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My Linux Rig posted:who says it's worthless? there are plenty of examples of people making money off of bitcoin even in this own thread, and anyone who would have bought bitcoin when they were much cheaper would still be able to sell them for a huge return even with the recent losses The people who disagree are either making money from rubes or are the rubes. It’s like you are regurgitating shady sales buzzwords at people. It’s not hard to figure which one of those you are. You have never made any real money from bitcoin anyone would be proud of. This is just a made up persona in your head. Nobody believes it.
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My Linux Rig posted:who says it's worthless? Me 
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Dec 17, 2018 20:41
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People that have "made money" of bitcoin usually have one thing to say. Don't do what I did, I got lucky. (IE I pawned off my poo poo on some rube and have actual cash dollars and no morals)
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Dec 17, 2018 20:44
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Blade Runner posted:No, you don't understand What you do is pick a number and wait for the roulette wheel to pick the same number. There's butts within the next few days.
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Dec 17, 2018 20:48
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Burt Sexual posted:Please post the link to the hotel taking bitcoins. I’m curious. Bars probably don’t have a website, well I guess unless they are extremely online. Post them too! http://www.hotelvanwalsum.nl/nl/bitcoin.html The bars mentioned are listed on a bitcoin platform as taking bitcoin but don't actually mention it on their site anymore, also one is more of a fried chicken place than a bar. https://www.vessel11.nl/nl/ https://www.alanenpims.nl/ https://encorebargrill.nl/ Thuisbezorgd.nl definitely takes bitcoin and you can order from most takeout restaurants with that.
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Dec 17, 2018 21:01
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Following the links on bitcoin promoter platforms is turning out great so far. Turns out there is a very strong correlation between taking bitcoin payments and your domain being for sale, a 404 or not updated in over a year.
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Dec 17, 2018 21:15
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There were a bunch of restaurants in Delft taking the coin back in 2014 for some weird reason.
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newegg, overstock, namecheap: the future of online retail !!!!!!!!!!!
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My Linux Rig posted:who says it's worthless? there are plenty of examples of people making money off of bitcoin even in this own thread, and anyone who would have bought bitcoin when they were much cheaper would still be able to sell them for a huge return even with the recent losses My argument about btc being worthless is that it's only a speculative asset, not associated to any product or service. It's main claim of being a currency (that is, being used to exchange for goods and services) simply has not materialized. Chucky cheese tokens are still accepted at more locations worldwide.
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Dec 17, 2018 21:28
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My Linux Rig posted:not to mention the blockchain technology that supports is already being used by several large software firms, and several online shops accept it for payment as well (newegg, overstock, namecheap, etc) Pretty much every major tech company that has a blockchain service is using Hyperledger-Fabric, which is about as far as you can get from the bitcoin blockchain while still technically being a blockchain service.
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Non Serviam posted:My argument about btc being worthless is that it's only a speculative asset, not associated to any product or service. It's main claim of being a currency (that is, being used to exchange for goods and services) simply has not materialized. Chucky cheese tokens are still accepted at more locations worldwide. your comparison to Chuck E. Cheese tokens isn’t really accurate or fair though; Chuck E. Cheese was already established decades before bitcoin came along and had stores that would guarantee that they’re accepted somewhere, where as bitcoin has been around for a much shorter time and started with no guarantee it would be accepted at any stores but even given that, bitcoin is accepted at over 14,000 places worldwide Pretty good for a currency that’s been around for less then a decade I say
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A bunch of those 14,000 places are just bitcoin ATMs, which don't count.
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My Linux Rig posted:your comparison to Chuck E. Cheese tokens isn’t really accurate or fair though; Chuck E. Cheese was already established decades before bitcoin came along and had stores that would guarantee that they’re accepted somewhere, where as bitcoin has been around for a much shorter time and started with no guarantee it would be accepted at any stores You're right, Chuck E. Cheese tokens are much better as a currency than Bitcoin Also someone looked over that list ages ago and found out the vast majority of businesses had been added without their owner's knowledge or consent
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Blade Runner posted:You're right, Chuck E. Cheese tokens are much better as a currency than Bitcoin Even if 80% were that, that would still leave above 2k businesses that are legitimate, a lot more then the 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations mentioned before
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Dec 17, 2018 21:58
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ketamine-2-go is not a legitimate business
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My Linux Rig posted:Even if 80% were that, that would still leave above 2k businesses that are legitimate, a lot more then the 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations mentioned before When the argument boils down to splitting hairs over the number of Chuck E. Cheese locations, it's time to call it quits.
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My Linux Rig posted:Even if 80% were that, that would still leave above 2k businesses that are legitimate, a lot more then the 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations mentioned before Your 'Currency of the future! It's even better than Chuck E Cheese tokens' pitch really isn't very convincing hth
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My Linux Rig posted:Even if 80% were that, that would still leave above 2k businesses that are legitimate, a lot more then the 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations mentioned before 80% are not that, it is in fact more Trying desperately to prove that your currency is superior to literal Chuck E. Cheese tokens is the most pathetic thing I've heard today though so good job
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Dec 17, 2018 22:05
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Lol most of those links go to dead sites Just look at a city like London UK and see all the fake businesses and dead links
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The White Dragon posted:ketamine-2-go is not a legitimate business Oh word? I was just about to place an order there. If you know a place that's more legit PM me.
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Im just gonna casually mention that Chuck E. Cheese phased out tokens from all locations 2 years ago so I think Chuck E. Cheese actually processes more digitial transactions in fake currency in an afternoon than Bitcoin has all year
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Dave & Busters was the crypo trailblazer
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Barudak posted:Im just gonna casually mention that Chuck E. Cheese phased out tokens from all locations 2 years ago so I think Chuck E. Cheese actually processes more digitial transactions in fake currency in an afternoon than Bitcoin has all year Probably doesn't use more energy than entire countries to do so, either
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Even if you could reliably make money from bitcoin - most cannot - the electricity consumption problem is such that I think it's fair to say you shouldn't. There's no justification for burning entire countries' worth of power just so you can play day trader.
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StandardVC10 posted:Even if you could reliably make money from bitcoin - most cannot - the electricity consumption problem is such that I think it's fair to say you shouldn't. Is it less ethical than trading raytheon options or tar sands oil futures?
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The White Dragon posted:ketamine-2-go is not a legitimate business Thread title
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NihilismNow posted:Is it less ethical than trading raytheon options or tar sands oil futures? Yeah, probably. Don’t do that either.
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My Linux Rig posted:your comparison to Chuck E. Cheese tokens isn’t really accurate or fair though; Chuck E. Cheese was already established decades before bitcoin came along and had stores that would guarantee that they’re accepted somewhere, where as bitcoin has been around for a much shorter time and started with no guarantee it would be accepted at any stores I take your point on the number of Chuck E. Cheeses available. Am I reading you correctly if I assume you're a BTC true believer? By that I mean that you think that BTC, within our lifetime, will be massively used as a currency?
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NihilismNow posted:Is it less ethical than trading raytheon options or tar sands oil futures? Yes. Way, way less
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Goodpancakes posted:There were a bunch of restaurants in Delft taking the coin back in 2014 for some weird reason. Isn't Delft a decently sized techbro hub these days? I see the name pop up occasionally and they seem to have a pretty bitchin' TU.
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orange juche posted:Thread title Lol done
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NihilismNow posted:Is it less ethical than trading raytheon options or tar sands oil futures? Even the most enviromentally destructive industry are wrecking the environment as an unavoidable sife effect. Bitcoin is destroying the environment due to the arms race of burning electricity to make a bunch of processors guess a random string to win a bitcoin lottery. Oil is bad but it's the cheapest and most convenient energy source we got. Bitcoin is bad with literally zero benefit to existing systems. Even the concept of "decentralization" is defunct now that a handful of miners control the network.
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Non Serviam posted:I take your point on the number of Chuck E. Cheeses available. Definitely, bitcoin is an amazing currency, and I have no doubt that it will be one of the major worldwide currencies within a few decades. After all, it already has a presence in a significant amount of countries worldwide already, and that adoption rate doesn’t seem to be slowing down
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My Linux Rig posted:that adoption rate doesn’t seem to be slowing down How are you tracking adoption rate? My last job was at an investment firm that had a good sized position in a company that did bitcoin ATMs and bitcoin clearance/facilitation for businesses. They at least weren’t seeing what you are claiming, which is why they’re no longer in either of those businesses. That’s not necessarily conclusive, but it’s the best data I’ve encountered, and I haven’t found anything to contradict it. ninja: that investment, as well as one in a blockchain infrastructure company of some repute, predated my involvement. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have made either of them.
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My Linux Rig posted:Definitely, bitcoin is an amazing currency, and I have no doubt that it will be one of the major worldwide currencies within a few decades. After all, it already has a presence in a significant amount of countries worldwide already, and that adoption rate doesn’t seem to be slowing down lol it definitely isn't speeding up either unless the mystical 7 tx/s has been broken
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My Linux Rig posted:Definitely, bitcoin is an amazing currency, and I have no doubt that it will be one of the major worldwide currencies within a few decades. After all, it already has a presence in a significant amount of countries worldwide already, and that adoption rate doesn’t seem to be slowing down 1. How are you defining "presence" in "a significant amount of countries"? If a single man in Turkey uses bitcoin (or, let's say, 1,000 people), do you consider it to be "present" there? 2. How do you define "adoption" of BTC here, and how are you measuring it?
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Non Serviam posted:Am I reading you correctly if I assume you're a BTC true believer? By that I mean that you think that BTC, within our lifetime, will be massively used as a currency? you are not
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wid posted:Even the most enviromentally destructive industry are wrecking the environment as an unavoidable sife effect. Bitcoin is destroying the environment due to the arms race of burning electricity to make a bunch of processors guess a random string to win a bitcoin lottery. Oil is bad but it's the cheapest and most convenient energy source we got. Bitcoin is bad with literally zero benefit to existing systems. Even the concept of "decentralization" is defunct now that a handful of miners control the network. Yeah this is a huge point. A bunch of libertarian idiots have managed to make something with absolutely no use except to enable criminals and financial scammers, and is consuming so much power compared to how useless it is that it is seen as an environmental disaster.
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Also, just pointing out once more that businesses who take payments in bitcoin, don't actually take payments in bitcoin. With maybe a few minor exceptions, they pretty much all had the customer put bitcoins onto an exchange, which then paid the business in actual money. The business never touched the butts, because turns out businesses can't pay any of their expenses in bitcoin.
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Non Serviam posted:1. How are you defining "presence" in "a significant amount of countries"? If a single man in Turkey uses Chuckee Cheese tokens (or, let's say, 1,000 people), do you consider it to be "present" there? owned
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