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Title: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 11, 2012, 11:22:15 PM So, I had a rather interesting experience at work today.
Today, I had a meeting with a client who, as it turns out, has a tested IQ about 5-6 standard deviations above the norm with at least 7 advanced degrees from multiple Ivy League institutions. He's also the CEO of multiple companies. I verified the legitimacy of all his claims online. Anyway, Bitcoin came up. According to him, Bitcoin was invented by "some kid," albeit some bright kid. He also said there is a digital currency called "Coins" originating in California that he claims is doing very well, even better than Bitcoin. He recommended that I take 10-15% of my total assets and invest them in all available digital currencies. He said in about 5-10 years I will have so much money I won't know what to do with it. Specifically regarding Bitcoin, he said it's definitely going places but not at the rate you would necessarily expect. So, if you ever wanted to know what a guy with a psychometrically tested IQ of 180+ thinks about Bitcoin/digital currencies, there ya go. He also said never to touch the stock market :D Title: Re: Wanna know who Satoshi is? Post by: the joint on January 11, 2012, 11:38:36 PM Well, that certainly clears things up. Haha, crystal, ain't it? Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: simonk83 on January 11, 2012, 11:43:31 PM He also said there is a digital currency called "Coins" originating in California that he claims is doing very well, even better than Bitcoin. Haven't heard of that, and haven't seen it brought up in here before, so I'm not sure how well it can be doing :D Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 11, 2012, 11:52:22 PM He also said there is a digital currency called "Coins" originating in California that he claims is doing very well, even better than Bitcoin. Haven't heard of that, and haven't seen it brought up in here before, so I'm not sure how well it can be doing :D That was my first thought when I heard it, too. Take it with a grain of salt. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: BitcoinPorn on January 11, 2012, 11:53:52 PM He also said there is a digital currency called "Coins" originating in California that he claims is doing very well, even better than Bitcoin. Haven't heard of that, and haven't seen it brought up in here before, so I'm not sure how well it can be doing :D First they invaded my Winamp plugins, now they invade our wallets http://webassets.wildtangent.com/Skins/akira/img/wc_straight.png WildCoins http://www.wildtangent.com/wildclub Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Revalin on January 12, 2012, 12:13:04 AM I'd like to know one thing: Which department do you work in?
Is it the psych ward? Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Clipse on January 12, 2012, 12:15:14 AM And my daddy also said never to listen to any crap written by a complete wackjob by the name of _THE JOINT_
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: ineededausername on January 12, 2012, 12:27:34 AM Happy April Fools! Oh wait.
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: foggyb on January 12, 2012, 12:33:18 AM I'd like to know one thing: Which department do you work in? Is it the psych ward? Aren't psych evaluations mandatory for CEO's and other high profile people? Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Jonathan Ryan Owens on January 12, 2012, 01:02:47 AM So, I had a rather interesting experience at work today. I'm a student counselor at a local hospital. Today, I conducted an intake assessment with a patient who, as it turns out, has a tested IQ about 5-6 standard deviations above the norm with at least 7 advanced degrees from multiple Ivy League institutions. He's also the CEO of multiple companies. I verified the legitimacy of all his claims online...................................... Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 02:22:55 AM OK, then don't believe me.
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: bitstarter on January 12, 2012, 02:25:59 AM how was the interview in jail cell #2456 ?
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 02:29:02 AM Haha you guys don't even know...
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: ineededausername on January 12, 2012, 02:46:58 AM I love this part:
He also said there is a digital currency called "Coins" originating in California that he claims is doing very well, even better than Bitcoin. lololololol Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 02:53:45 AM Edit: Removed, just in case.
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: legolouman on January 12, 2012, 02:55:26 AM I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical of Bitcoin... Just saying.
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: notme on January 12, 2012, 02:58:19 AM I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical of Bitcoin... Just saying. I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical of most things... Just saying. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 03:01:17 AM I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical of Bitcoin... Just saying. I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical of most things... Just saying. I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical But I got the proof in hand, bitches. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: notme on January 12, 2012, 03:09:08 AM I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical But I got the proof in hand, bitches. You caught me... I rounded up from 136. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 03:09:37 AM removed
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 03:15:40 AM I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical But I got the proof in hand, bitches. You caught me... I rounded up from 136. You might as well. It would be within your expected range. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on January 12, 2012, 03:17:12 AM Coins = DigiCash I believe, therefore I have David Chaum:
Quote Dr. David Chaum is the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of DigiCash Inc., a company that has pioneered electronic cash innovations. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a minor in Business Administration, from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and at the University of California. He built up a cryptography research group at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam and during this time also founded DigiCash. In 1993, he left CWI to become CEO of DigiCash, which had doubled in size since its founding in 1990 with 12 employees. In the area of cryptography, he has published over 45 original technical articles (see list of articles), received over 17 US patents, and founded the scientific organization, the International Association for Cryptographic Research (IACR). Concurrently he created and chaired the Smart Card 2000 conferences and several European Union funded industry consortia, including CAFE, which focused on electronic-wallets and the smart cards they hold.. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 03:19:53 AM Coins = DigiCash I believe, therefore I have David Chaum: Quote Dr. David Chaum is the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of DigiCash Inc., a company that has pioneered electronic cash innovations. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a minor in Business Administration, from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and at the University of California. He built up a cryptography research group at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam and during this time also founded DigiCash. In 1993, he left CWI to become CEO of DigiCash, which had doubled in size since its founding in 1990 with 12 employees. In the area of cryptography, he has published over 45 original technical articles (see list of articles), received over 17 US patents, and founded the scientific organization, the International Association for Cryptographic Research (IACR). Concurrently he created and chaired the Smart Card 2000 conferences and several European Union funded industry consortia, including CAFE, which focused on electronic-wallets and the smart cards they hold.. That might be right. He mentioned 2 names for it. "Coins" was the 2nd name for it that he mentioned, and the first may have been digicash but I don't remember. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on January 12, 2012, 03:27:49 AM Coins = DigiCash I believe, therefore I have David Chaum: Quote Dr. David Chaum is the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of DigiCash Inc., a company that has pioneered electronic cash innovations. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a minor in Business Administration, from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and at the University of California. He built up a cryptography research group at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam and during this time also founded DigiCash. In 1993, he left CWI to become CEO of DigiCash, which had doubled in size since its founding in 1990 with 12 employees. In the area of cryptography, he has published over 45 original technical articles (see list of articles), received over 17 US patents, and founded the scientific organization, the International Association for Cryptographic Research (IACR). Concurrently he created and chaired the Smart Card 2000 conferences and several European Union funded industry consortia, including CAFE, which focused on electronic-wallets and the smart cards they hold.. That might be right. He mentioned 2 names for it. "Coins" was the 2nd name for it that he mentioned, and the first may have been digicash but I don't remember. Or this: https://www.cashu.com/site/en/aboutUs Quote cashU is a Payment Service Provider with a focus on internet payments in Middle East and North Africa. Our head office is in Dubai, from where we serve global and regional online merchants with a complete suite of payment solutions custom built to cater for local culture and the Arabic online buying habits and trends. cashU was established in 2002 by Maktoob (now Yahoo) and our management team is the region’s most experienced online payment experts with a solid background from regional and international banking, credit card processing, alternative payment solutions and online monetization and marketing industries. cashU today serves online shoppers in all Arabic speaking and surrounding countries with secure, accessible and easy to use payment solutions, giving everyone the possibility to buy online without discriminating on age, income, nationality or banking contacts. cashU is a payment platform that is built upon, and encapsulates the most sophisticated and up to date fraud prevention and AML systems reducing the risks associtated with online payments for both buyers and sellers which all allows for wider, safer and faster consumer participation in e-commerce. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Portnoy on January 12, 2012, 03:29:28 AM Quote ...David Chaum's digital cash uses the building blocks of cryptography in an intriguing fashion to create a system with the following characteristics. Alice purchases digital "coins" from her bank - as with coins and notes, in a variety of denominations according to her likely spending. Each "coin" is a few hundred bytes or so of information, which she keeps in her computer(s) and/or on a floppy disk or a smart card designed for digital cash operations. There is no reason why she cannot make multiple copies of these coins - but she must be careful to spend each coin only once... - http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/1998-November/035933.html Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 03:31:57 AM Quote ...David Chaum's digital cash uses the building blocks of cryptography in an intriguing fashion to create a system with the following characteristics. Alice purchases digital "coins" from her bank - as with coins and notes, in a variety of denominations according to her likely spending. Each "coin" is a few hundred bytes or so of information, which she keeps in her computer(s) and/or on a floppy disk or a smart card designed for digital cash operations. There is no reason why she cannot make multiple copies of these coins - but she must be careful to spend each coin only once... - http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/1998-November/035933.html Interesting, but that's in 1998. Anything more recent? Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: legolouman on January 12, 2012, 03:32:47 AM I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical But I got the proof in hand, bitches. You caught me... I rounded up from 136. The creepy part is that I did as well. I rounded up from 136... By any chance are you me? Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on January 12, 2012, 03:35:11 AM I think I got it now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga
Quote Zynga (/ˈzɪŋɡə/) is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, United States.[5] And this: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/12/meet-the-new-hi5-its-game-time/ Quote If there’s been one shining star on social network applications platforms, it’s been casual gaming: Zynga is rumored to be making an absolute killing with their games, and Mochi Media’s unified Flash payment platform has shown some very impressive early results. Now hi5, one of the world’s most popular social networks, is looking to capitalize on the trend. On Wednesday, the social network will be launching a totally revamped site that places a much stronger emphasis on games and virtual currency, along with a new avatar system. The site won’t go live for everyone for a few days, but you can check it out now at http://new.hi5.com. The new hi5 still retains many of the same key features you’ll find on any social network — your profile consists of a photo or avatar, you can browse through your friends, and so on. But there’s clearly a much bigger emphasis on the site’s games and virtual currency (called ‘Coins’) than there was in the past. In the old design, the Games link was buried in the header, which also included links to Photos, Messages, Applications, and more. Now Games and Coins are both featured just as prominently as the link to your Profile and Friends. If it isn’t the first thing people will click on, it’s probably the second. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 03:35:19 AM I have a tested IQ of 140 and am skeptical But I got the proof in hand, bitches. You caught me... I rounded up from 136. The creepy part is that I did as well. I rounded up from 136... By any chance are you me? Are we fishing? Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: the joint on January 12, 2012, 03:39:57 AM I think I got it now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga Quote Zynga (/ˈzɪŋɡə/) is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, United States.[5] And this: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/12/meet-the-new-hi5-its-game-time/ Quote If there’s been one shining star on social network applications platforms, it’s been casual gaming: Zynga is rumored to be making an absolute killing with their games, and Mochi Media’s unified Flash payment platform has shown some very impressive early results. Now hi5, one of the world’s most popular social networks, is looking to capitalize on the trend. On Wednesday, the social network will be launching a totally revamped site that places a much stronger emphasis on games and virtual currency, along with a new avatar system. The site won’t go live for everyone for a few days, but you can check it out now at http://new.hi5.com. The new hi5 still retains many of the same key features you’ll find on any social network — your profile consists of a photo or avatar, you can browse through your friends, and so on. But there’s clearly a much bigger emphasis on the site’s games and virtual currency (called ‘Coins’) than there was in the past. In the old design, the Games link was buried in the header, which also included links to Photos, Messages, Applications, and more. Now Games and Coins are both featured just as prominently as the link to your Profile and Friends. If it isn’t the first thing people will click on, it’s probably the second. Bingo. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Portnoy on January 12, 2012, 03:42:19 AM Quote ...David Chaum's digital cash uses the building blocks of cryptography in an intriguing fashion to create a system with the following characteristics. Alice purchases digital "coins" from her bank - as with coins and notes, in a variety of denominations according to her likely spending. Each "coin" is a few hundred bytes or so of information, which she keeps in her computer(s) and/or on a floppy disk or a smart card designed for digital cash operations. There is no reason why she cannot make multiple copies of these coins - but she must be careful to spend each coin only once... - http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/1998-November/035933.html Interesting, but that's in 1998. Anything more recent? The year it declared bankruptcy. No, interesting is all. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: k9quaint on January 12, 2012, 05:19:07 AM We talking about Omar Little? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Little
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: m0w3r on January 12, 2012, 08:03:39 AM He recommended that I take 10-15% of my total assets and invest them in all available digital currencies. Has anyone done this? Are there other viable digital currencies besides bitcoin? (Well, I guess there are the alt chains of bitcoin, any others?) Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: hashman on January 12, 2012, 09:53:35 AM Special offer, I will test your IQ to any number N you like > 150 for (N-150) bitcoins.
If you would like another two letters I can assign another number to them for you at no additional cost. If you are still not satisfied I can make you CEO of as many corporations as you like for 200 bitcoins each. Other groups of three letters also available, inquire for daily specials. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: plastic.elastic on January 12, 2012, 12:24:18 PM Whats even more interesting is who would even hire a wack job like OP to work.
This fcker keeps making dumb threads everywhere. Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on January 12, 2012, 03:41:07 PM Whats even more interesting is who would even hire a wack job like OP to work. This fcker keeps making dumb threads everywhere. This post is not meant to dispute you claims, plastic.elastic. Personal, I kinda like the joint. I have also created my fair share of dumb threads, a couple of which took flight. Now Atlas, on the other hand, went a little overboard in my opinion, but some great discussions came from some of those threads. Matthew creates his fair share of threads also, of the which the same arguments I've just outlined for Atlas and I can apply. Again, I respect your opinion and just wanted to put my feelings on this issue in perspective, for all to read. ~Bruno~ Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: legolouman on January 13, 2012, 03:46:34 AM Why is the 'off topic entourage' in this thread?
Title: Re: Edit: Misleading Title. Interesting Experience Today Post by: rebuilder on January 13, 2012, 08:46:58 AM So this guy just offhandedly remarks that he's got 7 degrees and an abnormally high IQ? Was that before or after you shook hands? Maybe during?
I would be pretty leery of trusting anything someone like that says. |
