Boxturret posted:

the secret is that everying thing is terrible

surebet posted:

sec... riverhorse?

apparently it's slang for a hippopotamus but to be honnest idgi

QuarkJets posted:

Bitcoin Has Gone to Far (self.Buttcoin)
submitted 26 minutes ago by [deleted]
...Mt. YuGiOh...

Robawesome posted:

Canadian Bitcoin Exchange CAVirtex Faces Class Action Lawsuit
http://bitcoinschannel.com/canadian-bitcoin-exchange-cavirtex-faces-class-action-lawsuit/

CAVirtex, Canada’s largest and oldest Bitcoin online exchange, is facing a potential class action lawsuit to the tune of $884,880 CAD. The alleged losses were incurred by the lawsuit-bringers after the company offered 10% of its shares for sale on the cryptocurrency-based asset exchange, Havelock Investments then stopped listing the stock by the end of 2013.

A total of 10,000 shares were sold on March 23, 2013 and continued to be traded until the end of 2013. At that time, CAVirtex announced that they would no longer be listing stock from Havelock and that they would offer to buy back their shares at an “adjusted exit price” of $30 CAD a share. At the time of the announcement, the stock was trading around $120 CAD a share.

Not only was the exit price unfair but the process for selling the shares was made complex, and many investors were left stock and as a result of this became permanent shareholders in CAVirtex. The class-action lawsuit against CAVirtex is based on the market cap at the time of the incident and takes into account the adjusted exit price offered. Those who feel they have been wronged by CAVirtex have until November 1st to submit a claim by contacting [email protected] with your name, phone number, number of shares you held, and any other relevant information. After November 1st, more details will be revealed; including, the name of the firm behind this.

This is the second time CaVirtex has been in the news this month. On October 6th, they disabled Bitcoin withdraws citing an increase in volume that lead their “hot wallet running dry.” The likelihood of CAVirtex’s actions being related to recent SEC actions increases as more news comes to light.

Magrov posted:

Dren posted:

we must summon yospos's greatest debater to debate andreas

Ripoff posted:

a libertarian guy I knew on Facebook just posted a link to a Washington post article regarding the silk road 2.0 shutdown :

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...e-drug-markets/


I've never been to the website but they also sell poo poo other than drugs, right? so the government is just supposed to ignore that other crap, then? i don't think I've ever heard of an honest "think of the safety of the junkies" defense before

Heresiarch posted:

i know i'm going to regret asking this but what does this "iron ring" thing mean

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

Specifically, once upon a time an engineer didn't take his responsibilities seriously, okayed a shitastic bridge and got a bunch of people killed. According to the tradition, the professional engineers of the time decided it was a sign that a more formal oath of practice was needed and took some of the iron nuts from the wreckage as rings to mark the responsibility engineering has to make sure things are safe.

theflyingorc posted:

this isn't true, people in canada are nice

source: Canadian Bacon, starring John Candy



note: this movie owns

FCKGW posted:

ah but if i ignore the tip it gets refunded back to the sender so that's no good

someone suggested sending it to the mt gox address

edit: I told the guy I would send it to the Bitcoin eater address and he sent me another $5

jre posted:

Someone should create an account called changedtip and post lots of fake verify messages

theflyingorc posted:

"the public being made aware that something is bad" is, to most people, synonymous with "things are way way worse!"

24 hour news is real bad for modern journalism though because the amount of filler that has to be generated is enormous and that's kinda new, but yeah, reporting wasn't magically super accurate in the 1700s or something

duTrieux. posted:

they can only hide behind the facade of ethics for so long

http://waxy.org/2014/10/gamergate_schadenfreude/

FCKGW posted:

buzzfeed, as punctual as ever, is doing an article on the BFL/buttcoin purchase and wants my input

theflyingorc posted:

it's really a good lifehack to do things that mildly irritate celebrities, such as reminding penn jillette about hackers, asking steven seagal if he's putting on weight for his next role, or calling darius rucker "Hootie"

surebet posted:

here's a nugget from the grey thread, you know that bitcoin debit card?

https://bitplastic.com/bitcoin-warning

Robawesome posted:

Law Enforcement should pay out Bitcoin for anonymous tips which lead to arrests. (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 8 minutes ago by bittopia

It seems it would be an easy way for someone to be compensated for dishing out dirt without being traced. Now... some say bitcoin can be traced, but if I create a paper wallet and the law enforcement sends money to that address for a tip off, it will not be traceable by a typical thug. However, if that thug had someone on "the inside" they probably could find out who ratted if compensation was cash based. Any thoughts? The police could then issue statements such as "Man beaten on 7th ave 3am outside of Jack's Brewhouse, any information leading to the attackers arrest receives 5 Bitcoin to your address of choice.

Herman Merman posted:

edit: it should go without saying that the last two paragraphs appeared after someone pointed out that the guy lives in the netherlands and works for ESA

newreply.php posted:

im sure these 50 000 bitcoins that i bought from the police wont have the irs look at me in any special way

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

I can't loving wait for technology to kill us all

Greed is eternal posted:

lol wtf is side chains? and what problem are the supposed to solve?

evilweasel posted:

improbable isn't a verb, way2grammar

trucutru posted:

Luckily there are not many trucutrus around and whomever gave me this lovely AV and title (which once upon a time was animated) made it fairy unique.


god, what a lovely pun.

vOv posted:

How can a particle be sure of what a nearby particle is doing? How can I know for sure that this is the position that I will inhabit, if it's very actions will determine and be determined by those of a million particles around it, *who are equally unsure of what state they are in*?

The answer is the blockchain.

This blockchain however is a little different than the one you and I use to record bitcoin transactions. Instead, this is a fourth dimensional blockchain (let's call it a spacechain) that slowly builds itself as it winds across a temporal space. It becomes a little more complicated when you incorporate relativity: different parts of the 'spacechain' are growing at different rates due to individuals travelling through time at different speeds, but the idea is the same.

When a particle is trying to decide what position to take, it assesses the condition of particle around it, and tries to solve for a solution that fits the current 'quantum hash' . I'll refer to a local quantum hash as the current formula which defines all mathematical possibilities for a particle. However, those possibilities change like the tides of an ocean as other particles change around it. It's only when other particles force a particular particle to choose a state that a 'solution' is found in the space chain. The space chain then grows according to the information that is added to it by these interactions.

All particles in the universe are simultaneously trying to solve for each other in a sort of frenzied, quantum game-theory way. Whenever there is a disagreement about which state a particular set of particles should take, just like the block chain, it is brute force which determines the outcome. It's interesting, and what we haven't realized yet, is that concepts such a 51% attack are also possible on the space chain, though impractical with today's technology.

It's also important that we keep in mind that though our consciousness lends us to believe that we are observers in this space chain, we are actually part of it, which handcuffs us in some ways but it is also quite extraordinary.

Essentially, when the block chain of bitcoin grows large enough, and with a few additional tweaks, a new type of artificial intelligence will emerge. We are the end result proof of that inevitability. When the space chain was let grow large enough and after enough interactions, the space chain began to observe itself and begin to consider how to best change itself.

If this occurred in the blockchain, we would be surely frightened. Imagine that the entire universe is a digital crypto currency for a higher intelligence, and suddenly it wants to reorganize itself according to... Itself.

A rogue chunk like this could quickly corrupt the rest of the bulk if left unchecked, just as we would fret if (in a world that uses bitcoin as a primary store of value) the block chain suddenly decided to reorganize itself from within.

The future is a strange and scary place.

Robawesome posted:

workin in the FUD mines is tough

theflyingorc posted:

i love every "organized group of atheists" picture i have ever seen

theflyingorc posted:

apparently microsoft is accepting bitpay

i lust for bitpay death

fermun posted:

INTERLUDE: How to molest your ray

DAT NIGGA HOW posted:

nope, i bought some back when it was 600, then again at 450, so now i'm only buying back when either I have no bitcoin left (not likely since i dont really spend it much) or the price starts going up again.

DAT NIGGA HOW posted:

i don't know man, asic hardware becomes obsolete very quickly anyways. if gavin blesses a release that raises the block limit, the asic manufacturers have no choice but to make new hardware, supporting the new 10mb limit. what makes you think miners are not going to get these new machines?


if its so obviously going to happen, then why hasn't it happened yet? furthermore, why hasn't the network been hacked to its knees yet? if the protocol is supposed to be so lovely, why can the sony hackers also take down bitcoin? shouldn't bitcoin be an easier target than a multinational corporation?

DAT NIGGA HOW posted:

eventually it will

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if it sucks so much, why don't people just stop talking about it? why doesn't yospos stop talking about it?