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Beelzebufo
Mar 5, 2015

Frog puns are toadally awesome


what is the point of all this if corporations still control this poo poo

at least early adopters were crypto nuts with delusions of leaving the system. all these mainstream adoption assholes want to use bitcoin through loving companies, at which point it might as well be company scrip.

Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Sep 14, 2018

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Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



make number go up,

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Grace Baiting posted:

make number go up,

:wrong:

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?
sfyl

quote:

ABLE Project Highlighted As Another Crypto Scam
By John Kiguru in CRYPTOCURRENCY NEWS September 13, 2018

Crypto scams are nothing new with many investors having already lost billions through fake projects.

The latest scam involves the ABLE project (ABLX). It was marketed as a global blockchain bank and was able to raise more than 10,000 ETH through a public token pre-sale between April and August. At the time the crypto coins were worth $6.5 million. The project claimed to have institutional support from players around the South East Asia region.

ABLE Scam Revealed

The project managed to dupe investors to part with their cash in many ways. For example, the team members were made up of stock pictures and also had fake LinkedIn profiles. The list of advisors also consists of industry leaders around Southeast Asia who were unaware they were listed as part of the project.

All was well until the conclusion of the final sale and that’s when things got fishy. The founders vanished by deleting all their social media accounts including all Telegram groups. Efforts to reach them have been futile as messages go unanswered. At this point, it’s safe to assume the project was another scam.

It’s not only investors that have been scammed but also content creators and bounty members who spent hours promoting the project have not been compensated. Freelance campaign managers have also reported they haven’t been paid for their services.

It’s with these types of scams in the crypto space, especially through ICOs, that regulators around the globe recognize as a problem. Nations and agencies are doing what they think is right to curb scams like these.

Moreover, there are a few legit crypto companies that have aided this scam and they need to take responsibility. One is TrackICO, a company that reviews ICO projects and rates them. Given that investors visit such a website to find out which projects they should get involved in, by giving the ABLE project a perfect score of 5, they helped lured investors in.

It’s possible the site was paid to give the perfect score and for this reason has tarnished its name. It will be hard for investors to ever trust this ICO rating site again in the future.

The second one is Coinrail, a seemingly legit crypto exchange based in South Korea. This is the platform where most of the token sale took place. Even though crypto exchanges that support ICOs claim to adhere to the strict vetting process, it seems Coinrail failed with its due diligence.

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
I hope clownpeniscoin isn't a scam.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
For the last time

It's okay to be a scam in the free market as long as I get to cash out first. Nobody sell

ZeusCannon
Nov 5, 2009

BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH
Grimey Drawer

EorayMel posted:

I hope clownpeniscoin isn't a scam.

With a name like that how could it be?!?!

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
I have it on good authority* that clown penises are going up.

*Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons, "Clown Porn", 2005

Zopotantor
Feb 24, 2013

...und ist er drin dann lassen wir ihn niemals wieder raus...

AlbieQuirky posted:

antimony is a poison

it's like you don't even alchemy

what about those everlasting antimony pills, then?

Horrormelon
Jan 28, 2009

Only Gallagher can save us now.

...! posted:

quote:

Of course people will avoid the default wallets just like they avoid microsoft explorer today

Yeah, I can't remember the last time I, or anyone ever used something called microsoft explorer.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
people actually use email or music players or calendars so manufacturers make their own, for them to want to make default wallet applications bitcoin use would have to first be quite widespread

maybe instead of masturbating over all these vague signs that bitcoin "won" or at least was real they could actually do the billion things that would have to be done to make it a reality?? its like they think if they just hope hard enough bitcoin will just become real over night

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
too hard

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
but the bitcoin community is the self proclaimed smartest, most innovative, and hardest working community in history

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Triglav posted:

too hard

so am i

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
josh garza is in jaaaaaaaaaaaailllllllllllllllll

21 months, for the GAW cloud mining scam, and not actually for paycoin

https://www.coindesk.com/landmark-crypto-crime-case-ends-with-jail-sentence-for-gaw-ceo/

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



divabot posted:

josh garza is in jaaaaaaaaaaaailllllllllllllllll

21 months, for the GAW cloud mining scam, and not actually for paycoin

https://www.coindesk.com/landmark-crypto-crime-case-ends-with-jail-sentence-for-gaw-ceo/

gawsh josh

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

thinking, about buying some bitcoins.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
HASH KING JOSH GARZA

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

Horrormelon posted:

Yeah, I can't remember the last time I, or anyone ever used something called microsoft explorer.

I use Explorer all the time to open my files.

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

my bitter bi rival posted:

thinking, about buying some bitcoins.

what could possibly go wrong

nothing

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3vB8D-SRMI

you just watch, he'll get out of prison 2 years from now as handsome as mark and bring to us the promised $20 paycoin

Antlerhill
Nov 6, 2012

Smellrose

divabot posted:

josh garza is in jaaaaaaaaaaaailllllllllllllllll

21 months, for the GAW cloud mining scam, and not actually for paycoin

https://www.coindesk.com/landmark-crypto-crime-case-ends-with-jail-sentence-for-gaw-ceo/

josh garza
bitcoin king

ding a ling

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

Antlerhill posted:

josh garza
bitcoin king

ding a ling

in "c" wing
he is king

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

divabot posted:

josh garza is in jaaaaaaaaaaaailllllllllllllllll

21 months, for the GAW cloud mining scam, and not actually for paycoin

https://www.coindesk.com/landmark-crypto-crime-case-ends-with-jail-sentence-for-gaw-ceo/

ingarzarated

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Plank Walker posted:

ingarzarated

:vince:

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Plank Walker posted:

ingarzarated

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Plank Walker posted:

ingarzarated

foreverially and loving it?

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK
i hope his brother also got locked up for that infuriating deposition he gave. were i the judge i would have given him 20 years for being a dick

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Plank Walker posted:

ingarzarated

ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008

Boxturret posted:

people actually use email or music players or calendars so manufacturers make their own, for them to want to make default wallet applications bitcoin use would have to first be quite widespread

maybe instead of masturbating over all these vague signs that bitcoin "won" or at least was real they could actually do the billion things that would have to be done to make it a reality?? its like they think if they just hope hard enough bitcoin will just become real over night

they can just pay the manufacturer to include it; pre-installed crapware is pretty common. of course, nobody actually chooses to use that stuff, so instead of a wallet, they'd be better off including a miner that's on by default

fisting by many
Dec 25, 2009




there already is a samsung and apple wallet installed by default :shrug:

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Plank Walker posted:

ingarzarated

Boxturret posted:

foreverially and loving it

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

Plank Walker posted:

ingarzarated

remember when i seraph just cut and paste stuff from reddit and i was like

me (smart): you copied this from reddit, here is the link [color="blue"]why i think bitcoin makes moe hentai more accessible to the masses[/color]

seraph: information wants to be free

me (even smarter than before): but that information was free. all you did was subtract information from it. you removed the author, the removed the attribution, now one of the most important parts of the information has been lost, not made free to all: the person, place and time it originated from. that context is pertinent to understanding the message, and you've robbed it of that and turned it upside down by attributing it to yourself, here and now. if this is what "freeing" information means, information becomes less than a cliche, a one-off remark, a mumble, a grunt. you buffoon!

klafbang
Nov 18, 2009
Clapping Larry

PleasureKevin posted:

remember when i seraph just cut and paste stuff from reddit and i was like

me (smart): you copied this from reddit, here is the link [color="blue"]why i think bitcoin makes moe hentai more accessible to the masses[/color]

seraph: information wants to be free

me (even smarter than before): but that information was free. all you did was subtract information from it. you removed the author, the removed the attribution, now one of the most important parts of the information has been lost, not made free to all: the person, place and time it originated from. that context is pertinent to understanding the message, and you've robbed it of that and turned it upside down by attributing it to yourself, here and now. if this is what "freeing" information means, information becomes less than a cliche, a one-off remark, a mumble, a grunt. you buffoon!

If you follow the conclusion even further, and by Satoshi's teeth why wouldn't we?, the information that was once free, i.e., had value zero, had something taken way. That means it now has negative value. It's become disinformation.

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

klafbang posted:

If you follow the conclusion even further, and by Satoshi's teeth why wouldn't we?, the information that was once free, i.e., had value zero, had something taken way. That means it now has negative value. It's become disinformation.

stalin said just that

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

but the reason i came to the thread, is because some stuff hit the fan and the whole team at the crypto-company is like... not employed?

except me, it seems.

unfortunately it's the ideal type of work for me because i know everything and i'm very nice and can very patiently explain coding things, and respect people and crap like that.

but it's like, i can keep going this and surprise, surprise their ICO funny money runs out in 2.5 months or less. meh. they pay decent and hopefully after realizing there is an unlimited supply of ParkBenchBnB vouchers every few blocks i'll save up millions and be all good!

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
So what coin do am I supposed to remortgage my house on now?

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

EorayMel posted:

So what coin do am I supposed to remortgage my house on now?

walmart chocolate bitcoins. they have intrinsic value

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Soricidus posted:

walmart chocolate bitcoins. they have intrinsic value

Also they are deflationary when you eat them they go up in value

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divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
just met Laurie Penny, who has been thoroughly enlightened with my patent brand of bankster fiat propaganda. her article on the crypto cruise is gonna be holy poo poo lol. the stories i can't tell you until they're published! whenever that may be







in a $100% unrelated coincidence, you remember a coupla weeks ago i mentioned the freelance contract i went "lol i'm not signing that POS"? it turns out i am not the only person it was presented to who went "lol i'm not signing that POS". in back and forth of emails, the editor really really doesn't want to change a word of it. i'm moving house this week and have no idea when i shall have trustworthy internet at home, so frankly i'm waiting for everything else before trying to appease an editor with a ludicrously terrible contract who appears unwilling to negotiate on any provision whatsoever. though it's possible he may have to for at least one writer, at which point all the other writers will know. we shall seeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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