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duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Boxturret posted:

i'd like to see a show where the judges were various successful bitcoin scammers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUryY7oN7kg

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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.

AlbieQuirky posted:

Somewhere, a cell phone is vibrating.

:allears: sadly bruce was before my time, because every time I hear about this I wish I had been there.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Sarah Jeong @sarahjeong · 35m 35 minutes ago
reading old weed forums / skimming through legal documents / fumbling around with python scripts #lifeofasilkroadreporter

bucketmouse
Aug 16, 2004

we con-trol the ho-ri-zon-tal
we con-trol the verrr-ti-cal

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

:allears: sadly bruce was before my time, because every time I hear about this I wish I had been there.

nobody remembers the camcorder stuck in store mode and his unsuccessful attempts to fix it

Heresiarch posted:

looks like a literal mouthbreather

he looks like he's auditioning for the role of peewee herman in a porn parody

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

bucketmouse posted:

nobody remembers the camcorder stuck in store mode and his unsuccessful attempts to fix it
also good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRto5XRRUM



obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjV3wdXDHDk

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

fuctifino posted:

Just a random idea, but what if there was a crytpocurrency themed dragon's den type show? The dragons could be various bitcoin millionaires and people could pitch their ideas and get ridiculed or swindled..

Getting ridiculed or swindled are the only two possible outcomes of participating in the show right?

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



Buttcoin purse posted:

Getting ridiculed or swindled are the only two possible outcomes of participating in bitcoin

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Buttcoin purse posted:

Getting ridiculed or swindled are the only two possible outcomes of participating in the show right?

Now to be fair, most contestants will get both.

bucketmouse
Aug 16, 2004

we con-trol the ho-ri-zon-tal
we con-trol the verrr-ti-cal

together they form the complete graph

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

my favorite memory of the early days, besides barbarian bob, is when the live stream of the first Bitcoin conference was happening and we watched that uncomfortable girl get hit on while someone strolled up off the street and stole a drawer full of laptops

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

FCKGW posted:

my favorite memory of the early days, besides barbarian bob, is when the live stream of the first Bitcoin conference was happening and we watched that uncomfortable girl get hit on while someone strolled up off the street and stole a drawer full of laptops

Was that the finnish hotel thing? I don't remember the live stream part

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

fuctifino posted:

I'm sure it's flawed somehow, but still sounds awesome...
hey, i found another flaw

fuctifino posted:

If they reach the fund target in 30 seconds

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

FCKGW posted:

my favorite memory of the early days, besides barbarian bob, is when the live stream of the first Bitcoin conference was happening and we watched that uncomfortable girl get hit on while someone strolled up off the street and stole a drawer full of laptops

lol she was slowly backing up for half an hour and they kept closing in

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

theflyingexecutive posted:

lol she was slowly backing up for half an hour and they kept closing in

linkz

Thug Bonnet
Sep 22, 2004

anime tits ftw

fuctifino posted:

i doubt the vandalism will stay for long.



Is that a gamer gater person

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007


http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3432063&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=7#post394690094

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

lol i forgot some kid came from iowa on a greyhound bus and pretended to be fckgw

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
making me miss Barbarianbob hacks. At this point we don't really need hacking subsidies but it's always the cherry on top

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

theflyingexecutive posted:

lol i forgot some kid came from iowa on a greyhound bus and pretended to be fckgw

must have been BFL Josh trying to slander the good name of Buttcoin

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007


only 1/3 of those restaurants is still open

the third:

quote:

I'm in New York City right now and wanted to check out some of the place on coinmap.org that accept Bitcoin. I found Hudson Eatery near Central Park. I went there and had some lunch. When I got the bill and asked if I could pay in Bitcoin, the waitress said they didn't accept Bitcoin anymore and only had done so for roughly a week some time in 2013. I'm kind of disappointed, and was wondering what the Bitcoin community as a whole could do to keep coinmap.org and other lists updated. (I googled Hudson Eatery prior to going there to doublecheck, and it didn't seem like they would reject my BTC.)

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

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

bucketmouse posted:

nobody remembers the camcorder stuck in store mode and his unsuccessful attempts to fix it

Demo mode you goddamn philistine

Also the guy who videoconferenced with Bruce on his show while he was driving a car, we all expected him to die

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

theflyingexecutive posted:

the Bitcoin community

You know, they should just have a really catchy name, like coin-munity.

That's what they need to save bitcoin.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

step 1: come up with catchy name
step 1 2: make bitcoin usable by neurotypical

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
cult of satoshi

the cos

poik007
Aug 16, 2006
Thinks Mother 3 is the best game ever
COSPOS

Erenthal
Jan 1, 2008

A relaxing walk in the woods
Grimey Drawer

ahahah thanks for reminding us

besides the loving shitshow that was bitcon 2011, i had forgotten about that easter european bitcoin exchange that ran in a vm with no perm storage, and he restarted it to add more ram

poof all coins gone

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Erenthal posted:

ahahah thanks for reminding us

besides the loving shitshow that was bitcon 2011, i had forgotten about that easter european bitcoin exchange that ran in a vm with no perm storage, and he restarted it to add more ram

poof all coins gone

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

MORE CURLY FRIES
Apr 8, 2004


this video should be in all bitcoin ops btw

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

surebet posted:



PISSSSSSS
it's not as if the other photos of him are any less ridiculous though

Erenthal
Jan 1, 2008

A relaxing walk in the woods
Grimey Drawer
for posteriority, and those who weren't there:

quote:

Today Bitomat, Poland-based third largest Bitcoin exchange, announced that as of July 26 they lost access to their wallet.dat file and thus the exchange’s entire fund base has become inaccessible. The Bitomat service is now up for sale for 17,000 Bitcoins to help recover the cost of the missing coins and return them to their owners. At a current conservative market estimate of near $13 per BTC that would put the sale price of the exchange as exceeding $221k.

According to the statement published by Bitomat, it appears that they were using Amazon Web Service’s Elastic Cloud Computing network and held all of their information, including the wallet file for the exchanges bitcoins in a virtual machine. Here’s a portion of an unofficial translation of the statement,

On 26 July 2011 at about 11:00 PM, I noticed that bitcoin server was out of resources and I had to increase RAM. As a result of this operation, the virtual machine was deleted and all data lost, including bitcoin wallet and its backups.

I have established that data was lost because settings of the virtual machine were changed, although I didn’t change them myself. Amazon Web Services Company, which hosts our servers, says that the cleared machine has been set up to be irretrievably destroyed (including the data on the disks) at the shutdown.

I’m still trying to establish who has changed the settings and whether I will be able to recover the lost data. Unfortunately cooperation with Amazon Web Services is very difficult. As soon as I realized that my virtual machine was lost I have ordered AWS premium support, talked to the manager and asked for securing of the disk data. So far, without success.


As most reporting on Bitomat’s losses are in German or Polish currently, it’s hard to get a clear picture of exactly what happened. However, from the translation above it’s apparent that they were using Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Computing to host virtual machines and that the instances that ran their exchange had been reset.

AWS contain numerous warnings to users that the virtual machines running in the EC2 cloud make use of ephemeral instances; meaning that if an instance is taken offline all the data stored within can be lost permanently. Taken from the statement, it appears that Bitomat happened to be storing backups and current state of their wallet in an EC2 virtual machine so it’s possible that they have little change of recovering the old funds from the wallet.

but fools we were, when we proclaimed that peak bitcoin had been reached at this point

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
Warning: Cryptsy lock my account for no reason (180 BTC) (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 10 days ago * by alkinsonf

Yesterday Cryptsy created an account and start trading, but started having problems with the withdrawal of money. Today my account completely blocked, technical support is silent. Be careful. Those who had already been a similar situation?

How can I unlock the account and withdraw BTC from this suspicious Exchange? I am willing to pay for advice or help ...

Proof: http://i.imgur.com/L8KlA8u.png and http://i.imgur.com/mClgyIb.png

//UPD 01.02 Until now, I can not withdraw money. Applied for verification - denied without reason. Withdrawal requests are deleted.

++UPD 02.02 "You have been blocked from chatting. Please wait for cool down period to end."


Part 2: Cryptsy lock my account for no reason (180 BTC) (self.Bitcoin)

submitted an hour ago * by alkinsonf

Part 1: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2tdyqb/warning_cryptsy_lock_my_account_for_no_reason_180/

10 days ago, I was not able to withdraw money. Amount - 180 BTC

All my tickets will ignore. Ticket number: # 175666, # 175392, # 174660.
Today I was locked chatting for no reason. I do not break the rules.

I started the process of verifying my account to withdraw funds and uploaded my internal passport Ukraine. My application was rejected due to lack of Latin characters.

I sent them my driver's license in the Latin alphabet, but they rejected my request and demanded a travel passport. I do not have a travel passport, in Ukraine it is difficult and expensive to obtain.

I explained why I can not send your traveler's passport, but the ticket was closed, and the answer is no.

I do not trade in USD

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
be your own bank

Deacon of Delicious
Aug 20, 2007

I bet the twist ending is Dracula's dick-babies

Erenthal posted:

for posteriority, and those who weren't there:


but fools we were, when we proclaimed that peak bitcoin had been reached at this point

backups on the vm: never not funny

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

ayn rand hand job posted:

I started the process of verifying my account to withdraw funds and uploaded my internal passport Ukraine. My application was rejected due to lack of Latin characters.

currency of the future everyone

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

thats right 30% of you can gently caress right off

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

theflyingexecutive posted:

thats right 30% of you can gently caress right off
more like 90% of americans

and what about the underbanked, how likely are they to own passports

Magrov
Mar 27, 2010

I'm completely lost and have no idea what's going on. I'll be at my bunker.

If you need any diplomatic or mineral stuff just call me. If you plan to nuke India please give me a 5 minute warning to close the windows!


Also Iapetus sucks!


theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

oh i was talking about the 30% of the world not using the latin alphabet

MORE CURLY FRIES
Apr 8, 2004


someone add 'claiming that bitcoin is anonymous while simultaneously claiming he knows that the majority of bitcoin transactions are for charities'

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gnrk
Apr 1, 2008
hi I don't keep up with this thread can someone link me to the poison oak/trash excursion

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