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Here's my theory.
1. God either created the universe, or the universe spontaneously arose for no apparent reason.
2. Humanity emerged at somepoint and became sentient.
3. Early Humans felt a spiritual connection with the world, and alot of things that happened around them seemed to be of mystical nature.
4. Someone started writing religious documents to attempt to control the instincts (we call human instincts emotions, but they are still instincts) of a populace prone to rage and violence.
5. Some people found that through the bible, quran, or whatever else they followed the could get a spiritual form of moral guidance through their newfound religion, and stuck with it.
6. Some other people were spooked by the "Fire and Brimstone" messages in said religious texts, leading them to latch onto religion out of fear without true understanding and connection the Creator.
8. My Conclusion:
Good People = have a conscious and make conscious effort to make amends for any bad things they do. If there's a heaven, logic tells you thats where these people go.
Bad People = have no moral conscious. if there's a hell, thats probably where they go.
Am i wrong? Probably. Do i care? Not a bit. I will continue to strive to do right in my life, and praise God whether he exists or not. I believe that he does, but if you don't, thats your right and i respect it.
(Red colorization mine.) How does one perceive “right” (r3wt) in such a way as to prove (at least, to oneself) that it exists objectively? That a slippery slope. There are the obvious things. Murder, Bullying, Abuse, Stealing,Scamming, etc. Then there are the little things, like being rude to other people or hurting other people intentionally(emotional), disrespecting other people, telling lies about people. Some people have a type of moral compass, whether they admit it or not. Like when you did something bad and it hurts you so bad to even think about it that it makes you want to cry. It appears that some other people never experience this. PS: you acidentally linked to perceive twice- |
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When in doubt, blame Vod.
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Yes I can gamble it, I have a lot of bitcoin from the early years (2011-2012) and for me it is not a problem. I can afford to lose them and gamble them, good luck guys!
Ok looks like you're not losing your shirt or anything, but have a mission to get your bitcoin back from the casinos haha. That reminds me of my original bitcoin investment and how i lost it. I had an old Dell duocore laptop i used to cold storage my bitcoins. i have two laptops at the time, the one i still have and the one i had then. i had a laptop baggy foreach. identical bags, with a front pouch. in one of the pouches, i kept a usb drive with a text file of all the private keys for my cold storage addresses. just in case that something happened to my cold storage laptop. I was storing approximately 325 btc on this cold storage computer. i bought at less than 3 dollars a coin, so thats not a huge investment.
Now here's what happened:
A supposed friend showed up early one morning and asked if he could borrow my computer. i said sure, just take it to the living room and surf, but i'm going back to sleep. when i woke up, my pc was sitting on my desk, but my cold storage laptop was gone along with its carrying case. When they caught the guy, he was high on crak, having traded my laptop for about 25 dollars worth of crack. he never rolled on his dealer, and to this day i wonder what happened to my bitcoins and my laptop. If i would have had that pc when bitcoin hit its high of $1150 a coin, i would be a fairly wealthy man right now. Later on the guy apologized to me "You had two laptops bro, i figured you wouldn't miss the old one much" was his excuse.
That was one expensive hit of crack. Curious as to how a friendship works with a crack user/addict? Well you grow up with people your whole life, so you know them and have a certain amount of trust in them. a child hood best friend. We all did drugs and stuff. some of us couldn't stop. he'd been in my house hundreds of times and never stolen. |
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Discuss how much you have lost and how.
Oh the pain that i feel when i think about it lol! I have lost around 25btc for several reasons, I’ve lost at least 10btc on gambling! I have had my computer crash without a back up in my early days in BTC Another 12 BTC I have been scammed by altcoins and in the digital goods 'my fault not using escrow' I have earned about that back from trading and getting lucky on a few alt coins but still not nice remembering you could have that extra if you would have used your brain. That reminds me of my original bitcoin investment and how i lost it. I had an old Dell duocore laptop i used to cold storage my bitcoins. i have two laptops at the time, the one i still have and the one i had then. i had a laptop baggy foreach. identical bags, with a front pouch. in one of the pouches, i kept a usb drive with a text file of all the private keys for my cold storage addresses. just in case that something happened to my cold storage laptop. I was storing approximately 325 btc on this cold storage computer. i bought at less than 3 dollars a coin, so thats not a huge investment. Now here's what happened: A supposed friend showed up early one morning and asked if he could borrow my computer. i said sure, just take it to the living room and surf, but i'm going back to sleep. when i woke up, my pc was sitting on my desk, but my cold storage laptop was gone along with its carrying case. When they caught the guy, he was high on crak, having traded my laptop for about 25 dollars worth of crack. he never rolled on his dealer, and to this day i wonder what happened to my bitcoins and my laptop. If i would have had that pc when bitcoin hit its high of $1150 a coin, i would be a fairly wealthy man right now. Later on the guy apologized to me "You had two laptops bro, i figured you wouldn't miss the old one much" was his excuse. |
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I would replace the JSON RPC with some form of bi-directional long lived connection. websockets for instance could be perfect. websockets over tls offers a long lived, low latency ish connection between app and the bitcoin client. i think it would be awesome.
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Someone needs to get these guys up to speed.   Breaking news! Vod's identity revealed!
#DOXXED #EXPOSED |
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My lawnmower failed to start earlier today. Upon examination, i discovered that Vod was hiding in the carburetor, causing it to blowback gasoline into the airfilter. Having carefully examined the evidence, i have came to the conclusion that Vod is indeed solely to blame for the problems with the Lawnmower.
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I have lost :
~19 BTC @ vircurex - due to hacks claims of site owner ( I was out of city , got barely internet connection when it happened)
~10-15 BTC(equivalent of 64k DGC at that time ) @ cryptoave- due to unabilty of site owner baritus
~12-15 BTC @ ltcgear scam
~5 BTC at bitcoin stocks (like AM , MergedMining and old stocks)
Totally I have lost about 45-55 BTC. Good lessons for me.
You forgot to mention the 16(.6 btc IIRC) shares you invested with me in OpenEx.  Besides , I was really liked your open exchange idea. At first , It wasnt my main idea to get more profit. I was just excited to see an open exchange funded by me (even it was small portion). I really didnt worried about what I invested. However, It was sad to see hack things and I was worried about other peoples' fund. Even if you didnt want to pay investors money, I was OK , because I knew it was risky like all start-ups. Anyway , I think its not a lost and want to appreciate for your efforts after all. Yes,that is correct. I don't know if you noticed or not but i did send your first payment monday morning of this week. :-) I will be the first to admit, that it was all my fault. I trusted someone else to code the exchange, and paid them, and they just straight up f***ed me over, and i tried to pick up the work from there but i obviously was not a very good programmer at the time. OpenEx will be back some day, i'm working very hard on it. I don't like to brag, but i did take this lesson to heart, and as of now i am a full time employed Professional Web Developer. I thank you for understanding and not piling on me like alot of other people did. You are a very nice person. I hope that the kindness you have displayed towards me comes back to you 10 fold I will leave you with a sneaky little preview of what i do in my spare time after work:  |
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Since 2012, we've prided ourselves on putting you, our bettors, first. To us, this means providing great customer service, and best-in-class security measures to protect your funds.
As of a couple of weeks ago, some of the metrics triggering a manual review were revised and strengthened. As expected, more withdrawals are now being caught. The majority of these are still processed in fewer than 8 minutes.
There can definitely be a debate around the speed of a withdraw vs the security benefit a brief review of the withdraw. After reading today's comments, we know that some of you place more value on speed. This is something we'll take very seriously as we strive to achieve the right balance.
We've read the last handful of posts and have passed these concerns onto the security and technical teams for their review. While we further tweak the requirements, we'll take these complaints seriously.
Again, we believe that in certain cases, occasionally taking a few minutes to review a withdrawal is in your best interest.
Thanks for your understanding!
Nitrogen Sports
This is definitely the right call. It is better to be safe than sorry. |
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I have lost :
~19 BTC @ vircurex - due to hacks claims of site owner ( I was out of city , got barely internet connection when it happened)
~10-15 BTC(equivalent of 64k DGC at that time ) @ cryptoave- due to unabilty of site owner baritus
~12-15 BTC @ ltcgear scam
~5 BTC at bitcoin stocks (like AM , MergedMining and old stocks)
Totally I have lost about 45-55 BTC. Good lessons for me.
You forgot to mention the 16(.6 btc IIRC) shares you invested with me in OpenEx. |
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The fact that red-shift stars have now been shown to simply be young stars nearby, rather than old stars zooming away from us at high speed, shows that the universe is much smaller than previously thought. In fact, the universe is so small that there is no way that a Big Bang could have happened. In addition, black holes don't exist. This is because there isn't enough time (the universe is much smaller than thought, and time is much shorter than thought) for formation of black holes. In addition, electric cosmos theory is way more practical that any of the standard cosmology theories of today. Many modern, so-called scientific theories are not even theories. They are simply touted as such by scientists who want an excuse to continue to be funded so they can keep on playing at what they do. Creationists don't even have anything close to a therory. They just have a book from the iron age. Science have moved forward. Sadly some people are still stuck in the dark ages believing their book is the truth because the book says so. Thats all the evidence they need Here's my theory. 1. God either created the universe, or the universe spontaneously arose for no apparent reason. 2. Humanity emerged at somepoint and became sentient. 3. Early Humans felt a spiritual connection with the world, and alot of things that happened around them seemed to be of mystical nature. 4. Someone started writing religious documents to attempt to control the instincts (we call human instincts emotions, but they are still instincts) of a populace prone to rage and violence. 5. Some people found that through the bible, quran, or whatever else they followed the could get a spiritual form of moral guidance through their newfound religion, and stuck with it. 6. Some other people were spooked by the "Fire and Brimstone" messages in said religious texts, leading them to latch onto religion out of fear without true understanding and connection the Creator. 8. My Conclusion: Good People = have a conscious and make conscious effort to make amends for any bad things they do. If there's a heaven, logic tells you thats where these people go. Bad People = have no moral conscious. if there's a hell, thats probably where they go. Am i wrong? Probably. Do i care? Not a bit. I will continue to strive to do right in my life, and praise God whether he exists or not. I believe that he does, but if you don't, thats your right and i respect it. Alternatively some people have never understood why other people have needed a god, and rather than being spooked by religion find it irrelevant. I'm well aware of these people; i just find them irrelevant...  Well, I'm sure those people find that very encouraging, as opposed to the religious types that try to convert them, or make unfounded accusations about their morals. Just as i found it encouraging when you refer to religion as "irrelevant". respect is a two way street. |
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i've pretty much come to the conclusion that it is the laptop. its just out of warranty too. bah humbug
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Your best bet is probably oDesk. Unfortunately, they do not accept bitcoin that i am aware of.
If you are insistent on keeping the money in this community, it would be wise to have 3rd party code review commissioned, and have the transaction escrowed.
Theoretically, the way you can accomplish this to protect both parties:
Client places money in escrow
Developer provides online accessible demo for testing
Client notifies escrower to request code
Developer provides code
Escrower releases funds to Developer
Everyone is happy.
It might also be beneficial if you could throw out more specific details, and an estimated budget.
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The fact that red-shift stars have now been shown to simply be young stars nearby, rather than old stars zooming away from us at high speed, shows that the universe is much smaller than previously thought. In fact, the universe is so small that there is no way that a Big Bang could have happened. In addition, black holes don't exist. This is because there isn't enough time (the universe is much smaller than thought, and time is much shorter than thought) for formation of black holes. In addition, electric cosmos theory is way more practical that any of the standard cosmology theories of today. Many modern, so-called scientific theories are not even theories. They are simply touted as such by scientists who want an excuse to continue to be funded so they can keep on playing at what they do. Creationists don't even have anything close to a therory. They just have a book from the iron age. Science have moved forward. Sadly some people are still stuck in the dark ages believing their book is the truth because the book says so. Thats all the evidence they need Here's my theory. 1. God either created the universe, or the universe spontaneously arose for no apparent reason. 2. Humanity emerged at somepoint and became sentient. 3. Early Humans felt a spiritual connection with the world, and alot of things that happened around them seemed to be of mystical nature. 4. Someone started writing religious documents to attempt to control the instincts (we call human instincts emotions, but they are still instincts) of a populace prone to rage and violence. 5. Some people found that through the bible, quran, or whatever else they followed the could get a spiritual form of moral guidance through their newfound religion, and stuck with it. 6. Some other people were spooked by the "Fire and Brimstone" messages in said religious texts, leading them to latch onto religion out of fear without true understanding and connection the Creator. 8. My Conclusion: Good People = have a conscious and make conscious effort to make amends for any bad things they do. If there's a heaven, logic tells you thats where these people go. Bad People = have no moral conscious. if there's a hell, thats probably where they go. Am i wrong? Probably. Do i care? Not a bit. I will continue to strive to do right in my life, and praise God whether he exists or not. I believe that he does, but if you don't, thats your right and i respect it. Alternatively some people have never understood why other people have needed a god, and rather than being spooked by religion find it irrelevant. I'm well aware of these people; i just find them irrelevant... |
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You can buy BTC with paypal debit card/credit card at two other places: Coin.mx and Circle.com Both are american companies registered with Fincen, IE they are completely legitimate. I will rate each of them based on my own personal dealings: Coin.mx C+Circle.com B| Metric | | Coin.mx | Circle | | Customer Service | | A+ | D | | Fees | | C | A+ | | Exchange Rate | | C | A+ | | Verification | | C- | A+ | | Ease of use | | B | C | | Deposit/Withdrawal waiting times | | A+ | A+ | | Withdrawal/Deposit Limits | | C | F |
For now i think Circle is clearly superior, but beforwarned: it was designed to be used by idiots. To send BTC, use the "send money" tab. To send USD use the deposit/withdraw tab. I know its completely counterintuitive. I accidentally withdrew twice to my bank account when attempting to send btc. Their interface is just weird. you can choose which currency to send in, which only adds to the confusion. A hidden service fee will be applied from the bank for deposits made from debit card authorizations. the fee is much higher than coin.mx's fee, but is the only fee associated with using the service. everything else is free as in open source. For coin.mx they are decent, but if you aren't careful they will get you with a lowball exchange rate. they also have a hidden service fee at the bank for debit card purchases. They advertise debit cards at a lower fee to sucker you in, but on their exchange you can only use the credit card option, unless you are one of those dumb people with your information floating around in online databases, since that is the only type of verification they offer. The verification process for a card is trippy as fuck. you have like 30 seconds to get a clear video shot of your face, front and back of your card then front and back of your photo id. after that, verification is pretty much instant. their support staff is available 24/7 and you can just say hey, i verified my card they will review it and send off the verification to their legal dept,and bam you're ready to go. There fee's suck, but they are a good backup in case you hit your limit at Circle and need more. |
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The fact that red-shift stars have now been shown to simply be young stars nearby, rather than old stars zooming away from us at high speed, shows that the universe is much smaller than previously thought. In fact, the universe is so small that there is no way that a Big Bang could have happened. In addition, black holes don't exist. This is because there isn't enough time (the universe is much smaller than thought, and time is much shorter than thought) for formation of black holes. In addition, electric cosmos theory is way more practical that any of the standard cosmology theories of today. Many modern, so-called scientific theories are not even theories. They are simply touted as such by scientists who want an excuse to continue to be funded so they can keep on playing at what they do. Creationists don't even have anything close to a therory. They just have a book from the iron age. Science have moved forward. Sadly some people are still stuck in the dark ages believing their book is the truth because the book says so. Thats all the evidence they need Here's my theory. 1. God either created the universe, or the universe spontaneously arose for no apparent reason. 2. Humanity emerged at somepoint and became sentient. 3. Early Humans felt a spiritual connection with the world, and alot of things that happened around them seemed to be of mystical nature. 4. Someone started writing religious documents to attempt to control the instincts (we call human instincts emotions, but they are still instincts) of a populace prone to rage and violence. 5. Some people found that through the bible, quran, or whatever else they followed the could get a spiritual form of moral guidance through their newfound religion, and stuck with it. 6. Some other people were spooked by the "Fire and Brimstone" messages in said religious texts, leading them to latch onto religion out of fear without true understanding and connection the Creator. 8. My Conclusion: Good People = have a conscious and make conscious effort to make amends for any bad things they do. If there's a heaven, logic tells you thats where these people go. Bad People = have no moral conscious. if there's a hell, thats probably where they go. Am i wrong? Probably. Do i care? Not a bit. I will continue to strive to do right in my life, and praise God whether he exists or not. I believe that he does, but if you don't, thats your right and i respect it. |
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BTC blockchain is the horse, a slow one, maybe a donkey.
more like a pig, moving only a few feet at a time in a pile of its own feces, eating a handful of transactions, shitting out 25 coins and a block, then sleeping for 10 minutes |
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Maybe bitcoin foundation can act as an authorized code reviewer and publish the certified software and hardware
That's a damn good idea Not really. You still need to trust the reviewers. And the Bitcoin foundation is broke and nobody trusts them. You only need to trust one person who has reviewed the code. I'm not necessarily endorsing review from the foundation. But maybe an open review platform. such as [1]Codereview? [1] http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ |
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