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Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

EIDE Van Hagar posted:

this is like namedropping but with record keeping. I can’t believe it exists.

Counterpoint: This is literally the purpose of autographs and selfies with celebrities

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Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

EIDE Van Hagar posted:

hmm this is supposed to redeem it somehow?

god no

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Shame Boy posted:

i bet the kind of people who believe in black helicopter conspiracies are the kind of people who think gitmo is cool and good because we're The Good Guys

most of them are now deep into Q conspiracies

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

I remember way back in the early days, some porn site tried accepting bitcoin and found that it hurt their conversion rate to simply offer it along side the normal methods of payment.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Legit think they're just gonna buy a pardon from Trump once our large adult president figures out he can sell those too.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

klafbang posted:

Who are these “they” you refer to? Didn’t the men with gun seize fross’ bitcoins? I doubt his change.org signing libertarian cheerleaders are willing to do anything as potentially self-harming as part with their own likely ill-gained money for their crime idol.

His parents. They seem just wealthy enough to pull it off.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

I lost it at the Coke machine

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Whoever laughs at bitcoiners should see to it that in the process he does not become a bitcoiner. And if you gaze long enough at the poop, the poop will touch you.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Gobbeldygook posted:

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1211685814364704769
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1211688027535355911
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1211694849709236225
the bitcoiner that went to north korea to help them evade sanctions is being released on bail even though he's discussed renouncing his citizenship and fleeing overseas and has unknown amounts of crypto assets.

his dad is totally gonna lose his house over this

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Not a Children posted:

Some crypto outfit tricked my employer into writing a proposal for a mining warehouse and promptly started stiffing them on invoices once they got the first draft

Went on an hour long rant to my boss about how basically everything associated with cryptocurrency is a scam and now I'm basically the crypto liason for the company

Can't wait to get chewed out at some point for essentially telling the company to turn down work

just get them to implement a pay-up-front policy for anything crypto related, with the proposal as proof. that should shut down 99% of crypto poo poo

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

I have stolen
the crypto
that were in
the hot wallet

and which
you were probably
saving
to buy drugs

Forgive me
they were worthless
so 1337
and e-gold

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Gobbeldygook posted:

https://twitter.com/rohmeo_de/status/1238040327375720448?s=19

according to sophisticated technical analysis it's time to BUY BUY BUY

its a clear double reverse crag dangle leading into an impacted upswing dive

no better time to buy

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

gschmidl posted:

bring it on bithc



everytime I see this, I am agog at how noodly those arms are. like I question whether he could even hold the sword, let alone swing it

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

KnifeWrench posted:

it's inner strength :rolleyes:

arm muscle is on the inside :confused:

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

*uses mongodb*
where's your god now?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Soylent Pudding posted:

I know some people in the regulatory and policy space arguing for an interpretation of widely spreading poison when it comes to sanctioned addressed. The idea being that once an address is sanctioned then any address receiving coins from it becomes automatically sanctioned and so on recursively. I hope their view wins out.

couldnt the controller of the sanctioned addresses cause a ton of havoc under this approach by sending a chunk of coins unsolicited to anyone and everyone with known public addresses, just to poo poo up their addresses and make the system unenforceable?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Soylent Pudding posted:

That could be argued to be a feature instead of a bug. But there likely would be a safe harbor provision for surrendering poisoned coins received innocently.

yeah, definitely not arguing that butters deserve leniency or anything, just that if those coins are next to useless because of the sanction, it seems like they could get up to a lot of no good with them

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001


someone who takes theyah yacht outah the harbah?

Azathoth fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Sep 2, 2020

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

SIGSEGV posted:

at the time that was written talking about grover or the grover house was an automatic ban, because mod sass is a good rule, don't you see?

don't forget that any mention of Groverhaus was bannable/probatable for years, literally years, after Grover stopped being a mod. it wasn't until gbs 2.0 that he finally stopped having someone on the admin team to tattle to when his abomination of a construction project got made fun of.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Boxturret posted:

it is a funny house

has it broken in half and sunk into the swamp yet?

don't think so. someone found it in the new microsoft flight simulator

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001


been that way for years

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1313228796972032000?s=19

I wonder if they'll let him have conjugal visits with the whales

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

do they each come with a dedicated room for monkey knife fights or do those happen in a specialized pod?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

vortmax posted:

because if they stop pretending tether is real the whole game collapses

yeah, so long as that value remains within that normal range, it's far easier to sell tether on the exchanges than try to get the money directly from tether itself. the exchanges and tether all know what the game is and no one's going to let a bank run on tether happen, since it's far more useful to them as a stable-ish way to transfer value between exchanges. it's kinda fascinating to watch in action.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Isn't it almost certainly some exchange doing internal poo poo?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

saw a bunch of new posts and thought that either an exchange crashed or seraph started up a new manic phase. am now disappointed it was the latter

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Chris Knight posted:

yep. it was all traceable at lest back in the mt gox days

wasn't it that in order to be effective, the tumbler needed to have orders of magnitude more coin than was being passed in, and everyone agreed that if a tumbler ever got that amount, whoever was running it would absolutely just run off with the balance?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

xtal posted:

Silk Road didn't offer any of those things

yeah, the worst that he sold was actual poison, though I think they stopped selling that pretty quickly.

he did display a great deal of indifference in selling certain drugs to certain users when it was established that said user was in such a self destructive spiral that the drugs were literally going to kill them. how bad that is morally, I leave up to the reader

he also did solicit multiple murders of people he thought were going to bring him down, but who among us hasn't tried to hire a hitman to deal with business rivals?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Antlerhill posted:

all those companies are also there for tax avoidance and legal loopholes

next thing you're gonna tell me is all those ships really aren't from liberia

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Shame Boy posted:

like even trying, the only thing close to an argument I can come up with is that inflation increases prices while wages stay stagnant. except that's not something inflation's doing, it's something capital's doing. if we had a deflationary currency wages would almost definitely magically stop being stagnant and go down, completely coincidentally I'm sure

Every time I see someone talking about deflation as a good thing, I remember my high school social studies teacher literally saying "I know you think that deflation sounds good, but..." before explaining why it's bad in like 5 minutes.

It's not even a child's understanding of economics since all the literal children, myself included, understood why it was bad. It's the economic understanding of the pathologically incurious.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

FAUXTON posted:

lol what if porpoisefood didn't leave a way to access his purportedly massive crypto money

that's how you take it to the afterlife with you. two satoshi to pay the ferryman

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Alan Smithee posted:

Ah well the voynich manuscript sucks now

hey now, let's not say anything we can't take back

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

LanceHunter posted:

...b-b-b-but they said that there are more shares being shorted than there are shares in circulation! And they said the naked shorts are required to buy back the shares on their due date! a-a-a-and if we just all have diamond hands and keep our shares in the never-sell "infinity pool", then the short-sellers will have to keep paying more and more to cover their shorts until the price is infinity. Then you can see just 1 share and be a billionaire!*

*This is what these people actually believe. At least, what they tell each other that they believe. I imagine most of them realize this isn't accurate and think that they're going to "double-cross" the other apes by selling eventually when they can be mere millionaires. Also, they clearly don't understand that it is within AMC or Gamestop's power to just issue more shares.

someone here once described bitcoin as a real life implementation of the prisoner's dilemma where all participants are all just constantly mashing the betray button and i think about that whenever i read something like this

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

is it weird that there have been enough not the most intuitive joke jokes that they're actually intuitive now?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Paladinus posted:

Isn't Kraken a character or something in the QAnon lore?

it was a lawsuit and/or series of lawsuits by some crazyass lawyers that would supposedly bring about some of the more outrageous Qanon claims. those involved are currently working furiously to avoid hefty fines and disbarment for their involvement, as pretty much everything they affirmed to the courts were just crazy outrageous lies and they knew they were lies when they told them (the latter part is the real problem)

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Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Jonny Nox posted:

Someone just dumped a bunch of money into crypto and it's all slowly disappearing

the best part about catching a falling knife is that even in a worst case scenario you walk away with a knife

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