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the sexual tension in this thread is pulpable
#42
Kurdt
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#43
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that sounds like reverse conservatism to me
#44
Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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i would never want to belong to someone who would club my member
#45
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i searched my computer for bitcoin and found a directory with a wallet in it from 2010, but apparently my attention span wasn't long enough to actually mine any bitcoins
#46
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I searched my computer for bitcoin and it found all of the transaction records i keep of times i purchased dark web crime services using bitcoins
#47
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i contracted nine hits on myself via silkroad. fuck that website. with anonymity people feel like they can just take your money and not do shit.
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theres a website where you can donate bitcoins to assassinate politicians. when the amount gets high enough someone will encrypt a message that says the date and politician that will be killed, and if it happens the money is unlocked and goes to the anonymous badass.

I get bored too but this takes "ill make the website" to insane teenage anarchist proportions...0_0
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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ok i guess i didnt understand this before, if you've got a bitcoin mining rig and i steal all your hard drives or whatever, now i have your bitcoins? like they are still connected to the physical realm? or what
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swampman posted:

ok i guess i didnt understand this before, if you've got a bitcoin mining rig and i steal all your hard drives or whatever, now i have your bitcoins? like they are still connected to the physical realm? or what


you have the bitcoins

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I haev the bitcoins actually.
#52
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make that site for bankers and CEOs of large corporations, and i'll have found my new career
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Kurdt
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you mine the bad coin. its realy fucking bad
#54
Dont Mess With Sucess
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Second question: we should do a bitcoin tontine, where half of all bitcoins mined are put toward social programs for "bitizens." As bitcoin user dies, the tontine becomes more secure. I deserve a lot of bitcoins and free bitizenship for thinking of this idea.
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rhizzoners should have a real world tontine without buttcoins. then in 60 years (who am i kidding, 5-6 months) we will have the last remaining rhizzoners trying to stage murders as suicides or natural deaths
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swampman posted:

ok i guess i didnt understand this before, if you've got a bitcoin mining rig and i steal all your hard drives or whatever, now i have your bitcoins? like they are still connected to the physical realm? or what


there is a math formula that has 23 million unique solutions. or whatever the number is, i forget. it's hard to find what the solutions are, but once you find one you have "mined a bitcoin" and you publish the number out to the world and (skipping some details) part of it is encrypted with a private passkey that you store in a file on your hard drive.

everyone with a bitcoin app can see that it's a solution to the formula, so they can see that it's "really" a bitcoin, and since you were the first to publish it you own the bitcoin.

if someone gets that file on your computer (you may have heard of it, it is usually called wallet.dat) then they can publish transactions for the bitcoins that your keys work for. when you transfer a bitcoin to another person, you're publishing a transaction that says "instead of my key, this is actually owned by another person's key now."

every transaction is logged in the publicly readable/verifiable files that are transmitted between bitcoin clients in something called "blockchains" (because they are chains of blocks of transactions. i think.)

besides the hilarious rhetorical knots that people tie themselves up in when they try to argue for/against bitcoins, the second funniest thing about them is the ridiculous shit that people have done for/with their wallet files.

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in russia, doge dig for capitalist trash in garbage. in libertopia, capitalist dig for doge in garbage
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drwhat posted:

besides the hilarious rhetorical knots that people tie themselves up in when they try to argue for/against bitcoins, the second funniest thing about them is the ridiculous shit that people have done for/with their wallet files.


http://www.rhizzone.net/forum/topic/4553/

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objekt-a.tumblr.com
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tell me more
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hi
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ew
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HenryKrinkle posted:

ew


yeah that's gross, don't

#62
Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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is there any way to determine the location of bitwallets in Meetspace so that i might congratulate the physically vulnerable on their newfound riches
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meatspace
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sup b*tch
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rhizzone should come up with a believable scam to acquire bitcoins from gullible nerds and thus become wealthier. do you think people would pay in bitcoins for designer drugs that mysteriously never show up
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sup b*tch
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normally i'd feel bad about something like that but people who "invest" in bitcoins are so unbelievably stupid that there's no way they can actually have the level of conscious required to have emotions
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innsmouthful posted:

normally i'd feel bad about something like that but people who "invest" in bitcoins are so unbelievably stupid that there's no way they can actually have the level of conscious required to have emotions



yeah theyre stupid....STUPID RICH

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like i know youre all just trying to comfort me by telling me that not investing in bitcoin was the right thing to do but....its not working guys. i appreciate the thought but.....its just not working
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innsmouthful posted:

rhizzone should come up with a believable scam to acquire bitcoins from gullible nerds and thus become wealthier. do you think people would pay in bitcoins for designer drugs that mysteriously never show up


i know a fat gay muslim who needs some pants for an interview. bitcoins only please

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Superabound posted:

like i know youre all just trying to comfort me by telling me that not investing in bitcoin was the right thing to do but....its not working guys. i appreciate the thought but.....its just not working



this is the most popular address that receives bitcoins: http://legacy.satoshidice.com/

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it wasnt the "right" thing to do to not buy bitcoins Superabound. what i am saying is that there are no "right" things to do in highly volatile markets, in the sense of "wise", unless you have truly substantial amounts to invest over and above your cost of living, preferably money that isn't yours to begin with
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swampman posted:

i bet there are gnats specially evolved to cling to broncos



if you mean "there is dumb money", yes, yes there is

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Mike Nelson here.
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Bloomberg anchor gets Bitcoin on live TV and is promptly robbed by a viewer

A business news anchor who was given a Bitcoin certificate on air was promptly robbed after he briefly displayed the digital currency.

Bloomberg TV anchor Matt Miller gave two colleagues, Adam Johnson and Trish Regan, $20 in digital currency in a “12 Days of Bitcoin” segment.

But Johnson unwittingly displayed the digital QR code for his money to the camera, and a viewer was able to use the private key to take his Bitcoin.

Reddit user milkywaymasta said he used his smart phone to scan the QR code that was displayed in high definition for about 10 seconds, allowing him to take the money.

“I took it, it was only $20 worth,” milkywaymasta said. “It was exhilarating nevertheless.”

He promised to return the money if Miller provides a new address so the QR code can’t be swiped again, but the anchor said he could keep the Bitcoin.

“So freaking classic but also a GREAT lesson in bitcoin security!” Miller tweeted. “You can keep the $20 — well earned.”



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/23/bloomberg-anchor-gets-bitcoin-on-live-tv-and-is-promptly-robbed-by-a-viewer/

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it was exhilarating nevertheless
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Smash the 1080p
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daddyholes posted:

it wasnt the "right" thing to do to not buy bitcoins Superabound. what i am saying is that there are no "right" things to do in highly volatile markets, in the sense of "wise", unless you have truly substantial amounts to invest over and above your cost of living, preferably money that isn't yours to begin with



what part of "$25 of bitcoin in 2010 is worth $7,000,000 now" arent you getting?

i mean sure im an internet communist, but like, i HAD $25 in 2010 man

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Kurdt
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if i had $7,000,000 i would definitely exchange it for several bitcoins
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i'm a daytrader now
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Superabound posted:

daddyholes posted:

it wasnt the "right" thing to do to not buy bitcoins Superabound. what i am saying is that there are no "right" things to do in highly volatile markets, in the sense of "wise", unless you have truly substantial amounts to invest over and above your cost of living, preferably money that isn't yours to begin with

what part of "$25 of bitcoin in 2010 is worth $7,000,000 now" arent you getting?

i mean sure im an internet communist, but like, i HAD $25 in 2010 man



its not really. not enough volume for all ur coins to trade at the current rate, it'd plummet quite fast

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aerdil posted:

its not really. not enough volume for all ur coins to trade at the current rate, it'd plummet quite fast



id sell them all to Americas local tv reporters filming stories about the hot new bitcoin trend

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innsmouthful posted:

i'm a daytrader now

more like, a daytraper