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Dr. Honked
Jan 9, 2011

eat it you slaaaaaaag

Sweevo posted:

i read that as "virtual rabbis" and thought second life had gotten even weirder

i'm 100% certain that there are virtual rabbis in second life

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CoreDuo
Mar 20, 2015

Sweevo posted:

i read that as "virtual rabbis" and thought second life had gotten even weirder

Is it actually possible for Second Life to get weirder?

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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specialist


Pardot posted:

I assume tradhill has died too since then, did it die in a funny way?

i'll leave the details of how it farted out to someone else, but all you need to know is that the people involved came from and went back to noisebridge

the perfect circle of clusterfuckery

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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to the surprise of no one the bet resolved as "no" but i don't think it got posted since it closed, so

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

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


here's some GOOD NEWS for bitcoin

quote:

School district 'bitcoin hostage' situation continues; FBI, Homeland security investigating

The New Jersey school district whose entire computer network was being "held hostage" for bitcoins and being forced to postpone the PARCC exams is still compromised Tuesday afternoon.

Technicians at the Swedesboro-Woolwich School District, which is home to four elementary schools in Gloucester County, discovered that its entire network was down Saturday morning when they received a ransom message asking for 500 bitcoins -- an online currency popular in underground markets.

While the bitcoin market is volatile and the exchange rate fluctuates greatly, as of Tuesday afternoon, 500 bitcoins is equivalent to about $124,000.

[–]PhiMinD -2 points an hour ago
Good! Public schools are nothing but indoctrination camps for false history and absolute subservience to authority.

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

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

College Slice

surebet posted:

to the surprise of no one the bet resolved as "no" but i don't think it got posted since it closed, so

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


16-03-14 13:47 Yes 100`000 1000.00000000 16u2L 0.00000000 1F3fz
:laugh:

bucketmouse
Aug 16, 2004

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

TVarmy posted:

those linden dollars could pay to feed virtual rabbits in a virtual shelter.

think of all the bunnies that will be burried if you don't help

DaTroof
Nov 16, 2000

CC LIMERICK CONTEST GRAND CHAMPION
There once was a poster named Troof
Who was getting quite long in the toof
"good thing we never got rid of the mimeographs!" - new jersey public school system

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

ex-employee who had been agitating for Mozilla to jump in with some bitcoin support in Firefox (a wallet? idk) has been pleasantly and perhaps unsurprisingly silent for the last several months.

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

Subjunctive posted:

ex-employee who had been agitating for Mozilla to jump in with some bitcoin support in Firefox (a wallet? idk) has been pleasantly and perhaps unsurprisingly silent for the last several months.

because the Mozilla foundation said that overall donations actually decreased since its association sullied their brand??

:lol:

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.

Nintendo Kid posted:

yeah no idea for bitcoins but i copied some goon's code for some sort of object that people pay money to for no real reason i can remember, and it gives that guy a cut and me a cut.

so now i get like $3-$4 a month the past like 8 years from selling lindenz

I actually love this and think this is hilarious and great fishmech

the inexplicable nature of the Internet and money

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Mido posted:

because the Mozilla foundation said that overall donations actually decreased since its association sullied their brand??

:lol:

nothing so evidence-based as that, I'm sure

ZeeToo
Feb 20, 2008

I'm a kitty!

blugu64 posted:

bitcoin doesn't even have a great personality though.

bitcoin must be great in the sack, though

given how far out of their way people go to get screwed by bitcoin

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
The Criptoine exchange was hacked. All 6 bitcoins or so were stolen! Apparently the hacker also got a few of my personal favorite: Urocoins, the ones backed by urea.

quote:

2015-03-24 19:45 UTC

Our hot wallets was drained, coins: bitcoin, litecoin, urocoin, dogecoin, bitcoinscrypt, magi, darkcoin, dogecoindark, cannabis

All coins that we have, will be returned to users. Coins stolen - in correspondingly smaller quantities.

We had wallets in the ratio 60%/40% (hot/cold).

code:
withdrawals made by hacker:

address                                 amount          coin          ip                date
LN6Y9Etr5B1p6A7DdkUGUef9U4tV1NajYa 	500             litecoin      46.98.75.23 	2015-03-24 09:00:22.886758
LN6Y9Etr5B1p6A7DdkUGUef9U4tV1NajYa 	24.99746504     litecoin      46.98.75.23 	2015-03-24 08:28:21.178608
1HF3WND3pG9VEW6Kt7Qj33LoCqVbFpHp2n 	0.1             bitcoin       46.98.75.23 	2015-03-24 08:20:04.507378
LN6Y9Etr5B1p6A7DdkUGUef9U4tV1NajYa 	7.94331864      litecoin      46.98.75.23 	2015-03-24 08:06:02.539477
Um2fYEPJ9uVnC31bxaFWBD7PmrzhgUNE2D 	16.89396348     urocoin       46.98.75.23 	2015-03-24 08:04:50.16697
DHXBCX6qsayWYdTw9DygE5pmBfaQG9TxUk 	36661.31739499  dogecoin      46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 07:16:00.387179
1NuEdUhdwVsuFg2noqpNjcpBamEJMYXHUv 	2999.99943972   bitcoinscrypt 46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 07:02:02.404771
DHXBCX6qsayWYdTw9DygE5pmBfaQG9TxUk 	32265.60946069  dogecoin      46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 05:40:55.727633
99grxHJ2cMAZpbtqbNaTbcpnNjxQ2XoGs8 	14996.31229316  magi          46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 05:33:57.490186
Xe6duo43m3xWb2Hw3CFVo3EJJ56m29L5kg 	15.44527325     darkcoin      46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 05:25:27.019065
D5AuHhndAvFARTJ9MJ8qJkJgC1iHGNVy42 	219999.99997229 dogecoindark  46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 05:24:15.654911
CbtR69smzynN1MfTZXmWje9Ay8VgeWgfxz 	2156.27062232   cannabis      46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 05:21:52.423902
1NuEdUhdwVsuFg2noqpNjcpBamEJMYXHUv 	8459.64676958   bitcoinscrypt 46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 05:19:37.350262
DHXBCX6qsayWYdTw9DygE5pmBfaQG9TxUk 	265334.39030659 dogecoin      46.98.78.245 	2015-03-24 05:10:24.015617
LN6Y9Etr5B1p6A7DdkUGUef9U4tV1NajYa 	2.16209537      litecoin      46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 04:34:30.514059
1Dwoam5EXn6g1NuAK8moEd5cpDvUFcqvPi 	0.5             bitcoin       46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 04:31:50.770491
1Dwoam5EXn6g1NuAK8moEd5cpDvUFcqvPi 	0.5             bitcoin       46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 04:28:40.170138
1Dwoam5EXn6g1NuAK8moEd5cpDvUFcqvPi 	1               bitcoin       46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 04:27:57.658323
1Dwoam5EXn6g1NuAK8moEd5cpDvUFcqvPi 	1               bitcoin       46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 04:23:13.164357
1Dwoam5EXn6g1NuAK8moEd5cpDvUFcqvPi 	1               bitcoin       46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 04:21:27.592489
1Dwoam5EXn6g1NuAK8moEd5cpDvUFcqvPi 	1               bitcoin       46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 04:18:45.405848
1Dwoam5EXn6g1NuAK8moEd5cpDvUFcqvPi 	0.5             bitcoin       46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 04:16:58.138757
DGbs2YfkN5n5sALDdZmSRpdPa5mVtW5HQX 	6               dogecoin      46.98.33.104 	2015-03-24 03:29:29.110043

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

trucutru posted:

Urocoins, the ones backed by urea.

i thought this was a joke but then i googled it and whelp

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

not urology? :(

point of return
Aug 13, 2011

by exmarx
what is dogecoindark

Alliterate Addict
Jul 10, 2012

dreaming of that face again

it's bright and blue and shimmering

grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

FCKGW posted:

-VirWox - is now a linden dollars trading platform

the best part is we basically had to disavow ourselves from third party linden exchanges because of bitcoin

"blame bitcoin" has been a recurring phrase in the office ever since fincen's virtual currency stuff

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

CoreDuo posted:

Is it actually possible for Second Life to get weirder?

virtual bris

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

Ursine Asylum posted:

the best part is we basically had to disavow ourselves from third party linden exchanges because of bitcoin

"blame bitcoin" has been a recurring phrase in the office ever since fincen's virtual currency stuff

im still sick and your av still makes me wanna barf

Alliterate Addict
Jul 10, 2012

dreaming of that face again

it's bright and blue and shimmering

grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

Mido posted:

im still sick and your av still makes me wanna barf

ten dollars well spent

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
here's a reminder

trucutru posted:

[URO] A Real Long Term Currency: 1 Uro = 1 Metric Tonne Urea Fertilizer

quote:

What is URO coin?

Uro is the first cryptocurrency that is backed by a physical commodity Urea (revolutionary), first company to provide this service is GES currently where 1 Tonne of Urea will be exchanged for 1 URO, soon other companies will join in the revolution, its essentially like a bond.

Why use URO coin when we could use bitcoins?

Urea's price is volatile and depends on many factors and so is bitcoin, you cannot peg two volatile thing against each other, Uro is essentially a future bond, that you would always get 1 tonne of Urea for, its like how the government bank started with gold backing the dollar.

Why would these companies give you $300 worth of Urea for $6?

The company is not going to sell the URO coin at a loss, they will simply hold it, until the market catches up the price of Urea, which will not take much btc, and will happen as soon as news of URO coin spreads to importers/exporters

What are the advantages to using URO coin?

Urea cannot be stored, so you only buy as much as you need and cannot buy and store, URO changes that by allowing farmers to buy URO for the future.
Price of Urea can be a speculative market this allows traders to speculate on the price
Plenty of fees can be saved instead of doing bank transfers
No need to trust third party with future orders, any company who agree to the term will always accept 1 Uro for 1 tonne of Urea


Dev is associated Asiacoin scam?

Dev promoted the revived Asiacoin which is not a scam, however it would not have been his fault had he promoted the original asiacoin, we are all only human and cannot predict the future.

The thread for URO is 225 pages long.

trucutru posted:

Look, you buy one URO for six dollars. And then, when all the chemical fertilizer companies realize URO exists, they will trade you one ton of urea for your coin, which then you can sell for around $300. It's a guaranteed investment opportunity.

quote:

What if you look at this from another perspective. The whole idea of URO as i understood is to create an easier way of transacting between the producers and the users, avoiding speculated prices, large bank fees etc. When taking into account that UREA cannot be stored and needs to be ordered as required, the average cost is bigger than if you could purchase in bulk and creates an even better ground for speculation.
The $ involved in UREA is in millions, so bank fees and speculation prices are costing both sides (the producer and the user) huge amounts of $, we are talking $M here.
Idea of UREA is to avoid these as much as possible.
Question, why would a company take an order for $3.75m with URO that is worth 77K right now?
Well if you flip the coin to another side here:
How much would be saved in terms of $ fees + Speculation in this transaction by both parties?

When the 1st delivery happens and the word is going to spread, more orders are bound to happen.
This will result in increase of demand of URO. As this happens price will increase, maybe not to 0.5, but it will be increasing.
Farmers will want to stock up on URO as the price rises, since they will be saving $ too.
As the market finds its equilibrium the price will start to climb to its real value.
Even if this takes a year to acomplish, this is a hell of a good investment for a large multimillion company.
So you will invest around $3.75m, which if played right, will return savings of a few hundred thousand $ on every large order.
Now calculate how many orders would a multimillion company do in a year, then calculate how much they will save.
An investment of such proportions that can increase in value multiple times within a year and continue growing at this rate for years to come is a hell of a good one in my opinion.
This will be a closed loop that will save everyone a lot of $ and kick out the bank fees and speculation. I think this is quite revolutionary to be honest.
The above are just my thoughts on why a company would invest such an amount of $.
But i still agree that a delivery needs to happen on the 1st order before the price will explode again.

quote:

But its not speculation if they deliver on their order, the price is bound to go up, so its not a risk, its certainty

anthonypants fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Mar 25, 2015

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

that makes absolutely no sense

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

PleasureKevin posted:

that makes absolutely no sense
yes it was extremely out of place for this thread, i apologize for the derail

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

trucutru posted:

We had wallets in the ratio 60%/40% (hot/cold).

So they thought about how many of their coins they'd like a hacker to be able to steal, and decided 60% was a good number?

anthonypants posted:

Urea's price is volatile and depends on many factors and so is bitcoin, you cannot peg two volatile thing against each other, Uro is essentially a future bond, that you would always get 1 tonne of Urea for, its like how the government bank started with gold backing the dollar.

I've been thinking about trading in energy futures. Who'd like to buy a whole bunch of heat in someone's mom's basement?

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
Bitcoin ATM on Las Vegas Strip... (self.Bitcoin)
отправлено 8 hours ago автор CaptEntropy

I finally got to see a real live bitcoin ATM. It is the "Cloudcoin" ATM on the strip in Las Vegas. As I approached there was someone already there and he said the machine just took $300 cash and crashed without giving him his bitcoin. I HOPE he got it resolved, and I certainly hope this was the exception not the rule. Not a good for bitcoin PR anyway!

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

i've never once seen those machines work ever so

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

PleasureKevin posted:

i've never once seen those machines work ever so


Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

he said the machine just took $300 cash and crashed without giving him his bitcoin

functioning as intended

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
I wonder how Greece is doing...

quote:

How to preserve your wealth in Greece. (self.greece)

submitted 6 hours ago by mrkaboom1234

I want to share this because I’ve found a way for people to preserve their wealth in Greece or any other country going through rough times.

I believe this is a method worth spreading.

3 steps:

Open an account at Bitreserve.org. You´ll need an email and a cellphone.

Buy Bitcoin. Check your country´s bitcoin purchasing options here: http://howtobuybitcoins.info/Or go to localbitcoins.com or https://www.btcgreece.com

Send Bitcoin to your Bitreserve Account. Send your bitcoin to the bitcoin address of whichever currency card in your Bitreserve wallet that you prefer. You can choose from USD, Gold, Silver, Euro, Yuan, Yen, Swiss, Franc, etc.

Now your wealth is outside the banking system, held in stable value in the cloud.

If you want to learn more, so you can make an informed decision, check out these links:

https://vimeo.com/104126081

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/03/bitreserve-brings-bitcoin-to-the-gold-standard/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2015/02/07/bitreserve-goes-for-the-gold-and-e-commerce-glimpses-a-brave-new-world/

I come from a country that has had high inflation cycles and recurring economic crises over the years. I find this method helpful to get money out, and exchange it for more stable values when things are uncertain.

These are the immediate benefits I identify:

• Stable value in the cloud.

• No one can touch your money, you have total control over it.

• No more taking the risk of holding wealth in physical cash or in a bank that can collapse.

• Send money via Bitreserve to anyone instantly and for free, as easy as email.

• Get cash by reversing the process—going back out through bitcoin. No banks needed. No governments can touch your money.

• Very short exposure to bitcoin volatility.

Hope this helps someone.


They are hosed.

From that first video:

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


Naturally I didn't read all that but can I buy a literal gross ton of piss with bitcoin now?

Greyhawk
May 30, 2001


trucutru posted:

I wonder how Greece is doing...


They are hosed.


one would think he'd learn



quote:


Como preservar el valor de tu dinero en Bolivia. (self.BOLIVIA)
submitted 12 days ago by mrkaboom1234 to /r/BOLIVIA

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[–]TheLightningbolt 2 points 12 days ago
El Boliviano es mas estable que el Bitcoin. Los bancos en Bolivia estan en buen estado ahora.


quote:


Cómo conservar el valor de tu dinero viviendo en Argentina, o sacarlo de ahí.PSA
submitted 12 days ago * by mrkaboom1234
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[–]labolaenlainglerediturro 3 points 12 days ago
Vendés sprayette tambien? O una membresía en herbalife?

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Krinkle posted:

Naturally I didn't read all that but can I buy a literal gross ton of piss with bitcoin now?

only in the urozone

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


I need a literal ton of piss if this is a case use for bitcoin I'm sold.

Exactly one ton.

Dex
May 26, 2006

Quintuple x!!!

Would not escrow again.

VERY MISLEADING!
don't remember seeing this posted

quote:

How I lost 15 BTC on blockchain.info without my account getting hacked. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 3 months ago * by thecosmic1
I've mentioned this in a couple of threads, but figure it's good to add more visibility to this glitch in their site. I'm sure it's not the only one.
But recently I was using blockchain.info wallet and made two new addresses. I sent a small amount of BTC to one of the new addresses as a test and showed up fine in my wallet balance. So then sent the rest of the 15 BTC to the address. Again, it showed in my balance.
So I log out and log back in an hour later and my BTC is gone and so is that address. I emailed customer service and they said the wallet didn't "sync" properly to their site from my browser or something like that. Basically, they didn't save the private key for that address, so my BTC is still sitting in that address, but the private key for it does not exist.
If it wasn't securely in my wallet, it shouldn't have shown up in my wallet balance. That is just inexcusable.
They basically said "tough luck" and would not reimburse me or do anything to help.
So just be aware that having your account hacked and having BTC stolen is not the only way you can lose it while using blockchain.info. The site itself has some very dangerous bugs that can basically "erase" your money. 15 BTC was a big hit but could have been even worse for me, so now I use cold storage for most all my bitcoin.

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

so these wallets are being generated browser-side?

and before they even sync up to the cloud they are able to make transactions?

how can the server make transactions on a private key that hasn't been given to it by the client yet?

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
They had the private key of the source, but the private key of the destination was not generated, not saved, invalid, saved then corrupted, or just flat out stolen by an admin

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Dex posted:

don't remember seeing this posted

ah yes, I remember when this happened with my bank. I created an account and moved actual money into it but then I logged in again and they were like "oops, glitch. tough luck pal"

computer toucher
Jan 8, 2012

The Management posted:

ah yes, I remember when this happened with my bank. I created an account and moved actual money into it but then I logged in again and they were like "oops, glitch. tough luck pal"

I was my own bank once as a young man, I took money from my left pocket and put it in my right pocket but changed pants in the middle and when I went to get my old pants they had no pockets where the pockets used to be and I called Levis and they told me to stop calling and gently caress you.

That was the last time I was my own bank. I am a zoo now.

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

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

College Slice

Greyhawk posted:

one would think he'd learn

cinco

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kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

Ursine Asylum posted:

the best part is we basically had to disavow ourselves from third party linden exchanges because of bitcoin

"blame bitcoin" has been a recurring phrase in the office ever since fincen's virtual currency stuff

wait, we?

you work for linden?

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