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unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

quote:

Where to spend BTC in Bars and Restaurants in Bangkok and Pattaya additional to the locations listet on coinmap.org? (self.Bitcoin)
soumis 17 minutes ago par Heddi2372

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Herman Merman
Jul 6, 2008

quote:

[–]tomuchfun[S] 304 points 13 hours ago*

So I logged into paypal today to find out an eBay buyer opened a dispute after 92 days. They are claiming I never sent the item, but I did and I entered the tracking info into eBay. BUT of coarse eBay deletes all the item info after 60 days, so now I have no proof of shipment. To make it worse paypal loses the tracking number when eBay dumps the data because it was linked through eBay. Sooooooo I'm pretty much hosed. I'll be closing my eBay and PP accounts ASAP and moving to selling for bitcoin only, as chargebacks can not happen.


[–]jcoinner 57 points 8 hours ago

Only use Paypal with money you can afford to lose.
So commonly said for Bitcoin but applies double so with Paypal as the years of ongoing stories of reversed claims and held or confiscated funds is legion.


[–]Halfhand84 1 point 5 hours ago

This is why I keep a running balance on my PayPal credit (bill me later) of at least $1000 (no interest 6 months). If Paypal ever tries to pull this poo poo on me, I will simply cut ties and they can forget about me ever repaying the debt.


[–]Netwerked 3 points 5 hours ago

I would be careful with this strategy, unless you don't need credit. It could harm your credit rating.


[–]road_laya 0 points 4 hours ago

PayPal is not a bank, why would a PayPal balance affect my credit score?

Erenthal
Jan 1, 2008

A relaxing walk in the woods
Grimey Drawer

unpacked robinhood posted:

Where to spend BTC in Bars and Restaurants in Bangkok and Pattaya additional to the locations listet on coinmap.org? (self.Bitcoin)
soumis 17 minutes ago par Heddi2372

bruce wagner parachute account spotted

InShaneee
Aug 11, 2006

Cleanse them. Cleanse the world of their ignorance and sin. Bathe them in the crimson of ... am I on speakerphone?
Fun Shoe

Herman Merman posted:

[–]road_laya 0 points 4 hours ago

PayPal is not a bank, why would a PayPal balance affect my credit score?

bitcoin: the premiere digital currency for dumb teenagers

text editor
Jan 8, 2007
:psyduck: isnt paypal even an fdic member now

Edit: it has fdic pass-through

text editor fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Dec 1, 2014

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Why would paypal tell the credit bureau about me? I am no longer their customer so what would that accomplish? It is neither in their own self-interest or logical so...

Sir DonkeyPunch
Mar 23, 2007

I didn't hear no bell
also, can you even open a dispute after that long

creatine
Jan 27, 2012




this was probably posted but lol if you think I'm gonna read the hundreds of unread posts

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

Sir DonkeyPunch posted:

also, can you even open a dispute after that long
yeah i had to pay a pal earlier tonight, happened to see a thing at the bottom of the page and i think it said 180 days :pwn:

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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jony ive aces posted:

yeah i had to pay a pal earlier tonight, happened to see a thing at the bottom of the page and i think it said 180 days :pwn:

the bitcoin people were right, abandon ship

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

InShaneee posted:

bitcoin: the premiere digital currency for dumb teenagers

Paypal credit is the only credit I have left to my name. I'm already blacklisted with 99% of creditors because of my defaulted student debt. I have nothing to lose, and now that Bitcoin and brain wallet exist, nothing to fear.

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

his other comments are about trading star citizen ships, and shoplifting from walmart.

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jr167/confession_i_cant_stop_buying_bitcoin_serious/cleluq7?context=3

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003


i've bought and sold a lot of things on ebay and have literally never had a problem with chargebacks/disputes/fraud

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

this is bitcoiners we're talking about. they're probably selling broken/fake stuff and thinking it's the buyers fault because caveat emptor

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

i've had to use ebay/paypal dispute resolution twice and so far so good

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Sweevo posted:

this is bitcoiners we're talking about. they're probably selling broken/fake stuff and thinking it's the buyers fault because caveat emptor

one time on judge judy they had someone suing one of those lovely "YOU ARE ONLY BIDDING ON THE BOX!" ebay sellers and she tore him a new one. i kinda want to see her lay into a bitcoiner

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

the one time i'd been emailing the company's customer service for like two months and getting no response before i opened the dispute. then they wrote to me and said they'd send me my poo poo as long as i closed the dispute, instead of responding through the dispute. come on

i replied that i wouldn't close the dispute because that was my only way of being sure i'd get my money back if they didn't send me my poo poo, and that they should respond to the dispute. never heard from them and a week later paypal gave back my money. paypal is extremely good, as long as you're not selling antique violins lol

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
http://wwwen.uni.lu/university/news/latest_news/virtual_money_at_your_own_risk

quote:

Bitcoin does not protect a user's Internet Protocol (IP) address and it can be linked to transactions in real time, according to a study from researchers at the University of Luxembourg's Laboratory of Algorithmics, Cryptology and Security. Bitcoin entry nodes, to which a user's computer connects in order make a transaction, form a unique identifier for the duration of the session, but the researchers found this unique pattern can be linked to a user's IP address. Moreover, transactions made during one session, even those made with unrelated pseudonyms, can be linked together. The researchers say hackers would only need a few computers and about 1,500 Euros per month for server and traffic costs to carry out the method, which can expose up to 60 percent of the IP addresses behind the transactions made over the Bitcoin network.

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

no fees
fast
simple
scalable
anonymous

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


I am fairly sure that is already in the wiki

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

This entire article is amazing
http://gawker.com/magical-thinking-bitcoin-gathers-at-disney-1644521971

quote:

But the tone was genial, that of a high school reunion (if you attended high school inside a subreddit and spent the intervening years growing hateful of the government instead of getting fat).

quote:

Brian Soveryn, the self-described "baddest boy in the blockchain," railed against CFL light bulbs

quote:

A few hours later came the day's keynote address, delivered before a crowd of literally dozens of people.

quote:

Yet here we all were, a room of smiling strangers, dressed for a trip to Dave & Busters, seated in neat hotel rows. "Is it bad luck on your wedding day if you get a stuck block?" cracked one guest to another. I didn't quite get the joke.

quote:

Children were herded toward a "Kids Room" with "blockchain-inspired activities,"

quote:

"A hyperactive child stomped down the aisle as the cake crowd dwindled, shouting "I'M SATOSHI NAKAMOTO! I INVENTED BITCOIN!" over and over, to the delight of every guest."

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

quote:

Bless his laissez faire heart, he did indeed find a way to compare the union two people to a bitcoin transaction: "Through entrepreneurship, and enterprise, there is also love."

But who needed metaphors? They tied the knot with an actual money transfer—David transferred himself 3.5 bitcoins (around $1,300 in criminal statist fiat money) through an adjacent crypto-ATM. The transfer was accompanied by a commemorative marriage memo, so that a statement of their love was repeated across the world, transferred from peer to peer across the whole blockchain.
jfc

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

how many confirmations did they wait for

also would lol forever if that block got orphaned

DaTroof
Nov 16, 2000

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Who was getting quite long in the toof

quote:

instead of getting fat

i hope a fact-checker is getting reprimanded over this one

Erenthal
Jan 1, 2008

A relaxing walk in the woods
Grimey Drawer

this is great

i love articles like these, almost like anthropological expeditions to some strange tribe. there was another one, about some sort of burning man style libertarian event that was also great but i cant find it in my back log

Dren
Jan 5, 2001

Pillbug

quote:

Some of the tables had been temporarily abandoned, leaving behind only scattered business cards and crumpled QR codes.

Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist

FCKGW posted:


quote:
Children were herded toward a "Kids Room" with "blockchain-inspired activities,"


This makes me legitimately sad, as the case whenever kids are forcefully proselytized into cults.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
i hope there was a sandbox with toy blocks buried in it

Muscle Tracer
Feb 23, 2007

Medals only weigh one down.

Boxturret posted:

i hope there was a sandbox with toy blocks buried in it

a thousand cubic meters of sand with one block in it, and a backhoe for just one lucky child.

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

quote:

Throwahoymatie [+1] 0 point 27 minutes ago
It's just a trend I've noticed. Usually the most insipid anti-Bitcoin and anti-libertarian trolls are British.

?

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

5

ellie the beep
Jun 15, 2007

Vaginas, my subject.
Plane hulls, my medium.

Erenthal posted:

this is great

i love articles like these, almost like anthropological expeditions to some strange tribe. there was another one, about some sort of burning man style libertarian event that was also great but i cant find it in my back log

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...d6bd_story.html

quote:

Then someone taps him on the shoulder. There’s a kid having a bad trip in the bathroom, and in this hectic, anti-hierarchical festival, Eyre is the closest thing to an authority figure around.

“I am God,” a longhaired 20-something repeats to the people babysitting him in a bathroom hallway. “I am a perfect logical machine.”

Two girls huffing nitrous oxide from a balloon and a guy holding a needle come by. The guy with the needle says he has a chemical mixture that if injected will lessen the effects of hallucinogens. “I have the solution right in my hands,” he says. Eyre decides it’s a bad idea to inject the longhaired guy with a mystery drug — even if it could work in theory — and says he won’t allow it to happen.

“Can anyone refute that it will work?” the guy with the needle asks.

razorscooter
Nov 5, 2008



perfect

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
they weren't even at the magic kingdom

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
everything about bitcoin is equal parts staggeringly hilarious and sad

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
the cake was supposed to look like a bitcoin atm

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DaTroof
Nov 16, 2000

CC LIMERICK CONTEST GRAND CHAMPION
There once was a poster named Troof
Who was getting quite long in the toof
the reception collapsed because everyone was using a different fork

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