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Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
These cosbycoins are making me sleepy.

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Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Hello. Is this the bitcoin decentral? Yes, I meant to send 291 bitcoins but I accidentally switched the fee and the amount? Can I do a chargeback?

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I loved that when they thought it was Dorian, it was clear he had no idea what bitcoin was and he just wanted his free lunch. He even said he wouldn't talk about bitcoin until he had his free lunch.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
That's called a late night talk show. They have an opening monologue where they pick a current event and then make zany, TV safe jokes about it for a few seconds before moving on to the next topic.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Why doesn't he just post with his satoshi account again like what happened when Dorian popped up?

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
The only useful thing to be had from the blockchain is a detailed record of every transaction, which banks already have. They also don't share your account balance ("anonymous" or not) with everyone on the internet.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

CapnAndy posted:

You also need checks to get your routing and account number off of so that you can do direct deposit and automatic payment like a real person.

I have Superman on mine :)

I just log into my bank account and it has my account and routing numbers right there.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Because grandma doesn't know about any of that. She sees the computer box can just send her money and that sounds like magic so of course you have to pay a fee to do it, there's all sorts of technology behind the scenes that costs a lot to run.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I tried to pay to get a new battery installed in my car and USAA was all "Uh, no, gently caress off." Then several minutes later, after I had paid with a different card, they finally texted me and asked if it was authorized. Then someone buys a plane ticket from some shady website in Las Vegas and that goes through just fine.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
With the advent of magnetic strip readers you can attach to your phone, there's no excuse for cash only.

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.

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.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
"Bitcoin is the money of the future."
"I'm ruling that Bitcoin is not really money."
"This is actually good for bitcoin because..."

Edit: Those cops are pretty dumb if they think them mentioning they would commit a crime would cause him to be accessory to it just because they bought bitcoins from him. If I whisper "I'm going to murder a prostitute with this" to a store clerk as I buy a baseball bat, should that clerk be charged with money laundering?

Cojawfee fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Jul 26, 2016

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Just call up the central Bitcoin dispatch and get them to reverse the transaction.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
You would immediately be scammed out of business. All of your clients would constantly get hacked by evil doers and make claims.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
If you were trying to figure out what it was referring to, it's a video of a guy talking about cooling his mining rig. He has a big dewar liquid nitrogen and instead of doing something useful with it, he just dumps it on the floor. It quickly vaporizes and does nothing but make his carpet really cold.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
How do investments go to -100k?

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
They create a new wallet to receive the drug money and then send it through a tumbling service that splits the bitcoin into several randomly sized chunks. The chunks move around and mix up with all the bitcoins from everyone else who uses the service for a while and then eventually they all come back out into another wallet no one knows about. Apparently you can sort of track it by sending really small amounts of bitcoin to an address but in most cases, it's just gone into the ether.

Edit: You could probably just follow all the bitcoins going into a tumbling service because they are probably all related to something illegal and just arrest whoever is on the other side and figure out their crime later. But then you could also just arrest anyone who uses bitcoin since its own purpose is to buy drugs, child pornography, and fake assassinations.

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Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Wow, I knew bitcoin made people stupid, but I didn't realize it made people that stupid. Anyone can buy any domain as long as they outbid the last person. As in you bid on a domain and then make it popular. Then someone can come bid on it again at any time and take it if they bid more than you. Once someone buys the domain you've built up, you don't get anything for it. In order to get it back, you have to bid again and spend even more. I didn't read their essay, so I don't know where the money goes. I'm assuming all the money goes directly to them, because bitcoin. Then they say this removes corporate control. Fuckin :laffo: Anyone could build up a community around a domain and any corporation with more money than that person can steal it. Then they could set the price so high that the original owner could never afford to buy it back.

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