Herman Merman posted:

no, it's not fine
it produces socially crippled people, illiterates, libertarians and bitcoiners

The Leck posted:

there was an article in the paper yesterday relevant to this thread's interests (in the life and arts section for some reason).

Werthog 95 posted:

btw, that webcomic in ur av is loving hideous. i don't know what it's called but i recognize it every time i see it because his style is just the worst

...! posted:

/r/actualmoney Improvement Proposal 01 posted and deleted by legal tender money lovers. Who lives in the real world now (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 3 hours ago by fts42

Posted the following to /r/actualmoney and it got deleted (not instantly, so I guess a moderator did it). I don't care if they expect me to post stuff with only humor/satire pointed in a particular direction or with a particular attitude towards legal tender money, I just spoke my mind. After all, legal tender money is money of the real world, right? So let's be frank (although with some parody):

After writing a comment explaining some of the fundamental workings of actual legal tender moneys here I came up with an idea to more evidently demonstrate the full potential of this form of money to all users. The idea is loosely inspired by the ideas of colored coins and smart property which I am sure you are all well aware of.

Hereby I present to you Actual legal tender money Improvement Proposal AIP 01: Notes of Effects in the Real World (NERW).

The idea is that since each note is printed on an order from a living person and is intended for real world activities, such as running the government, we could add a special field to each note, called "Designation", specifying the precise activity that it is intended to do, so that each subsequent recipient could see the wisdom of the creators and redistributors of the money. Furthermore, I propose that we add another field, of the type ordered list, called "Effect in the Real World", listing all the actual impact in real life of this very actual form of money after each transaction. These simple changes would bring some very useful information which I believe would be simple enough for everyone to interpret and make better decisions based upon, and also greatly improve the workings of webs of trust, reputation systems and one of actual legal tender money's crowning features - the Anti Money Laundering protocol. I believe that these two fields would carry so much useful information that they could one day render the "amount" field obsolete (but we could leave it in, just for backwards compatibility with all of today's doublespeak).

But to see how it actually works let's imagine a real world scenario:

Alice uses the services of an obstetrician called Bob and then, to pay for the service, she presents Bob with a NERW legal tender payment representing the manufacture and subsequent use of depleted uranium munitions that eventually led to birth defects in 10 Iraqi children, among which a mortality rate of 90% was observed. Bob accepts the note, since it is in legal tender, and legal tender means that by law the person owed cannot refuse it as a payment of debt, unless another payment currency was specified at the time a contract was entered into, if the debt originated from a contract at all. Bob now is the undisputed owner of this NERW and can do whatever he wants with his NERW.

Another example: Alice is not yet aware of the full potential of actual legal tender money and therefore does not accept it in payment for her work or in any kind of contract she enters into. Alice's baby is accidentally killed by Carol Co. corporation. The blockchain of actual legal tender money judges through an intelligent legislatively codified process (not through the cold inhumanity of computers as with Bitcoin) that Carol Co. corporation is to pay Alice for damages in actual legal tender money. Carol Co. corporation pays Alice with notes that bear the same fore-mentioned Designations and Effect in the Real World. Alice is forced to accept the settlement as this is the verdict of the wise blockchain of actual legal tender money.

I hope you now better understand the potential of actual legal tender money. What do you think - would you accept such money?

synthetik posted:

i couldnt pay in doge

jre posted:

looks like there is some trade volume on gox again

...! posted:

Apple is abusing its monopoly, plain and simple.

Boxturret posted:

...! posted:

This is too long for even me to cut/paste but it's good reading:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_at_mtgox_offices_5_to_7th_february/

Werthog 95 posted:

Lol, Roger is absolutely radiant with joy after MT Gox CEO's showed him those "bank statements". Roger, did Mt Gox employees use lube and how many dicks did you take at 1 time on your visit, 2 or 3? Were the Mt Gox banking team hard at work stretching out your Anus on your recent visit to the Mt Gox headquarters in Tokyo, Japan? I bet you love being the fucktoy of all those wealthy Japanese businessmen, and delightfully lapping up their bucketloads of semen as they send you on your way with a flashdrive of other customers' bitcoins plugging up your leaking rear end in a top hat.

Heresiarch posted:

welp, i keep doing this

odds that he's blocked me?

JadeRaven posted:

So you guys are just going to have to loving trust me on this one
http://www.goatse.cx/

Cantorsdust posted:

i've pronounced them "doje" like the venetian guy and sheeba like the queen of sheba. c/d?

Antlerhill posted:

Sham bam bamina! posted:

lol @ everyone itt who needs the forums to ignore the lovely poster for them

Heresiarch posted:

goon reposts anti-sa rant by dogdickcoffeetable guy in gbs, gbs posters think it's a real op, buy him a custom title, etc. eight pages in and people are still responding as if the op is real

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Hi I'm Shingy

http://shingy.com/

Troglyfe posted:

Just my 2 cents, but...

...and that's what I think about that.


Now where's my two cents. My thoughts aren't free, y'know.

anthonypants posted:

just google baht: ฿

Chocobo posted:

jre posted:

There's now a $100 spread between mtgox and all the other exchanges

Ab Fablet posted:

you mean like java and flash?

Boxturret posted:

Werthog 95 posted:

Dear users,

The trading engine is currently stopped due to the recent volatility and the fact that we exhausted our funds on Bitstamp in this critical moment.

We are waiting for new deposit to hit our Bitstamp account, after which we will resume the trades.

have a good day
Raphael

lmfao

surebet posted:

bitcoin double spends are going up uP UP!

https://blockchain.info/double-spends

...! posted:

TO DA MOON. End of story.

Boxturret posted:

i never heard that phrase until dogcoin so i think the buttcoiners co-opted it

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

it is somehow unsurprising that bitcoiners would adopt/repurpose such a nakedly misogynistic catchphrase

Boxturret posted:

i meant with regard to bitcoin but i guess i missed some reddit stuff

TVarmy posted:

https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/433080081179611136

In charge of security for Blockchain.info.

Troglyfe posted:

Is the hammer part of some high-larious bitcoin in joke? Or is this just bitcoin jesus being a ❄~special snowflake~❄?

Mulatto Butts posted:

the whole bit-conomy is just dicks loving asses to get more butts

TVarmy posted:

I love how the Bitcoin developers are downplaying this by saying they can think of 10 worse bugs to fix.

Robawesome posted:

this spam attack thing is just great.



and I can't be bothered to look for it but i've seen people post cell phone pics of this transaction with the accompanying message

"this small amount of BTC can probably never be spent economically"

Robawesome posted:

o-m-g

Just had a terrible experience with a localbitcoins transaction. (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 6 minutes ago by im-a-fat-loser

I have 7 bitcoins to my name and decided to sell them this week because I needed money for rent and food and I just don't see bitcoin go up in price any time soon. I figured I'd dump them all on localbitcoins and I'd be financially ok for half a year or so.

Anyway, I got in touch via skype with a guy that wanted to buy all 7 of my bitcoins for $700/each. It was a little lower than I wanted but I desperately needed the money so I agreed. We met in the local walmart parking lot late last night and I asked him to show me the money first. He did, he had all $4900. Actually he had $5000 and was "tipping" me the extra $100. I transferred the 7 bitcoins to his wallet and once the transaction was confirmed he suddenly pulled a huge knife on me. It was like 7 inches long. I couldn't run anywhere because I was half in my car with the door open and he was standing in the door way. He ordered me to hand back over the $5000. I hesitated but he started getting a bit aggressive so I had to hand it over as I was afraid for my life.

He ran to his car and took off and as I tried to get his plate, noticed he didn't actually have any plates on his car. I should have loving noticed this before I did the transaction but I didn't. Maybe it was because it was dark out. I quickly drove to the police station and filed a report but I'm doubting they'll get my money back now. Sometimes I wish bitcoin did support chargebacks because I wouldn't be out $5000 right now.

I'm so angry with myself and my wife is mad at me because we're out the $5000. I don't know what I'm going to do. Such a lovely experience.

ElectricMucus posted:

I'm the And that's good ... !!!!

...! posted:

If you really want him to start accepting bitcoins himself, ask him, “Do you take worthless paper money at this store? Good, because you’re not getting a satoshi from me!” That will convince him that you think they’re valuable.