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So late tonight (here in Macau) we will be celebrating the block reward halving. This is of course a very momentous milestone for Bitcoin.

We were brainstorming that it'd be fun to have certain traditions or rituals on this day, celebrated every four years. Since this is the first one, it's probably appropriate to start some of these rituals!

One thing we'll likely do here is set aflame some fiat currency. We may also "destroy" a Satoshi... send it to an address that we cannot reclaim, as a sacrifice to our great Creator.

What other fun traditions should be started?

Everyone should send a satoshi to the genesis block address.

Perhaps no?

Not exactly wanting to make bitcoin nor its creator a "GOD".

Rituals? Wtf?

Sacrifice?

Our creator?

Probably the dumbest post I have seen on this forum.

"hey let's worship bitcoin and Satoshi and dance around a camp fire with woven grass skirts while howling like Native Americans"

Easy on the weed and crack bro lol

 :D :D :D

I love the idea of burning some traditional currency!
It's sure to be against the law in pretty much every jurisdiction - but it seems a pretty cool way to celebrate.

I'm not sure what happens to the Australian polymer notes when you try to burn them..  I suspect they shrivel and/or melt.
If breaking the laws about destruction of currency is too much for you - or if you really can't bear to part with a few dollars - burning some scraps of paper with dollar signs etc written on them would be good enough!

For someone with over 4000 posts, I'm amazed you haven't yet learned about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_in_cheek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_in_cheek)

If you send me your address I'll buy you a pair of training wheels.

If burning a piece of your own fiat currency is too heavy for you because the government doesn't approve, then you might want to avoid Bitcoin entirely ;)

Smoothie did you lose a bunch of money on SatoshiDice?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove  should go here and feast on babies.

LOL actually I have not used your site.

Nice try to find motive.  :P :P :P

Well the problem I have with burning fiat currency is that being an act of quantitative tightening, it makes other fiat instances ever so slightly more valuable!

Perhaps fake-note burning really is too tame for a Bitcoin celebration, but I was thinking of grandma & the kids.. and how to celebrate inclusively without too much shock value.
Hmm.. how pussyish of me!

evoorhees.

go post on your blog or something.

seriously.


all of this weeaboo worship, and talk of rituals, makes this community



so fuckin gay.  

There's a copy of Washington in my house that won't make it through the day.

As the time approaches, I've finalized my playlist for when we're on the last few 50BTC blocks:

1) Europe - The Final Countdown
2) REM - End of the World

+25 BTC ::) ::) ::)

Here is "ritual" for you: How about spending few coins on actual service or buying some goods?
Pissing your coin away in some gambling site is not helping BTC economy at all.

(edit, added the missing "s")

I think we definitely should issue overpriced securities and ignore obvious problems with our old sites that get left ignored for weeks without explanation.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127367.0

Happy halving day!

If you place Australian notes in a 200 C oven do they shrink to mini notes? You could then deface currency and have a half sized note at the same time.

Let us know how it goes. Instructions for doing this with chip packets here: http://www.madaboutscience.com.au/store/index.php?main_page=page&id=45

It would be cool to have many photos where different people have a burning fiat in their hand ;)

Perfect marketing: "Why are all these idiots burning their money? Why are they so happy?" -> Bitcoin ...

Possible hashtag: #burningfiat

Examples:
"https://i.imgur.com/jrAPB.jpg #burningfiat #bitcoin Halving Day Traditions"
"https://i.imgur.com/rIbZI.jpg #burningfiat #bitcoin Halving Day Traditions"

Do they blend ? Yes they do!!

Sounds like fun. Except the local custom is loud boom-boom drums for any and all occasions.

It'll be an hour ahead of Macau here. Well, I mean it will happen at the same moment world wide but on the clock it'll say one hour earlier.

Two more,

Pink Floyd - Money (live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywPpc-TqV5w)
Early Stones - Money (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptMwoz1VzJQ)

Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, it's a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Money, get back.
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit.
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.

Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away.

-------- :P
Halve a Happy Day!

I think a good tradition would be to cut something in half. Even if it's just a bad habit.

Happy halving day everyone!  ;D

Yup, not a currency. A religion.

What about this one: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/13xd05/idea_for_the_210000th_block_lets_all_make/



Additionally you can proudly proclaim that one of your transaction is recorded in the first-ever 25BTC-Block, if that isnt something? :)

You can enjoy any one of these traditional Halving Day celebratory beverages:

http://www.barnonedrinks.com/drinks/by_ingredient/h/half-and-half-cream-533.html
 (http://www.barnonedrinks.com/drinks/by_ingredient/h/half-and-half-cream-533.html)
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_and_half (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_and_half)

This should be a national holiday !

An international holiday.

Wow. Only 9 blocks already? Seems like everyone's fired up their extra capacity to blast us right into this thing early.

+1 on this, btw I refuse to burn any fiat notes and help them go up in value.

Instead, I will print a bitcoin paper wallet and send a satoshi to it with no fees, then burn it. If it ever gets confirmed by any of you miners it will be lost forever like Satoshi himself, if not, I will get to spend it on something useful and It would mean Satoshi is still among us.

Instead of burning fiat,
Print a shit load of real looking fiat bills with on it ; "Freshly printed", a troll face, 2012 Bitcoin halving celebration day.

Then spread it all around town so people can find them.

Oops international holiday !

I have better idea: LOL :)
Everyone sends me the first 20 coins mined (finding a block or not). 15WLztstXkfybemi9Ecd9FQ4vt6wiJjN6b
Coin will not be spent on blow, gambling or hookers.  

To be honest, this is NOT a happy day. Now at least I can be happy :) and you feel good too. ;)

there should be some item that is held somewhere and cut in half every time reward drops

stick, 21 inch long
precious stone, like sapphire, there are synthetic ones to buy

a bottle of something, liquid drinkable or not, half spilled into the fire

I like this one. Cut something in half and post a pic/vid of it.

I heard that due to the shift in the electromagnetic pull from the halving of the blockchain reward you can actually stand an egg on its end.

We should all do that and gaze in wonder at the power of physics and electricity!

Happy Halving Day!!!

http://mrsleneway.webs.com/DSC01573.JPG?0.3316890484180063

I say you make a pinata out of one of the big bank logos, and bash that bastard open - hidden within are a few printed bitbills that are redeemable for some bitcoins. Too bad there aren't any bitcoin candy coins to throw in there for fun :)

+1

Better yet, how about offering the other side of that exchange?

Sure. Here is what I can offer: BTC stoneware mug #004 from ART project (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127575.msg1354926#msg1354926)
All the coin is used to finance the project.

I am planning to make one with split half Bitcoin logo too, if someone orders it.

PS! Fixed the missing "s" from 'goods'

Selling some bad? I can sell you my bad if you really want it.

As a hat tip to the halycon early days of gpu mining ... book out an entire "bitcoin" island for the day ...

oh yeah, well stocked with hookers 'n blow ... and carrots of course..

Cut a fiat note in half ?

Yeah,   that's a good one because you can tape it up and still spend it.

All money is a religion. A belief in something imagined and not real.

That's how you define a religion? In that case I'm starting a religion that worships imaginary numbers.

I thought of meeting up with friends and drinking(skulling) another beer with each new block found till the reward drop. Maybe starting at T -10 blocks (appr. 1hr) to reward drop.

http://youtu.be/OjIoEK82SV8

Would be more interesting if it were like a lottery and all of us send a small amount of BTC to miner, in this case laughingbear

Excellent idea!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove

EDIT: I see somebody already beat me to it:

I second that idea

Out of all the ideas, I like the 'throw some bitcents/coins to the last block' one. Just icing on the commemorative cake.

I'd also like to say that even if you're just joking about the religion thing, it would be best to steer way clear of that - unless you want your next bitcoin conversation to begin with "Oh yeah, I heard about that cult".

Things are hard enough without that kind of perception being started.

In the spirit of traditions, What is in store for this coming Bitcoin Halving on the coming days ahead? :)

Good idea, I will do it when the halving day is coming. But we can't send too many Bitcoin to it, because the Bitcoin will stay right there cuz no one won't send it anywhere.

I would like to wipe my ass with a few dollar bills, because one of these days, it will be cheaper to wipe your ass with fiat paper money than buying a 6 pack of toilet rolls. So

I think this will be a great way to celebrate this event. We put some videos on youtube and it will gather a lot of attention {good and bad} to this event. Anyone up for this

shitty idea?  ;D ;D ;D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bIAVzYbymA ...As you can see, it's not forbidden, if it is a prank.  ;D ;D You not destroying currency, so it's not

against the law..  ???

sad to see how bad the atmosphere in this (old) thread is, just because someone (Eric) wants to create a new BTC tradition. if you dont like, dont do it and move on.

for my part: sending some bits for the genesis block is fun and burning some fiat too. or print a paper wallet, cut in half and burn it  :P

wow, this is a nice topic for being revived after this many years :O

it would be awesome if there could be some official celebration of block halving (it is kinda like a milestone for bitcoin after all) and it would be much better if there were some media coverage of this celebration, that would bring a lot of good publicity to bitcoin.

bitcoin has come a long way from the paper in 2008 and release in 2009 it is time that we show the world and all those naysayers that bitcoin is still strong

celebrating block reward halving this month?is that not too early??
but will interesting,brainstroming will give us more idea to sharing each other,and facing bitcoin halving with good prepare.

the first message is from 2012, the first halving  ;)