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titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

come on u bitch

go under 400

# ¿ Feb 14, 2014 03:22

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 16:11

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57619592-38/sen-manchin-demands-complete-us-ban-on-bitcoin/

quote:

Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin
Sen. Joe Manchin, who has not exactly been a booster of the cryptocurrency, is asking federal regulators to "ban" Bitcoin because it's "highly unstable and disruptive."

i died

# ¿ Feb 26, 2014 21:44

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

plz do not threaten my Sovereign Laff Train

# ¿ Feb 26, 2014 21:52

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

i wish the canadian exchange would get 0wned already so i could get all smug about it to some dipshits here who still think bitcoins are rly neat

# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 16:10

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

oh my god i dreamt it into reality

virtex is down and cloudflare is serving a cached copy

plz be dead

# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 16:37

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

Japan to regulate Bitcoin trades, impose taxes

yessssssssss

# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 19:38

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

quote:

They believe that holding a Bitcoin somehow makes them an active participant in a bold new future, even as they passively get fleeced in the bolder current present.

m-m-m-monster kill

# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 22:12

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

quote:

Why I Built cointipping.com
Posted on April 3, 2014
Problem: owning cryptocurrency is hard. That�s right, just owning it. Most people have no idea where to start. Want to buy bitcoins? Sure, you can sign up for any of the major exchanges. You just need a bank account, a credit card, a phone number. Fill up these forms with black ink and go to the next window. Most people on this planet won�t even bother unless they have a compelling reason. If you own cryptocurrency, have you convinced any friends or family members to even take your crypto-money as a gift? At the very least you�d have to create a �paper wallet� for them, or help them install geeky software that�s easy to screw up (Bitcoin Qt, I�m looking at you).

The idea for cointipping.com came to me a few weeks ago, after having dinner with my friend Sean Grove. He has a habit of insisting on paying for our dinners, and likes to refuse my cash. After sharing some delicious Chinese, I told him I�d send him some Dogecoins for my share of the check. He could refuse my dollar bills, but he�d have to take my crypto-coins.

When I got home, I told Sean to get a Cryptsy account and tried to do an internal transfer of 35k dogecoins. I gave him my referral link, he opened an account, I asked him for his internal trade key (33c21fd675a31442d263dcd923ce974ba71425f1). I made the transfer, and it took about three days for the coins to show up on his Cryptsy account. We never knew exactly why.

I didn�t want to create work for Sean, so the alternative would have been to print out a paper wallet with 35k dogecoins and give it to him. It would look like this:

Dogecoin paper wallet

What would you do if I gave you a piece of paper with that on it? Probably file it in a drawer and forget about it. Enough is enough, I thought. In the famous words of Samuel L. Jackson, I�d had it with the monkey-fighting bureaucracy in this Monday-to-Friday blockchain. Why couldn�t it be as easy as getting this in front of Sean�s face?

tip-example

Let�s reduce the barrier to entry, shall we? Nobody needs to download software or create a wallet to take your cash. You�ll grab my $20 bill even if you don�t have your wallet with you, or if you can�t look up your bank account number.

So about three weeks ago I went into a coding frenzy and came back to the surface with cointipping.com in its current form. Sure, it�s an MVP. It reeks of Bootstrap, and it lacks some basic usability features (thanks Sean for all your help with the UI, the technical details would make for an interesting post). I try to be security-conscious, and I�m backing up everything hourly. Still, there is no guarantee that the site won�t go up in flames, losing $25 worth of dogecoins in the process (that�s the current amount in the online wallet). Forgive me, I�m just one rusty old hacker.

Still, it serves one purpose: it does make it really easy to put dogecoins in the hands of people who know absolutely nothing about cyptocurrency. Sean can leave his coins on the site and forget about them until it�s worth his time to figure out what to do with them. He could withdraw them whenever, of course. He can always tip other people through the site, some of whom might withdraw them straight to their wallets. Easy breezy beautiful!

Before all my readers rush to deposit their life savings into cointipping.com, let me warn you:

This is a flimsy little site that I developed as a side project. It may get hacked. It may disappear. I respond for all the funds deposited, but I may get hit by a bus. Think of this as some loose change you may carry in your pocket to drop into a tip jar at a coffee shop. Maybe one day it will be a bank, but most likely it won�t. Don�t risk any money that you wouldn�t mind forgetting in the pocket of a shirt that you just took to the laundromat.

With all that out of the way, happy tipping. To the moon, fellow shibes!

im the guy who willingly had dinner with this autist

# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 23:40

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

Say what you want about BitCoin in general but the technology behind it is pretty amazing. It has all the indicators - it empowers people, it endangers the status quo, it is distributed and decentralized and it cannot be stopped by "traditional means", hackers and geeks love it, youngsters understand it while old people don't... Bitcoin is not just a currency...it's proof of ownership. This will forever change the way the world operates and currency is a subset. This has opened a limitless number of other applications. Bitcoin is programmable money, and there are things you can do with it that you simply cannot do with fiat or gold.

This is a revolution my friends. The chance of the revolution failing exist and denying it would be foolish, but every day that passes the chance of BTC going away are slimmer and slimmer.

Cryptos are here to stay, what shape they will take in 5 or 10 years is anybody's guess, but I'm enjoying the ride and that is all that matters to me.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 05:39

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

theflyingexecutive posted:

nm it's this:

im the services offered

quote:

Business development
Bitcoin payment integration for existing businesses
Setup, security, and storage advice for those new to Bitcoin

just what detroit needs

payment options for businesses

clearly the reason detroit imploded was difficulty getting dirty, greasy fiat into the hands of the poor business owner

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 06:02

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

quote:

I am amazed how come that there are whales who don't give a gently caress for bitcoin

same

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 06:41

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

the karplese falcon

# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 17:20

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

fool_of_sound posted:

i am pleased to announce that i am now taking bitcoin

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coin cum slut in my mouth plz

# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 17:20

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

Dr. Honked posted:

here on little ole prince edward island its chip n pin or gtfo. pretty much all tims have nfc

last time i was on pei i rowed a boat

poo poo owned

# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 18:19

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

Robawesome posted:

[�]bitcoiner4 1 point 26 minutes ago

What the heck, exchanges have forward our personal information to IRS ? I want puke

what the heck u mean all this personal information we had to send to exchanges in the form of scans of government documents are being sent BACK TO THE GOVERNMENT!?!?!?!

omg

# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 20:15

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

...! posted:

Of course, as you may have guessed, mom, I'm not talking about cats.

# ¿ May 14, 2014 16:04

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

surebet posted:

click this to hear the sound of a thousand fedoras tipping
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=626891.0

the very first response is actually great advice though and i was shocked?????? his english is kind of janky but you get the point still

quote:

You should definitely be worried. This kinda a character, male/female, who whine about their ex, are to be avoided like plague. I dont know if u have given her your best. But, if u have, and still she is missing the ex, the only option left to you is to dump her and move on. Girls are monogamous in nature and if she really loved u, she would not have cried for her ex. And believe me, u never know how strong u r, unless being strong is the only option left to u...

Moreover, there is nothing called first love on this earth. Love is a feeling that always look for a body to best fit upon. There are people who always like to cherish the past over present. For them, first love or the previous love is always better than the current one. They are inherently dissatisfied and nothing of the present can satisfy them.

p.s. The above opinion is given solely on my personal experience and ideology. Any unwanted hurt is extremely regretted.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2014 15:19

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

theflyingorc posted:

the problem is that the tech is legit cool and has lots of clever bits in it

it's just not even close to a viable end product, and it may never be

i mean, token ring networks are also really cool and the tech is fun to understand, but it's not exactly the dominant network architecture now because it wasn't that great, even if i think it was a smart and clever solution at the time

also

i really don't loving get why most of these idiots keep saying read the protocol and if you're a real "techie" you'll understand and appreciate it!!!!, like this Ask/Tell dipshit

i mean i understand these people are morons

but

they just keep repeating how the protocol is so amazing

a distributed ledger isn't really that big of a loving deal

is it that they're conflating "bitcoin" with "public key cryptography"? because honestly public key crypto is an astoundingly important discovery and is really loving neato, to boot

whereas bitcoin is just a thing that uses it unremarkably

this is the only way i can come to terms with their obsession over the garbage trash for idiots that is the "bitcoin protocol fundamentals"

# ¿ Jun 9, 2014 16:44

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

theflyingorc posted:

it is a shame that a thread can only have one title

we need a titlechain

# ¿ Jun 10, 2014 16:07

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

titlechain technology would revolutionize internet forums

# ¿ Jun 10, 2014 16:08

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 16:11

titaniumone: Jun 10, 2001

someone notify jeff fatwood that we have a new feature for discourse

# ¿ Jun 10, 2014 16:08

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