Bitcoin Forum

#bitcoin-cabal on Freenode. It is RESTRICTED with ChanServ, so you will need to be added to join.

I am giving away 10 free invites to any full member or above who hasn't been trolling or stupid recently. After those are exhausted, it will cost 0.25 BTC to get added to the access list.

A very nice place!

Now with added Gribbly goodness! Thanks nanotube!

Can I haz an invites? My nickname is mewantsbitcoins and I usually only watch  :)

Done.

much obliged

I'm not a troll, but I am noob here (not a noob to bitcoin though).

Any chance?

IRC nick?

Not a noob, but apparently an idiot :)

IRC nickname is handburglar (didn't want to use it here, people may think I was trying to steal their bitcoins)

Done.

I would like in.  My IRC nick is Jere_Jones and is registered.

Jere

Done.

IRC is yrral86 if there are any spots left... thanks.

done

Hmm... It's telling me I'm banned.  I am using the nick I gave you.  Any ideas?

Jere

Ah, you did 2 underscores. I only added Jere_Jones.

And we're out of free invites!

To join now, you must give me 0.25 BTC... ask ITT and get an address.

With 2 underscores is my "alternate" when Jere_Jones is taken.  I normally use the single underscore.  The first time I attempted to get in, it did boot me out which surprised me.  Then I noticed I was using the double underscore.  So I closed IRC and reopened it.  Now I'm back to single underscore and still banned.

Jere

ChanServ derpily banned your hostmask. Fixed.

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Thanks,
Jere

Forgive me if this is off topic, but this gave me a related idea...

Create a channel that anybody can join, but nobody can talk (by default). In order to speak, you must pay. I'm thinking something like 0.0001 BTC per character (off the top of my head). To do this, you message gribble and it gives you an address, you send some coins there and they are on your account.

edit... Heck, I just realized that since it's the same gribble across all channels, then the channel can be invite only, and you have to pay to join as well.

Yeah, I could just integrate gribble into this if nanotube OKs it.

Oooooh a bitcoin secret society? I wonder what they are plotting right now.

Just controlling the exchange rates, nothing big.

That freeze on mtgox trades? Can't say too much, but yeah.

I'd like to join. IRC nick is DareC

Let me know where to send the 0.25.

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Just so you know, charging for channel acces is likely against FreeNode's Terms of Service (and since you're doing it so openly and obviously, all anyone would have to do is point a FreeNode channel operator to this thread and you're done for).  I'm not necessarily opposed to a fee-based member's only club in principle, but if you're going to do it, you have to find another network.

In case you weren't aware, FreeNode is a non-profit, donation-supported IRC network dedicated to peer-directed projects.  That's why so many Free Software projects have their chat rooms there (Ubuntu, Python, Wikipedia, etc.; you name it).  Charging for access to a room on a non-profit IRC network is just bad form regardless, unless you're going to turn around and donate all of your proceeds to FreeNode so they can keep the network running.

Oh, yep, I'm donating everything to Freenode. Not for-profit at all, just a way of keeping out the trolls.

(In fact, I considered just putting donations into a blackhole address, but figured to donate to FN instead.)

But if it's to avoid trolling, why stop people from just joining?

Why would anyone want to join a pay-per-character channel?

I could sort of understand it if there was a huge audience for such a thing, in which case paying for the right to say something would be equivalent to paying for television ads, but there won't be a huge audience.

We're currently in free-to-join hour! Come on in and preview it.