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Sham bam bamina! posted:whatever happened to him, wasn't he writing some kind of piece about coinbase like a week ago he sent me an email saying that people were telling him he's an embarrassment to Buttcoin and that he should quit so he probably just gave up
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hey if anyone lives out by st. petersburg and happens to see bitcoin bowl merchandise on clearance after the game, let me know, i wanna pick some of that poo poo up i can pay you with this anonymous online currency that's instantaneous, has no transaction fees, and no chance of chargebacks e: I'm actually serious about the first part, I really do wanna pick up some clearance bitcoin bowl stuff
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FCKGW posted:he sent me an email saying that people were telling him he's an embarrassment to Buttcoin and that he should quit so he probably just gave up those people were sorta right
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Proteus4994 posted:hey if anyone lives out by st. petersburg and happens to see bitcoin bowl merchandise on clearance after the game, let me know, i wanna pick some of that poo poo up just get one of those model dogecars imo
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first they laugh at you then you quit
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has anyone thought of having pedestrian crossings with bitcoin? want to cross the road pleb? better pay up, also make sure you pay enough to get all the way across before the motorists outbid your offer. i think this will disrupt the crossing the road sector.
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it will certainly disrupt some bones and internal organs
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theflyingexecutive posted:first they laugh at you theflyingorc posted:those people were sorta right what do you mean sorta
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FCKGW posted:he sent me an email saying that people were telling him he's an embarrassment to Buttcoin and that he should quit so he probably just gave up pitch him a final farewell op-ed
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FCKGW posted:he sent me an email saying that people were telling him he's an embarrassment to Buttcoin and that he should quit so he probably just gave up a promising start for his journalism career "YOU SUCK, GIVE UP human being!" "...I guess I suck and should give up. Also I'm gay? OK..."
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i thought criticism meant he finally made it
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nicsho might not have been good enough for buttcoinfoundation.org, but he's definitely above average for a Gawker writer, so don't give up nic!
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computer toucher posted:the basic problem with Pascal's wager is that man thinks of himself so mightily that even his own god will succumb to this one simple trick invented by a philosopher, gods hate him! i always like pratchett's response to that: quote:Ventre was the Quirmian philosopher (mentioned in Hogfather) who expounded the Discworld equivalent of Pascal's Wager. He said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts..."
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Proteus4994 posted:nicsho might not have been good enough for buttcoinfoundation.org, but he's definitely above average for a Gawker writer, so don't give up nic! hes not that bad, he just needs a good editor. sadly, there are no editors whatsoever in digital journalism.
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Is bitcoin dead yet? people at work keep flashing cash at me and saying "bitcoin" under their breath at me.
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it was stable for a while but dropped a bit today. agora has picked up all sr 2.0 dealers and customers so i guess it has a use again, until the next bust
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newreply.php posted:it was stable for a while but dropped a bit today. at some point in it will just be the feds running sting operations on the feds
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newreply.php posted:it was stable for a while but dropped a bit today. it's cool they made all their admins pinky swear that they weren't fbi agents this time will be different
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Magrov posted:hes not that bad, he just needs a good editor. sadly, there are no editors whatsoever in digital journalism. i volunteered earlier in the thread and fckgw gave me a wordpress account like the same day. i cut a ton of crap out of those articles (i posted a "joke" not too many pages ago about how much longer the rough drafts were, i was actually dead serious) but i always figured that it wasn't really my place to outright tell the guy how to write, i just stuck to basic stuff like grammar and organization and tried to get him to maybe cut down on "funny" cruft while focusing more on making his actual points. after the "guess i've made it" tweets i flat-out told him "hey quit shoving in every single quip that you can think of and quit addressing the reader directly and quit generally writing like buzzfeed" (obviously much less bluntly than that in the actual email) but i guess i was too late. should have gotten that out of the way at the beginning, maybe things would have gone differently. sorry guys, i was really hoping that i could make nicsho's writing work for buttcoin and i didn't. maybe he'll have learned from this though, i wish him well in whatever he ends up doing. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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ayn rand hand job posted:at some point in it will just be the feds running sting operations on the feds online drug stores will inevitably get busted again and again, and new ones will keep popping up with the same certainty. if hidden services can net literal millions of dollars ppl will keep making them and the smart ones will shutdown/transfer theirs as soon as they made some good money
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Nicolas Schweitzer posted:CORRECTION: I’m a loving idiot. According to commenter Curt Shaffer, the date linked to above was for their preliminary injunction, not post-trial briefings. Sorry about that. We’ll have more updates on the case later, promise. sure, it's a website with butt in the name that publishes presumably humorous articles, this is still bad
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MGN001 posted:The answer is to kick Monty Hall in the teeth and ride the goat out of the studio.
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newreply.php posted:online drug stores will inevitably get busted again and again, and new ones will keep popping up with the same certainty. if hidden services can net literal millions of dollars ppl will keep making them and the smart ones will shutdown/transfer theirs as soon as they made some good money ie exactly like drug dealing in the real world
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:e: Other domains for sale  Just-In-Timeberlake posted:what's the goat for?!?!?!?!
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:ie exactly like drug dealing in the real world Spacecraft 2k-2.1k is awesome and so is your av In other news, NPR was talking about bitlocker on Monday. Lol.
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infernal machines posted:sure, it's a website with butt in the name that publishes presumably humorous articles, this is still bad and it's right at the bottom too which seems wrong
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Boxturret posted:and it's right at the bottom too which seems wrong since it's fairly key to the entire content of the article, yes tbf i don't think people would be quite so hard on nicsho if he didn't go around calling himself a "journalist", at least on buttcoin
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I don't say this often but maybe nicsho should try reddit instead
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PEORIA — A Normal man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for running an unlicensed, multimillion-dollar bitcoin exchange on the Internet. Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid sentenced John D. Powell 55, to 48 months in federal prison and to serve three years of supervised release following his incarceration. On July 31, Powell entered an open plea of guilty to two counts of operating an unlicensed money service business. He was sentenced last week. It was the first such case prosecuted by the U.S. attorney for the Central District of Illinois, said that office. Bitcoin is a cybercurrency that allows individuals to conduct transactions anonymously. According to court documents, Powell’s exchange business allowed individuals increased anonymity by exchanging cash anonymously for bitcoin. Investigators found that Powell received more than $3 million from individuals during an 18-month period ending in February 2014, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:PEORIA — A Normal man has been sentenced to four years is Normal the name of the town, or was this guy just super loving average?
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those traffic numbers made me go look for comedy at bitcointalk it's a complete wasteland now and not in the funny way, seems like all of the crazy has all shifted over to reddit Owlofcreamcheese posted:PEORIA — A Normal man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for running an unlicensed, multimillion-dollar bitcoin exchange on the Internet. normal is not the word i'd use and what exchange was that
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Sham bam bamina! posted:that was me actually. welp, that's what you get for trying to help someone
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theflyingexecutive posted:those buttcoin articles were post editing? there were two that i vetoed as well, be thankful that you didn't have to read about stephen merchant's twitter or the thousand-dollar bitcoin debate Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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As a Millennial I posted:post them
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TVarmy posted:markov karpeles
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i will say that i think the guy has potential as a writer. he's like 20, i think the odds are good that he'll grow out of this stuff especially given how it ended for him at buttcoin. i mean he's not actually incompetent, he's just completely undisciplined. he doesn't do that lifeless oatmeal writing that people who have no ability with words put out, the problem is that he has no self-control. if he had reined himself in i think that he might actually have had a positive reception here. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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Well, yeah, if his writing was less lovely we'd like it more.
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AlbieQuirky posted:Well, yeah, if his writing was less lovely we'd like it more.
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