Exinos posted:

Maybe they should start a campaign to get Lowtax to accept butts so they can sign up and infiltrate our ranks.

Heresiarch posted:

the self-importance of these people is just astounding

their pet project cannot be failing on its own merits, there must be a government run psyops group opposing them

this must be a very effective way to avoid confronting one's personal incompetency, but i can't imagine that the side effect of overwhelming paranoia is very healthy

Exinos posted:

Maybe they should start a campaign to get Lowtax to accept butts so they can sign up and infiltrate our ranks.

The Management posted:

he did that once and all he got out of it was an ex wife

Heresiarch posted:

are the forums paywalled right now? i remember some bitcoiner linking to the gbs thread at some point as evidence of something or other

FMguru posted:

im mostly struck by their inability to even imagine someone doing something without immediate financial benefits

nobody would ever make fun of something just to entertain themselves or because they like laughing at people, no there has to be money changing hands somewhere

its of a piece with their efforts to replace all human interaction with "tipping"

Exinos posted:

Maybe they should start a campaign to get Lowtax to accept butts so they can sign up and infiltrate our ranks.

Heresiarch posted:

are the forums paywalled right now? i remember some bitcoiner linking to the gbs thread at some point as evidence of something or other

theflyingexecutive posted:

iirc, it goes up towards the end of months based on some whacky radium algorithm I'm guessing. I think only SA mart and pgs are always private

Werthog 95 posted:

https://twitter.com/blakeeb/status/532133461193408512

Werthog 95 posted:

https://twitter.com/blakeeb/status/532133461193408512

Crust First posted:

bitcoin is the most powerful disruptive technology on earth! it's more important than the internet, or the transistor, or fire! also it can be completely destroyed by 3-5 people posting about butts.

quote:

A Dutch entrepreneur has had two wireless computer chips implanted under the skin in his hands to allow him to store digital currencies like Bitcoin inside his body.

Martijn Wismeijer is the founder of Mr Bitcoin, a company which installs and operates crypto-currency cash machines in and around his native Amsterdam and across Europe.

This month he chose to undergo a painful procedure to embed NFC (near-field communication) chips under his skin. These chips can be read by a range of devices including smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Apple iPhone 6, and can be adapted for a range of uses.

Wismeijer has already experimented with storing crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin on the chip, but he adds that it is vital to encrypt them to prevent theft – especially if it’s common knowledge that you have a chip and tell people where it can be found.

He had used it to store the private keys for his Bitcoin wallets. In the end he decided that it's not yet secure enough for him to use permanently, but said that the experiment was a success.

Nessus posted:

What's funny in a way is that I remember when I was cruising odesk for lovely writing jobs I saw several saying "write articles about... bitcoin"

I briefly considered the matter as I was rather hard up at the time, but I eventually decided that it would be more honorable to starve

Nessus posted:

What's funny in a way is that I remember when I was cruising odesk for lovely writing jobs I saw several saying "write articles about... bitcoin"

I briefly considered the matter as I was rather hard up at the time, but I eventually decided that it would be more honorable to starve

infernal machines posted:

i don't know, i think being an insidious 5th column agent working to undermine bitcoin from within could be satisfying. i'm willing to be you could get away with a lot given the average intelligence and reading comprehension level of bitcoiners

infernal machines posted:

i don't know, i think being an insidious 5th column agent working to undermine bitcoin from within could be satisfying. i'm willing to be you could get away with a lot given the average intelligence and reading comprehension level of bitcoiners

Nessus posted:

The problems were threefold

1. There was actually strong editorial control, apparently
2. The rates were dismally low, it was definitely pitched to try to get the folks who grind this stuff out en masse in India or something and for whom $5 for a 400 word article is actually excellent pay, locally at least
3. I suspect somehow that bitcoiners would be even more likely than the average freelance job poster to simply take your work and not pay you, or worse, pay you in butts

PCWorld posted:

Mark Karpeles’ t-shirt couldn’t be more ironic.

“I don’t always test my code,” it reads, “but when I do, I do it in production.”

...

“I cannot apologize enough for what happened,” Karpeles said. “While I believe I did everything I could do to prevent this from happening, it still happened. Right now, I’m trying to do my best to cooperate with the bankruptcy process and the ongoing investigation.”

Herman Merman posted:

his trolling is so natural, so effortless. an inspiration to us all

The Management posted:

does he not have his profits in a brain wallet or some other system that the man cannot seize? I was led to believe that bitcoins are outside the grasp of government thugs

sharknado slashfic posted:

Its kind of cool that there's a dutch bitcoin cyborg tbh

duTrieux. posted:

it's just a loving nfc chip, there's nothing new or innovative about what this dude is doing at all

duTrieux. posted:

Herman Merman posted:

his trolling is so natural, so effortless. an inspiration to us all

Werthog 95 posted:

why does EVERY loving "biohacker" have this stupid loving facial hair