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Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets

Uranium 235 posted:

https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/956829257929576448

he's in europe so i think the shorts coincide with the time of the drop


Congratulations. He got himself caught. Now what's the next step of his master plan?

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Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
700 to go.

Let's go Alpha, let's go.

Clap clap.

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

lazorexplosion posted:

I recently lost 5000 lumens while I was trying to secure them in Stellar's web wallet. At the time of writing those lumens were worth approximately $3000. It was the bulk of all my savings. I dare not think how much it will be worth in the coming future.
but you only need 120 lumens to unlock the castle and defeat bowser

joats
Aug 18, 2007
stupid bewbie
I can't believe Alpha Mayo is organizing bitcoin manipulation just to avoid having to pay 10 bux.

paternity suitor
Aug 2, 2016

Nessus posted:

A financial collapse of some kind will not, directly, harm physical infrastructure the way that, say, a nuclear war would. Money is not a magical ether crystal battery on which technology runs, although I am told that the Lightning Network *does* run on the coalesced aether of the world.

I mean it won't literally harm them, but all of these things run with constant employee oversight, and without money to pay employees, well...

Chemtrail
Dec 29, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.
I wish there was an option to bet money on someone getting banned on SA.

iSimian
Jan 19, 2008

Well, there's your problem!

Chemtrail posted:

I wish there was an option to bet money on someone getting banned on SA.

Bancoin!

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

QuarkJets posted:

Yeah those are the ones I think are the most funny. They're the same ones who were raising funds for a bitcoin satellite a couple of years back so that after the world ends you'll still be able to transact with others using the bitcoin network, via the satellite. If you read that sentence and thought "wait, that doesn't sound like it would work at all" then you've already given more thought to this than any of them ever did
in the land of the nocoiners the one satoshied man is king

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/CarlosMatos80/status/956661760328654848


In case you don't know who this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcwn6bGUtU

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

joats posted:

I can't believe Alpha Mayo is organizing bitcoin manipulation just to avoid having to pay 10 bux.

alpha lived and died by his principles: 10 bux in fiat is more than anything in bitcoin

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/Nouriel/status/956477828974784512

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

lol

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person


What regulators? Isn't complete lack of centralized regulation a "feature" of Bitcoin?

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

There Bias Two posted:

What regulators? Isn't complete lack of centralized regulation a "feature" of Bitcoin?

another feature was no central bank or fractional reserve but lol tether

Uranium 235
Oct 12, 2004

Chemtrail posted:

I wish there was an option to bet money on someone getting banned on SA.
lowtax should jump on this idea

Dmitri-9
Nov 30, 2004

There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

There Bias Two posted:

What regulators? Isn't complete lack of centralized regulation a "feature" of Bitcoin?

There is no regulated cocaine market but that doesn't mean that there are no laws against selling cocaine.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
hey, there's an idea - BitCoke!

probably difficult to 'hodl' over the long term, though

Uranium 235
Oct 12, 2004

CME futures close in an hour, so if alpha mayo's thesis was that manipulators would force the market lower for the close of futures then time is about to run out

https://cryptocalendar.pro/event/1269

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
lmao, suing over bitcoin

I'm going to sue over my dead Tomagatchi too

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
It was looking good early this morning. Price had dropped to below 10300. But now it is back near 11000. So sub 9900 probably won't happen today.

The problem is trying to predict stupidity. You just can't predict stupid. It will do stupid things.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
This is bad for Bitcoin.

Uranium 235
Oct 12, 2004

barring a miracle, alpha mayo's account is toast

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
I am Alpha Mayo

Wassbix
May 24, 2006
Thanks guy!
Pressing F to pay respect to Alphamayo

I enjoyed your bitcoin posts sir

But you cant bet against stupid

Uranium 235
Oct 12, 2004

:rip:

here lies alpha mayo

though he advocated against touching the poop,

he touched the poop

he shorted bitcoin with his forums account

godspeed goon

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ

RIP

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

All will be defeated by Bitcoin

Uranium 235
Oct 12, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Vk0EL-r8g&t=278s

Misc
Sep 19, 2008

Alpha Mayo posted:

http://bit.ly/2GeeCGl

Toxxing myself that Bitcoin goes below 9900 on GDAX before this timer is up :toxx:

My assumption is the price will be walked down :tinfoil:

timer's still got some clock left on it. crazier things have happened with bitcoin, not that I'm holding my breath here

Business
Feb 6, 2007

my bitcoin take: I want to watch the numbers go down, live, sooner rather than later

Moxxis Endowment
Dec 11, 2017

by Nyc_Tattoo
:rip:

Seems to be a soft floor around 11k. Like I said a few days ago, this is a great time to buy.

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Mess with the Bitcoin Bull, you get the Crypto horns

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

Business posted:

my bitcoin take: I want to watch the numbers go down, live, sooner rather than later

this but also the buttcoiner posts go up uP UP

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





In crypto currency news, hackers just pulled off the biggest heist in history. $400M in some alt coin stolen.

https://cryptonews.com/news/coincheck-hacked-more-than-500-million-xem-stolen-1093.htm

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Some Canadian kids also tried to steal some crypto currency, but turns out Canadians are terrible at crime.

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/staff-at-bitcoin-business-bound-by-armed-bandits-police

Pochoclo
Feb 4, 2008

No...
Clapping Larry
Still 2:50 hours to go, I'm rooting for you Alpha Mayo!

BexGu
Jan 9, 2004

This fucking day....
I have to admit this is a pretty fun and clever way to advertise your game AND shitpost about bitcoin

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/01/26/this-video-games-difficulty-rises-and-falls-with-the-price-of-bitcoin/#f28bdb963427

quote:

This Video Game's Difficulty Rises And Falls With The Price Of Bitcoin

Imperatum, an indie action-RPG game currently in Early Access on Steam, has done something kind of novel with difficulty levels.

The top-down sci-fi game has implemented a 'Crypto Update' that creates a dynamic difficulty level that's based on the current value of Bitcoin. As the crypto-currency goes up in price, the game becomes more difficult. As Bitcoin's price surges, more (and better) loot will drop but you'll have to fight tougher enemies. As it drops, loot becomes less frequent and bad guys become more easy to contend with.

It's a neat idea, and given how much Bitcoin's value fluctuates it could make for some really interesting gameplay. Granted, if Bitcoin finally crashes we could see this Crypto mode fall to pieces. Nobody wants to play a really easy game with no loot drops. But if it spikes again that could make for some pretty intense challenge.

More than anything, I suspect this is a very clever way to get posts like the one you're reading up on the internet. As a PR stunt it's rather impressive, latching on to the crypto-currency craze with a novel idea in order to draw more attention to Imperatum. Getting attention in the increasingly over-crowded storefront that is Steam is harder than ever these days for small indie teams. Traditional PR doesn't always work, and "going viral" is easier said than done.

Honestly, though, I wish they'd gone with Ethereum. It sounds more sci-fi, for one thing. A game called Imperatum should use a crypto-currency with a similarly sci-fi-ish sounding name, and Ethereum fits the bill.

You can check out Imperatum's Steam page here, or visit its website here.

AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

THE DARK SIDE OF SCIENCE BREEDS A WEAPON OF WAR

Buglord
I think we've all got to face the music -- RIP, Alpha Mayo.

fortocero
Jul 23, 2007

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
If only he bothered to do the math on the volume of the contracts (and researched how cash-settled futures work), he wouldn't have bet tenbucks on some rando reddit conspiracy theory...

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Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
Somethingswful is the true winner of bitcoin, they never had to touch the poop but have probably made thousands from accounts and avatars and whatnot

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