bitcoin: a sisyphean nightmare, forever trapped in an endless wall of sperg

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infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Antlerhill posted:

finally we see the heroes of the revolution.

study these faces and remember them well, for they are your saviours.

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# ¿ Oct 24, 2014 20:33

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 00:15

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

A Pinball Wizard posted:

fckgw you need to get that guy an editor, he cant write for poo poo

journalist by trade my rear end

that's how you know he's a real journalist. they can't write for poo poo.

somewhere blackula69 is weeping softly...

# ¿ Oct 26, 2014 19:07

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

if buttcoin touches the poop theyre just as bad as the bitcoiners

worse. they've had a bird's eye view of the shitfest for three years, they've seen (and occasionally predicted) every scandal, scam, and gently caress up.

if anyone should know better than to go rolling around in that poo poo it's buttcoin

# ¿ Oct 26, 2014 21:02

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

FCKGW posted:

so, many, commas,,,

for gently caress's sake he writes like i do.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2014 21:15

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

FCKGW posted:

I told the guy the article sucks and he agreed and feels bad so as far as I'm concerned its in the wiki

the guy has a bitcoin donation link on his webpage (it doesn't go to an eater address), what did you think was going to happen?

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 02:27

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Weatherman posted:

guys halloween is coming up and im thinking of dressing up as mlr for the office party

what should i wear (dont want to be a generic ghost)

wrap yourself in chains dragging defunct mining rigs around behind you.

it's the perfect metaphor for bitcoin and a cool ghost costume

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 05:24

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Dex posted:

jfc. at what point does a person say to themselves "hmm, yes, i'd better use my personal email on my namesake vanity domain to set up and administer this illegal marketplace for drugs guns and child porn"

how the gently caress does that even happen?

# ¿ Nov 6, 2014 18:41

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

necrotic posted:

Bitcoiners are loving dumb

spectacularly

you'd think after silk road 1.0 got shut down they'd be doing some mission impossible poo poo to hide their identities. they have the tools and everything and clearly have some notion of how to use them.

they are just dumb as loving rocks

# ¿ Nov 6, 2014 18:58

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

evilweasel posted:

laffo he cracked and confessed everything the instant they looked at him funny:

they had him dead to rights anyway, but this is just gold.

he's completely and utterly hosed, entirely by his own hand

# ¿ Nov 6, 2014 21:08

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

this is what happens when you let pasty nerds buy drugs over the internet.

if they had grown up buying drugs the old fashioned way, from a shady guy you know through a "friend" that you don't want to see any more than is absolutely necessary, they'd know better.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2014 05:41

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

jony ive aces posted:

this was already after it genuinely was under top secret government control though, right?

it was ~~after~~ while it was imaged. i guess if you count the fbi admin, then yes.

basically sr2.0 was hosed before it even launched.

i'm still wondering why the gently caress this guy had supplier lists on his laptop, let alone in plaintext.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2014 06:50

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

ruby idiot railed posted:

salvaging this from the gray thread

JFC.

so i committed wire fraud and laundered money, it's okay though, i was just trying to scam criminals. i'm not a criminal myself though.

also, i've admitted everything to the fbi, but just in case, i'm also going to confess to all of these crimes here on reddit.

no i don't need a lawyer, i'm not a criminal you see.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2014 16:48

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

TVarmy posted:

if your mom properly controlled your hotdog intake, your groceries would be $25/wk, hth.

lol. what do you eat?

here in civilization meat and produce cost money. if you don't plan to eat like a third-worlder $25 a week isn't going to feed you very well.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2014 16:50

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

TVarmy posted:

it was a reference to the image pumpy dumper got his av from.

'ol two-weiner-bill there already has a double chin forming.

gg mom.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2014 17:16

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Linguica posted:

lol

ing makes strange bedfellows.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2014 23:20

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

theflyingexecutive posted:

how in the everliving gently caress could you claim to be both an ancap and a tireless crusader against paid influence in journalism

by not having the first loving clue what either of those entails. if you just cobble your identity out of things that sound cool on facebook and wikipedia this is what happens

# ¿ Nov 9, 2014 23:32

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Heresiarch posted:

yes let's quote a bond villain, that will make us look less cartoonish

the bond villain that had the bitcoin mining operation in his chinese island fortress too. it makes perfect sense.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 00:18

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

before:

after:

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 00:37

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

InShaneee posted:

I like the new buttcoin article that doesn't mention buttcoins

it does have a shitton of vaguely relevant links though. it's like reading wired

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 01:10

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

PleasureKevin posted:

my dad is a huge contrarian and I just know he neurotically has to stick it to his mum

a bit oedipal too by the sounds of it

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 01:36

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Greyhawk posted:

no see the guy himself is starting to sound like a bitcoiner so there's the connection

the guy himself is a bitcoiner.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 01:47

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Heresiarch posted:

say what you will about the tenets of bitcoin, dude, at least it's an ethos

as a nihilist i feel i've suffered more than enough discrimination at the hands of john goodman

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 17:16

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Heresiarch posted:

[edit] also milo yiannopoulos's twitter has been suspended for some reason

twitter has a bunch of new anti-harassment tools. maybe he got k-lined for being a shitheel

# ¿ Nov 11, 2014 03:29

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Heresiarch posted:

i haven't heard that term in years

i haven't used irc in years, so i guess that's fitting

Linguica posted:

trap spurng

shut up. i'm old okay.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2014 03:57

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Heresiarch posted:

or maybe they actually think bitcoin is anonymous?

let them. this seems like exactly the sort of problem that's going to solve itself.

bonus points if the whole thing is an LEO honeypot from the getgo

# ¿ Nov 11, 2014 04:37

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

quote:

There have been many false rumors in the pedo community that bitcoins are traceable.

holy lol.

also, real handy of them to have a go to tumble to point every one to as well.

they even offer refunds if the goal isn't met. i'm sure that in no way compromises the anonymity of the service.

amazing.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2014 04:41

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Heresiarch posted:

i wonder what would happen if the fbi called up coinbase (or whoever) and said "we have a bitcoin address that was used to purchase child abuse images, and it received its funds from you, can you give us what we need or do we need to talk to a judge?"

as much as i hate to say it given the circumstance, i'd hope they'd be told to get a warrant.

of course once they had one i'd fully expect coinbase to roll over and give them everything

# ¿ Nov 11, 2014 04:47

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

ciphersexual 7 points 2 hours ago
Were tracking numbers encrypted also?

missy76 [S] 1 point 20 minutes ago
No, I'm sorry to say they were not, I will remove this feature

lol.

so they encrypted shipping addresses but not tracking numbers? because there's no possible way you could derive the source and destination of a package from the tracking number, right?

jfc. how is it possible to be this stupid but still manage to use a fairly complicated piece of technology?

# ¿ Nov 11, 2014 05:01

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Nessus posted:

What's funny in a way is that I remember when I was cruising odesk for lovely writing jobs I saw several saying "write articles about... bitcoin"

I briefly considered the matter as I was rather hard up at the time, but I eventually decided that it would be more honorable to starve

i don't know, i think being an insidious 5th column agent working to undermine bitcoin from within could be satisfying. i'm willing to be you could get away with a lot given the average intelligence and reading comprehension level of bitcoiners

# ¿ Nov 11, 2014 19:04

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Nessus posted:

The problems were threefold

1. There was actually strong editorial control, apparently
2. The rates were dismally low, it was definitely pitched to try to get the folks who grind this stuff out en masse in India or something and for whom $5 for a 400 word article is actually excellent pay, locally at least
3. I suspect somehow that bitcoiners would be even more likely than the average freelance job poster to simply take your work and not pay you, or worse, pay you in butts

yeah, i can see how 2 and 3 would be dealbreakers.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2014 19:13

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Herman Merman posted:

it's mostly the transuranic heavy elements that may not be used where there is life

what an obscure reference

# ¿ Nov 13, 2014 19:46

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Greed is eternal posted:

how is this not an appropriate joke?

it's great pratchett was just mad 'cause he got upstaged at his own event

# ¿ Nov 13, 2014 23:50

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

fermun posted:

depending on the manner of sale for those, some might become liquid again and cause a price crash.

what kind of idiot is going to drop cash on those just to dump them on the market, tanking it?

_{a: the bitcoin kind of idiot}

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 05:09

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

fermun posted:

its possible that some lots will go for under market value, it's possible there won't be a dumb crazy rich person like tim draper to buy every lot of them all and just hold them forever. if someone manages to get an auctioned lot for under market value, it's worth it for them to make a quick profit, if enough people get a lot it's possible some will become liquid due to someone needing money, etc. and in the end the sale of all the seized lots keep any serious bigtime buyer from trying to do it on an exchange where the cost would go up if they did it.

this is every bitcoiner's profitability scenario meshed into one.

literally. this is what they were saying when the SR1 lot went up for auction

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 07:28

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

indigi posted:

why in the world would you have to spend 100k a month for x months to get a secure messageboard platform

because bitcoin.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 07:33

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Boxturret posted:

hope barbarian bob is enjoying his enormous paycheck

did you see how many wallets he converted to cosbycoin?

he made out like a bandit

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 07:39

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

indigi posted:

oh also re: tipping in traffic

how will that work with no charge backs

if I'm in front of you and you give me a quarter to let you pass, I can always not let you pass and, knowing you're in a rush, extort you for more tips

alternately, if you're supposed to tip after I cede the lane, what recourse do I have if you just don't pay me, or if youre double spending your coins up and down the highway

smh

yeah, the thing is, nothing in their "system" works in practice. ever.

it's all trivially easy to cheat, and it's why they all manage to get cheated every time an opportunity occurs.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 07:44

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Midjack posted:

Well see what Lowtax has gotten for his money here.

if lowtax has spent 100k total in the entire lifetime of the forums...

...well maybe it's time to reconsider his lifestyle choices

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 08:00

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Nintendo Kid posted:

nice

nice title.

how'd you earn that one?

# ¿ Nov 17, 2014 19:35

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 00:15

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

lol. he already paid to change it.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2014 20:01

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