Alan Smithee posted:

Someone explain how to me I'm not a yos og

Dr. Honked posted:

how is babby formed

Dr. Honked posted:

how is babby formed

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

the atm owner responds with some stellar customer service!

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[–]ChrisGuzowski -3 points 48 minutes ago
Hey look I'm sorry it took so long, I had other poo poo to do and to be honest you sounded like a whiny little bitch over a small amount of money

AlbieQuirky posted:

this thread about vc-funded startup 21 inc is a laffmine to which only ..! could do justice. this thread kicks the crazy up a notch.

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AN HTML5 ANDROID ASIC!!

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[–]hotsaucejake 9 points 5 hours ago
I think they'll help devices connect to the Internet of Things. Your phone or refrigerator might be on the blockchain one day.

AlbieQuirky posted:

this thread about vc-funded startup 21 inc is a laffmine to which only ..! could do justice. this thread kicks the crazy up a notch.

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[–]weissadam 17 points 3 hours ago
"Is your refrigerator running?"
| "I think so."
"Well it better run quick because I think it just bankrupted you on SatoshiDICE"
| "G%D D&%&IT... HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I HAD TO TELL THAT THING. NO MORE F&$&$! DICE!"

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[–]amarcord 3 points 5 hours ago
How much less efficient is an ASIC miner at generating heat compared to a standard heater?
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[–]physalisx 12 points 5 hours ago*
Compared to other heaters that rely on electricity, there wouldn't be much difference - all energy that goes in is eventually turned into heat.
But that's not the point. Revolutionizing the electrical heater industry with implemented ASICs that mine bitcoin is not going to be worth the effort. If it was, you'd fastly see an increase in difficulty that would make it not so.
I get that people think "well, you've got electrical heaters, and if you just put bitcoin miners in them, that's saving you money". But that's not true. All the cost that comes from putting a miner in such a device, also having wifi on it - which is necessary, even though otherwise totally unnecessary for a heater - is just not justified with the tiny, tiny profit from mining. You'd literally make cents (if even) in a month of continuously running your electrical heater. Something, which by the way, nobody who'd really rely on heating would do for longer periods of time, since it's very cost-inefficient compared to other methods of heating (as far as I know, everywhere). The costs to make, run, and market such devices would just never pay off.
Bitcoin mining is meant to be specialized, that's just in the nature of the thing. It's meant to be barely profitable, in optimal environments. Putting miners into everyday devices, i.e not optimal environments, is always going to be a losing business.
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[–]amarcord 3 points 4 hours ago
That's all I needed to know. Thanks.
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Why do you assume people would even need to know that they are running a bitcoin miner? This could be marketed as simply a "smart heater" by 21INC or whoever, that is managed via the Internet by them, thus using energy efficiently, and 21INC is subsidizing some of your costs (perhaps free installation and no upfront equipment costs.)
All of a sudden, marginal electricity costs are no longer the only or main factor determining comparitive advantage in mining. Could change the topography of the mining distribution significantly.

Boxturret posted:

also this is a thing that apparently happens if you link a xkcd comic on reddit

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1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
The Genesis Address – the very first bitcoin address. It’s assumed to be controlled by Satoshi Nakamoto, although the btc has never moved. There is a technical issue that prevents the original 50 BTC from being transacted.

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“French Maid” aka DEA Carl M. Force - Force, one of the DEA agents investigating the Silk Road, used an unauthorized handle named French Maid to extort bitcoin from Silk Road found Ross Ulbricht into this address, and then eventually into a personal account. Blockhead Force was eventually caught and indicted.

The investigation involving this address showcased the amazing detective work on the blockchain by Special Agent Tigran Gambaryan of the IRS Special Investigations and showed that in conjunction with other information the blockchain can be used as strong tool for law enforcement to trace transactions. In this case, the Special Agent knew the amount that was transacted because of an unencrypted email between Ulricht and French Maid. Then he was able to trace this amount backward from a personal account of Force’s.

Total Received: 770 BTC

Current Balance: 0 BTC

Notable Transactions: all BTC were eventually transferred into a personal account of Force’s at the CampBX exchange.

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Bloomberg Reporter Gets his BTC pinched on TV – this made national news when Bloomberg TV’s Matt Miller flashed the QR code and private key of his bitcoin address to the camera. A keen redditor ‘milkywaymasta’ took a freeze of the image, scanned the QR code and extracted the funds to his own address. He then posted the details of his maneuver on Reddit and offered to return the btc if Miller gave him a new address, which he did.

This was an important event as it showed the importance of keeping a private key secure, the ignorance of this by the general public, the ease at which btc can be swiped, and perhaps the most inspiring, the good will of a member of the bitcoin community for taking the btc and returning it to showcase all of these points.

Total Received: 0.02930731 BTC

Current Balance: 0 BTC

Notable Transactions: 0.02910731 BTC to milkywaymasta’s 1GkBw2o1ZeqsrbtVNbuBiqfoWd95Q2s6Ku and then later transferred to another address controlled by Miller.

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Bitstamp Hacked – a hacker or team of hackers began transferring funds from Bitstamp hot wallets on January 5th, 2015 into this address. In total, the heist netted over 19,000BTC. Although there had been major hacks in the past, this incident was significant if only for the fact that Bitstamp remained solvent and fulfilled all of their financial commitments to their customers

Total Received: 19,943.19478503 BTC

Current Balance: 3.53706537 BTC

I Greyhound posted:

http://www.theopenledger.com/9-most-famous-bitcoin-addresses/

jre posted:

Boxturret posted:

also this is a thing that apparently happens if you link a xkcd comic on reddit

unpacked robinhood posted:

the heat mildly cold death of bitcoin

killhamster posted:

this was one of the first things i banned from r/buttcoin

Dren posted:

Boxturret posted:

also this is a thing that apparently happens if you link a xkcd comic on reddit

OSI bean dip posted:

no more loans appear to be getting approved or reviewed. i am still waiting for my 60k to be approved--which is like nearly 15% of their holdings

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with bitcoins you get to stare at some numbers on your computer screen as you lose your money ...

the cool thing about dollars is if you light them on fire and burn them , you get heat as you lose your money ...

they can also be used for paper machet , toilet paper , or as something to write on ...

and if you're the creative type you can make origami or a paper airplane ...

plus you can roll them into a straw for doing coke off of hookers ...

there's literally hundreds of uses for them !

also ... yknow ... they're accepted as legal tender everywhere in the u.s. and most other countries , can be sent anywhere on earth with relative ease and minimal expense , don't fluctuate wildly in value , can't be hacked out of your federally insured bank account or out of your safe welded into the floor of your garage , and haven't lost 82% of their value in a little over a year ...

gently caress this loving pyramid ...

Dex posted:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg11077465#msg11077465

theflyingexecutive posted:

also lol at "photography studio and coffee shop" because she's apparently 11 and does that thing where she haphazardly combines two things she likes into a business

Amphigory posted:

tbf, here in london you can find any amount of wanky coffee shops with some other random function shoehorned in

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Does your love life fall “outside the box”? Maybe you’re a guy who likes guys, or a girl who likes girls. Or maybe you like both. Maybe a firm hand and a riding crop are the things that reliably take you to your happy place. Maybe you aren’t chained to one spot on the gender or orientation spectrums. Maybe you don’t consider monogamy to be the only realistic option. Or maybe none of these applies to you right now, but you’re curious and you want to learn, and to hang out with like-minded individuals.
We get it.

That “box” we fall outside of is tiny. It’s cramped and confined, and when you think about it, it’s always been a myth.

The desires of most people fall outside of that box in one way or another. Almost everybody likes at least a few sprinkles with their vanilla. People like us, we make up the vast sexual majority. And we think it’s about time somebody created a warm, open, public place that calls shenanigans on the entire “box” paradigm. We’re going to be working hard to make Shameless Grounds a place like that.

Gobbeldygook posted:

St. Louis has an 18+ coffee shop/adult library called Shameless Grounds.

You can check out books and magazines from their adult library. If you don't return them, they put your picture up on the wall with the title of whatever you borrowed.

Alan Smithee posted:

Do you really really want them back?

ayn rand hand job posted:

An Arizona man who goes by the handle "Bitcoin Baron" on Twitter — a name linked to a hacker who took credit for shutting down the city of Columbia's website in December — has been arrested in Arizona for felony computer tampering there.

Randall Tucker, of Apache Junction, Ariz., was arrested Thursday, according to Officer Tim Case, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety. He was being held without bond in the Pinal County Jail. His next court date is set for April 20. Case said Tucker uses the Bitcoin Baron handle online.
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News station ABC15 Arizona reports Tucker was jailed on a charge of computer tampering for allegedly hacking into Arizona government agency websites.