duTrieux. posted:

goddamn white people, stop talking to the police

Homeland Security Agents Came to House
submitted 7 minutes ago by NefariousNed

This morning they knocked on the door and asked for me by name essentially saying they had intercepted one of my packages from Argentina containing LSD, however, this package came to my house, so perhaps they flagged it along the way and allowed me to receive it. I don't know why they waited until now to talk to me because this was back in September or so, so this is about 5 months after the fact, weird. Either way they just wanted basic cooperation and for me to show them the markets or large vendor accounts, I just showed them one random account selling it on Evolution, nothing they can't do themselves or have people to access it. I didn't feel I provided them with anything they couldn't have done on their own. Their biggest point the main guy reiterated was that they're not interested in personal use buyers (he asked at the beginning flat out if I was distributing or if I was just using personal quantity, and said I was the latter) and are after large distributors obviously, and just want access to them.

They asked if I knew anyone personally with a vendor account, and I don't, so I said no. Either way this was scary as gently caress and I'm glad I cooperated since it involved just showing them the market rather than them potentially detaining or questioning me elsewhere. The vendor was Messi on Agora, and so I'm wondering if they knew about them and had taken them over or the account and was distributing. He also said, you should be wary of who you buy from because it could be me, like they operate various vendor accounts, which I would not be surprised at all at.

Either way this was very alarming, and I'm not sure if my address is burned or what. I'm going to say no (I don't think I'm going to order anything again, though, for awhile) just because I've received at least 20-30 things after that Messi pack up until this morning when they came to talk to me about it, so I doubt they've been watching or monitoring mail because I've gotten a lot of stuff since then far more bulk than those 2 hits of LSD from Messi. The whole thing still leaves questions in my mind, but just wondering what you all make of this or any advice or insight. I'm just grateful this was not a controlled delivery or raid or anything and was just them wanting a little basic cooperation with it.

Linguica posted:

wrap it up fiatailures https://stripe.com/bitcoin

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Edit: Wow a lot of people think I'm nuts. I'm not saying that every single thing I predicted will come true. Also contrary to the negative comments I'm not obsessed with the price of bitcoin. This is just a thought exercise. It was Dwight Eisenhower that said "plans are useless, but planning is indispensable"

Edit2: Trolls are jumping on my 20% discount prediction. What you fail to understand is that when bitcoin starts to take off people are not going to want to hold fiat because the value will drop. So business owners will have an incentive to be paid in a strong currency and willing to accept less of it relative to fiat. After all why would someone accept something that rises in value on par with something that loses value? Econ 101

OSI bean dip posted:

bit-to-butt extension

Linguica posted:

wrap it up fiatailures https://stripe.com/bitcoin

A Pinball Wizard posted:

oh weev

http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/19/bitcoin-can-get-you-illegal-drugs-but-a-game-developer-is-using-it-to-redefine-digital-ownership/ posted:

Swiss studio EverdreamSoft said that its next mobile game is a trading-card battler called Spells of Genesis, and it uses bitcoin in its lore and to secure digital goods. You may use the cryptocurrency (in addition to your standard debit or credit card) to buy in-game items and booster packs to improve your deck, but EverdreamSoft also plans to use the bitcoin blockchain technology to lock purchases to the person who bought it. Digital card games are a growing sector of the market with releases like Heartstone from Blizzard and SolForge from Stone Blade Entertainment growing in popularity and revenues over the last year.

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Putting a good idea into practice

The developer, who goes by the Twitter handle '@dreadpirateryan', said he had come across proposals for using bitcoin micropayments to make spam more expensive to send.

gschmidl posted:

Magic the Gathering, but with Bitcoin?

trucutru posted:

It must really be cool to be white. Homeland security comes to your loving house with your drugs and you can just admit that they are indeed yours, show them where you bought them, have a cup of tea, and wave them goodbye.

trucutru posted:

http://www.coindesk.com/new-email-service-fights-spam-bitcoin-micropayments/

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Your post advocates a

(x) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(x) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
(x) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
(x) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
(x) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
(x) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(x) Sending email should be free
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
(x) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!

gschmidl posted:

Magic the Gathering, but with Bitcoin?

trucutru posted:

http://www.coindesk.com/new-email-service-fights-spam-bitcoin-micropayments/

Greyhawk posted:

oh man it's 1996 all over again

but with bitcoin

Heresiarch posted:

1) harlan ellison is science fiction in the way borges is fantasy

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2) it's fourteen pages in my copy of "the essential ellison" and may be somewhat more or less in other printings

trucutru posted:

I like how it showcases how much easier is to use bitcoin. You can pay 2 bucks with paypal or 0.0873400 butts during the next 10 minutes (whoops, took you 11 minutes sucker, better call support).

Buttcoin purse posted:

All I know about Borges is your avatar, so this doesn't help me much. Apologies in advance for triggering all the literate people.


Okay I definitely wish I read the book instead of watching the Retsupurae, with all the time I saved I could have done all sorts of shitposting important things with my life.

trucutru posted:

I like how it showcases how

ANAmal.net posted:

im the guy who gets a visit from the police and continues ordering drugs from the internet because hey why not, its probably fine

Buttcoin purse posted:

Okay I definitely wish I read the book instead of watching the Retsupurae, with all the time I saved I could have done all sorts of shitposting important things with my life.

Tayter Swift posted:

LastInLine posted:

honestly if you gave me control of the lights gave me a soft mattress and gave me wifi id probably live in that room by choice

Tayter Swift posted:

CampingCarl posted:

What if you send an email to someone with that service from an email with a similar service? You would pay a fee to send a fee. It is fees all the way down.

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(x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Blacklists suck
(x) Whitelists suck

Tayter Swift posted:

indigi posted:

bitcoin is gay as hell

McNerd posted:

("I like how?")