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SpelledBackwards
Jan 7, 2001

I found this image on the Internet, perhaps you've heard of it? It's been around for a while I hear.

Buttcoin purse posted:

One bong at a time.


Yes please, it turns out we don't just need [[Bruce (disambiguation)]] but also [[Category:Bitcoin users who obviously had literal psychotic breaks]] or something.

Plus nobody's updated the graph of Bitcoin women recently.

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Explosive Tampons
Jul 9, 2014

Your days are gone!!!

skaboomizzy posted:

I tried to order a subscription to NJPW World (Japanese pro wrestling streaming site) at like 3am one night and my credit union said "holy poo poo, this can't be right" and canceled my debit card.

I had to call them and say "yes, this is something I meant to order, my card is totally in my hands and everything" but then I just couldn't bear to re-order it, so thanks credit union for saving me 999 Yen a month.

Japanese wrestling, yeah right

norp
Jan 20, 2004

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

Mercury_Storm posted:

I just had to renew my passport in YOOL 2016 and the only option they gave me to pay the fee was a check or money order for christ's sake.

Are you saying that the Sydney consulate has better payment methods than the continental US? I would have thought they would have charged my credit card from the US when I sent in my forms last time.

I definitely would have remembered having to go pay $15 for a cashiers cheque

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

turbomoose posted:

The situation he describes here:
"it’s possible for a sneaky fraudster to quietly siphon relatively small sums out of our accounts for years without us noticing."
never happens. Because no one is risking that much for like $10/month, when you could do it once for $10k

Uh, clearly you didn't play Command and Conquer: Generals.

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


So I guess the next halving is imminent? I hear? I hope? :homebrew:

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

Bad Munki posted:

So I guess the next halving is imminent? I hear? I hope? :homebrew:

Happened this morning. Relatively uneventful so far, presumably mostly due to the manipulation running up the price over the past few weeks.

ullerrm
Dec 31, 2012

Oh, the network slogan is true -- "watch FOX and be damned for all eternity!"

E:fb

ullerrm fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Jul 10, 2016

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet
http://www.thehalvening.com/

an AOL chatroom
Oct 3, 2002

KnifeWrench posted:

Happened this morning. Relatively uneventful so far, presumably mostly due to the manipulation running up the price over the past few weeks.

Yeah, they built up a healthy buffer to where the decrease in payout per block isn't that big of a deal. When you're stealing electricity, any payout you get is just gravy, anyways.

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/751956549438808064

http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/07/11/kim-dotcoms-reloaded-megaupload-2-0-to-have-bitcoin-support/

quote:

The inclusion of Bitcoin payments will also prove to be helpful as the conventional payment service providers may not be reliable, and can be easily pursued by the governments to not offer their services or freeze the accounts at any time.

quote:

Bitcoin has become a savior for those who find it hard to subscribe to conventional payment services and with MegaUpload 2.0 opting for it, they will be able to ensure uninterrupted service to their customers.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Bitcoin has become a savior for people who want to pay for child pornography and random chemicals.

Pocky In My Pocket
Jan 27, 2005

Giant robots shouldn't fight!






Bitcoin is currently more stable than the pound. My country has proven bitcoiners right

Kilmers Elbow
Jun 15, 2012

Logansryche is aiming to host "the #1 internet radio station for the Furry Fandom." - a noble aim I'm sure you agree.

To this end he's started a Patreon....

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3605170&utm_campaign=launchshare&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Of course it's going to succeed....he's a winner and you're not.

e: well it's swings and roundabouts innit?

http://bl-mc.blogspot.com/



Kilmers Elbow fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jul 11, 2016

Cheez
Apr 29, 2013

Someone doesn't like a shitty gimmick I like?

:siren:
TIME FOR ME TO WHINE ABOUT IT!
:siren:
Didn't he try that multiple times? There was a Logansryche thing last year... Multiple Logansryche things.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Little_wh0re posted:

Bitcoin is currently more stable than the pound. My country has proven bitcoiners right

but only if you define stability in the dumbest way possible

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink

Kilmers Elbow posted:

Logansryche is aiming to host "the #1 internet radio station for the Furry Fandom." - a noble aim I'm sure you agree.

To this end he's started a Patreon....

I have to assume that there are hundreds of furry podcasts already, and from reading the patreon, this project would just be a daily podcast sandwiching 12 hours of dead air.

I know the furry fandom has proven again and again to have members willing to burn money to no real end, but even so, does Logansryche have enough sway in that community for anyone to give enough of a drat to pay him to talk?

Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008

trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

Kilmers Elbow posted:

Logansryche is aiming to host "the #1 internet radio station for the Furry Fandom." - a noble aim I'm sure you agree.

To this end he's started a Patreon....

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3605170&utm_campaign=launchshare&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Of course it's going to succeed....he's a winner and you're not.

e: well it's swings and roundabouts innit?

http://bl-mc.blogspot.com/





I'm sure this will go much better than his attempts to purchase the rights to the tailspin franchise or his soliciting for donations to buy a movie theater and stock it with the best soda selection on the planet!

e: or the time he sold gift cards for bitcoins and failed after the first $10 pity purchase. or the time he opened a virtual shelter for abandoned second life pets and they all starved to death

e2: oh ha ha I almost forgot about the time he pried a bunch of components off of old motherboards to sell individually

Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Jul 12, 2016

Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg
Oct 4, 2004

ha, ha, ha, og me ekam

Good Citizen posted:

I'm sure this will go much better than his attempts to have Disney give him the rights to the tailspin franchise or his soliciting for donations to buy a movie theater and stock it with the best soda selection on the planet!

FTFY

Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008

trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

Oh poo poo yeah I forgot. The first 6 months of the bitcoin threads were loving hilarious. It took me like 2 weeks to confidence scam my way up to admin on Bruce Wagner's dumb TV channel and methodically unban all the SA people nightly. And it was my account used to force the cosbycoin hack into the bitcointalk forums. Good fuckin times

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



loving lol, the UK government's chief scientific advisor is a bitcoiner and has persuaded the government to move welfare payments over to a cryptocurrency called 'Govcoin', as a way to force help stupid loving proles the needy to 'manage their finances better'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36785872

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*

Quote-Unquote posted:

loving lol, the UK government's chief scientific advisor is a bitcoiner and has persuaded the government to move welfare payments over to a cryptocurrency called 'Govcoin', as a way to force help stupid loving proles the needy to 'manage their finances better'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36785872

what the gently caress

:ughh::ughh::ughh:

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Jul 14, 2016

Maw
Feb 18, 2013

Mere minutes after discovering the new technology, it was used to send me a crude ASCII dong.


Quote-Unquote posted:

loving lol, the UK government's chief scientific advisor is a bitcoiner and has persuaded the government to move welfare payments over to a cryptocurrency called 'Govcoin', as a way to force help stupid loving proles the needy to 'manage their finances better'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36785872

Nnnnnnnnnnnn why is my country doing dumber and dumber things every day ffffffff

bitterandtwisted
Sep 4, 2006




bitcoin will break down the barriers to work

Drunk & Ugly
Feb 10, 2003

GIMME GIMME GIMME, DON'T ASK WHAT FOR

EngineerSean posted:

lol @ anyone who has only $18k in their retirement account and anyone whose entire portfolio is entirely in one singular foreign currency, I mean this isn't even a bitcoin problem really

lol this guy has a portfolio

somebody thinks hes italian

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
the govcoin thing is awesome.

the plan is to put all uk welfare recipient spending onto a blockchain (like what bitcoin runs on), for universal inspection. for americans, think of it as monitored food stamps.

(at this point you should stop for a moment and contemplate the implications of every part of that statement.)

what the tories have done is, they have bought into literally extruded startup bafflegab product that puts forward claims that literally can’t make sense. i mean, selling off public systems to your incompetent mates to gently caress up is a time honoured tradition, particularly amongst the tories. but holy crap.

points in its favour: everything about this idea is fractally stupid, can’t possibly work, even slightly, and will make universal credit (just imagine fully automated luxury communism, but run by tories) look competent and well thought out. even if it didn’t immediately fail in all the ways universal credit did, we then have to contend with: who’s verifying the blockchain, how many transactions per block period (generally measured in minutes) can it handle across the entire country, what if a wacky japester with a pile of ASICs decides to verify that every welfare recipient actually has twice the cash, etc., etc., good lord.

the bit where the dwp issues everyone with nfc-enabled smartphones is the most plausible part of the plan. surely even they can’t screw up procurement that badly. (no wait, they’ll contract it to capita, who will subcontract it to vodafone. there’ll also be a custom dwp rom. probably.)

local grocers and markets with actually cheap food don't have nfc readers of course. i'm presuming the point is to force welfare spending to be on corporate outlets, i.e. tory donors. so i'm really glad they started with a blockchain, because this means this scheme will never, ever come to fruition.

from the government that brought you brexit.

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



With govcoin we can regain our sovereignty and enjoy democracy and freedom!

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

bitterandtwisted posted:

bitcoin will break down the barriers to work

This will be the lorem ipsum of the 21st century.

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



Breaking down the barriers to work by making it impossible to use public transport in order to get to a job interview or purchase smart clothes to wear because nobody accepts bitcoin except drug dealers and child pornographers. ARBEIT MACHT FREI.

LordArgh
Mar 17, 2009

Nap Ghost
now you can monitor every poor person's purchases on the block chain so that if they buy, say, a refridgerator, you'll know they aren't actually poor and can cut their welfare

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



LordArgh posted:

now you can monitor every poor person's purchases on the block chain so that if they buy, say, a refridgerator, you'll know they aren't actually poor and can cut their welfare

Unfortunately we've had to slash welfare by 20% to pay for all the stuff to keep our retarded funbux running

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
HAS ANYONE SAID BRITCOIN YET?

Carrion Luggage
Nov 24, 2006

Paladinus posted:

HAS ANYONE SAID BRITCOIN YET?

UPVOTE FOR YOU

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



Paladinus posted:

HAS ANYONE SAID BRITCOIN YET?

No my friend I think you are the first, congratulations! Please give me your wallet address and your private key and I will deposit some bitcoins as a reward!

Twinty Zuleps
May 10, 2008

by R. Guyovich
Lipstick Apathy

Paladinus posted:

HAS ANYONE SAID BRITCOIN YET?

Not that I've seen yet. Congratulations.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Holy poo poo. Now they really can say that welfare recipients spend all their money on drugs because that's all they can buy.

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
Hey can someone tell me how I can get in on this Bitcoin thing? I need to buy stuff on AlphaBay but I apparently have to use my creditcard to get coin in the first place which seems to go against the whole anonymity angle of Bitcoin..?

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



1) Insert credit card into butt
2) When you poop you get shitcoins
3) Get some cash out of an ATM and buy weed from a dealer like a normal person

vortmax
Sep 24, 2008

In meteorology, vorticity often refers to a measurement of the spin of horizontally flowing air about a vertical axis.
Bitcoins aren't real.

Quote-Unquote posted:

Get some cash out of an ATM and buy weed from a dealer like a normal person

diamond dog
Jul 27, 2010

by merry exmarx

vortmax posted:

Bitcoins aren't real.

neither is regular money #wow #whoah

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Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer
Imagine the Queens face when he tries to explain the concept of Britcoins to her.

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