Bitcoin: no angel investors, only Faustian bargains

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Fur20: Nov 14, 2007; すご▞い！
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actually they mean that they're pissing all over everything. the people they're scamming, the people who give them interviews, and ultimately, of course, themselves

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:10

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 21:31

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

The White Dragon posted:

actually they mean that they're pissing all over everything. the people they're scamming, the people who give them interviews, and ultimately, of course, themselves

Yeah, I know.

Blockchain!~

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:12

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

I hope that tilde made you think about what I said

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:12

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

it was blockchain

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:13

xtal: Jan 9, 2011; by Fluffdaddy

McGiggins posted:

Lmao

Computer whizkid, 25, accused of $17million dark web drug ring has home and $100,000 cash seized.

Choice quotes: in an anonymous interview last year, defendant had boasted to media of never getting caught.

The 25-year-old whizkid was 25 years old when he whiz kidded. The whizkid whizzed a kid, at 25 years old, while being a 25 year old whiz kid whiz kidding. 25 years old. Whiz

xtal fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Mar 2, 2019

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:20

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

xtal posted:

The 25-year-old whizkid was 25 years old when he whiz kidded. The whizkid whizzed a kid, at 25 years old, while being a 25 year old whiz kid whiz kidding. 25 years old. Whiz

I told you you peaked, dude.

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:29

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

xtal posted:

The 25-year-old whizkid was 25 years old when he whiz kidded. The whizkid whizzed a kid, at 25 years old, while being a 25 year old whiz kid whiz kidding. 25 years old. Whiz

this is bitcoin in a nutshell

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:29

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

he was 25 years old

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:30

Gumbel2Gumbel: Apr 28, 2010

How are you a whiz kid when you could be in your 7th tour of Afghanistan

# ? Mar 2, 2019 01:33

Play: Apr 25, 2006; Strong stroll for a mangy stray

divabot posted:

it's important to keep in mind that the darknets have always been insignificant as part of the drug trade. They get headlines for shock value, but the US Dollar is still the all-time champion.

even estimated numbers are super hard to come by - but the least-worst I could find (a January 2016 estimate of the darknet markets, divided by a 2003 estimate of the world drug economy) put darknets at 0.1% at absolute most (by dollar value), and more like 0.01% if that.

That's about what I figured. Crypto destroyed by fiat currency even in the one thing it's kind of good at, illegal purchases.

# ? Mar 2, 2019 02:20

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

Whizz-Kid as a designation goes from being a compliment at ages 8-16 to supreme mega dunk at anything above 21

# ? Mar 2, 2019 03:25

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Bust Rodd posted:

Whizz-Kid as a designation goes from being a compliment at ages 8-16 to supreme mega dunk at anything above 21

come again?

# ? Mar 2, 2019 03:27

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

come again?

Calling a 25 year old a �whiz kid� is funny because they are no longer a child.

# ? Mar 2, 2019 03:32

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

25 is basically a fetus compared to everyone who works at and reads the Daily Mail?

# ? Mar 2, 2019 03:54

let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

I get older and 25 year olds stay the same age, makes u think

E: also makes u whiz

# ? Mar 2, 2019 04:38

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

let it mellow posted:

I get older and 25 year olds stay the same age, makes u think

E: also makes u whiz

all right all right all right

# ? Mar 2, 2019 04:44

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

There are now more $100 bills in circulation than $1s.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/27/the...taboolainternal

# ? Mar 2, 2019 04:45

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Surge in global corruption -- good thing for bitcoin?

# ? Mar 2, 2019 04:46

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Bust Rodd posted:

Calling a 25 year old a �whiz kid� is funny because they are no longer a child.

you are a loving genius

# ? Mar 2, 2019 04:49

let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

shame on an IGA posted:

There are now more $100 bills in circulation than $1s.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/27/the...taboolainternal

Strippers everywhere rejoice

# ? Mar 2, 2019 04:52

Barudak: May 7, 2007

shame on an IGA posted:

There are now more $100 bills in circulation than $1s.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/27/the...taboolainternal

Can we please get rid if pennies?

# ? Mar 2, 2019 05:14

Happy Thread: Jul 10, 2005; by Fluffdaddy; Plaster Town Cop

let it mellow posted:

I get older and 25 year olds stay the same age, makes u think

E: also makes u whiz

R Kelly?

# ? Mar 2, 2019 05:22

let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

Dumb Lowtax posted:

R Kelly?

yeah, can I borrow some money?

# ? Mar 2, 2019 05:28

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

let it mellow posted:

yeah, can I borrow some money?

I fucinng love you

# ? Mar 2, 2019 05:57

norp: Jan 20, 2004; TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

At this point pennies are just kept around as a reminder of the good old days.

Our reserve bank has started to flag the end of the 5c and 10c coins. I've stopped carrying cash at all, I'd be fine with cash disappearing

# ? Mar 2, 2019 08:03

Viscous Soda: Apr 24, 2004

Barudak posted:

Can we please get rid if pennies?

Honestly we should get rid of pennies and make a 200 dollar bill. The US dollar has lost about half it's worth since 1990, so a 200 bill would have about the same buying power as a old hundred.

# ? Mar 2, 2019 19:27

divabot: Jun 17, 2015; A polite little mouse!

i wrote up Facebook's dumb not-a-crypto-coin idea, and was most amused to have multiple FB employees I spoke to describe David Marcus as a useless REMF

# ? Mar 3, 2019 00:15

Mozi: Apr 4, 2004; Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die; Nap Ghost

Quadriga Crypto Mystery Deepens With �Cold Wallets� Found Empty

quote:

When Quadriga Fintech Solutions Corp. founder Gerald Cotten died, account holders feared the encrypted access keys needed to recover C$190 million ($143 million) of cryptocurrencies held by the exchange in offline storage could be lost forever.

It looks now like the storage Quadriga is known to have used -- dubbed cold wallets -- has been empty since April.

...

A preliminary review of transactions of the six wallets using public blockchain records showed that from April 2014 to approximately April 2018, aggregate Bitcoin month end balances in the identified cold wallets ranged from zero to a peak of 2,776 Bitcoin. The average aggregate month end balance over the four-year period was approximately 124 Bitcoin. Some Bitcoin in the wallets appear to have been transferred to accounts at other crypto exchanges.

# ? Mar 3, 2019 00:19

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

Mozi posted:

Quadriga Crypto Mystery Deepens With �Cold Wallets� Found Empty

lmao the dude changed his name and hosed off to india

# ? Mar 3, 2019 00:23

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

But left his girlfriend here to handle the fallout?
Actually that does sound like a coiner

# ? Mar 3, 2019 00:36

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

divabot posted:

i wrote up Facebook's dumb not-a-crypto-coin idea, and was most amused to have multiple FB employees I spoke to describe David Marcus as a useless REMF

He is very so.

# ? Mar 3, 2019 00:39

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

But left his girlfriend here to handle the fallout?
Actually that does sound like a coiner

if you refer to women as :females:

you might be a coiner

# ? Mar 3, 2019 00:40

McGiggins: Apr 4, 2014; by R. Guyovich; Lipstick Apathy

I loving knew it was a fall-guy scam.

# ? Mar 3, 2019 00:53

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

divabot posted:

i wrote up Facebook's dumb not-a-crypto-coin idea, and was most amused to have multiple FB employees I spoke to describe David Marcus as a useless REMF

Facebook�s mysterious blockchain unit is a good name

# ? Mar 3, 2019 02:37

Veni Vidi Ameche!: Nov 2, 2017; by Fluffdaddy

Mozi posted:

Quadriga Crypto Mystery Deepens With �Cold Wallets� Found Empty

They should call themselves Quadriga Findom Solutions. Coiners love having their money stolen and spent by other people.

# ? Mar 3, 2019 09:08

Splicer: Oct 16, 2006; from hell's heart I cast at thee
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

But left his girlfriend here to handle the fallout?
Actually that does sound like a coiner

Odds are she can't be tried as an adult so

# ? Mar 3, 2019 11:58

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

Splicer posted:

Odds are she can't be tried as an adult so

# ? Mar 3, 2019 12:15

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