Feel free to submit recipes. I'm leaning towards John McAfee's Dick Under Glass.
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This is not a self-moderated topic entitled ...[Plead] Phinnaeus Gage's User Moniker Manifested Due to a Malignant Brain Tumor
, or: ... For those not versed, here's the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage.Definitive proof of hospitalization depicted in the images below: Spoiler alert: End of this thread is a solicitation for donations.I have Glioblastoma, given ~2 months to live. I am currently at Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas, in quarantine for two weeks. Been in the hospital three times with no options for chemo etc. For those are not versed is who I am ... April fools! I was surprised (and laughing) at how many people took this seriously. I thought that this was way more obvious than last year, but I guess not. - Politeness was how many times you used "please", "sir", "pardon", "apprecia*", "may I", "thanks", and "thank you" in past posts. This is poking a bit of fun at the people who are unnecessarily polite like this. - Imagination was how many times you posted an image tag in past posts. - Coins was how many distinct "coins" you mentioned in past posts. A coin was reckoned as any three-letter acronym (so Satoshi got several from things like "FYI" and "CIA"), as well as any word ending in "coin" (like "Bitcoin"). It was distinct coins, so if you posted the word "bitcoin" 100 times, that'd still only count as 1. - fMerit was calculated according to the posted algorithm. That algorithm is, as nullius pointed out, the min of three runs with different seeds of a linear congruential pseudorandom number generator using the glibc constants. - Virtue was the edit distance between your name and "Lauda".  - Karma was as described. Part of the joke with Conway's Game of Life is that since the game is turing-complete, figuring out whether a given configuration terminates equals the halting problem, which is undecidable in the general case. (Though it's maybe not actually undecidable with only an 8x10 input board.) The other part of the joke is that it's just so ridiculous to decide rank in this way, but I guess a lot of people didn't pick up on that... I had kind of wanted to actually have a running game-of-life board in JavaScript on everyone's profile, but I didn't have time. (BTW, when are we getting Conway-GoL-Coin? It's Turing-complete! ) Top 20 in Coins| Gleb Gamow | 1867 |
| BitcoinNational | 1849 |
| gjhiggins | 1675 |
| Phinnaeus Gage | 1541 |
| philipma1957 | 1444 |
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Gleb/Phinnaeus wins the award for best Bitcointalker overall!  I have lost use of my right hand. It took me two days to pen this PO. [Plead]Seeking money (~$20,000) for a burial plot in DeMotte, Indiana, funeral expenses, and transportation expenses for the my corpse body from Nevada to Indiana. All my siblings (Bruce, Bryan, Belinda, Brenda and Beth) are in Illinois and Indiana will I'll never see again. BTC: 1FkHCFv8PN1kerJct3RsQQpMcRoTnx2vWe BCH: qzsuz2ju3n90rx8y7tr9l20jmgntqtepzctx4a9mg0 ETH: 0xDc4cC2A875Bfa8df8156f745cbe0C16F6F985d22 Stellar: GACZLMZRGCAMYVYXDEXGFTEAPVQPOW6VABBE6S44ZNQXVRUXQUMXAOIG Thank you. Bruno Kucinskas PS: AMA.
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have you watched the first series of the TV show called "startup"
No, but I remember when it first made the scene. Anybody else have ideas re the plot et al. of the proposed movie? |
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I win the bounty! I win the bounty! There was a bounty for finding his desk, wasn't there? From the Desk of Tom Williams Here to claim the bounty once again (maybe this time for real) ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_RouxPaul Calder Le Roux
Born 24 December 1972 (age 46)
Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Other names
Alexander
Benny
John Bernard Bowlins, Bernard John Bowlins
Johan, John Paul Leroux (or Leraux)
Johan William Smit
William Vaughn Inspired by https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536.187.0.pdfand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381625and: https://ylilauta.org/kryptovaluutat/99793976A few days ago, Craig Wright's court case posted a redacted document where the Craig described a crime boss.
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536.187.0.pdf
Most of the Mentions were censored, but they missed one on page 4 from page 3). Over the last few days I've been out-and-out, and I've figured it out.
Here's the real crypto black pill: Bitcoin was a project of a Evil Genius whose full name is Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux. They are the ones who want to use the Crypto Capital. Unfortunately, they are still in the midst of a law enforcement, and they are going to spend the rest of their lives.
But how does Craig Wright fit into all this?
Craig Wright was an employee of Le Roux, who was a vaguely aware of the Bitcoin project. Craig was an Informant who helped bring down Le Roux, Craig managed (Dave Kleiman) of Solotshi's coins are locked away in secure TrueCrypt volumes (TrueCrypt being another software that Le Roux developed). They have been trying to crack them but with no success.
Another of Craig's long-time friends, Calvin Ayre, has a set of warehouses for computers to try to crack the counter fortunes; his mining activity is simply the first thing to do. Craig is being set up as 'The Real Satoshi' so that when the coins are finally unlocked, they can legitimately sell them off. |
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LOL it was a marketing tactics of a news portal they are calling themselves PIA News. Totally wast of time. Just check the reactions they got on the promotion video comments. People are pissed :-P Edit: LOL they disabled the comment section because of the hit :-P  This comes to mind ... |
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I love the idea of Mel Brooks appearing at the very end of the movie alluding to the quasi-fact that he's Satoshi.
Yeah I mean who better to be a surprise Satoshi than a 91 year old Jewish man? Hmm... Woody, Woody... OK I know: he's the President of the United States. Also a cameo. Maybe he bestows Vince Vaughn with a Medal of Honor at the end of the movie. Jeremy Piven isn't around anymore because he was offed by the Russian mafia. VAQ is pronounced Vac as in Vacuum cleaner, sucking money from Investardz (pl. & sg.; a term actually used in the movie to refer to the marks/investors).
Got it. Sounds good. Let's make a script!That's the spirit! For starters we'll conduct a Kickstarter campaign to raise a few thousand dollars for pen, paper and a typewriter. Then we'll exit scam, splitting the money, whereupon some crypto dude comes forth with a promise to make the movie, but unbeknownst to anybody, we're the new crypto dude going for a bigger payday, exit scamming again, then once again we return and amass a much larger sum of money to make the movie, but this time we go ahead and make it upon realizing that it'll be a hit. Thus, it starts out as a scam then another scam to not a scam to make a movie about a crypto scam. The Producer's Mel Brooks would be proud of us. Back to the movie idea and thinking out loud ... The funds start pouring into a bitcoin wallet address, of which the private key was lost just prior to the exit scam. So somehow a loan was procured using the address as collateral where the BTC didn't have to be moved. Meanwhile, VAQ starts mooning, it being all the rage across the US and abroad. Of course there has to be conference where the following happens ... The scammers opted to sell all the VAG coin, not keeping any for themselves cuz their thinking was they weren't going to be around later anyway. So they procure a loan as outlined above and are now forced to build the empire that they design to have fail, but it doesn't fail and continues to gain support due to hire what they wrongly assumed was a piss-ass PR firm operated by Mormons. The above seems to be counter to what was originally envisioned but like I said I'm just thinking out loud is all. |
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I like it. If it's a comedy, the coin should have an unfortunate acronym / symbol, like VAG.
I want to do casting:
Vince Vaughn and Jeremy Piven as the project masterminds
Jon Hamm as the square SEC agent
Kevin Hart as the bad promoter / marketing director
Nick Nolte as the off-his-rocker CEO
Will Ferrell as the naive angel investor
Aubrey Plaza as the social media expert / Vince Vaughan love interest
Ben Stiller as the eccentric hacker
Owen Wilson as the smarmy spokesperson
Ken Jeong as the over-the-top Chinese stereotype investor
Kumail Nanjiani as the website developer / IT tech (also a stereotype but he resents it)
With cameos by
Tom Cruise - SEC director who unwittingly approves the project over Jon Hamms objections
Mel Brooks - Satoshi Nakamoto
I love the idea of Mel Brooks appearing at the very end of the movie alluding to the quasi-fact that he's Satoshi. If not a comedy, then 3 times throughout the movie we see Mel Brooks eating a pizza. Another actor to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_HarrelsonVAQ is pronounced Vac as in Vacuum cleaner, sucking money from Investardz (pl. & sg.; a term actually used in the movie to refer to the marks/investors). |
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The idea is great but it would also depends on the director on how they would make it attractive.
It would be another suspense movie about crypto ,
It is great that we are having crypto as part of the movie but don't you think those negative things on the movie would make other people to stay away from crypto?
Didn't think of that, akin to how negative things like fiat being used in movies make people stay away from the US dollar. |
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If it would be just for fun, make sure that it would be stated upon launching because people might just get confused or might interpret it the wrong way. However, I love the idea of being creative about the blockchain technology. It's not also easy to create a plot twist about Satoshi and cryptocurrency.
Not planning on conducting a real crowdfunding. That's just the premise of the movie. |
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Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(musical) ... Step 1: We find the worst play ever written.
Step 2: We hire the worst director in town.
Step 3: We raise two million dollars. ... One for me, one for you. There's a lot of little old ladies out there!
Step 4: We hire the worst actors in New York and open on Broadway and before you can say
Step 5: We close on Broadway, take our two million, and go to Rio. 1: We write the worse White Paper ever, complete with grammatical errors. 2: We hire the worse crypto PR firm. 3: We raise $20B. ... One for each of the Satoshi 11 with the rest going to secondary accomplices and perhaps a charity. 4: We hire real actors and famous people who previously loaned their names to failed crypto projects. 5: At the end of the fundraising round, all the crooks plan on retiring in different parts of the world, living under aliases. |
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It will be depends on how the director's bring this movie into life,the plot might be not that interesting but if well known actors and directors will contribute to this movie it will then attracts movie goers to take a move and watch it, hope it will not be the same with the latest movie about crypto where I didn't find any convincing factors to have Larger audience.
That's a given along with cameo appearances of actors/actresses playing themselves who were conned to attached themselves to the fictitious IEO. What is this for btw? are you (and your team) gonna make a film or is this just for fun? 'cause you can't just add whatever idea that comes to your mind, you have to consider your available resources too Just entertaining a brainfart is all, bud, with it having nothing to do with YTC. |
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The OP (quoted below) has been amended and will continue to change as new ideas are presented. Think: Ocean's 11 meets The Producers (further think: Springtime for Hitler).
Plot: A person claiming to be Satoshi recruits 11 renowned cryptoers in forming a company designed to conduct the world's largest ICO (in excess of $10B), whereupon once the moneys' raised, they exit scam, but the project takes on a life of its own where the scammers are forced to see the project to fruition in hopes of even a larger payday while the SEC et al. are on their heels.
Thoughts.
Instead of an ICO, it would be more believable if IEO is conducted in one of the best and top crypto exchange of the world convincing the top honchos that the project is very legit and must be supported while at the same time silencing (or killing) some people who know the truth of the matter. There should be a figure coming from SEC who is handsome and so charismatic and he will be the one conducting the investigation and uncovering the whole truth...and in the end this guy will almost be killed by the 11 renowned cryptoers. IEO sounds plausable. As for the [handsome] SEC dude, he could be in on the act, in partnership with the fakesatoshi. Think: Ocean's 11 meets The Producers (further think: Springtime for Hitler).
Plot: A person claiming to be Satoshi recruits 11 renowned cryptoers in forming a company designed to conduct the world's largest ICO (in excess of $10B), whereupon once the moneys' raised, they exit scam, but the project takes on a life of its own where the scammers are forced to see the project to fruition in hopes of even a larger payday while the SEC et al. are on their heels.
Thoughts.
It will be depends on how the director's bring this movie into life,the plot might be not that interesting but if well known actors and directors will contribute to this movie it will then attracts movie goers to take a move and watch it, hope it will not be the same with the latest movie about crypto where I didn't find any convincing factors to have Larger audience. That's a given along with cameo appearances of actors/actresses playing themselves who were conned to attached themselves to the fictitious IEO. Title doesn't capture anything but the requirement so suspend belief for an Italian Job style heist (which the plot isn't).
In essence, you've got nothing crypto about the plot, except the vehicle of the scam: the ICO, and, as Bitconnect proves, doesn't even need to be a crypto or a blockchain even to succeed. Modus operandi is that of a ponzi, so you already have superior films out there (that recent one on Bernie Madoff is one I recall most easily).
Not envisioning a Ponzi et al., but an outright scam program being advanced. A working idea is a project having the ticket symbol VAQ for Virtual Reality/ AI (Artificial Intelligence)/ Quantum Computers, inspired by https://www.quora.com/Of-all-the-new-technologies-blockchain-AI-VR-AR-Quantum-Computing-and-IoT-which-most-realistically-will-have-the-biggest-impact-commercially-in-the-next-5-years: Of all the new technologies: blockchain, AI, VR/AR, Quantum Computing and IoT, which most realistically will have the biggest impact commercially in the next 5 years? |
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Think: Ocean's 11 meets The Producers (further think: Springtime for Hitler; perhaps actual movie title). Plot: A person claiming to be Satoshi recruits 11 renowned cryptoers in forming a company designed to conduct the world's largest ICO (in excess of $10B), whereupon once the moneys' raised, they exit scam, but the project takes on a life of its own where the scammers are forced to see the project to fruition in hopes of even a larger payday while the SEC et al. are on their heels. Thoughts. EDIT: I'm leaning towards Satoshi 11 opposed to Satoshi's 11. That said, feel free to weigh in if you have a better title in mind. Also, CryptoBry mentioned at an IEO attached to prominant exchange (even if fictitious) would be better than if it were an ICO. As new sound ideas are presented, I'll present them below, thus keep you input a comin'.
Post of interest: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5142538.msg51048086#msg51048086 |
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Scams have existed since the birth of the internet, even before it. I don't really expect scams to go away regardless of the market situation, but yea, in bullish times, scams tend to be more numerous and spread out due to the number of inexperienced investors going into the cryptocurrency markets. Keep your eyes peeled at all times, regardless of the price of bitcoin.
Well we can always recall that infamous Italian family name everyone seems to be familiar with: Charles PonziHe made a fortune by exploiting a flaw in the postal service, back in 1919...  In January 1920, Ponzi started his own company, the "Securities Exchange Company," to promote the scheme. In the first month, 18 people invested in his company with a total of $1800. He paid them promptly for the very next month, with the money obtained from the newer set of investors. He set up a larger office, this time in the Niles Building on School Street. Word spread, and investments came in at an ever-increasing rate. Ponzi hired agents and paid them generous commissions for every dollar they brought in. In just one month's time, between February and March, 1920, the total amount invested had risen from $5,000 to $25,000 ($62,000 to $309,000 in 2017 Dollars, respectively). As the frenzy began building, Ponzi hired agents to seek out new investors in New England and New Jersey. At that time, investors were being paid impressive rates, which subsequently encouraged others to invest. By May 1920, he had made $420,000 (~$5 million in 2017 Dollars). By June 1920, people had invested $2.5 million in Ponzi's scheme (almost $30 million in 2017). By July, he was raking in a million dollars per week and rising. By the end of July, he was approaching a million dollars per day. He began depositing the money in the Hanover Trust Bank of Boston (a small bank on Hanover Street in the mostly Italian North End), in the hope that once his account was large enough he could impose his will on the bank or even be made its president; he bought a controlling interest in the bank through himself and several friends after depositing $3 million. By July 1920, he had made millions. People were mortgaging their homes and investing their life savings. Most did not take their profits, but reinvested. Ponzi's company meanwhile had set up branches from Maine to New Jersey. Even though Ponzi's company was bringing in fantastic sums of money each day, the simplest financial analysis would have shown that the operation was running at a large loss. As long as money kept flowing in, existing investors could be paid with the new money. This was the only method Ponzi had to continue providing returns to existing investors, as he made no effort to generate legitimate profits. In the end, it works as long as the money keeps flowing, whatever the means... Until it becomes large enough that the amount of incoming money cannot keep with the size of the operation. He wasn't probably the first one, but its one of the first properly explained which is why some people tend to call all schemes "Ponzi" (I can only lament on the poor Italians born under that family name). I clearly remember people claiming Bitcoin was one such scheme, back in the beginning... Took about 10 years to shut them off.You wanna guess another 10 years? |
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One of the worst combinations is someone that is wealthy and is a psycho. His money allows him to reach a wide audience and sadly I have seen many people fooled by his act.
Time for a new thread? |
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See also
Bhawal case, dealing with a famous case of suspected impersonation in British India.
"The Principal and the Pauper", an episode of The Simpsons inspired by the Tichborne case. |
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[...] Yeah that whole saga was... interesting... Yeah, now we say so...  funny how since DT has changed more people are speaking out against the fool - would the blatant shilling of BFL of stood with the current system? I concur. Them BFL shillers should have their goats taken from, leaving only woodpecker holes in cacti for them to fuck ... |
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