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Ron Paul Atreides posted:I dunno, I'd really like to hear every goon's opinion on if/why it is preferable to traditional (FIAT) methods of transportation i'll allow it but only if the opinions are not nuanced or well researched and some rear end in a top hat triggers on them
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:I dunno, I'd really like to hear every goon's opinion on if/why it is preferable to traditional (FIAT) methods of transportation Today my colleague and myself had an amazing experience which I like to share here about the potential of Bitcoin in Africa. We went to Uganda on a business trip and asked the taxi driver if he had heard about Bitcoin. To our amazement he knew everything about it. And not only that. He also accepted it as payment for our drive from the airport to the hotel. When we started the journey we wanted to make the payment to make sure he was serious but our phone didnt connect to the data network. Again he said no problem. You can connect to my hotspot for $5 during your trip. We connected to his hotspot. Made all the payments in bitcoin and had a great internet connection during our 1 hour ride.
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FMguru posted:lmao someone at the fbi is being clever what was that really great op name they had a few months ago?
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Werthog 95 posted:idk how someone in the year 2014 doesn't just assume that every single thing they do on the internet is being monitored cops can't use computers
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theflyingexecutive posted:what was that really great op name they had a few months ago? operation torpedo
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Werthog 95 posted:idk how someone in the year 2014 doesn't just assume that every single thing they do on the internet is being monitored
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Werthog 95 posted:idk how someone in the year 2014 doesn't just assume that every single thing they do on the internet is being monitored
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:wtf did I just read here spam from my inbox. there was an attachment, too, which i'm sure was completely benign.
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goons in the other thread think that uber is great because using a phone is anachronistic.
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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?" vOv posted:ohhhhhhhhhhh i am both happy and mad to now get this joke
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here's his twitter https://twitter.com/blakeeb
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Dex posted:operation torpedo
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Werthog 95 posted:here's his twitter https://twitter.com/blakeeb Blake Benthall @blakeeb · Jan 15 how the heck do I get an apartment when every LA landlord just stares blankly at my bitcoin balance and asks for pay stubs #workforbtc
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Dex posted:operation torpedo yesssssssssss
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idk if this thing was ever in the thread but lol Blake Benthall @blakeeb · Mar 5 if a Fortune 100 company accepts Bitcoin http://nutfund.co bounty goes to charity. just launched, coded on #startupbus this week! http://nutfund.tumblr.com/post/78653875677/lobby-for-bitcoin-2014-startupbus-company quote:Last night we launched our first campaign and it’s got some great early traction. We are raising bitcoin to eventually give to charity when one of the fortune 100 companies starts to accept bitcoin as a form a payment. http://www.nutfund.co/ quote:We're sorry, but something went wrong.
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Bananalogue posted:hnnnnnnnnggghh :sperg:
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im the 404 error
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Sham bam bamina! posted:it's a valid style, and better 
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the guy who built the asics that went down in the thailand fire about 6 hours before things went boomSpondoolies-Tech posted:
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Sham bam bamina! posted:it's a valid style, and better i'm american and i agree i only put punctuation in a quote if it's part of the quote
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duTrieux. posted:i'm american and i agree
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Werthog 95 posted:idk how someone in the year 2014 doesn't just assume that every single thing they do on the internet is being monitored me either because when i was in elementary, middle and high school the computer classes always included being taught that people might be watching you at any time because the internet is insecure so don't tell your name etc etc blah blah
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yeah the period doesn't go in the quote because the quotes enclose the name and the period is not part of the name. it is that simple. (and if the name did end with a period there should be another period after the closing quote. professional editors will disagree but this is the rational way to do it)
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Rooney McNibnug posted:looks like "Silk Road 2.0" has been shut down:
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Blake Benthall, Dead Pirate Roberts 2.0 Such bro names
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BREAKING! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2824044/U-S-charges-Texas-man-running-bitcoin-Ponzi-scheme.html U.S. charges Texas man with running bitcoin Ponzi scheme By REUTERS PUBLISHED: 17:28 GMT, 6 November 2014 | UPDATED: 17:28 GMT, 6 November 2014 By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin-related Ponzi scheme. Trendon Shavers, 32, of McKinney, Texas, was charged with misappropriating about 146,000 of the 764,000 bitcoin, then worth more than $4.5 million, that he raised from September 2011 to September 2012, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said. Bitcoin is a virtual currency that trades on the Internet, without the backing of any government or central bank. The criminal case follows a Sept. 18 order by a federal judge in Texas that Shavers and his company pay a total of $40.7 million comprising illegal profit, interest and fines in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit. Known online as "pirateat40," Shavers allegedly gained control of as much as 7 percent of the bitcoin market by promising investors up to 7 percent weekly interest, or 3,641 percent annualized, based on his ability to trade the currency. Instead, Shavers allegedly used new bitcoin to repay old investors, add to his account at the now-bankrupt Mt. Gox exchange, and fund expenses such a used BMW M5, casino visits and a $1,000 dinner at Gallagher's Steakhouse in Las Vegas. About half the investors in Bitcoin Savings and Trust lost some or all of their investments, prosecutors said. "Trendon Shavers managed to combine financial and cyber fraud into a bitcoin Ponzi scheme that offered absurdly high interest payments, and ultimately cheated his investors out of their bitcoin investments," Bharara said in a statement. "This case, the first of its kind, should serve as a warning to those looking to make a quick buck with unsecured currency." Shavers was arrested at his home on Thursday and charged with securities fraud and wire fraud. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine on the securities fraud count. He is expected to appear on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas, and on Nov. 14 in federal court in Manhattan after the case is transferred. Shavers' lawyer could not immediately be identified. The federal public defender's office in Sherman had no immediate comment. Shavers did not immediately respond to an email request for comment. His ability to pay the SEC judgment is unclear. The cases are U.S. v. Shavers, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 14-mag-02465; and SEC v. Shavers et al, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, No. 13-00416. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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Tiny Bug Child posted:(and if the name did end with a period there should be another period after the closing quote. professional editors will disagree but this is the rational way to do it)
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jfc. at what point does a person say to themselves "hmm, yes, i'd better use my personal email on my namesake vanity domain to set up and administer this illegal marketplace for drugs guns and child porn" how the gently caress does that even happen?
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infernal machines posted:jfc. at what point does a person say to themselves "hmm, yes, i'd better use my personal email on my namesake vanity domain to set up and administer this illegal marketplace for drugs guns and child porn" Bitcoiners are loving dumb
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necrotic posted:Bitcoiners are loving dumb
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Werthog 95 posted:idk how someone in the year 2014 doesn't just assume that every single thing they do on the internet is being monitored i don't either, but you would be astounded at the dumb poo poo people will put in their email basically if you're ever working for a company that might ever get sued just make a habit of using the phone. not just if you're doing something bad, even if you are a perfect angel (though it wouldn't hurt to send emails backing up you're a perfect angel of course) i know of people who have endured a decade of litigation because of one poorly worded email and know of someone who probably wriggled out of federal charges because they don't use email ever so if he did it there's no paper trail
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necrotic posted:Bitcoiners are loving dumb spectacularly you'd think after silk road 1.0 got shut down they'd be doing some mission impossible poo poo to hide their identities. they have the tools and everything and clearly have some notion of how to use them. they are just dumb as loving rocks
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Greyhawk posted:the guy who built the asics that went down in the thailand fire about 6 hours before things went boom hmmm my computer is making it 40 degrees warmer than the world record temperature in death valley, it's probably normal that the room got so hot that it's legit dangerous to go inside
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theflyingorc posted:so, for the other americans in the thread, this person did not shut his servers down when they reached 170 degrees fahrenheit oh sorry, that was very misleading that comment was not adressed to the guy whose servers went boom, but another customer i just thought it was a funny coincidence
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