/etc), you're probably able to see why bitcoins are a bad idea, or at least perceptive enough to see that they won't go anywhere with the community around them as it is.

everything about bitcoin is loving cargo cult

in fact didn't someone itt talking about the sec and fincen smackdowns say "they've built the runways and the tower and now they're getting strafed"? because that's the best loving simile i've read in a really long time

(if it wasn't someone here pretend i said it and send me all your 5s)

# ? Nov 6, 2014 14:07

creatine: Jan 27, 2012

Mido posted:

this isn't about writing this is about ethics in butt journalism

# ? Nov 6, 2014 14:11

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.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

everything about bitcoin is loving cargo cult

in fact didn't someone itt talking about the sec and fincen smackdowns say "they've built the runways and the tower and now they're getting strafed"? because that's the best loving simile i've read in a really long time

(if it wasn't someone here pretend i said it and send me all your 5s)

that was me, i don't remember if it was in the gbs thread or here

# ? Nov 6, 2014 14:14

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

goddamnedtwisto posted:

everything about bitcoin is loving cargo cult

in fact didn't someone itt talking about the sec and fincen smackdowns say "they've built the runways and the tower and now they're getting strafed"? because that's the best loving simile i've read in a really long time

(if it wasn't someone here pretend i said it and send me all your 5s)

that sounds like a metaphor, not a simile :spergin:

# ? Nov 6, 2014 14:17

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

prefect posted:

that sounds like a metaphor, not a simile

knowing what words mean isn't :spergin:

# ? Nov 6, 2014 15:01

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

fuctifino posted:

here lies Andy

peperony and ethics in games journalism

# ? Nov 6, 2014 15:09

minivanmegafun: Jul 27, 2004

theflyingexecutive posted:

here lies Andy

peperony and ethics in games journalism

I didn't get that joke until I fired up an Apple][ emulator recently and realized the prompt is "What would you like on your tombstone?"

# ? Nov 6, 2014 15:18

sharknado slashfic: Jun 24, 2011

Can somebody tell my why I just read about peter Abelard somehow in relation to bitcoins

# ? Nov 6, 2014 15:32

Kuvo: Oct 27, 2008; Blame it on the misfortune of your bark!; Fun Shoe

Robawesome posted:

SynthOrange posted:

# ? Nov 6, 2014 15:42

Dren: Jan 5, 2001; Pillbug

Heresiarch posted:

that was me, i don't remember if it was in the gbs thread or here

it was here hth

# ? Nov 6, 2014 15:44

Necc0: Jun 30, 2005; by exmarx; Broken Cake

dang this was a good time to check out the bitcoin thread

# ? Nov 6, 2014 15:49

Just-In-Timeberlake: Aug 18, 2003

SynthOrange posted:

For you, the day the buttcoin mine burned down was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Thursday.

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:05

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

For you, the day the buttcoin mine burned down was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Thursday.

you live in the future :aaa:

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:07

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

When youRe running T1000s you gotta cool that poo poo with liquid nitrogen

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:24

Moist von Lipwig: Oct 28, 2006; by FactsAreUseless; Tortured By Flan

ruh-roh

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:39

Chocobo: Oct 15, 2012; Here comes a new challenger!; Oven Wrangler

it's so beautiful

it's all so beautiful

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:39

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

wow they're already on 6

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:43

Just-In-Timeberlake: Aug 18, 2003

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

ruh-roh

they should have sent a poet

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:53

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

all this great stuff is happening and all the p/c thread is doing is going on about how great uber is

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:57

Dren: Jan 5, 2001; Pillbug

Boxturret posted:

all this great stuff is happening and all the p/c thread is doing is going on about how great uber is

don't you bring that in here

# ? Nov 6, 2014 16:58

Malloc Voidstar: May 7, 2007; Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

ruh-roh

did you know? image.jpg is actually a png

apparently the FBI doesn't understand file extensions

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:00

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

Boxturret posted:

all this great stuff is happening and all the p/c thread is doing is going on about how great uber is

the paranormal/conspiracy forum has a thread for this stuff?

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:02

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

did you know? image.jpg is actually a png

apparently the FBI doesn't understand file extensions

like all men, they stop paying attention when the period shows up

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:02

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

prefect posted:

the paranormal/conspiracy forum has a thread for this stuff?

there was a cleansing in gbs a while back and the bitcoin thread got moved to p/c

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:03

The Leck: Feb 27, 2001

Heresiarch posted:

i'm sorry fckgw but he's awful

humor requires brevity

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:03

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

prefect posted:

that sounds like a metaphor, not a simile

of course it is and i've no idea why i got that wrong

especially as i normally get all :spergin:

about when people use metaphor instead of simile

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:03

vOv: Feb 8, 2014

minivanmegafun posted:

I didn't get that joke until I fired up an Apple][ emulator recently and realized the prompt is "What would you like on your tombstone?"

ohhhhhhhhhhh

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:06

Ron Paul Atreides: Apr 19, 2012; Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

Dren posted:

don't you bring that in here

I dunno, I'd really like to hear every goon's opinion on if/why it is preferable to traditional (FIAT) methods of transportation

plz have your opinions be no less than 300 words and filled with meandering anecdotes about your life

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:07

Malloc Voidstar: May 7, 2007; Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-seize-drugs-after-probe-into-darknet-drug-operation-650036.html

quote:

Ecstasy tablets, LSD and other controlled drugs to value �180,000 have been seized by garda� in a raid on �Darknet� drug distribution centre in Dublin.

At 1.40pm yesterday, members from the Garda National Drug Unit, the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and the Computer Crime Investigation Unit (CCIU) searched a secure premises on South Circular Road, Dublin 8.

Two men in their 30s were arrested at the scene. They are detained at Kevin Street and Kilmainham Garda stations under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.

The raid came about as a result of an international drug trafficking investigation into the sale and supply of controlled drugs on an encrypted layer of the internet known as "the Darknet".

[...]

An international day of action to disrupt global activity on the Darknet and remove certain websites and forums is to conclude within the next 24 hours under the FBI/Europol operation codenamed "Onymous".

looks like not just silk road is being seized

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:08

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

the FBI/Europol operation codenamed "Onymous".

lmao someone at the fbi is being clever

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:10

Dex: May 26, 2006; Quintuple x!!!

Would not escrow again.

VERY MISLEADING!

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

An international day of action to disrupt global activity on the Darknet and remove certain websites and forums is to conclude within the next 24 hours under the FBI/Europol operation codenamed "Onymous"

nice

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:11

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

vOv posted:

ohhhhhhhhhhh

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:11

Ron Paul Atreides: Apr 19, 2012; Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/gardai-seize-drugs-after-probe-into-darknet-drug-operation-650036.html

looks like not just silk road is being seized

This is actually amazing and I for one am glad crypto cyber freaks are getting a deep schooling about the true nature of the Internet and cyberspace.

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:12

Malloc Voidstar: May 7, 2007; Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

11 of the 33 darknet markets went down today and so far one of them is also resolving to a seizure notice for me

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:14

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

idk how someone in the year 2014 doesn't just assume that every single thing they do on the internet is being monitored

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:15

Moist von Lipwig: Oct 28, 2006; by FactsAreUseless; Tortured By Flan

its funny because the war on drugs is a massive failure

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:17

Tayter Swift: Nov 18, 2002; Pillbug

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

"Onymous".

hnnnnnnnnggghh :sperg:

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

"Onymous."

whew

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# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:19

Tayter Swift: Nov 18, 2002; Pillbug

I'm not fixing that :sperrrrrg:

# ? Nov 6, 2014 17:17

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