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I would gladly give up online gambling to get rid of Oboomba. Worst. President. Ever.
I value my personal freedom. He values his personal freedom. He just doesn't value my personal freedom.
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Doing my part.. I bought three..
Enigma
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gene,
you may want to stick to using fiat currencies that are well regulated by corrupt governments. If you invest in a bad-judgement and it turns out to be ponsi, said government will protect you by imprisoning said ponsi operator. No, you won't get your investment back, but the ponsi operators conviction will make you feel a lot better. bitcoin leaves you free to make your own choices, and then live with those choices. it seems you're not quite ready for that level of freedom.
Enigma
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It's not BS, it's just not necessarily a realistic number. Trading bots sometimes execute very small (.01 Bitcoin) trades at 'abnormal' prices in order to make people and other bots think that the market is moving in one direction or another.
try bitcoin.clarkmoody.com for (near) real-time executions, and you'll see what I mean.
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Couple possibilities here...
1) He's truly crazy. 100% batshit insane.
2) He has insider information making it an unfair bet.
3) He is actually working WITH pirateat40; ie. Pirate withholding payment until matt can extract as many bets as possible.
4) He has no ability and/or no intention to pay if/when he loses and is willing to risk his reputation to make a point that you all have yet again gambled your BTC on craziness.
Nuances aside, I see no other reasonable explanations for still accepting bets.
Enigma
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3-5 million is untraceable funds makes for a pretty easy disappearance.
He could go live in Jamaica the rest of his life and none of his lenders could ever find him.
Truly "Disappearing" is a lot harder than it seems. Very few people manage to pull it off when there are lot of people looking for them. People who have family have a VERY difficult time truly disappearing. |
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Does anyone know wtf he means ever by these vague statements? Is he seriously just saying "nobody gettin der money" ?
Are you seriously asking? Do you hope to one day find a real genie in a bottle? |
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No sense considering any longer. Pirate announced default with "no further information available". Watch the price of bitcoin for your expected reaction...
Enigma
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you see the 100k BTC xfer he just made? that's likely heading to Gox, which he will then fuck the market a little by dumping it, getting yet another ~ $1M USD for his scam.
I wouldn't assume that these 100K are headed for liquidation at Gox, (unless Pirateat40 controls 100 or so Gox accounts, which is unlikely) since this is now stolen money, and since that would be a bit transparent. I thought Gox was capable of blacklisting coins. Why don't they track the coins now? That way they would't let him cash out the stolen coins. My guess would be that most of the coins that were sent to him have been washed at GPUMAX. "The Coins" aren't "The Coins" any more - they're freshly mined coins courtesy of GPUMax Hashers. |
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Pirate was giving you 7% returns from the start, on a shady forum account, with absolutely no information regarding what he was putting the money towards or any guarantee on ever paying back, come on, think about it, why not just play poker? But calling me ignorant for over my small value invested in pirate is laughable, because you and I both know you shouldn't have put more than that in, in the first place.
Well I had nothing in Pirate as it was an obvious ponzi since day 1 in my opinion. And I don't mean to insult you really. But your comments were insensitive to people that have more than they can lose tied up with this stuff. Sure they should have known better but for people new to economics, investing, didn't have a lot of time to spend on forums, and when they did come to the forums there was always 5+ guys claiming how legit pirate was, we can't continue to blame them. Or refer to their loss as "a few bucks" Ponzi? Maybe. Don't know. What I do know is that no-one here had more tied up than they can afford to lose. There can't possibly be a single human being on this planet dumb enough to invest more into a risky venture than they can afford to never see again. I don't even invest more than I can afford to lose into EXTREMELY solid funds, and the amount I'm willing to invest into a questionable one is no more than I'm willing to stick into a Las Vegas slot machine. If someone was moronic enough to sink funds that they can't live without into a very risky venture (7% per week is risky no matter how you slice the bread), I'm all for letting Darwin's rule play itself out. Enigma |
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I'm not suggesting he is, and I'm not suggesting he isn't; but, it's entirely possible he is sitting on the beach of a non-extradition country sipping an umbrella drink and typing on a netbook connected to his shiny new satellite phone with internet tethered. Just because he's still occasionally posting or IRCing doesn't in any way mean that he is or is not "long gone".
Enigma
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Yep.. Hoping 14 is the top. I exited at 13.989. Come on pull back so I can get back in and pick up a few tenths  |
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Dump away... I didn't get nearly as many as I wanted, but I picked up a few on the cheap..
BTC bought: [tid:1345105934262789] 47.03000000 BTC at $13.15000
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I remember the old days when I used to run Folding @ Home on 100+ computers at work. The goal was to seriously find a cure for cancer. There was no financial gain back then. Boss found out after a while that every computer had 100% CPU usage, but no process listed, lol. I explained to him the project, how I did it all automatically with scripts, etc. I had to take down the cluster, but my boss was seriously impressed with my skills on how to handle a big cluster of folding machines. He later used my scripts that I developed to push out certain new software. It was such a win situation! I feel bad for these IT guys who get busted for bitcoin mining and the bosses don't recognize they actually have skills that can be guided towards being more productive. What ever happened to hackers that got hired by the company they hacked into because they proved their skills!?!?
Well, skills are great things to have, but most companies are far more interested in an employee's values and morals. Skills can be taught and molded, morals are pretty much set in stone by the time one reaches career age. Even in your case - while I don't ever agree with using someone's resources without their knowledge - you did it with good intentions. Curing cancer is a long way from making a buck with bitcoin and selling your employer's hardware on ebay. This guy wasn't a hacker (for good or bad), and his morals were obviously fuxed up. enigma |
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He can write an HTML website from scratch in notepad! Amazing!
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Pink Slip</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
DMetcalfe92, You're Fired. The Police are waiting for you in the lobby
</BODY>
</HTML>
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In case the data helps you..
[14/02/2012 00:22:03] Result: d4ca00d6 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:22:15] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:22:21] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[14/02/2012 00:22:26] Failed to connect, retrying...
[14/02/2012 00:22:38] Connected to server
[14/02/2012 00:22:43] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:22:45] Result: 40372455 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:22:50] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[14/02/2012 00:22:51] Connected to server
[14/02/2012 00:22:53] Result: 5e75f1ea accepted
[14/02/2012 00:23:03] Result: b8d90f6e accepted
[14/02/2012 00:23:08] Result: b9bd9bb1 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:23:18] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:23:18] Result: 00692bce accepted
[14/02/2012 00:23:24] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[14/02/2012 00:23:28] Result: e29f4e2e rejected
[14/02/2012 00:23:33] Failed to connect, retrying...
[14/02/2012 00:23:41] Connected to server
[14/02/2012 00:23:50] Result: ce97bca1 rejected
[14/02/2012 00:24:08] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:24:09] Result: da1ca2f2 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:24:15] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[14/02/2012 00:24:20] Failed to connect, retrying...
[14/02/2012 00:24:34] Connected to server
[14/02/2012 00:24:46] Result: ebca339d accepted
[14/02/2012 00:24:58] Result: 050388da accepted
[14/02/2012 00:25:00] Result: 61bcfb1f accepted
[14/02/2012 00:25:09] Result: 6e386e7b rejected
[14/02/2012 00:25:14] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:25:19] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[14/02/2012 00:25:24] Failed to connect, retrying...
[14/02/2012 00:25:35] Connected to server
[14/02/2012 00:25:43] Result: 596ea460 rejected
[14/02/2012 00:25:48] Result: e930c87c rejected
[14/02/2012 00:26:14] Result: 74340a11 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:26:22] Result: 25467915 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:26:36] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:26:39] Result: eb1842d3 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:26:40] Result: 59e1d34d accepted
[14/02/2012 00:26:42] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[14/02/2012 00:26:43] Connected to server
[14/02/2012 00:26:51] Result: aea595d5 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:26:53] Result: a1756f1d accepted
[14/02/2012 00:27:28] Result: 72abbb0a accepted
[14/02/2012 00:27:39] Result: 67f35211 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:27:40] Result: 937133b1 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:27:52] Result: 2f3d6c32 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:28:02] Result: f3c76bd3 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:28:09] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:28:10] Result: a06c7401 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:28:16] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[14/02/2012 00:28:20] Result: 97af5686 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:28:25] Failed to connect, retrying...
[14/02/2012 00:28:32] Connected to server
[14/02/2012 00:28:37] Result: 7e53aa4f accepted
[14/02/2012 00:28:42] Result: 58cdb711 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:28:44] Result: 3f1de6a1 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:28:58] Result: d150df19 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:29:15] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:29:15] Result: b2e5dcc7 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:29:19] Result: 70db4ecd accepted
[14/02/2012 00:29:21] Result: cb6ae732 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:29:21] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[14/02/2012 00:29:26] Failed to connect, retrying...
[14/02/2012 00:29:37] Connected to server
[14/02/2012 00:29:52] Result: 52c71900 accepted
[14/02/2012 00:30:13] Result: 79cbb2be rejected
[14/02/2012 00:30:18] Disconnected from server
[14/02/2012 00:30:22] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
I'm going to fall back to my regular pool for now.. I'm disconnected more often than I'm connected right now, and it's beginning to hurt..
Hope to hear some good news soon!
Engima
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Agreed. Wouldn't it be easier to just steal the cash out of your parents' wallets?
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Most non-consumer lithium ion/lithium polymer cells do not have a built in protection circuit, and they WILL take a charge at MANY C - This degrades the cell though. In some cases, pretty seriously..
If you haven't witnessed the actual failure of a Lithium cell, consider yourself lucky. They often fail in a spectacular way.
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LiPo batteries have a max charge rate of a few C. Charging them faster can damage them and lead to catastrophic failure. The absolute fastest you're going to charge any LiPo battery is about 15 minutes at 4C charge rate.
Enigma
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Never mind.. I'm even dumber than I like to admit to.. At some point, I must have had communications problems with GPUMAX. My miner switched to the backup pool, and I didn't even notice..
Enigma
We all make stupid mistakes. I fell for a phishing scam a month ago... hope that makes you feel a bit better. ouch. It makes me feel better knowing I'm not the only moron at times - but I'm not happy about it. Hate to hear of people getting screwed.. Sorry you got phished... |
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