all this monkeying with bitcoin makes me think of the unix koan...

http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html

Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: “There is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C.”

The programmer, who was very proud of his mastery of C, said: “How can this be? C is the language in which the very kernel of Unix is implemented!”

Master Foo replied: “That is so. Nevertheless, there is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C.”

The programmer grew distressed. “But through the C language we experience the enlightenment of the Patriarch Ritchie! We become as one with the operating system and the machine, reaping matchless performance!”

Master Foo replied: “All that you say is true. But there is still more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C.”

The programmer scoffed at Master Foo and rose to depart. But Master Foo nodded to his student Nubi, who wrote a line of shell script on a nearby whiteboard, and said: “Master programmer, consider this pipeline. Implemented in pure C, would it not span ten thousand lines?”

The programmer muttered through his beard, contemplating what Nubi had written. Finally he agreed that it was so.

“And how many hours would you require to implement and debug that C program?” asked Nubi.

“Many,” admitted the visiting programmer. “But only a fool would spend the time to do that when so many more worthy tasks await him.”

“And who better understands the Unix-nature?” Master Foo asked. “Is it he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of the task, gains merit by not coding?”

Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened.

isn't that like saying the world economy is collapsing because andorra, and leichtenstein are going bust...

...although actually...

screen cap of possibly most profound fp ever...



nice work!

Not drinking tonight. Just up late trying to work but struggling. Procrastination is a killer. I might have a camomile tea I think.

When I first heard about BTC they were about $0.30 and you could (just) CPU mine. I started to set it up but got distracted. I think the fact I missed that mining opportunity might have made want to "put it right" hehe. I had all sorts of plans of running solar arrays in spain to power a mining farm. Mind blowing how fast it all moved. Surely some indication of what is to come if market penetration of the product follows the same pattern...?

Anyway that little black box that cost me 25BTC is now straining out 0.6mBTC a day, which makes me want to run solo to see if I get lucky but TGB says its a 100 years for me to find a block!?

Watch me hit a third before the year is out!

Mark Karpeles
Zhou Tong
Josh Zerlan

I know the name of all of these people that I sent bitcoin to. All of them looked legit at the time.

I have nothing against you, this is just answering your question "why won't people trust me?" .. its not *you* its other people that came before you that spoiled it for you.

...hold on a sec... Legendary!? When did that happen! 

They must let anyone in thesedays. All I ever did was trash talk spec forum. Legendary... lol.

Trying to get into mining has probably been the worst decision I made throughout it all. At the time it made sense. There's that hindsight again

Heh, I'm doing OK.

On the one hand I could lament that I barely had the cash to feed myself in 2011, so I really was scraping around for something *anything* to buy a few BTC with!

On the other hand it was only a dollar a coin

I know it sounds like I'm just playing it down but I've made for more money actually working than I have with BTC (...for now at least!)
 
Hindsight would have probably starved me to death!

Speaking of hindsight, my BFL SC60 just found its *second* block   alas I'm in a pool...

oh, how I laughed!

nice tread!

Although I am buy and hold, risk management means that during every run up I took money off the table. If I had the foresight to have just held everything since when I started I would be better of technically (by a factor of about x 3) but in selling on the way up and buying on the way down I've ended up in a pretty nice spot, have paid some bills and have a couple of bitcoin for a rainy day. If I had the discipline to have followed this algo...

...hindsight's a tough old bitch though eh

oblig...



you mean its not the charts !?

its rigged against traders silly.

so your argument consists of don't compare this to charts on other markets because *these* charts are minipulated, but the price is definitely going down because the charts you told us to ignore say that it has been going down before, so it must continue that way.

captiain fewcoins. few on coins, many on logics.

how about this fairly simple thing...



Thats *your* channel it broke out of on high volume...

or this one...

tell me about these facts.... what do you see in this chart...

I don't think we will ever see the same chart, because you only see what you want to.

only ~$61 to go

he's still got ~90mins here in the UK

I can understand the reticence, after all this is the wild west of bitcoin, but setting that aside for a second this looks like the 'killer' app that everyone (well, at least me) has been waiting for!?

Bitcoin wallet, on your iPhone, without trusting keys to a third party? Point and click payment! I'm pretty excited.

Now, on the downside, I just have to trust voisine, a random guy on the internet that wrote some code, or if you dig around a pretty reliable looking guy that has been involved in all sorts of software/startups/companies/projects. Social presence, bitcoin involvement going back some way, it would have to be a *really* long con....

Well, it wouldn't be the first time and I guess it won't be the last time I trust *someone*

Thanks for this voisine - plz don't steal my monehs