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If someone knows Banksy, he might be interested in promoting bitcoin. We will need guerrilla marketing to make smartphone commerce. It seemed whimsical enough to post.

Ah that would be interesting to hear his opinion on this :)

My takeaways from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-X1sBkQGTM&feature=related

• Banksy is Satoshi Nakamoto (or versa-visa)
• Meet Bitcoin the Elephant (in the room)
• Scientology Embraces Bitcoin

Introducing the newly hashed BanksyCoin:


http://www.bashstreetkid.com/wp-content/uploads/banksy-money-euro.jpg

Guerilla logic. I love Satoshi. I love Bansky. Therefore Bansky equals Satoshi.

I just went to the street art exibit at MOCA

http://www.moca.org/audio/blog/?p=1991

I should have snuck in a bitcoin sticker and put it on a banksy piece.

I think at this point a Bernankesky acknowledgement might do more  :P

Actually, whether Bernanke supports it or despises it, just him acknowledging bitcoin's existence would be fantastic! I doubt he will, though... he barely even acknowledges the existence of gold!

But secretly, Ben Shalom Bernanke is starting to hash Bitcoin, as seen in the image below:


http://cdn1.benzinga.com/files/bernanke-time-is-up.jpg

Getting in touch with Banksy is harder then to get in touch with Satoshi.

An imitation banksy might do it. If it's good enough  ;D

Sheesh... then we'll start forking the Banksy chain with IObanksy, IxBanksy, eBanksy and all manner of other crap  ;D

Hey, for all we know all Banksys since the first could be copycats! BitBanksy could be a good thing  :D

cbeast, does this imply you know Banksy and you're in contact with him? Would be great to have him on board!

I've conversed with many interesting folks, most of them as pseudonyms. There seem to be very few freethinking hipsters, and they tend to orbit similar worlds. If Banksy groks the significance of a proletariat crypto-currency, he may find a new milieu for his art and craft.

There is nothing like a fusillade of acateleptic verbiage to make even the most puerile asseverations seem the acme of sagacious perspicacity. I'm just saying.

LOL... risible, veritably

I'm glad you got a laugh out of it, Piper67. I'm thinking about having a T-Shirt printed up with that phrase on it.

Nice copypasta http://andyrantsandraves.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-use-really-big-words-to-sound.html

OOOH... bad form! Unless Phinnaeus Gage is Andy, I fully retract my LOL... then give it to Andy  ;D

Like Mr. Brainwash?

You are correct, cbeast. I did copy and paste it. I'm not smart enough to come up with that on my own. But I was smart enough to hunt it down and use it as a reply to your post of which I enjoyed, hence my efforts. I enjoy reading your posts, even ones calling out copy-pasters. Nice catch, cbeast. Cheers!

Man, Bruno...you are the prince of trolls. I dig it.

Thank you, RandyFolds, I think. Would you be so kind as to define the term troll for me as used in your post?

I copied and pasted this definition of Troll from the Urban Dictionary site: One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument. That in no way describes me, hence asking for clarification. Thank you, bud.


I just love the smell of dead troll in the morning!


http://www.fantasyshop.gr/gallery/bases_special_deadtroll_thumb.jpg

You manage to play devil's advocate in damn near every post, but you do it so respectfully that you can hardly be called a troll for it. It's like, you are so polite that I am not quite certain what your angle is. This could be one friggin' hilarious long-con troll.

So basically, you don't really go for maximum disruption and argument, but you do post material for maximum discussion. It's like productive trolling...

I thoroughly enjoy it.

Thank you kindly for your comment, RandyFolds. Allow me to be totally truthful with you and everybody else on this board. For starters, I truly love Bitcoin. I have never spent any amount of time on any other forum with this avatar name or any other. Although a Google group search may uncover a couple post related to poker on some poker forum where I believe I once used Phinnaeus Gage years ago. That should explain some of the mistakes I may have made on this forum, but luckily I'm a fast learner and don't like touching a hot stove twice. I didn't know what a forum troll was until I read, then joined, this forum. Using the Urban Dictionary definition of troll, of which I have so provided, I can clearly state that I am not one--short or long term. I can easily be found here in Sandwich, Illinois. The major can even tell you where I, Bruno, lives. I'm not planning on going anywhere (that is not until I fill my pockets up with as many of somebody else's Bitcoin as possible--I guess that's what you mean by long-con troll [only humor]). I have no ulterior motive when it comes to Bitcoin--only magnanimity (boy, I hope I used that two Bitcoin word correctly). I don't diss other members (well, maybe if/when I do, I do it in such a way that you've so gracefully described) and try to treat everybody here with the utmost respect. The way I think, coupled with my writing style (did I mention images?), may be why it would seem that I go for maximum disruption and argument. Not once, though, do I purposely write and post sometime to cause that effect. I truly hate (as well as hate that word--not trying to be funny there) conflict. I never look for problems--always solutions (as you've seen in some of my posts). I'll now lightly touch on the leather wallets hawking issue (not for you, but others, now that I'm on this diatribe). I didn't come here to hawk any products. It just manifested that way. With that said, I will have other products in the works for the Bitcoin Enthusiasts. As stated before, I will not recognize a single Bitcoin profit with the sale of these items--but Martin Basurto, my brother-in-law, will enjoy an increase in his hand tooled leather business. In fact, thanks to me and, moreover, Bitcoin, he'll be able to justify adding another apprentice to his staff. You could say a job was created all due to Bitcoin.

Sorry for going long in one paragraph, but I didn't feel like breaking it up, for it was all one thought. I offer no apologies for anything I have written to date, unless I've already done so (that doesn't seem to make much sense, but I feel you know what I'm trying to say). Once again, I truly thank you, RandyFolds (either a poker player or works at a Chinese dry cleaners), for your comments, thereby allowing me to respond with this post reply.

With that said (I even kinda hate that cliche), let's now get back to work on making Bitcoin into whatever we're suppose to be making it into. There's a lot work to do--and trolls to feed. (I bet Randy doesn't have a clue that I just stuck it up his ass with this post--only kidding Randy  :) I figure you would thoroughly enjoy that. [in reference to the last line in your post and not that you would enjoyed something stuck up your...--why am I always explaining myself?])


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1195/5144002976_18d64ffa69.jpg

There is actually one hint to support that claim:

If you look closely at the genesis block, at the famous quote from The Times, this text is within an hex string, and if you include the following character it actually reads:

00000080   01 04 45 54 68 65 20 54  69 6D 65 73 20 30 33 2F   ..EThe Times 03/
00000090   4A 61 6E 2F 32 30 30 39  20 43 68 61 6E 63 65 6C   Jan/2009 Chancel
000000A0   6C 6F 72 20 6F 6E 20 62  72 69 6E 6B 20 6F 66 20   lor on brink of
000000B0   73 65 63 6F 6E 64 20 62  61 69 6C 6F 75 74 20 66   second bailout f
000000C0   6F 72 20 62 61 6E 6B 73  FF FF FF FF 01 00 F2 05   or banksÿÿÿÿ..ò.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block
 

0xFFFFFFFF is -1, which is the next field in the block header after the coinbase field, and ÿ is the unicode character (http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/255) for FF.  No conspiracy here.

Will

Anyone who likes Banksy should check out this awesome film:

http://www.banksyfilm.com/

Nonsense. The Onion outed her a couple of years ago: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-grandmother-comes-forward-as-banksy,17604/


 ;D

If you know anything about banksy, you would know that he shuns consumerism and would very likely get offended at the idea of people paying him to tag buildings to market a product.

Bitcoin is free. I mined my own. Tagging is free too, you just have to buy the spraypaint.

A while back I actually toyed with the notion of copying he's Gangsta rat stencil and replaicing the dollar sign with BTC. Not that I paint walls or anything, just seemd like the coolest thing ever to have.

[edit] http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/135998465_eb28b29109.jpg

I like this logic.

I love cake.  I love free things.  Therefore cake = free things.

Now give me my cake, damnit.

Take a look at that, is it possible that it might be Banksy's work?
http://cointelegraph.com/post/bitcoin_graffiti_with_inner_history (http://cointelegraph.com/post/bitcoin_graffiti_with_inner_history)

In 1999 myself and some friends gatecrashed a house party at Banksy's girlfriends place in Bristol.

Drank all the beer, got rowdy, left in a hurry.

Shall I appoint myself spokesman for this cause?

I agree with your point of view you said there's a reason I also like it very much

Phinn is a very active member of the Bitcoin community. He's not a technical developer, but a diehard enthusiast. Once you grok his vibe, he makes you think.

I love free lunch

https://i.imgur.com/rpf0yUc.jpg

That doesn't look like Banksy's stuff, just an imitator.

Banksy's street art is brilliant. I love all his works.

How do you see he is an imitator? ???

Well it's not Banksy, put it that way.

A quick Google search showed me that Banksys is one of the street artists now the world's most talented.I like him very much！ ;D ;D

got to love the lack of faith in government value. that coin was worth only 50c using government brandings.. now its 'banksy' branded, its worth a hell of alot more.

meaning people have more faith in the value of a banksy coin which is limited supply, then a standard government coin, without limits. i think ill use that as one way to explain 'bitcoin value because of scarcity' in the near future

He is findable, I mean for what it is worth he paid a guy to sale his art and took the cash from him. Yet no one asked the old man who he was talking with or handed cash to..come on.

He could be found inside 24 hrs by law enforcement or a good journalist if anyone truly cared or just one person talked.

Do you not think either have or are trying to look for him?

We see how good journalists are these days and as far as I know law enforcement isn't so...

the connection is already on the table:

Alex Winter's next documentary "Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and Silk Road" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/) will be produced by Marc Schiller, founder of the Wooster Collective (http://www.woostercollective.com/more-about-wooster) which list Banksy under their artists.
On top Schiller's company Bond Strategy and Influence was involved with the marketing on "Banksy - Exit through the Gift Shop" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707) and he is surmised to be a close friend of him.

I'm sure if banksy isn't involved in bitcoin he has already heard of it and is watching closely.

Banksy painting a Bitcoin logo onto a parody of something would be great exposure / advertising. I hope it eventually happens.