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[–]johnnybluejeans 18 points 8 hours ago

ITT: people judging others on buying a "worthless" commodity while simultaneously missing the irony that they are on r/magicspacecoins

Dante posted:

the only actual advantage of bitcoins outside of being part of libertarian economic cosplay groups is basically money laundering for poors. For obvious reasons this is going to be a limited market, probably very criminal and also highly monitored. Also why would the government do anything like this? I don't really think you understand how currencies work or why they're designed like they are (hint: you want monetary policy to be a thing, which means controlling the money supply)

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[–]GSpotAssassin 1 point 3 hours ago

I often get downvoted just because I speak from experience.

(Of a 41 year old successful single guy lol)

Suspicious Dish posted:

code:

    Subject: [Hptc-users-list] Policy statement on crypto currency mining and personal for profit campaigns.
    Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:22:06 -0500
    From: FAS Research Computing Users Group <hptc-users-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu>
    Reply-To: [email]rchelp@fas.harvard.edu[/email]
    To: [email]hptc-users-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu[/email] <hptc-users-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu>
     
    Dear all,
     
    I really hate having to send notes like this to our community -
    especially one as smart, gifted and talented as you all are, but
    anyway here goes...
     
     
    Yesterday we were alerted to an unfortunate situation by one of our
    community members using the Odyssey cluster who spotted an anomaly
    with a set of compute nodes.
     
    Long story short, a "dogecoin" (bitcoin derivative) mining operation
    had been set up on the Odyssey cluster consuming significant resources
    in order to participate in a mining contest.
     
    I do want to also quickly state that Research Computing does not
    inspect, examine or look at algorithms and codes that are executing on
    the cluster, we respect your science and assume we are all good
    citizens.  However, in the course of business, or as happened
    yesterday, if we are alerted to unexpected behavior we always
    investigate the cause of any issue.
     
    So, to put this simply:
     
    Odyssey and Research Computing resources can not be used for any
    personal or private gain or any non research related activity.
     
    Accordingly, any participation in "Klondike" style digital mining
    operations or contests for profit requiring Harvard owned assets to
    examine digital currency key strength and length are strictly
    prohibited for fairly obvious reasons.  In fact, any activities using
    our shared resources for any non scientific purpose that results or
    does not actually result in personal gain are also clearly and
    explicitly denied.
     
    As a result, and as guidance and as warning to you all, I do need to
    say that the individual involved in this particular operation no
    longer has access to any and all research computing facilities on a
    fully permanent basis.
     
    Don't let this happen to you.
     
    Best,
     
    j.
     
    --
    dr. james cuff, assistant dean for research computing, harvard
    university | division of science | thirty eight oxford street,
    cambridge. ma. 02138 | +1 617 384 7647 | [url]http://rc.fas.harvard.edu[/url]
    _______________________________________________
    Hptc-users-list mailing list
    [email]Hptc-users-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu[/email]
    [url]https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/hptc-users-list[/url]

kiwid posted:

ill bet he has a realdoll

uncurable mlady posted:

the realdoll can't say no, not that it ever mattered to him

quote:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yl2s7/mt_gox_sepa_withdraw_high_four_digit_made_on/

Mt. Gox SEPA withdraw (high four digit) made on 2014-01-04 came through today! (i.imgur.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by artifex28



save
[–]clitcoin 1 point 2 hours ago
Ballpark range of transaction?

[–]artifex28[S] 1 point 2 hours ago
Over 5k. Less than 10k.

[–]GregTheHuman 1 point 2 hours ago
Did you have to call/email relentlessly or was it automatic?

[–]artifex28[S] 1 point 1 hour ago
I've asked them weekly via E-Mail (support tickets) after the first 5 weeks. They've replied within 24 hours and said they were sorry about the extra delay.

...! posted:

Subject: [Hptc-users-list] Policy statement on crypto currency mining and personal for profit campaigns.
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:22:06 -0500
From: FAS Research Computing Users Group <hptc-users-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: rchelp@fas.harvard.edu
To: hptc-users-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu <hptc-users-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu>

Dear all,

I really hate having to send notes like this to our community -
especially one as smart, gifted and talented as you all are, but
anyway here goes...


Yesterday we were alerted to an unfortunate situation by one of our
community members using the Odyssey cluster who spotted an anomaly
with a set of compute nodes.

Long story short, a "dogecoin" (bitcoin derivative) mining operation
had been set up on the Odyssey cluster consuming significant resources
in order to participate in a mining contest.

I do want to also quickly state that Research Computing does not
inspect, examine or look at algorithms and codes that are executing on
the cluster, we respect your science and assume we are all good
citizens. However, in the course of business, or as happened
yesterday, if we are alerted to unexpected behavior we always
investigate the cause of any issue.

So, to put this simply:

Odyssey and Research Computing resources can not be used for any
personal or private gain or any non research related activity.

Accordingly, any participation in "Klondike" style digital mining
operations or contests for profit requiring Harvard owned assets to
examine digital currency key strength and length are strictly
prohibited for fairly obvious reasons. In fact, any activities using
our shared resources for any non scientific purpose that results or
does not actually result in personal gain are also clearly and
explicitly denied.

As a result, and as guidance and as warning to you all, I do need to
say that the individual involved in this particular operation no
longer has access to any and all research computing facilities on a
fully permanent basis.

Don't let this happen to you.

Best,

j.

--
dr. james cuff, assistant dean for research computing, harvard
university | division of science | thirty eight oxford street,
cambridge. ma. 02138 | +1 617 384 7647 | http://rc.fas.harvard.edu
_______________________________________________
Hptc-users-list mailing list
Hptc-users-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu
https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/hptc-users-list

Wikipedia posted:

The SEC has stated that naked shorting is sometimes falsely asserted as a reason for a share price decline, when, often, "the price decrease is a result of the company's poor financial situation rather than the reasons provided by the insiders or promoters."[4]

...! posted:

[–]diglig 1 point 2 hours ago

You should have asked him again when the price hit $20, $30, $75 and so on. Hopefully he would have agreed to lend you money by the time BTC hit $100. Persistence is the key in asking for money.

LethalGeek posted:

gox back down to $102 if you missed last nights crash get into your favorite tracker we'll be doing it again!

anthonypants posted:

ahem

BanjoFish posted:

Mining rig for charity? We’ve got questions. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 54 minutes ago by bitcoinh20

The Water Project has raised over 27 BTC in the past month or so. Incredible!
Donations have generously come in to help us build clean, safe water projects in Africa and we can’t wait to show the results to the whole crypto community.
But today, I had an interesting thought…
What if folks rallied and contributed to fund a decent sized mining rig for a charity like TWP?
We certainly have the technical chops to use it. Other charities might need some hand holding. I ran some newbie calcs… and it seems worthwhile.
What am I missing? What’s the risk?
What would $15k invested in a mining rig do vs. investing $15k directly into a water project?
Do you think the BTC community would support it/fund it? Think ASIC producers would get involved?
Would love your feedback.

4 comments
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[–]_ali_ 2 points 36 minutes ago
You really think that a small charity should invest their donations into bitcoin mining? You really think this is something they should do?

[–]conerius 2 points 25 minutes ago
Sounds like a big distraction to me as well:
Maintenance of your "mining" farm.
Risk of running in the red with your mining operation.
Distraction from fundraising/other activities.

[–]bitcoinh20[S] 1 point 17 minutes ago
Yes... That's exactly the ? we're asking. Are margins really that tight? And inputs that high?

[–]bitcoinh20[S] -1 points 32 minutes ago
Nope. I am questioning whether Bitcoin supporting donors would consider funding a rig for a charity. A gift-in-kind.
Would be like giving us a drill rig. One gift digs holes. The other produces money... to buy drill rigs, and dig more holes.
Thoughts?

Progressive JPEG posted:

also what are some trackers to track with

CSM posted:

"My first beer paid with bitcoin, today was a good day."



Only 15 minutes till I get off.

Progressive JPEG posted:

fake

no way do they have a friend to hold a camera for them

FCKGW posted:

...! posted:

[–]avidwriter123 2 points 32 minutes ago

i've never met so many assholes in an internet forum as /r/bitcoin had.

...! posted:

Why do programmers quit their jobs and start working on Bitcoin? Answer inside. (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 4 hours ago by pardax

"Hackers are the animals that can detect a storm coming or an earthquake. They just know, even though they don’t know why, and there are two big things hackers are excited about now and can't articulate why – Bitcoin and 3D printing"

- Paul Graham

FrozenVent posted:

bitcoiners have a really high opinion of themselves

FrozenVent posted:

bitcoiners have a really high opinion of themselves