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Hey divabot, My boss's boss's boss, who provides a lot of the projects we end up working on, apparently has an interest in blockchain. I bought a copy of your book to give him. Wish me well.
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XK posted:Hey divabot, AAAAAAAAAAA i am so sorry chapter 11 is the one specifically written for people where you are: self-defense weapons against the 50 foot blockchain
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Aug 22, 2019 23:34
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divabot posted:The actual reason appears to be an ongoing SEC investigation into shenanigans regarding OSTK trading. That’s only true if he doesn’t have information access, and he is still almost certainly under 10b5-1 rules for another 6 months. It’s not the title that matters, it’s access to material non-public information. If they’re following a strategy he has above average information about, he still can’t trade unencumbered.
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Aug 23, 2019 00:10
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divabot posted:AAAAAAAAAAA I'm going to say it's a book my friend wrote. We're friends right?
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Aug 23, 2019 21:15
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XK posted:I'm going to say it's a book my friend wrote. maaaaaaaaate you wave my book around in your office and I am your friend forever
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Aug 23, 2019 23:55
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divabot posted:maaaaaaaaate you wave my book around in your office and I am your friend forever
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Aug 24, 2019 16:27
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Those Bitcoin checks, they're as good as a bank check!
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Aug 26, 2019 02:04
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So divabot - no posts about the Australian Satoshi losing a huge court case? I honestly want to hear your take on it.
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Aug 29, 2019 21:50
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MrUnderbridge posted:So divabot - no posts about the Australian Satoshi losing a huge court case? I totally have a take on it! That's my writeup of the judge's order - but I urge you to read the order itself. It's very clear, because the judge is very pissed off. He spends eight pages just calling Wright a loving liar. Wright has not technically lost the case as yet - just functionally. The central issue of fact has been found against him, and almost all his defenses have been struck - because he was such a loving liar. Note that facts for the purposes of this case don't necessarily have to have anything to do with the real world. Think of it as a pocket universe where Dave Kleiman mined a million bitcoins with Craig Wright. So, when the case finally concludes - which could be six to twelve months - Wright owes $5 billion in bitcoins, that he never controlled, to the estate of the guy he didn’t develop Bitcoin with. All because he wouldn’t back down on his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Wow. That's really, er, something. So, in the grand scheme of things, this is good for bitcoin, right?
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Aug 30, 2019 02:29
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divabot posted:That's my writeup of the judge's order - but I urge you to read the order itself. It's very clear, because the judge is very pissed off. He spends eight pages just calling Wright a loving liar. So was the judge basically going like, I'm giving you 1 get out of contempt free card, how about you tell the truth tomorrow so I don't have to change this into a perjury trial?
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divabot posted:I totally have a take on it! 530,223.26 bitcoins Over half a million bitcoins. Is there any functional wallet nowadays or exchange that even has 50,000 bitcoins in it?
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Klyith posted:So was the judge basically going like, I'm giving you 1 get out of contempt free card, how about you tell the truth tomorrow so I don't have to change this into a perjury trial? I love all the small moments where the judge basically asks Wright if he's sure he wants to perjure himself and Wright just plows right along with the lies. The part that I don't get, and I'm hoping someone can explain it to me, is why Wright is so adamant about at least theoretically being able to move the Satoshi bitcoin. Or, asked another way, why didn't he just say "back in before they were really worth anything, I destroyed all the private keys and now it's like a ship with a billion dollars in gold doubloons that was lost at sea".
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Aug 30, 2019 04:49
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Can someone explain why him becoming Satoshi is worth the perjury? What would he stand to gain? Is it a resume booster he was hoping leverage into some kind of tech job?
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Bust Rodd posted:Can someone explain why him becoming Satoshi is worth the perjury? What would he stand to gain? so in 2011, Wright heard of bitcoin for the first time. (That's the earliest I can find evidence for.) in 2013, he was buying bitcoin on Mt. Gox - he bought 17 bitcoins there at the absolute peak of the bubble. in 2013-2014, he was in massive trouble with the Australian Tax Office for claims of tax rebates they were highly unimpressed by. They fined him $1.7m. His business couldn't make payroll. The ATO eventually raided his house in December 2015. by mid-2015, having a good idea this was on the way, he struck a deal with gambling billionaire Calvin Ayre - on the claim that he was Satoshi Nakamoto. Ayre would clear his considerable debts, tax bill, payroll, etc. and ship him off to London to be Satoshi Nakamoto. (I am told he was shopping around the documents to back this claim by late 2014, early 2015. He posted backdated entries to his blog around this time.) late 2015 he came forth publicly as Satoshi Nakamoto, and everyone called him a fake mid-2016, he did a huge press publicity thing to come forth publicly as Satoshi Nakamoto, used a fake key, and everyone called him a fake the best writeup is Andrew O'Hagan's "The Satoshi Affair". It's really long, but really good. Ayre had brought in O'Hagan to write a sponsored bio of Satoshi - O'Hagan refused to sign a contract, he just came along as an independent but embedded journalist ... and detailed the facts. so basically he started with a small claim that spiraled bigger and bigger
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divabot posted:so basically he started with a small claim that spiraled bigger and bigger gotta admit that seems pretty apropos for bitcoin
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divabot posted:so basically he started with a small claim that spiraled bigger and bigger the judge, in a previous document, included the Walter Scott quote "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive" and bolded it, and underlined it, and stuck it in the middle of a discussion of stuff Wright had said lol
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Aug 30, 2019 10:36
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I miss the whole butterfly labs affair. That poo poo was funny
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divabot posted:by mid-2015, having a good idea this was on the way, he struck a deal with gambling billionaire Calvin Ayre - on the claim that he was Satoshi Nakamoto. Ayre would clear his considerable debts, tax bill, payroll, etc. and ship him off to London to be Satoshi Nakamoto. ok then what was Ayre's deal? he paid cold hard cash to what effect, just so an obvious fake would be found out?
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:I miss the whole butterfly labs affair. That poo poo was funny It was always funny to me because it topped the line about "the richest person during a gold rush is the one who sells the shovels", by amending it to "the one who sells a promise of a shovel". It was all hilariously transparent, too.
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mojo1701a posted:It was always funny to me because it topped the line about "the richest person during a gold rush is the one who sells the shovels", by amending it to "the one who sells a promise of a shovel". I love how Josh flamed Customers on his private account ,it was separate,after all!
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:I miss the whole butterfly labs affair. That poo poo was funny those fuckers came back, too - with an ICO a few months, called AMMBR. It didn't go so well for the buyers. Goa Tse-tung posted:ok then what was Ayre's deal? he paid cold hard cash to what effect, just so an obvious fake would be found out? the whole Bitcoin Cash thing was a few big guys lamenting at the paralysed failed governance of Bitcoin and thinking it needed sensible people at the helm, i.e. them. Ayre was one of those guys. Then he fell out with Jihan Wu and Roger Ver, and so BSV was born.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:I miss the whole butterfly labs affair. That poo poo was funny how much did they pay FCKGW for buttcoin.org again?
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shame on an IGA posted:how much did they pay FCKGW for buttcoin.org again? Five figures. But just barely five.
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Azathoth posted:The part that I don't get, and I'm hoping someone can explain it to me, is why Wright is so adamant about at least theoretically being able to move the Satoshi bitcoin. Or, asked another way, why didn't he just say "back in before they were really worth anything, I destroyed all the private keys and now it's like a ship with a billion dollars in gold doubloons that was lost at sea". #1, I think there's gotta be a bit of mental illness going on for him to continue this charade. It's gone so very wrong, any sane person would give it up. At this point nobody believes his lies and he's gonna end up owning a zillion dollars to the estate of a dead man. You're supposed to scam the marks into giving you money, not the other way around! Bitcoin isn't real, it's an incursion into our world from the Coen Brothers movie universe. But, presuming that he's not so loopy that he actually believes he is Satoshi and has re-written his own memory to that effect, I think he needs people to believe he has the Satoshi fortune because the easiest way to grift people is to make them believe that you're rich. He's got zero technical skills that would make impersonating Satoshi useful, the only way he'd have relevance is with the money.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:I love how Josh flamed Customers on his private account ,it was separate,after all! There's still a few things I've missed. I mean, did they seriously not think that there would be legal problems from this? This wasn't just some rando on ebay selling some homemade rigs. divabot posted:those fuckers came back, too - with an ICO a few months, called AMMBR. It didn't go so well for the buyers. Christ, why am I not surprised? Is there a good summary on what happened? I kind of lost track of them a few years ago after the initial legal problems and the Y U NO SHIP? bullshit. divabot posted:the whole Bitcoin Cash thing was a few big guys lamenting at the paralysed failed governance of Bitcoin and thinking it needed sensible people at the helm, i.e. them. Ayre was one of those guys. Then he fell out with Jihan Wu and Roger Ver, and so BSV was born. So he basically tried to buy a puppet ruler?
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I'm surprised it took this long for this thread to involve Calvin "Can't fly through US airspace" Ayre. Now we just need Madoff mining monero with the prison laundry machines and cryptocurrency will officially be entangled with every grifter who ever made the papers.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Five figures. But just barely five. For a second there I thought you were talking about age of consent laws in Bitcoiin land.
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DerekSmartymans posted:For a second there I thought you were talking about age of consent laws in Bitcoiin land.
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Fleetwood Crack posted:I swear judge, she said she was a ten thousand year old demon! It’s jointer, yet honor. She seduced me with her bitcoins!
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This might not be new, I haven't opened Opera in years. But apparently these days Opera comes with a built-in bitcoin wallet.  
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browse web 3 and use dapps, tho
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Foo Diddley posted:browse web 3 and use dapps, tho Yeet
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Dapp on them haters!
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“I wish there was more stuff you could do with cryptocurrency natively on browsers!”, said no serious loving web developer on the surface of Earth
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I was in line at 7-11 and had to wait because folks were just buying lottery tickets and wasting their money. I looked up a few sites to see how much Americans spend on the lottery and it was way higher than I thought. Multiple outlets say that Americans alone spend $73 billion a year on the lottery. This includes all lotto games. In May we will see the amount of new BTC released into the system drop to 320,000 per year. Just doing some crappy math it seems like if that money for lottery simply went into BTC, that would be $221,000 per BTC on the newly minted BTC alone This math is very independent of any factors other than throwing peoples lottery money straight into buying BTC but seems wild to me we are A) so stupid and spend so much money on the lottery and B) something as simple as switching this behavior over would quickly change everyone’s fortunes the way that they wish by playing the stupid lottery to begin with. Sure people would sell their existing coins and dump em on the new sheep and sure the lottery degenerates would cash out and dump on themselves but with a constant infusion of this $73b that Americans alone are burning on gambling for quick riches should be a relatively easy thing in hindsight to grasp for people. Penny slots, and every other gambling machine they are shoving down our throats ad a tax aside. Happy Labor Day! BTC up 5%
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Posting to get in right on the ground floor after the big long rant about the lottery by some person mad they had to wait in line even though they're much smarter than the peons I didn't read.
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Lambert posted:Posting to get in right on the ground floor after the big long rant about the lottery by some person mad they had to wait in line even though they're much smarter than the peons I didn't read. i think that post might, in fact, be an unattributed quote
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divabot posted:...intelligent analysis... One of my best friends (who is a coiner) argued with me just now that it's going to hit 20K by years' end. I want to bet with him that it's all going to crash and burn, but appears the world has drank the Kool-Aid en masse?? Help me understand! BTW, I bought your book 18 months ago. So I know that much. 
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