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Snoop Dogg has officially endorsed Bitcoin, extremely likely he is now heavily invested in it.

Expect Bitcoin Bling bling to replace Gold & Diamond in 2014 Rap Videos  ;D

It will be a huge promotion for Bitcoin to the masses which means higher prices :)

https://twitter.com/SnoopDogg/status/407350025677586433

He also endorses drones and most likely owns thousands of them. This is exciting!!!1

I wonder if he has a clue what a drone is :))))

or indeed what bitcoin is
 ;) Exciting and amusing times

Drone is the new amazon delivery gig coming next  year , so he pry into btc and amzn

The more the merrier, global attention.

Oh!!! Juts did a search about it and it seems yeah , amazon and drones.
And Snoop know about it and I had no clue. This makes me wonder if it is not time to read some news magazine more often.
No offense intended for all his fans with the previous remark.

Its more like 5 years out, It's still in  R&D.  The FAA regulations are not even finalized yet. Probably 2016 to see those.

60 minutes did a story on it last Sunday.  http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/amazon-uses-60-minutes-to-unveil-automated-delivery-drones-1200907633/

Damn! That drone home delivery is something.

I am sure he does.  I think it was a commentary on how much the world is changing. In a couple years you just might buy his album in Bitcoins and have it delivered to your front door by a drone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le46ERPMlWU

On edit: just saw your correction but will leave this for the link anyways.

Amazon Drone is too fucking awesome !

The perfect thread for this: http://gizoogle.net/ (http://gizoogle.net/)

Snoop dogg is in bitcoins??? Shit. a guy who admits to smoking 50 blunts everyday, doesnt have a talented bone in his body and is a felon, Yeah now I am really convinced the masses will follow.

Damn, price is going to drop like its hot now...

Even more exciting might be the news about first cold-fusion reactor going on sale:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/28/ecat_cold_fusion_to_go_on_sale/

The future is getting closer every passing day.

I hope they remove the war heads first.

not enough, i want us to harvest nearby stars by next year!

he made a reference to it.. that's not quite the same thing as endorsing bitcoin.

I can't wait to see the new Girls Gone Wild & Bitcoin partnership.  ::)

How about; Baby got Bitcoins , Big Bitcoins at Work ?

You know , I said it a few days ago but here it goes once more,  mister wikipedia , you're sometimes annoyingly correct. :P

D 0 double G in the building! Thats actually a nice celebrity push for bitcoin!

We need more of this!

This is what I'm wondering since he goes by Snoop puppy, or cat, or some shit now... Oh it's Snoop Lion :-\

Oh, and best believe that BitPay is trying to get a piece of the action

if a good no name punk rock band made their songs available for like 1$ pre mp3 download, i'd buy... i love punk rock! rap not so much...

Amazon drone is too fucking fake at least at this time. Maybe in a few years.

Is there anything Snoop Dogg won't endorse?

We need a mainstream artist to sing a song about bitcoins. Something like "poker face" from lady gaga. Oh and we need it to be good  :P

It doesn't need to be good.

The future isn't what it used to be!

Investment specialist and emerging markets expert "Snoop Dogg" endorses bitcoin... wow what a great reason to buy! Spread the word!

Excuse me... cracking myself up over here... lol.

maybe it sounds like a joke, but he has a lot of twitter followers who treat him like a god.

A bunch of Twitter followers... whose combined intelligence would not be sufficient to enable any one of them to navigate the process of buying a single bitcoin. Next.

Crazy - Snoop Dogg mentions BTC in a twitter feed but Wikipedia has been sending the same "we are monitoring Bitcoin closely" form letter response to BTC donation requests for over a year now.  What a bunch of suits.

Wait... are you seriously equating Snoop Dogg... with Wikipedia? Wikipedia is an organization that depends on donations to pay their operating costs, and is likely (and legitimately) concerned about the future value of bitcoin. Snoop Dogg... is a rapper who maybe invested a few thousand dollars into bitcoin because his homeboys told him about it while they were at the strip club. This has got to be one of the funniest threads I've read here in awhile lol.  :D

Do not underestimate the power of the Snoop. :P

Seriously though, popular culture matters more than most of us would like to admit.

I dabble in drones, and can say the tech to do this is EASILY here now and it's not even hard to do. I could build one that could land your pizza in your front yard or sidewalk from 20 miles away no problem. Building one that can analyse the surrounding area and not land on top the family cat is a bit harder, but still easily do-able, tho not with my primitive skills. I could build one that uses a 4G link to steam view and request confirmation to land from an operator though, thus manually avoiding chopping fluffy. If I can do that with no engineering experience, imagine what a team of skilled people could put together in no time.

Anyway, the problem is FAA regulation. They've been saying for several years they're going to introduce new regulation supporting drone use. They need to get on this, as it's the future. Hell Iceland has a dedicated drone airport. Japan uses them for ag mainstream, even places in Africa have a drone framework. We're stuck in the stone age because of a government basically says "anything we don't specifically say is legal is thus automatically illegal." (USSA anyone?) Then drags their feet to do anything at all.

Yes it does because otherwise the only people that will notice it will be us. Just imagine everyone singing something like Bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi-bi bitcoin!

Have you listened to popular songs lately? Very few of them are any good.

Yes by good i meant popular. Good is subjective anyway  8)

I've spent several months this year in Japan and I can't say that I've seen any drones in the skies... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. It's a cool idea, but surely there would be many accidents, no? Aside from kids and pets being chopped up by the propellers, won't they have mechanical issues or collisions midair with birds and such and occasionally fall to the ground? It probably would suck to have a 200 pound drone fall on you while mowing the lawn.

"A dog has been killed today from an amazon drone" and voila. The technology is over. The problem is that since they want to use them for home delivery they can't use lets say specific air corridors for example.

You may not like him but he does have talent. Also quite a large fanbase.

Also don't forget Libertarians and Anarchists shooting them down cuz it's flying over "their property" ;D

Shouldn't be hard to detect faulty propellers or the close to zero-G you get from a free-fall and then deploy a parachute. Hell, there are even quads capable of controlled flight with 2 propellers damaged ( http://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters.html , relevant bit starts at 06:14 , but the whole thing is quite enjoyable ).

Sure you can.  They could follow roads for example.

Next up... Wu-Tang Financial.

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/tw2ltp/chappelle-s-show-wu-tang-financial

Forrest Gump is having Bitcoin World Tour.

I would have the packages dropped from like 10-20ft up with a cheap parachute. I bet it'd still be gentler than UPS, and 5lbs won't cause serious injury from a few feet up if the parachute fails. Keeps the drone safe from anyone trying to capture it too.

What is the range of a DIY microwave gun built out of a dismantled microwave oven?

It's not surprising that Snoop Dog supports Bitcoin.  Bitcoin can help struggling industries like the music industry buy putting the money in the hands of artists and not the corporations.  All and all this is pretty good news I'd say.

I can't wait to see the new GGW and BTC partnership either!  I really want there to be a platform where I can create content and find a well populated community of buyers with coin.

The music industry is struggling? Hmm... that's news to me. And the musicians are just going to do all the marketing and promotion on their own? What's stopping them from doing that now and accepting credit cards or paypal? Isn't that what platform like iTunes... are already doing?

They are "struggling" 'cause they are cooking the books to not pay what they should to the artists...

Yup, Snoop Dogg and his pals all really seem to be struggling to make ends meet. He might have to cut down on the non-essentials to put food on the table this month.

Are you guys for real...?

heres some bitcoin rap by ytcracker to whet your appetites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfg1Gtcg08

Did Snoop Dogg endorse it or Snoop Lion?  ::)

I would recommend you look more into how the record industry works before you jump to too many conclusions. As in any industry, there will of course be the top "doggs" if you will, who have been consistently pulling in sales and keeping themselves relevant. Do they represent all artists as a whole? Absolutely not.

There is a great speech by Courtney Love covering how advances and advertising work, along with how artists have to pay for record plays ($10k = 1000 national plays). Damon Dash has also breaks down how record advances work and where all the money goes. Here is the Courtney Love write up if you'd like to look into it: http://www.gerryhemingway.com/piracy.html (http://www.gerryhemingway.com/piracy.html)

It's quite surprising actually how the creative industry fools the public into the idea of celebrity = rich. It's an exploit and that is how they make their money.

I get that young, naive musicians often find themselves in lopsided contracts with record labels, but I don't see how bitcoin is going to change any of that (as was suggested earlier in the thread). Nobody has ever forced a musician to sign with a record label... they do it because of a mutual working benefit. If they really want they can self publish, like MC Hammer did in the early days. He didn't even need a record label to screw him out of money, he blew it all himself!  :)

Every artist has the opportunity to record their work and put it up on iTunes or other independent platforms these days, but just like anything else, to make it big in the music industry you've got to work hard and market yourself. It's easy to curse the record labels, but without them and their help with getting new artists exposed, most famous bands would have likely broken up long ago and their members would now be working a mop bucket in some dive bar (Courtney Love) instead of telling sob stories from their mansions about how they've been "screwed" by the man.

I recognize the risks to which you are referring. However, I don't think people get it. This is going to happen, as much as or more so than bitcoin. It will revolutionize everything. Before there can be millions of drones everywhere, there will have to be "rules of the sky" set forth. While they're human built, and mechanical problems can occur, I don't see them falling from the sky as being a big danger - they're pretty reliable and the technology will continue to improve. One could say the same thing about a helicopter, a mechanically much more complex device.

I don't know what the future holds, but I imagine there will be some type of transponder system per FAA regulations which specify the drones must be able to communicate with digitally with an air traffic control system (this is in the works now, it's very nice compared to what we have now) as well as specific altitudes dedicated for drone use, to keep regular air traffic clear. Home delivery could achieved in the same way as freeways vs residential streets, with some altitude or airspace class requirements.

I'm really hoping the beginning of this will be present in FAA Regulations coming in 2015 (Hopefully). But rest assured, eventually, it's going to happen. The technology may experience setbacks but will not be "over."

As for Japan, I don't know about them flying around everywhere, but I know they use them for chemical application on small farms and such. I imagine for use in cities/mainstream they have the same issues we do here, the tech is not quite mature enough for mainstream use, and lack of framework for air traffic separation etc.


Yes, and I am semi "one of those people." I don't appreciate the idea of government seeing into my house with a constant stream of thermal cameras. That said, technology is a double edged sword. Hopefully we can get some legislation pushed through that require warrants to deploy a thermal drone. In anycase, the commercial applications (Delivery, photography, search and rescue, agricultural etc) are game changing. 

I'm curious how drone delivery will work in big cities where people don't got anything resembling a landing pad in their apartments...

In any case, i expect there will be increased demand for window blinds and curtains...

  ;)

Yeah that's an issue, I imagine a user would select a spot on a map (within designated areas) where it could be delivered.I know my apartment has some common use areas, perhaps if this was mainstream one area would be devoted to a landing pad, and a text message would be send 1-2 mins prior to arrival so you could go get your package.

Just a thought.

I think the landing pad is the least of the problems for drones flying over our heads. Btw how the drones are going to defend themselves from kids that whould want to take them down for fun?

The same way windows do.... they call the police.

snoop dogg is a chameleon he adapts with the time, I am not surprised by this but definitely by the fact it happened so soon. Celebrity endorsements like this actually will do a lot for bitcoin, when it really should be the idea that interests then about bitcoin! w/e can't complain...

I don't think that breaking windows looks like a challenge or even fun for kids to. Bringing down drones on the other hand. Also good luck having the police protecting drones from kids...

I'm pretty sure they can take care of themselves. Self -defense ?  And remember what those drones are able to do right now :).

lol i'm not too worried about Snoop Dogg's pockets

They'll need to be equipped with assault rifles or some kind of heavy fire power. I'm pretty sure every single one would be shot down on day one and sold for scrap metal if they're ever introduced to Detroit.

Yes this is possible, The drones can have non-lethal weapon in the form of an automated high precision paintball turret. It can inflict enough damage to scurry kids away with a few bruises no more, it can also knock out attacking cats and dogs and can down in-flight birds. I recently tested a system like this for home defense (not approved yet).

At some point you can also get a Weaponized (non-lethal) drone to hover around your house for security, how awesome is that ??

Here's an example of the technology, this can be implemented on a drone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QcfZGDvHU8

Yep and it's gonna get complicated because we're gonna have to set our boundaries in XYZ axis, that way if someone is flying a drone above your house you have a legal cases against this person/entity.

For buildings that go all the way to the sidewalk, and with restricted access to the roof, either you would have to wait on the sidewalk. Or perhaps Amazon would start having cities scanned in 3d, and you could assign a window to receive the drone thru. How big are those things though?