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CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Rock Puncher posted:

please sir where may i invest in this rear end? I realise it is a risky asset class but I can afford to blow my load on a bunch of poo poo and maybe one day it will pay off big time, I don't really understand opportunity cost, I just like to gamble on smelly turds.
Such a cheeky post.

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CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Renegret posted:

I don't know anything about smelting but I have a a funny feeling that's not how this works.

I'll just smelt my own Bitcoin. What substance starts with 'bit'? I know!

*tries to smelt bitumen*

*no remains are found*

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

poverty goat posted:

its too bad bitcoin didnt happen during peak SA when we were like half the critical mass of the internet and could totally have pooled all the university lab computers in america to 51% attack the blockchain

That was a fun time for the folding@home goons.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Wanna know how the infected.rigs are supposed to prove they have infected 1000 other rigs.

"Hello criminal holding my rig hostage, here is the proof of my crimes."

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
Or Magic The Gathering Online eXchange and power consumption being handwaved away.


Always use the full name of Mt Gox to emphasize it was first a place for exchanging online cards to play Magic the Gathering online.

CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Jan 27, 2019

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Mozi posted:

now i'm interested!
Bourbon must be at least 50% corn


Bourbitcoin

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Godholio posted:

I get that there's a scam behind this, but what's actually happening?

Edit: Wait, are they filling out a form and including the equivalent of their bank account and pin?

It's the equivalent of getting an email from elonmusk@tesla.com but it spoofs to elonmusk@spoofsite.ru and believing the address change is ok because ???Etherium??? ???smart contracts???

They don't know how it works but just roll with the obvious spoof.


And it's NotElon because just like that Nigerian Prince he's got the money he just needs access to your Etherium wallet to move money without those dastardly Feds knowing, he'll pay you back double, promise!

CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Feb 23, 2019

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

resistentialism posted:

I thought the scam was as simple as "Elon musk here, send me 3 dollars so I have your address and I'll send you 300 back, I promise (I'm elon musk)"
Oh that's even dumber.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Mozi posted:

you gotta sous vide them to bring out the natural juices

Where is that GWS Iron Chef: Ranch Dressing thread where someone made A/V cable gnocchi when I need it?

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

El_Elegante posted:

Big lmao if he got scammed on that, little lmao if he just bought them for the novelty.

If it was like a single bill with a value of 100 quadrillion Z$ or five 20 quads I would gladly drop $100 for the novelty.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Burt Sexual posted:

Love getting packages addressed to my completely untraceable P.O. Box labeled “Drugs inside. Do not open!”

Mitch Hedberg said it best.

"I like the Fed Ex driver because he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it."

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

95% fraudulent is better than my presumptions, I think this article has improved my opinion of bitcoin slightly

The built in limit on transactions per second prevents high frequency trading. Otherwise the real transactions would be 1 in 100 million. Homeopathic currency trading.



Ps: I think HFT on Wall Street is also bullshit.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
Normalization can only go up uP UP!!

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

El_Elegante posted:

Did you confuse scurvy for Lyme disease?

Scurvy is the no-lime disease.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Gobbeldygook posted:

Amazon is the most likely candidate for doing it because they are the everything store. You can buy anything off Amazon, even a house.
Bit of a derail, but Sears completely missed a great opportunity to control Internet commerce because they didn't leverage their catalog sales to the Internet. Sears sold houses for decades. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Azathoth posted:

I've already cashed out my wife's 401k and reverse mortgaged my house. I encourage you to do the same.

I will gladly reverse mortgage your house.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

"No socialization of risk"

except, you know, when a exchange goes under, just like the banks in the 1890s.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Azathoth posted:

petition to rename FUD to "rockin' the boat"
I dreamed last night I got on the boat to crypto
And by some chance I had brought my wallet on
And there I stood, and I hollered, "Time to get out"
But the passengers they knew right from wrong

For the people all said
"HODL, HODL you're rockin' the boat"
The people all said
"HODL, HODL you're rockin' the boat
And the Feds will drag you under
By the collar of your tuxedo tee
HODL, HODL, HODL, HODL
HODL you're rocking the boat"

I sailed away on that little boat to crypto
And by some chance found some dollars in my fist
And there I stood nicely passin' 'round the fiat
But the passengers were bound to resist

For the people all said
"HODL, you're on a heavenly trip"
The people all said
"HODL, HODL you'll scuttle the ship
And the Feds will drag you under
By the lack of faith in Satoshi
HODL, HODL, HODL, HODL
HODL you're rockin' the boat"

And as I laughed at those passengers to crypto
A great big hack came and emptied the exchange
And as I sank, and I hollered, "Where's the tether"
That's the moment I woke up, thank Blockchain

And I said to myself
"HODL, HODL you're rocking the boat"
Said to myself
"HODL, HODL you're rocking the boat
For the Feds will drag you under
With summons from the IRS
HODL, HODL, HODL, HODL,
HODL you're rockin' the boat"

CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 17:35 on May 16, 2019

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
I forgot brazil.txt was a Bitcoin story, I thought it was a r/relationships story that went horribly wrong near the end

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Ad by Khad posted:

eh, you're new you don't count

people familiar with this thread know who i am talking about

:zaurg: ?

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

poverty goat posted:

Imagine how dumb those scientists must feel for not just inventing F@HCoin in the '90s

All of those proteins I folded back in the early 00s could have been butts.

Oh well, I helped real science so that's cool.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Burt Sexual posted:

Blockchain radio would be great.
Blockchain the WGN video feed to the tethered radio feed.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Splicer posted:

I always forget about D, and a big reason is that I'm fortunate enough to live somewhere with good social safety nets. Not as good as they were 20 years ago but still light years ahead of the US.

The good thing about Bitcoin is it can be bought in the US and then the person can move to a place with good social safety nets and spend the bitcoin there. To purchase local currency. Or child brides if that's what that person is in to.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
To cut this off at the pass: I have never purchased Bitcoin and have no intention to do so, and I have never purchased or otherwise acquired child brides and have no intention to do so.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Barudak posted:

If you think about it, bullets are just creating "pockets of freedom" in your body
Blood, like information, wants to be free.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

You might as well rummage through the entrails of a chicken to divine next months' price of bitcoin for all the good it'll do you.
I have rummaged through a bucket of chicken remains and found that the price of Bitcoin next month will be delicious. Finger licking good, in fact.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
Using Blockifix technology.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Midjack posted:

big tastyarmageddon energy in this post.
At least tasty got to bbe a moderator, if jsut for a bit.



Yes typos are intentional

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Yond Cassius posted:

I searched for this and couldn't find any mention of it, so please excuse if this is a repeat:


So if his company is now defunct, why is a TV station reporting on him? You get three guesses, and the first two :nms:don't count:nms:.
Getting the preview of the link on mobile gives me "utah-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-having-more-than-13000" and all I can think is "please be ketamine2go" but I knew it wouldn't be that.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Kerbtree posted:

Tired: getting raided by the Police for having a cannabis grow-op in your roofspace
Wired: getting raided by the Police for having buttcoin miners in your roofspace

Don't roof spaces get super hot during the day? Heat is fine for cannabis but would gently caress up a mining rig.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Shumagorath posted:

JSP forum gold is a better investment than bitcoin and easier to turn back into cash.
I deal in Stones of Jordan. You know it's a safe investment, it's just like a Rai stone but also gives faster cast rate.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

DerekSmartymans posted:

Would appreciate a link to a companion piece to this. I don’t play EO, but I will admit as an MMO player since EQ day 1, Eve has always been a lot of fun to read about post-happening with wisdom of hindsight and a “wrapping up” finish when the scam or meta is resolved (much how being a caregiver to my 98/95 yo grandmothers with Alzheimer’s means I sit in front of Memaw’s TV a lot). My favorite show now is American Greed on Court TV.

It’s always a Ponzi.
Something Awful made it on American Greed: Fugitives because back in 2000 when Internet advertising was a hodgepodge of fuckery Lowtax signed up with eFront, which was run by Sam Jain who robbed SA and Penny Arcade and then did scareware scams.

There were also episodes of American Greed where it wasn't a Ponzi Scheme it was just straight up fraud where nobody was getting paid except for the yacht makers and the cocaine procurement specialist.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Blotto_Otter posted:

who among us can really say that, after improving their net worth $7,500,000 to $15,000,000 in two and a half months, they could resist the temptation of spending their newly unlimited and boundless leisure time by going through the hassle of multiple daily reregs to keep shitposting about block chains
CannonFodder20** would have many important things to tell you. Over and over again.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Zefiel posted:

You’d think that if you were so sure of the “singularity” coming, you’d use your “insider knowledge” to take steps to make sure you were well off in the upcoming times. Anyone would love to see even a glimpse of the future, for example, someone with prior knowledge of the upcoming pandemic could’ve made a killing on toilet paper, then hand sanitizer, etc.
Well, that happened with US Senators and Insider trading when they got the real news on the virulence and lethality of Covid19 before the public knew.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackke...sh=6f763e654a45

Quick update: gently caress all! Hopefully one will lose their seat in the January 5th special election.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

CaptainSarcastic posted:

I thought the person who did the goofy gun pics was Micromaster or something like that.
Yeah, Micromaster was great and I hope he's doing well.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I'm not sure hellbanning is a mechanically enforceable thing anymore, though Post My Favourites might be ideal.
Don't you put that evil on PYF Ricky Bobby!

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Slumpy posted:

what investment results in everyone profiting? why is this an argument? is there like, an example?
There are investments like AAA rated bonds and Treasury Notes that are always "profitable" in that they will pay out and not go down in value, but they might pay out at a rate lower than inflation.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Zil posted:

So these rug pulls are just elaborate money laundering schemes right? No way so many people keep falling for them over and over again.

And how long has "MonkeyPoxInu coin" been around because the Monkey Pox thing just recently made the news. What, is this a 1 month from ICO to rugpull? Two weeks?

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

going to invent a three legged chair and call it stablechair

BitStool





get it

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CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Cyrano4747 posted:

I don't think that's 200 individual voters.

I strongly suspect that this is one of those systems where voting is done by shares. So if you own 1 token you get 1 vote, and if you own 1 million tokens you get 1 million votes. Same way most companies do stockholder votes.
So, given the price of $Luna, with :10bux: I could have a controlling share of the votes?

Dang, I missed out :(

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