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AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

surebet posted:

Cafe Blanca, Calgary, Canada - 15% mark up at BTM. with added bonus of selling your BTC at 90% of market value! Unfortunately this is the only BTM in my city at the moment. (imgur.com)



Butts were $285 US at that point; is USD that much higher than CAD right now, or are those butters just being gouged like crazy?

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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

surebet posted:

euro bitcoin embassy shuts down


what in the gently caress were they doing lol

http://fuk.io/first-european-bitcoin-embassy-shuts-down/
i'm the embassy that sells shares

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

AlbieQuirky posted:

Butts were $285 US at that point; is USD that much higher than CAD right now, or are those butters just being gouged like crazy?

one canabux is about 78 cents of real money right now

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

lol remember those two weeks when a loony was like $1.02 and every canadian fail lord bragged about it whenever they could?

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

FrozenVent posted:

one canabux is about 78 cents of real money right now

canada is a loving petro-state

it's the right-wing version of venezuela

bog pixie
Feb 23, 2013

Avenging Dentist posted:

there's a front page?!!?

there is not a front page.

wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

canada is was a loving petro-state

now it's becoming a failed petro-state

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

canada is the dogecoin to America's Bitcoin.

in that despite our proud rhetoric of equality and endurance, we're both controlled by a small number of elites and v much doomed when we run out of cheap resources.

TVarmy fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Mar 14, 2015

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

also canada has slightly less heinous heinous poo poo associated with it and seems a bit more chill.

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
can i visit alberta on a little hovercraft yet

Erenthal
Jan 1, 2008

A relaxing walk in the woods
Grimey Drawer

theflyingexecutive posted:

bitcoin is just like catholicism: it takes sixteen years to get a confirmation, you're always getting hit up for tips, and it's full of pedos

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

are any of those theses buttcoin?

Tanith
Jul 17, 2005


Alpha, Beta, Gamma cores
Use them, lose them, salvage more
Kick off the next AI war
In the Persean Sector

TVarmy posted:

are any of those theses buttcoin?

did members of the buttcoin foundation engage in simony?

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

theflyingexecutive posted:

lol remember those two weeks when a loony was like $1.02 and every canadian fail lord bragged about it whenever they could?

it was above parity for a good while lol

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
the pound sterling was trading 2:1 with the USD for a while too

Heavy_D
Feb 16, 2002

"rararararara" contains the meaning of everything, kept in simple rectangular structures

that's a quoter

I Greyhound
Apr 22, 2008

MusicKrew Dawn Patrol
https://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/

quote:

Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) recently traded above $185000 per share.

The retrospective 30-day average USD price per Bitcoin was 591.97451730 BTC according to Bitstamp and 581.75152994 BTC according to BTC-e which on a volume basis average to 588.052722483 USD per BTC.

This means the value of one BRK-A share in Bitcoin is currently around 314.59764223 BTC.

This bet resolves as No if the NYSE:BRK-A share trades at all points during normal trading hours on March 16th, 2015 over the USD value of 314.59764223 Bitcoin, calculated by taking the 30-day price average of the top two Bitcoin exchanges active on March 13th ( excluding known scams bucket shops and any other fictitious entities ) and averaging them on a volume basis for the past 30 days.

This bet resolves as Yes otherwise.

quote:

Bet started:1 year 3 days ago (16-03-2014)
Bet closed: 3 weeks 6 days ago (15-02-2015)
Resolution: in 2 days 2 hours (17-03-2015)

You could still add to this bet a month ago. Bitcoin's 30-day average would need to be around $690 for this bet to resolve to Yes.

They really have a bad habit of leaving what should be long-term bets open until days before they resolve.

I Greyhound fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Mar 14, 2015

FutuerBear
Feb 22, 2006
Slippery Tilde

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
happy 3/14/15! today marks the day that every single person in dominica gets free bitcoin!

such an event will surely be the turning point in mass bitcoin adoption! :toot:






































oh

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Boxturret posted:

happy 3/14/15! today marks the day that every single person in dominica gets free bitcoin!

such an event will surely be the turning point in mass bitcoin adoption! :toot:






































oh

somebody edit up some gifs of that one uew boll movie with teenagers... at a party... on an island... with ZOMBIES!

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
fuk.io got mine

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
can't megaquote on my phone but pro !... dump here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3543334&pagenumber=1737&perpage=40#post442743055

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

best one

quote:

[–]Throwahoymatie 5 points 2 hours ago

Decentralized smart contracts built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain using sidechains with tokens that are pegged to the Euro/dollar/pound via derivative contracts to incentivize price arbitrage.

You know. What the market has been craving for years.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
lol nice community college posting. I was living in the dorms, sleeping with multiple girls, hanging out with my friends every day, going to parties, walking to class, and we had high speed internet in the dorms, which wasn't a thing back then. I met awesome people that I never would have known otherwise.
but I guess saving money is also good.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

The Management posted:

lol nice community college posting. I was living in the dorms, sleeping with multiple girls, hanging out with my friends every day, going to parties, walking to class, and we had high speed internet in the dorms, which wasn't a thing back then. I met awesome people that I never would have known otherwise.
but I guess saving money is also good.

lol at being old enough that high speed internet in your college years was rare

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Nintendo Kid posted:

lol at being old

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
:rip: ro-tor

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
the management irl: "yeah going to an expensive college was great, i had my own landline!"

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

The Management posted:

lol nice community college posting. I was living in the dorms, sleeping with multiple girls, hanging out with my friends every day, going to parties, walking to class, and we had high speed internet in the dorms, which wasn't a thing back then. I met awesome people that I never would have known otherwise.
but I guess saving money is also good.

you went to parties and hung out with friends and slept with multiple girls? ok, I guess that was worth the debt, there's no way to do any of that without going to an extortionate school

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
"i had so many phosphates at the campus drug store" - the management

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
my bed in student halls was barely big enough for one girl, let alone multiple. maybe if you ran some sort of human pyramid scheme

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

quote:
[–]sir_talkalot 4 points 2 hours ago

My bet. They want to put ASICs into all electronics. They get say 75% of the Bitcoin & you get 25%. It's effectively a way to subsidise all electronics. It means you get stuff for cheaper (and get BTC out of the deal). 21 wins because they get BTC without paying electricity for it. Only thing that's still unsure is the cost of efficiency for the consumer. It might even be the case that you get the electronics for free and still have that deal set in place. If you have solar (or Elon's battery packs for the home), it's a brilliant deal.

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

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

College Slice

FrozenVent posted:

quote:
[–]sir_talkalot 4 points 2 hours ago

My bet. They want to put ASICs into all electronics. They get say 75% of the Bitcoin & you get 25%. It's effectively a way to subsidise all electronics. It means you get stuff for cheaper (and get BTC out of the deal). 21 wins because they get BTC without paying electricity for it. Only thing that's still unsure is the cost of efficiency for the consumer. It might even be the case that you get the electronics for free and still have that deal set in place. If you have solar (or Elon's battery packs for the home), it's a brilliant deal.

few bitcoiner posts make me laugh irl...

this is one of them

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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I Greyhound posted:

https://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/



You could still add to this bet a month ago. Bitcoin's 30-day average would need to be around $690 for this bet to resolve to Yes.

They really have a bad habit of leaving what should be long-term bets open until days before they resolve.

with the bet weights even if you bet against at the last moment you'd end up losing money

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



surebet posted:

with the bet weights even if you bet against at the last moment you'd end up losing money

bitcoin: even when you win, you lose

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

The Management posted:

lol nice community college posting. I was living in the dorms, sleeping with multiple girls, hanging out with my friends every day, going to parties, walking to class, and we had high speed internet in the dorms, which wasn't a thing back then. I met awesome people that I never would have known otherwise.
but I guess saving money is also good.

I did all this at community college a lot of the ones tied to the SUNY network have added dorms

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
...! is spurting all over the grey thread

Bitcoin business idea. TL,DR's welcomed =)) (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 20 minutes ago * by jgyles7

This should be built, but I'm a DBA not a programmer or webmaster guy.

I bought a domain name called http://www.btcblitz.com with the intent of creating an awesome Bitcoin Based company, then realized I don't know the first thing about creating a website.

Maybe someone can help or better yet, make something similar. Something like this needs to be created and put out there because I think it could help with the mass adoption of bitcoin, one business, one enclave, one town, one city at a time. I'm not even sure how it would make a profit?? That part would require someone much smarter than I, to figure out.

Here's the idea: Make the website http://www.btcblitz.com (or whatever you want to call it) where Bitcoin enthusiasts could 'blitz' a business in their community that doesn't accept bitcoins, with bitcoins.

The concept was simple. Users would create a user account, log in and enter a new ‘Blitz’ which includes a description of the service or product you’re seeking from that local company whom doesn’t accept Bitcoin. Then you'd fund the account w/ bitcoin and then go to that business and let them know that if they go to BTCBlitz.com there is order waiting to be filled. All they need to do is get a wallet, then transfer the Bitcoin and which point they could keep it or cash out for USD. (Coinbase would be an ideal processor for that part.)

Here's a real world example: There is a German Restaurant in my home town of San Juan Capistrano called Cafe Mozart but they don't accept Bitcoin. My company was thinking about having them cater a party we were having. So I would find out the amount by vising their website on-line menu or calling in person to get a quote for the cost of catering a lunch for 25 people. Then I'd log into my BTCBlitz.com account, create a 'new Blitz' entitled "Cafe Mozart", (which basically generates a bitcoin address & QRC) then enter the order "The Bratwurst and Pork Schnitzel Package with Red Cabbage and Spätzli for 25 people for $250." I would then fund the amount in Bitcoin totaling $250 in USD (transferred from my personal btc wallet to the unique BTCBlitz address I just created for them) and let it sit there.

I could then go to the establishment and ask for the manager or owner or head-chef or whoever and say to them "Hey look, I placed an order for The Bratwurst/Schnitzel for 25 people but you'll need a bitcoin wallet if you want the order. If you go to BTCBlitz and click on your name, there's an order of $225 in Bitcoin, you can take keep those bitcoins in your wallet or immediately convert it to cash..

This would open up all kinds of avenues of conversation like low transaction fees, almost no set up cost, what the hell is bitcoin anyway, etc. If they weren’t interested or flat out said no, I still have the private key and could just transfer it back to my own wallet, or maybe even build in an expiration date/ time, where if they don’t take the Bitcoins they automatically transferred back to the originating wallet within 72 hours or whatever time frame is set. I'm a SQL DBA and not a programmer, Nonetheless, I see what the website looks like in my mind and how it functions and all that but if we could get something like this out there, it would be more of an incentive for your local businesses to accept Bitcoin, if they actually saw the BTC and it's cash value just sitting there waiting for them.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

lol

"i bought the domain name guys, who would like to code this for me and also figure out its basic mechanics?"

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duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

The Management posted:

lol nice community college posting. I was living in the dorms, sleeping with multiple girls, hanging out with my friends every day, going to parties, walking to class, and we had high speed internet in the dorms, which wasn't a thing back then. I met awesome people that I never would have known otherwise.
but I guess saving money is also good.

you can do the same thing by putting in two years at a community college and then transferring to an Institution

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