QuarkJets posted:

ghosTTy posted:

AARO posted:

gently caress you.

Adar posted:

Adar posted:

there are comparatively few actual losers

IPCRESS posted:

I'm remembering a drone indoors, or am I making that up?

vortmax posted:

Risc1911 posted:

wide stance posted:

I really wonder how he found that clip of Ronald McDonald on the phone, laughing maniacally no less. Amazing how well it fits the narrative.

ilmucche posted:

With the chatter of illegal stuff going on the blockchain and whatnot in the Elon Musk thread, wouldn't be viable to get a bunch of times square info onto the blockchain? Would that result in China killing it off?

The White Dragon posted:

wow goatsekcd would be perfect for that strip

Harveygod posted:

The comic actually would work fine if it had just ended with the third frame. Everything after that is pointless .

Heath posted:

What even is BCH? I know it's Bitcoin cash or whatever but what makes it different from Bitcoin?

Shampy posted:

That’s the guy that ran Alphabay. Ultimately hanged himself under Thai custody.

Zajajaja posted:

Off topic but does anyone have this short story about
a chinese 'farmer' in the far future who lived in an 'attention economy' it involved a drone that pepper sprayed people to get their attention and eventually two giant robots fighting each other piloted by major influencers with the protagonist finding himself ontop of one of the robots, thus gaining a lifetime supply of attention credits? I swear it was posted in this thread or another bitcoin thread?

Jenrai posted:

Can someone explain tether to me, a dumb gay baby who can't wrap his head around what the gently caress it is and why anyone would think it makes bitcoin less of a scam

feelix posted:

That doesn't make sense because blackjack is a game and cryptocurrency is an asset.

Nessus posted:

the people were less rude

katka posted:

Holy poo poo that's crazy. So I'm guessing the jokes about cryptocoins using as much power as a small country actually aren't that far off the mark.

Now I'm depressed as just how loving stupid people are.

...! posted:

Not only is it true (the bitcoin network actually uses more electricity than some entire countries) but bitcoiners are spinning that as a good thing. Some will tell you that a world-changing technology like bitcoins requires and deserves a high electricity usage. Others will tell you that the excessive power usage actually helps the environment because the ever-increasing electricity usage will force a shitton of new research and investment into green, renewable energy.

Klyith posted:

Nobody mines just to prevent 51% attacks though.

jimmyjams posted:

who is the pope

Jombo posted:

converting tether into cash

fisting by many posted:

not only can you not convert tether to cash, you can't even convert cash to tether

but somehow hundreds of millions of new tethers keep appearing

jimmyjams posted:

has anyone made a tether thats backed by tethers yet

kw0134 posted:

gives the purchaser rights to direct the enterprise

Over There posted:

I just made close to a $20 profit from Doge Coin a couple weekends ago which was cool. Paid $18 and it went up to $40 which I immediately sold.

Would not do again.

Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:

- The amount of Tether in the wild grew from $10,000,000 to $2,800,000,000 (lol) in a year and a half (lol), each one still backed by one US dollar (lol)

QuarkJets posted:

There have also been a number of studies showing that Tether is produced in response to market conditions and has propped up some insane amount of Bitcoin's price

spankmeister posted:

Then funds will be safu

XK posted:

Just at Ripple.

Banks are going to use it to do transfers. Buy now!

Salt Fish posted:

This is on pepsi.com right now:



This is existentially embarrassing

kw0134 posted:

Tether was initially invented as an IOU when the exchange was hacked (or "hacked") and instead of giving the people who were responsible for maintaining security the haircut, decided to give it to all their depositors because gently caress you, that's why. From its very inception it was a way to plug holes in their balance sheets, and it's only gotten worse as everyone else has basically relied on it to provide the liquidity the crypto market requires to maintain its price level.