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Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

fbsw posted:

unless it is the only thing you can use because a) doing something illegal that shouldn't be illegal or b) your nation's currency is garbage

retard

How is replacing one worthless currency for another going to help anything?

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Blade Runner
Aug 14, 2015

You're insisting that I lied because I don't see engaging with you about that as being worth the effort

You having a meltdown over this scenario you have created where it is a fact that I have lied (I didn't but whatever) like you're a five year old who was PROMISED that pony is so hilarious to me that I will never post the search

This is my hill, this is where I dig into the sand

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


scott zoloft posted:

mods please rename this thread to goons getting particularly nasty over missed gains.

Getting shirty over shorting: A goon story

xlanciferionx
Apr 18, 2004
recovering suicide victim
8 transactions a second is fine, for a few thousand people in a network where you're only looking at a few minutes, max, for any single transaction to process at a peak time of activity. This isn't scalable to a market of any considerable size, where you're looking at hours, or even days to process a transaction.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
my biggest regret so far was cashing out one of my coins last year to go to iceland. wow i'm a retard.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

xlanciferionx posted:

8 transactions a second is fine, for a few thousand people in a network where you're only looking at a few minutes, max, for any single transaction to process at a peak time of activity. This isn't scalable to a market of any considerable size, where you're looking at hours, or even days to process a transaction.

also we have not even gotten around to noting how this currency of the future takes like thirty minutes minimum for the transaction to be secure

i'm just going to send my bitcoins to this store, pay an extortionate fee that is many times the fee for my visa, wait thirty to sixty minutes for it to get enough transactions, and walk out

currency of the future

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

scott zoloft posted:

my biggest regret so far was cashing out one of my coins last year to go to iceland. wow i'm a retard.



Which is totally a thing that happened.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

scott zoloft posted:

my biggest regret so far was cashing out one of my coins last year to go to iceland. wow i'm a retard.

post ur bitcoin holdings

Chadzok
Apr 25, 2002

the whole culture around bitcoin has just gotten so, so disgustingly toxic this year. that, combined with the stupid amounts of power it's consuming and the explosive proliferation into thousands upon thousands of just so obviously scammy coins and 'ICOs' purely designed to prey on all the unfortunate, deluded people that need to convince themselves that they've finally found the thing that will make them the millionaire that they've always known themselves to be, makes me just wish it was over.

unfortunately the truth is that once something this effective at manipulating people comes into existence, it will always persist in some way, as something we have to heavily sigh and explain to people to not buy into, over and over and over until finally we can die, having saved a negligible fraction of the people that got suckered in.

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

scott zoloft posted:

mods please rename this thread to goons getting particularly nasty over missed gains.

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Bitcoin isn't replacing any currency where cash is still a part of it, and it still very much is for massive portions of the American population (serious question: is there a single 100% cashless country out there? Or even close?), and even more massively on a world scale. It's possible in a few developed countries to go mostly cashless but generally only among the less impoverished. On a world scale there are still like one or two billion people in the world without electricity and without internet (and despite being from "poorer" countries they still have GDP's in the billions).

And yeah, you need a lot more stability if you're a store or an employer. I mean how is an employer meant to calculate how many satoshis to pay you for your two weeks' pay? Does he meticulously calculate exactly how many you were worth every minute you worked? How are you meant to have any sort of forward-looking budget with that? Sure, some people more or less do this with their assets in stocks or professional gamblers but that is a relatively tiny portion of the population that can work with that or is remotely comfortable doing so.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Who What Now posted:

Which is totally a thing that happened.

if it makes you feel better to think i'm lying (and i'm sure it does), no skin off my nuts. :shrug: i'll post pics i took though.

HELLBITCH
Sep 15, 2017

bad at posting
$20 of BTC always buys the same amount specialty philately accessories despite what the "market" of being a middle man of a currency that only has use with steam games and the underworld would suggest, so who gives a gently caress

HELLBITCH
Sep 15, 2017

bad at posting
The Bitcoin market is literally just a reflection of the drug market. I bet if you told a bunch of Xanax riddled bar babies they could let their computer do a little bit of a central banks work and it would earn them pennies, they would because they are the lazy, addictive and impulsive demographic this poo poo markets to.

Peace :2bong:

xlanciferionx
Apr 18, 2004
recovering suicide victim

evilweasel posted:

also we have not even gotten around to noting how this currency of the future takes like thirty minutes minimum for the transaction to be secure

i'm just going to send my bitcoins to this store, pay an extortionate fee that is many times the fee for my visa, wait thirty to sixty minutes for it to get enough transactions, and walk out

currency of the future

I'll just have an escrow service hold onto that pack of Blackjack gum while the transaction processes. lol!

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



Ham Sandwiches posted:

Imagine straight up lying to people because you're so afraid of being wrong. Looking at a search result, gazing into your heart and deciding "I know, I'll make up some bullshit."

What a loving horrid existence

:ironicat:

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



$5000

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

fbsw posted:

unless it is the only thing you can use because a) doing something illegal that shouldn't be illegal or b) your nation's currency is garbage

retard

Sorry but kiddie porn, counterfeit IDs, and carfentanil should be illegal.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Man this bitcoin thread is extremely :qq: EMOTIONAL :qq: this time around

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Dmitri-9 posted:

Sorry but kiddie porn, counterfeit IDs, and carfentanil should be illegal.

Carfentanyl is like .00001% of the dark web's drug business, the rest is all the cool & good drugs

RottenK
Feb 17, 2011

Sexy bad choices

FAILED NOJOE

scott zoloft posted:

if it makes you feel better to think i'm lying (and i'm sure it does), no skin off my nuts. :shrug: i'll post pics i took though.

Please do, Iceland is really pretty.

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/icos-boom-september-raising-nearly-500m/

quote:

There were 65 ICOs a week in September.


they're not even pretending its supposed to be a currency anymore

Stefan Prodan
Jan 7, 2002

I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!


Grimey Drawer
i'm glad there are others in here who are pro bitcoin who I don't think are as dumb as Ham Sandwiches because then I can feel like I'm saying without anti-bitcoin bias that Ham Sandwiches is profoundly retarded

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005

fbsw posted:

Fantastic Flyer posted:

Bitcoins are monopoly money for retards
unless it is the only thing you can use because a) doing something illegal that shouldn't be illegal or b) your nation's currency is garbage

retard
let me fix that for you

fbsw posted:

unless it is the only thing you can use because a) doing something illegal that shouldn't be illegal or b) your nation's currency is garbage


mojo1701a
Oct 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

Dmitri-9 posted:

Sorry but kiddie porn, counterfeit IDs, and carfentanil should be illegal.

I'll have you know that I always tell people that the "counterfeit" ID's I sell are for novelty use only and I cannot therefore be arrested for it.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

RottenK posted:

Please do, Iceland is really pretty.

oohh hell yes











(this is where the european and north american plates meet)



(gullfoss)



(a pretty rainbow over gullfoss)



gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005

FogHelmut posted:

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/icos-boom-september-raising-nearly-500m/

they're not even pretending its supposed to be a currency anymore
everyone should start their own coin and just like bitcoin mine half of them that will ever exist and then convince total idiots that its not a pyramid scheme

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




FogHelmut posted:

There were 65 ICOs a week in September.

Speaking of 65...well, 66

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Defunct_exchanges

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


scott zoloft posted:

oohh hell yes











(this is where the european and north american plates meet)



(gullfoss)



(a pretty rainbow over gullfoss)





yessss thread finally delivers fun content

The food. How was it?

RottenK
Feb 17, 2011

Sexy bad choices

FAILED NOJOE

nice

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



I skipped a bunch of pages, how many confirmations of Ham Sandwiches' effort post reply have been made on the forumchain?

Stefan Prodan
Jan 7, 2002

I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!


Grimey Drawer
those are cool iceland pics, I'm glad that bitcoin worked out for you (not sarcasm)

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


scott zoloft posted:

oohh hell yes











(this is where the european and north american plates meet)



(gullfoss)



(a pretty rainbow over gullfoss)





Golden Circle tour I assume, yet no photos of the Geysir volcanic park.

Also, Thingvelir is actually where the plates are pulling apart :science:m it's a rift valley.

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Waffle House posted:

yessss thread finally delivers fun content

The food. How was it?

"icelandic" food are mostly throwbacks to the foods that were necessary to survive when settling on the island. so mostly pickled fish and shark. otherwise it's a hodgepodge of foods and styles other people brought with them. we landed and stayed the first night in keflavik which is basically a small airport town with a few bars and places to eat. i bought some kind of lamb, corn, and french onion mayonnaise (i think) sandwich from a sub shop, ate half of it, and carried the rest around with me up and down the coast for like 5 hours. then we went to an irish pub and watched "football" with some norwegians. most of the people seemed to be there for connecting flights. we got pizza from the place next door and took it back to the bar to drink more. eventually i got the bright idea to finish the sandwich i'd been carrying around with me and threw up.

then we spent the rest of the week in reykjavik. i remember going to a really good italian place and getting some pretty awesome homemade tortellini and pesto. there was a thai place that had decent food. i tried whale at a tapas place and it was expensive and not great. maybe i would've liked it more if i didn't know what it was. otherwise we got food from the grocery store because it was the only place that wasn't retarded expensive.

scott zoloft fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Oct 12, 2017

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Drone_Fragger posted:

Golden Circle tour I assume, yet no photos of the Geysir volcanic park.

Also, Thingvelir is actually where the plates are pulling apart :science:m it's a rift valley.

yeah it was that tour.











(here's a rock off the keflavik coast that looks like a dick)

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Speaking of dicks did you go to the dick museum

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

poverty goat posted:

Speaking of dicks did you go to the dick museum

yeah we walked in just as they were closing, and the kid working the front let us take a quick walk through. whole lot of dicks but none as remarkable as the giant's dick we initially saw in keflavik.

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


scott zoloft posted:

"icelandic" food are mostly throwbacks to the foods that were necessary to survive when settling on the island. so mostly pickled fish and shark. otherwise it's a hodgepodge of foods and styles other people brought with them. we landed and stayed the first night in keflavik which is basically a small airport town with a few bars and places to eat. i bought some kind of lamb, corn, and french onion mayonnaise (i think) sandwich from a sub shop, ate half of it, and carried the rest around with me up and down the coast for like 5 hours. then we went to an irish pub and watched "football" with some norwegians. most of the people seemed to be there for connecting flights. we got pizza from the place next door and took it back to the bar to drink more. eventually i got the bright idea to finish the sandwich i'd been carrying around with me and threw up.

then we spent the rest of the week in reykjavik. i remember going to a really good italian place and getting some pretty awesome homemade tortellini and pesto. there was a thai place that had decent food. i tried whale at a tapas place and it was expensive and not great. maybe i would've liked it more if i didn't know what it was. otherwise we got food from the grocery store because it was the only place that wasn't retarded expensive.

cool that sounds like a great time! Thanks for relating. That's pretty awesome that you had a bitcoin success.

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Stealthgerbil
Dec 16, 2004


God job actually cashing out into something useful. Someone could have millions of tokens of a cryptocurrency but none of it matters if they cant trade their virtual tokens for actual real money.

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