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mojo1701a posted:I could've sworn there was more to it than that. Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly, but he's talking about using melting points to separate silver from copper, and using the 99% he already has to top up the remaining weight. JohnnieWalker was the real galaxy mind of early bitcointalk forums. He was trying to hock all kinds of stuff, and started offering silver ingots he melted himself. Some dude bought one and complained on the bt forums that it looked like poo poo and assayed below promised purity by quite a bit. Then JW explained his whole process of adding in more pure pieces of silver he got somewhere, 90-95% pure type stuff. He would melt a bunch of silverware and other junk, then add in his "pure pieces", and he would hit 99% somehow? Plus he added a little extra to make up for his guesstimating. Then he posted videos of him making silver ingots. It was basically him on his landlord's porch, melting poo poo in a pot on the ground with a blow torch, then hammering it on the concrete basement floor, and sanding it with a power drill with a sanding disk on it, almost taking body parts off. The original dude who complained responded to all this by posting something like, "Yeah, that explains it." Somebody has to have those old videos, please.
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XK posted:JohnnieWalker was the real galaxy mind of early bitcointalk forums. He was trying to hock all kinds of stuff, and started offering silver ingots he melted himself. Some dude bought one and complained on the bt forums that it looked like poo poo and assayed below promised purity by quite a bit. Then JW explained his whole process of adding in more pure pieces of silver he got somewhere, 90-95% pure type stuff. He would melt a bunch of silverware and other junk, then add in his "pure pieces", and he would hit 99% somehow? Plus he added a little extra to make up for his guesstimating. JohnnieWalker didn't know that silverware (even actual silver, silverware) is just plated. What a dork.
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Burt Sexual posted:Well we’ve been waiting for thread title suggestions!
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orange juche posted:JohnnieWalker didn't know that silverware (even actual silver, silverware) is just plated. What a dork. But.....actual silverware is like 92.5% silver. That's the legal definition of "sterling silver". "Silverware" that is not pure silver but instead plated with silver is generally called "silver plate". That's an entirely different thing, even though people refer to lots of things that look like utensils are "silverware". JohnnieWalker is an idiot, but don't join him by talking poo poo about things you don't know anything about. Motronic fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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Didn't Logansryche turn out to have some actual mental and physical disabilities? Like to the tune of "This is literally the best this guy is capable of", not just someone with weird fixations they can't get past?
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Remember when he tried doing the guitar pick thing and "what is copyright" and "why are these more expensive than real guitar picks"
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Motronic posted:But.....actual silverware is like 92.5% silver. That's the legal definition of "sterling silver". "Silverware" that is not pure silver but instead plated with silver is generally called "silver plate". That's an entirely different thing, even though people refer to lots of things that look like utensils are "silverware". Huh, I learned something today, however I kinda doubt that JohnnieWalker was using sterling silver for his ramshackle smelting attempts, also the whole thing was just stupid entirely and my brain hurts now thinking about how he came to a "yes this is how this works"
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Powershift posted:Remember when he tried doing the guitar pick thing and "what is copyright" and "why are these more expensive than real guitar picks" His plan for the copyright thing, if I recall correctly, was to acquire a Creative Commons License, which would allow him to do anything he wanted with anybody's IP. Just got to figure out where you go to apply for one of those. Can't be any harder than getting a fishing license, though, right?
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orange juche posted:Huh, I learned something today, however I kinda doubt that JohnnieWalker was using sterling silver for his ramshackle smelting attempts, also the whole thing was just stupid entirely and my brain hurts now thinking about how he came to a "yes this is how this works" He was using 92.5, but he thought "melt down some .925, add a bunch of .999 shot until it's all .999, stamp it as such"
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Powered Descent posted:His plan for the copyright thing, if I recall correctly, was to acquire a Creative Commons License, which would allow him to do anything he wanted with anybody's IP. haha
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AutoArgus posted:Didn't Logansryche turn out to have some actual mental and physical disabilities? Like to the tune of "This is literally the best this guy is capable of", not just someone with weird fixations they can't get past? Yes. He got fired from Walmart twice. He also pimped out his then girlfriend, now wife.
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mojo1701a posted:I could've sworn there was more to it than that. Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly, but he's talking about using melting points to separate silver from copper, and using the 99% he already has to top up the remaining weight. The explanation already doesn't make any sense because if his refining method worked in the first place he wouldn't need to "top off" the weight, he'd just take the impure silver, refine it, and sell what he made of it, no need for additives, just start with 10 oz of 90% and sell 9 oz of pure once he worked his magic. Obviously his magic didn't actually work. I know nothing about metallurgy but from a more general chemical perspective when you've mixed things even if the individual components have obvious differences you might use to separate them the substances tend to interact in a way that prevents achieving purity from one simple method. An easy example is ethanol distillation, obviously ethanol has a lower boiling point than water so for distillation purposes people would heat the mixture, let the ethanol vaporize while leaving the water behind, capture it, and condense it back down into a more pure form. However you encounter what's called an azeotrope around 95-96 percent, where essentially the vapors that come off the liquid as it boils end up having the same chemical ratio as the liquid itself despite the difference in boiling point, can't refine ethanol from water further from that simply by using their difference in boiling points. This is why you see the highest proof booze you can regularly buy for drinking is at 191 or 95.5 percent. Dude's explanation for how he extracts the silver from the impurities makes sense at a glance (silver melts at a lower temp than copper), but it's p obvious it doesn't actually work that way when it's an alloy and the whole "adding pure silver to guarantee it" is basically them openly admitting to it being a scam because there'd be no need for if they could actually refine stuff to that purity in the first place. They'd just start with more crude.
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I think you have to run some kind of reactive gas through molten silver to purify it. It's not impossible to do, obviously, our primitive forebears who poo poo in a bucket were able to do it, but even they had dedicated workspaces for this purpose.
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Nessus posted:I think you have to run some kind of reactive gas through molten silver to purify it. It's not impossible to do, obviously, our primitive forebears who poo poo in a bucket were able to do it, but even they had dedicated workspaces for this purpose. They also died of old age at 38
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What if making GBS threads in a bucket because modern plumbing hasn’t been invented yet, but on the block chain!?!
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Nessus posted:I think you have to run some kind of reactive gas through molten silver to purify it. It's not impossible to do, obviously, our primitive forebears who poo poo in a bucket were able to do it, but even they had dedicated workspaces for this purpose. quote:Continually pressured by their imperial masters to increase the output of the Spanish mines, Roman smelters pioneered a variety of innovative techniques, including "amalgamation," or dissolution of precious metals from pulverized ores into liquid mercury. Subsequent distillation of the mercury left behind gold and silver. The Romans obtained mercury from their mines at Almaden in Spain by heating a reddish-orange mineral called cinnabar, mercury sulfide, and decomposing it into sulfur dioxide and liquid metal. quote:Large scale cupellation Gobbeldygook fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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Powershift posted:They also died of old age at 38 nah we've always died of old age in the 70-90 range, it's just that only in recent decades have we reached the level of technology and science where we live to the point that our bodies get too old and tired to sustain themselves and just shut down, rather than getting dysentery and making GBS threads ourselves to death at 27
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Nessus posted:I think you have to run some kind of reactive gas through molten silver to purify it. It's not impossible to do, obviously, our primitive forebears who poo poo in a bucket were able to do it, but even they had dedicated workspaces for this purpose. You can do that. Or you take the silver. Crush it into a coarse powder. Add liquid mercury, table salt and copper sulfate. Stir this for a day or two. You should be left with silver chloride which you then expose to bright sunlight. This should make your pure silver and chlorine gas.
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The White Dragon posted:getting dysentery and making GBS threads ourselves to death at 27 Yeah, that was my original retirement plan too. Ah, the folly of youth.
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Lote posted:You can do that.
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Nessus posted:Hmm... sounds risky. Any chance we can do this in a poorly ventilated shack? i always do my alchemy in a well ventilated area, for example my apartment complex's patio
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The White Dragon posted:nah we've always died of old age in the 70-90 range, it's just that only in recent decades have we reached the level of technology and science where we live to the point that our bodies get too old and tired to sustain themselves and just shut down, rather than getting dysentery and making GBS threads ourselves to death at 27 Also past average lifespans were heavily skewed by the brutal infant-child mortality rate.
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Nessus posted:Hmm... sounds risky. Any chance we can do this in a poorly ventilated shack? Please. This requires heat so stove top is ideal. Use the fume good to get rid of the chlorine gas. That way if any mercury spills you can wipe it up with a towel.
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Tenzarin posted:Who is Dr. Ben Goertzel, what is his blockchain-based AI marketplace, and why was he on JRE? Just deducing here, but an idiot, not a real doctor, and probably a nazi based solely on the facts you've provided.
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Burt Sexual posted:Well we've been waiting for thread title suggestions! The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Bitcoin: all these mining GPUs and they can't even produce 4K
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Tenzarin posted:Who is Dr. Ben Goertzel, what is his blockchain-based AI marketplace, and why was he on JRE? My money is on the cause being Joe Rogan is the platonic ideal of a dumb rube.
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Bitcoin is making concessions Bitcoin, now in $4K!
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Can I Borrow A Bitcoin? Can you lend me a jar of butts?
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kuddles posted:LOL You literally couldn't find a company more uncooperative regarding other people doing something with their content than Disney. Yeah, the company that has completely ratfucked US copyright law to keep their iron grip on their stable of public-domain fairytale adaptions doesn't play nice. At all. Somebody needs to encode the Mouse into the blockchain so Disney will take it down. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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Tenzarin posted:Who is Dr. Ben Goertzel, what is his blockchain-based AI marketplace, and why was he on JRE? an Artificial Intelligence researcher of the completely useless Singularitarian variety though not quite as nuts as Yudkowsky, an idea as obviously dumb and terrible as it sounds, and because techbros
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Pierson posted:There was also the Bitcoin camgirl project (possibly also by logansryche!) where an actual professional camsite runner steps in to give a huge amount of great advice about how to run a camsite and the project leader ignores it all, assumes she's trying to pitch herself to him for a job, and calls her a whore. The gently caress
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Burt Sexual posted:Well we’ve been waiting for thread title suggestions! Bitcoin is now under $4k, rapidly approaching $1080p Pierson posted:There was also the Bitcoin camgirl project (possibly also by logansryche!) where an actual professional camsite runner steps in to give a huge amount of great advice about how to run a camsite and the project leader ignores it all, assumes she's trying to pitch herself to him for a job, and calls her a whore. The Kins fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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The Kins posted:
Was it Vegeta? I remember him being so obnoxious that he eventually changed his username.
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Lolie posted:Was it Vegeta? I remember him being so obnoxious that he eventually changed his username. Yeah that was the guy, this should be the thread in question: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20984.0 EDIT: LOL I forgot he was also the TweetForum guy.
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You remember the guy who was trying to imagine economics as blue balls going down pipes? And claimed we should pay plumbers by who gives them the most attention e.g. blue balls. I'm sure he's a Blockchain nut today, but he got it backwards because Patreon turns out to be for people who want to get blue balled by thots and not the other way around. Kung Food posted:My money is on the cause being Joe Rogan is the platonic ideal of a dumb rube. Don't get me wrong he is, BUT the fascinating thing is that he invites a good variety of people on and honestly listens (as far as he can since he's literally toking up halfway through a discussion). For instance, he used to be a moon landing denier but now realizes what a dipshit position that was. Super worth listening to, especially when he has actual smart people on. As to whether this blockchain guy is a smart person, I'm going to guess no but to be fair according to Wookiepedia I think his actual job is using machine learning to cheat people out of their butts.
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XK posted:JohnnieWalker was the real galaxy mind of early bitcointalk forums. He was trying to hock all kinds of stuff, and started offering silver ingots he melted himself. Some dude bought one and complained on the bt forums that it looked like poo poo and assayed below promised purity by quite a bit. Then JW explained his whole process of adding in more pure pieces of silver he got somewhere, 90-95% pure type stuff. He would melt a bunch of silverware and other junk, then add in his "pure pieces", and he would hit 99% somehow? Plus he added a little extra to make up for his guesstimating. There was a video of it? Holy poo poo.
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