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Cashed out something like 8k back when btc was at its high mark. Not bad for running a little background app on an iMac. Btw bitcoinstore was legit believe it or not. They even exchanged a defective monitor for me.
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bollig posted:I have two favorite Bitcoin memories: 3) The Bitcoin TV show guy who wanted to host a conference in Pattaya and then it came out he was a huge pedo 4) That time the CEO of Mt Gox FOUND $80 million in bitcoins he had misplaced 5) The guy that lost $9 million in bitcoins when he threw his HDD out 6) People lost millions of dollars from "brain wallets" because their chosen "password" was a dictionary phrase 7) That time Newsweek went against all sense of journalistic integrity and human decency and exposed some random japanese dude as Bitcoin's creator because they were rebranding and needed a huge scoop I'm forgetting a ton of other stuff as well. Bitcoin is ALMOST as funny as Star Citizen.
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lol you guys remember when the Dogecoin redditors sponsored a nascar driver? That was hilarious
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cumshitter posted:http://antilop.cc/sr/img/digitalink_usps_seized_my_package.png Hilarious. Looked it up, he got six years.
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JiimyPopAli posted:I checked the thread and didn't see anything about this so.... Nothing because _real_ quantum computing is a looooong time away. Pretending we had an actual quantum computer, it would basically break bitcoin, and online payments, and basically most other types of encryption/hashing algos. vvv I don't think the difficulty algorithm would actually support a QC arms race, but I'd be interested to hear that I'm wrong. revmoo fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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What's the huge silhouette taking up most of the picture there? Looks vaguely person shaped but I can't see anything.
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Feb 1, 2016 12:30
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Andrast posted:It's John Cena 
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Feb 1, 2016 12:44
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Senor Tron posted:Ah Bitcoin thread, it's been too long my old friend. Hahah. He apparently also runs (and posts to himself constantly) http://supersmartpeople.com/forum
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Professor Shark posted:gently caress that guy. There are other corporations and businesses he could have targeted, instead he went after a hospital and risked lives, even if it was just by making patient information sharing much slower. Hahaha god no it shouldn't. Just imagine the death penalty version of "Swatting"
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Feb 24, 2016 19:02
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Ryoshi posted:Lol at all the people coming up with super obscure hypotheticals about why this guy that put people's lives at risk in a tangible way shouldn't be punished super harshly  Yeah utterly crazy. That's like saying people that like to play video games and stream them online might have armed gunmen burst into their house because some script kiddie finds it amusing. Nobody would ever do that. We should definitely trust a government that's proven itself time and time again to be utterly incompetent when it comes to understanding technology to make the right decisions in capital offense cases where the only evidence is digital and can be easily fabricated.
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CJ's are the worst. So drat smug because they're "good with computers" Like, they don't even know what they don't know (which is everything)
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Can we please mock the idiot bitcoiners delusion that BTC is going to take over the world without trying to feel smug about how bad the design is? I mean, cash doesn't scale either, that's why banks and credit card companies exist. The actual concept behind Bitcoin is incredibly novel and groundbreaking, even if the entire ecosystem surrounding it isn't. FULL DISCLOSURE: I own 1 BTC that I'm waiting for the NWO to cash in
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jre posted:What bits of it do you think are novel or groundbreaking ? It combines proof-of-work, cryptography, distributed networks, and a tamper-resistant public ledger in a way that has never been seen before. It's more than just the sum of its parts and while it exists more of a proof-of-concept than a finished product, the concepts and the different ways they can be used are unique and interesting. Look I fully support mocking Bitcoiners, and there are a lot of flaws in Bitcoin itself, but you guys should actually make fun of the stuff that's worth making fun of. Assuming Bitcoin didn't exist, a white paper describing the technology would certainly be at the level of an Ivy League computer science thesis. It just looks stupid to say stuff like "hahaha Bitcoin can't scale." Well no poo poo it can't. It's a proof-of-concept that really has no place in the world outside of a lab. And from an economist point of view, the whole idea is rather poisonous. But to say that the technology isn't novel or groundbreaking or that we can't learn anything from it is simply ignorant. Some of the new stuff that's being explored, like using a blockchain system to store contracts for example, is incredibly compelling from a CS viewpoint.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Here, I edited some of the fluff out of your post and rearranged some words to hit the truly salient points. No need to thank me quote:LONDON — Forty of the world's biggest banks, including HSBC and Citi, have tested a system for trading fixed income using the technology that underpins bitcoin, fintech company R3 CEV said on Thursday. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/03/02/business/02reuters-banking-blockchain-bonds.html Again, there's plenty of comedy to be had from the intersection of autists and libertarians that is Bitcoin users, but mocking the actual tech is silly. It's at least more compelling than yet another Snapchat clone. But hey I'm just a software engineer so I guess a lot of this stuff just goes right over my head. I definitely enjoyed cashing in on the gold rush while you guys were so busy getting on the hate bandwagon, poo poo's funny. I'm not even pro-Bitcoin, I just think that blanket poo poo-talking the tech is just as bad as the idiot redditors that can't shut the gently caress up about it.
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