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more falafel please: Feb 26, 2005; forums poster

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

the bitcoin mining rig that was also used to dehydrate strawberries

the article about this mentioning that Bitcoin typically trades for about $1.50

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moist turtleneck: Jul 17, 2003; Represent.; Dinosaur Gum

I bet that guy that proved that btc was viable by spending 28 bitcoins on a pizza and having the transaction take 20 minutes is feeling good

# ? Feb 15, 2021 18:18

One More Fat Nerd: Apr 13, 2007; Mama’s Lil’ Louie; Nap Ghost

Goons being just the right amount of smart to know about bitcoin way in advance and still make no money on it is hilarious.

A bit dumber and they could've been true believers in the "currency of the future".

A bit smarter and they could've have taken their smug assessment that "this dumb thing is only useful to drug dealers and money launderers :chord:

" and realized thats two groups with $$MONEY$$

I'm "goons" btw.

# ? Feb 15, 2021 18:27

jisforjosh: Jun 6, 2006; "It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Goons being just the right amount of smart to know about bitcoin way in advance and still make no money on it is hilarious.

A bit dumber and they could've been true believers in the "currency of the future".

A bit smarter and they could've have taken their smug assessment that "this dumb thing is only useful to drug dealers and money launderers " and realized thats two groups with $$MONEY$$

I'm "goons" btw.

Same

I mined like 2 Bitcoin back in 2010, thought "well that was interesting was to make like 20 cents" and never touched the poop again. RIP that wallet

Edit: we still don't know for sure who created it right lol?

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:02

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

moist turtleneck posted:

I bet that guy that proved that btc was viable by spending 28 bitcoins on a pizza and having the transaction take 20 minutes is feeling good

it was 10,000 btc for two pizzas

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:09

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

each pizza would be worth 200,000,000 today

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:10

V. Illych L.: Apr 11, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

indigi posted:

it was 10,000 btc for two pizzas

his sacrifice will be honoured

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:10

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Goons being just the right amount of smart to know about bitcoin way in advance and still make no money on it is hilarious.

A bit dumber and they could've been true believers in the "currency of the future".

A bit smarter and they could've have taken their smug assessment that "this dumb thing is only useful to drug dealers and money launderers " and realized thats two groups with $$MONEY$$

I'm "goons" btw.

lol every single bitcoin exchange from back then imploded with theft and fraud and general hilarious security fuckups, there's not a chance anyone who had bitcoins to spend from 2010 would still have them today

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:14

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lol every single bitcoin exchange from back then imploded with theft and fraud and general hilarious security fuckups, there's not a chance anyone who had bitcoins to spend from 2010 would still have them today

yeah this is the truth. unless you just kept them in cold storage from 2011 to like 2017/2018 (and remembered the password) you�d be completely fuct

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:36

Feldegast42: Oct 29, 2011; COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

The big bitcoin exchange back then was named MTGOE, also known as Magic: The Gathering, Online Exchange. That was back when a Black Lotus could get you many bitcoins

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:39

more falafel please: Feb 26, 2005; forums poster

Feldegast42 posted:

The big bitcoin exchange back then was named MTGOE, also known as Magic: The Gathering, Online Exchange. That was back when a Black Lotus could get you many bitcoins

IIRC it was an exchange for MTG: Online cards, so basically bitcoin except you can actually use them for something

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:40

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

please don�t steal Mark Karpeles valor. it was MtGox

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:49

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Feldegast42 posted:

The big bitcoin exchange back then was named MTGOE, also known as Magic: The Gathering, Online Exchange. That was back when a Black Lotus could get you many bitcoins

it was MTGOX and eventually dropped the magic card part entirely and renamed themselves as Mt. Gox

also before that they didn't even deal with physical cards - it was e-cards for magic online lol

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:49

jisforjosh: Jun 6, 2006; "It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

Remember that pedophile Bruce something or other that kept pushing for a Bitcoin conference in Pattaya, Thailand for "reasons"

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:54

frankenfreak: Feb 16, 2007; I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

jisforjosh posted:

Remember that pedophile Bruce something or other that kept pushing for a Bitcoin conference in Pattaya, Thailand for "reasons"

I do now. That was a wild 15 minutes of fame.

e: http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/has-bruce-wagner-pulled-off-the-financial-biggest-scam-on-the-bitcoin-community/

frankenfreak has issued a correction as of 20:07 on Feb 15, 2021

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:58

WHY BONER NOW: Mar 6, 2016; Pillbug

Isn't there some guy who has like millions of dollars in bitcoin but forgot his password? I remember seeing a headline saying he's made peace with the situation

# ? Feb 15, 2021 20:32

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

WHY BONER NOW posted:

Isn't there some guy who has like millions of dollars in bitcoin but forgot his password? I remember seeing a headline saying he's made peace with the situation

There's one guy who threw away some harddrives that had bitcoin wallets on them and last I saw he's petitioning his city to let him go digging around in their town dump to try and find them.

# ? Feb 15, 2021 20:43

The Chairman: Jun 30, 2003; But you forget, mon ami, that there is evil everywhere under the sun

muscles like this! posted:

There's one guy who threw away some harddrives that had bitcoin wallets on them and last I saw he's petitioning his city to let him go digging around in their town dump to try and find them.

he's been asking for permission for years, and saying he'll pay for it with the money he'll have after retrieving the drive, but at this point the drive is probably a small wad of rust

# ? Feb 15, 2021 20:51

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

WHY BONER NOW posted:

Isn't there some guy who has like millions of dollars in bitcoin but forgot his password? I remember seeing a headline saying he's made peace with the situation

there�s a guy who bought a bitcoin specific cold storage hard drive that encrypts itself after 10 failed password attempts. so far he�s tried, and failed, 8 times to get access to the bitcoins. I think there�s a couple hundred milli on there

# ? Feb 15, 2021 21:01

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY: Feb 3, 2006

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Turn-based democracy. First it was Hillary's "turn". Now it's Biden's "turn". Wait your turn, everyone! Don't let the person you actually want to vote for get in the way of this broken system playing out without any self-awareness.

Bush > Clinton > Bush > ~~Clinton~~ Obama > ~~Bush~~ Trump

# ? Feb 15, 2021 21:37

Ruffian Price: Sep 17, 2016

jisforjosh posted:

I mined like 2 Bitcoin back in 2010, thought "well that was interesting was to make like 20 cents" and never touched the poop again. RIP that wallet

yeah I don't feel bad about my mining efforts from 2009 because like people already said, even if you were visited by a time traveler who told you to hodl you'd still have multiple chances of losing it all just by making seemingly correct financial decisions

# ? Feb 15, 2021 23:23

elaboration: Feb 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/NightlifeMingus/status/1329291275476996096

# ? Feb 16, 2021 03:28

Pepperoneedy: Apr 27, 2007; Rockin' it

# ? Feb 16, 2021 03:58

Feldegast42: Oct 29, 2011; COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, when the results came in

# ? Feb 16, 2021 04:01

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

jisforjosh posted:

Remember that pedophile Bruce something or other that kept pushing for a Bitcoin conference in Pattaya, Thailand for "reasons"

Also the big bitcoin conference where attendees were miffed because you couldn't pay for anything with bitcoin.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 04:09

One More Fat Nerd: Apr 13, 2007; Mama’s Lil’ Louie; Nap Ghost

Huma, when the blue wall fell.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 05:41

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

Rex Tillerson

# ? Feb 16, 2021 10:19

Clibanarius: Sep 22, 2020; by Athanatos

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

https://twitter.com/NightlifeMingus/status/1329291275476996096

I was going to quote the bit but, gently caress it, here's the YouTube excerpt of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRthXFtNNzU

And I'm going to quote the bit: "Lemme be clear: If, uh, ya LIKE half of your face, Mr. Dent... ya can keep it."

# ? Feb 16, 2021 10:26

Clibanarius: Sep 22, 2020; by Athanatos

I've got a trick: I'm gonna make the ambassador disappear.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 10:30

frankenfreak: Feb 16, 2007; I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

gradenko_2000 posted:

Rex Tillerson

, on the toilet seat

# ? Feb 16, 2021 13:15

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Clibanarius posted:

I've got a trick: I'm gonna make the ambassador disappear.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 13:36

SpaceGoku: Jul 19, 2011

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lol every single bitcoin exchange from back then imploded with theft and fraud and general hilarious security fuckups, there's not a chance anyone who had bitcoins to spend from 2010 would still have them today

there was a tiny minority of people who got in super early and held for a long time before cashing out

most of them cashed out in the $100 - $1000 range, including some guy that sold tens of thousands at a little over $100 each

no way to get out of bitcoin with sanity or pride intact

# ? Feb 16, 2021 13:45

spacemang_spliff: Nov 29, 2014; wide pickle

uber_stoat posted:

is this from what 2008?

# ? Feb 16, 2021 15:07

pentyne: Nov 7, 2012

the thing is, are BTC actually being used as a medium of regular exchange?

it seems like 99% of the BTC traffic is people buying it up to hoard it, swapping with other crytos, or trying to buy illegal poo poo.

I think Tesla was already told they can buy BTC if they want but it won't count as $$$ for the purposes of reporting financial reserves so they'll need the BTC equivalent of actual currency as well.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 16:26

more falafel please: Feb 26, 2005; forums poster

pentyne posted:

the thing is, are BTC actually being used as a medium of regular exchange?

it seems like 99% of the BTC traffic is people buying it up to hoard it, swapping with other crytos, or trying to buy illegal poo poo.

I think Tesla was already told they can buy BTC if they want but it won't count as $$$ for the purposes of reporting financial reserves so they'll need the BTC equivalent of actual currency as well.

the increase in the price in the last 5 years or so is 100% because of security speculation. most of the people/funds who own crypto have no intention of using it as a currency, they're buying it because number go up

# ? Feb 16, 2021 16:35

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

the vast majority of retailers who �accept� bitcoin actually just accept USD from a third party you send the bitcoin to

SpaceGoku posted:

there was a tiny minority of people who got in super early and held for a long time before cashing out

most of them cashed out in the $100 - $1000 range, including some guy that sold tens of thousands at a little over $100 each

no way to get out of bitcoin with sanity or pride intact

I find this hard to believe cause when Bitcoin was at $100 selling ten thousand of them would have absolutely tanked the market, and there wouldn�t have been enough buyers anyway

# ? Feb 16, 2021 17:12

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

spacemang_spliff posted:

is this from what 2008?

new york post, jan 9th, 2009

quote:

YOUNG GOPERS: �O,� THE PAIN!
By Amber Sutherland

The Grand Old Party is over for New York�s young Republicans, who spent last night crying in their vintage cognac as they mourned the end of the Bush era and quaked in fear over the prospect of an Obama presidency.

�I have no idea what�s to come,� said Amy Noakes, 26, as she and about 100 other conservatives commiserated at Ice Bar in Murray Hill. �It�s going to be more like socialism than capitalism.�

Noakes and her fellow GOPers talked of a political apocalypse at the penultimate New York Young Republican�s Club meeting to be held before Barack Obama�s inauguration on Jan. 20.

�I�m trying to savor the last days of capitalism,� said Cathy Reno, 23, as she bitterly sipped a three-olive martini. �I fear Obama�s inexperience, and that we have no idea what his worldview is.�

�I�m hiding all my guns where Barry can�t find them,� added Villamor Asuncion, 26, referring to Obama�s old nickname in high school.

Grad student Michael Pocelinko, 22, agreed.

�I�m buying as many guns as possible, and I�m enjoying the last days of national security while I can.�

Others worried about the fate of their money in the hands of a man they see as the lowest of the low � a tax-and-spend liberal.

�I�m divesting all equity before the capital-gains tax goes up,� said Jeff Miller, 25.

Miller anticipated a return to Franklin D. Roosevelt�s big-government polices of the last Depression.

�I fear a repeat of the bad tax effects of the New Deal and a gross overreaction to the current economic issues,� he said. �I fear overinflating wages and prices. It would lead to a huge unemployment boom.�

Some tried to keep a stiff upper lip, claiming that they really didn�t care that their candidate lost and that eight years of Republican rule was coming to an end.

�I could give two s- � � s about the inauguration. I could care less,� said Allie Nigolian, 25. �I don�t get Obama; I don�t buy it. People are gonna realize that he�s full of s- � -.�

# ? Feb 16, 2021 18:13

Ruffian Price: Sep 17, 2016

indigi posted:

I find this hard to believe cause when Bitcoin was at $100 selling ten thousand of them would have absolutely tanked the market, and there wouldn�t have been enough buyers anyway

yeah to sell bitcoin you need to have people queueing up to buy the equivalent amount right then. this is why hodlers keep evangelizing so hard, without a steady stream of buyers it really is just a number on a server. perhaps the same could be said of all religions

# ? Feb 16, 2021 18:16

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

new york post, jan 9th, 2009

Allie fuckin KNEW

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spacemang_spliff: Nov 29, 2014; wide pickle

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

new york post, jan 9th, 2009

lmao

american politics is so dumb lol

# ? Feb 16, 2021 18:42

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