I took these photos before the opening program at btc 2013 conference tonight.

Good luck with your pooled baby mining.

Sort of unfair to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person, but I need to make an exception in your case, mainly because you have the gall to post personal dissatisfaction as a PSA.

My engagement with BTC goes back about 2 years.

Because I'm not an expert I engage with people that really DO know of which they speak, people like Steve Gibson from sgrc.com, people on this forum, the tech press and more recently the " Let's talk Bitcoin" podcast.

Based on my experience I'll continue to support Mt. Gox, they've done me no harm at all, on the contrary I believe their service has been excellent.

Made a point all my life not to become susceptible to the negative influences of other people (SNIOPS), you Sir, are a SNIOP.

As for rain, we experience approximately 300 mm per annum here, but you get that, living on the edge of desert country, perhaps it's you that's a bit water logged.

Keith

the wisdom contained in this forum

the wisdom contained in this forum

Tell that to the crews of the hundreds of ships that were hijacked by Somalian pirates.

So ive had to replace my mt gox yubikey 3 times so far.

after about 9 months it just stops lighting up and no longer works....

i never mishandle it, its either in the usb port or in a safe place.

any thoughts? anyone else experience this?

I think we can build a new type of marine force with this. Remember the vomit scene in "Stand by me"? We could call it the marine hurler. Imagine disabling a ship by pure vomiticity.

You're funny, but you might not be as smart as you think you are... in this case, what you're doing is "arguing against reality". Time to re-think.

Honduras is still trying to get this stuff to go through with a willing president and willing Congress and they are still having trouble with the bleeding hearts that do not want unbridled freedom in their country. Even after promising that 80% of the jobs would go to locals.

There is no country in this world that is friendly enough to freedom to get this done in a year.

Honduras had the law all set, everything ready to go but the lawyers and liberals fought it all the way to their Supreme Court and got it overturned. There was a lot of money behind it too.

Just being in talks with someone high up in government is going to do you no good unless that person is a dictator, which means he can let you build your city and he can also take it away.

Looking at the conference schedule I think it's going to be the Blueseed ship.

Session 1: "Here's our Bitcoin startups ship full of Bitcoin startups!"
Session 2: "Oh, and we're our own nation. Bitcoin!"

<mircea_popescu> pula mea, is ticniti la cap. pai tu ai fost vre-odata pe nava ?
<mircea_popescu> pariu cu tine ca 50% din hecari isi varsa matele.

<mircea_popescu> my cock, they're smacked in the head. you ever been on a ship ?
<mircea_popescu> i'll bet you half the haxxors will puke their guts out.

who is a staunch ally of the United States and a fierce opponent of communism. No legislature exists

Really, are they related in any way other than they both have something to do with bitcoins and their name starts with Coin?

I think we are all well aware of the problem but can you discuss a solution? Can you propose any approach we might take towards establishing a decentralized secure exchange?

crud

Actually, you can't tell.  Here's how the scam works:

• You give CB the ability to take your cash in trade for a promise that they'll give you btc at a certain rate.
• CB spends some cash they already have to buy some btc at the rate (minus their 1%, of course).
• CB now has the ability to sell some btc that they just bought with their own money, but they wait to see:
  
  • A) what the price does, and
  • B) How likely it is that you'll do a charge back.
• A few days later, the price is either higher or lower:
  
  • If it's higher, they sell their btc and send you a "fraud notice", but only on one out of a thousand transactions that are for enough btc to make it worth their while.  On the other 999 transactions that they deem worthy of scamming, they do what they'd do if it's lower:
  • If it's lower, they sell their btc to you as you wanted and get their 1% fee.

The point is that they don't need our money if they already have some (which, of course, they do).

However, I think its foolish to expect other people not to scam you if you don't make it difficult for them to scam you.  The easiest way to make it difficult is to be one of the squeaky wheels.  Make it easy for the public to see whether or not your counterparty is scamming you.  Bitcoin was designed with this principle in mind.  See what Satoshi said about it - it's in my signature.  When you publish enough, it becomes difficult for the scammer to use you as a mark.  At that point, if they're smart (Coinbase is pretty smart), they will use you as an unwitting shill.

If I suspect that I am being used as an unwitting shill to support a long con, and I know that I am benefiting from it (whether I'm a con or not), is it immoral for me to present both sides of the question and suggest that I believe the operators are legit?  For me, they are legit, perhaps only because I have made it too difficult for them to con me.  If they are scammers, but smart enough, they can play it in a way that makes it difficult for me to find out for sure if it's a con.

The opportunity exists for a small team to devise a plan that produces the evidence required to prove (to those willing to consider it and smart enough to understand it) that it is a con.  You can't prove it isn't a con, because every trusted person can abuse the trust, making the interaction that created the trust into a long con.  But you can prove it is a con, IF it is a con.  It just takes a lot of work.  You can view bitcoin as the "lot of work" required to prove that fiat currency is a long con.

buttcoin is an anti-bitcoin site. They are a bit sore as their years of predicting bitcoin's imminent demise has not paned out.

I wonder what will happen to the price of BTC when the doors on this scam are blown wide open

If you think i'm calling out people i work with on a bitcoin forum then your grasp on reality must be a struggle.  A more productive response would be some sort of rebuttal to my argument.

I don't think it is fair to bash Coinbase just because they have a similar name to CoinLab. The link you cite seems to conflate the two as the same thing, but they are actually different, and it is just plain dishonest to make a mistake like that and not fix it in the article. That might be libel?

I know, right? 

What are the barriers to entry for someone interested in moving?

You do more damage than good when trying to be the public relations for a service or an event.

I asked you a simple questions (yes I trolled you, MP was told at the time) and you went off on off-topic rants attacking me personally and all that other lulz.

I know you do not like me cuz AsicMiner has done so much better than your now blocked in the USA s.dice gambling service but really as a PR girl you are failing hard almost all the time. Being one of the most ignored people on the forum is also telling. How can you give relations to a public that can't or wont listen to you?

Don't take it personal, just was giving your master some friendly advice. He can do with it what he will.

Best of luck and I really hope you don't end up back in your old job.

There seems to be a misconception among some people that specifications are the same as performance...they are not.  If you want to get technical about it, even the circuit boards are specifications, where performance is the end result of the specifications.  The people i asked were well aware of all information, they just know that i asked about "Advertised Performance".  It's kind of like the people talking about stacking GPUs in a box.  A GPU is not an ASIC, and arguments like that from bitbet representatives only confirm what most people reading this thread have figured out.