People forget that Mt.Gox hit the news this year, starting off this barrage of "good news":



That, along with post-bubble publicity and tighter regulations/string of criminal indictments (making Bitcoin less attractive as a black market currency) contributed to current price slump.

Yeah, you're not paying attention

Fake.  The true original was the very essence of elegance:



Introduction of "supernodes":

Seems like a great ready-made exercise to train baby feds and keep them in practice

Your account is relatively new, so I'll play Nostradamus and tell you a bit about the future.
You will continue to post well-reasoned, rational arguments.  For a while.  
Then you'll realize that no amount of logic will persuade those who are invested in believing the opposite.  A lunatic insisting that he is "a little teapot, short and stout" will not be persuade to think otherwise, no matter the force and elegance of your reasoning.

Then you'll start posting gifs.

Below, a quote describing the type of minds you're dealing with here much better than I could:

"...I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be linked unto a system of gears where teeth have been filed off at random. Such snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell.

The boss G-man concluded wrongly that there were no teeth on the gears in the mind of Jones. 'You're completely crazy,' he said.

Jones wasn't completely crazy. The dismaying thing about classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, thought mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined.
Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell - keeping perfect time for eight minutes and twenty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year.
The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases."

A sexism thread?  Really?



Good morning gentlemen.  Haz we very stage 2 ignition?

Yeah, That's what Dread Pirate Ross used to say.  And now his Bitcoin is tanking the market.
Unfortunate

It would be heartless of me not to respond to your pleading voices crying out for knowledge

CCMF, next stop Willoughby!  



@BlindMayorBitcorn:  Not sure.  Repost?

Not as an investment, not for fun...  No no, don't tell me, I wanna guess.  MrPiggles  bought himself a BTCeanie BTCaby to

My God, Listen to yourself!  Do you even understand what you are saying, you wacky finance enthusiast?  You're warning ME about trains?

Whiskey and women for the first 20 Bitcoiners!

Because the parrallels with Bitcoin are amazing.  Down to artificial scarcity being used as a marketing gimmick.  From wikip:

"The company's strategy of deliberate scarcity, producing each new design in limited quantity, restricting individual store shipments to limited numbers of each design and regularly retiring designs, created a huge secondary market for the toys and increased their popularity and value as a collectible."

That's where Satoshi got his inspiration!

Wait, so you bought it as an investment?  Sorta like Bitcoin, huh? 

And odd thing to bring up, but yeah, I suppose...

Awesome.  Hope you enjoy it. <==no sarcasm.

I'm definitely getting one, just to be able to do what you just did--tell people I own one.
Awesome conversation starter.  And stopper.  Every marketer who calls will learn about my Beanies!

*post pics?

I'm sure I can find converts in this thread.  The similarities are amazing:

"Counterfeit Beanie Babies
...
Authorities cracked down on counterfeit Beanie Babies in the late 1990s with some prosecuted for involvement in their commerce. In 1998, English authorities seized more than 6000 Princesses and Britannias.[13] In 1999, a Minnesota man was imprisoned, fined, and put on probation for involvement in smuggling counterfeit beanies.[14]"

Serious gangsta shit, just like BTCitcoin!
OK, BTCeanie BTCabies have only one d00d in jail to BTCitcoin's two, but still...  Counterfeiting!  That's like totally a money thing!

Dudes, did you know BTCeanie BTCabies aren't babies at all?  They're BEARS and shit!  Let's learn together:

"Garcia the bear
Garcia the bear was released in January 1996 and retired in May 1997. He is a tie-dyed bear that seems to be a tribute to Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead, designed by Nicholas Scarborough. A group of differently colored dancing bears, originally artwork from the back of an album cover, was one of the band's many iconic images. The guitarist and the bear share a birthday, but the bear was supposedly "born" the year that Jerry died (Aug 9, 1995). The fast retirement for this Beanie Baby was due to an alleged lawsuit that the Garcia family filed against the Ty company, claiming that the name "Garcia" was used without permission from the family. In cooperation with the lawsuit, Garcia was retired and a similar bear named Peace was released."

Imagine that?  That's VALUE!

Bitcoin:  BTCeanie BTCbabies for libertarians.

Yeah, there was a time when BTCeanie BTCabies where a great investment too.
Sadly, that time has passed.  But hey,



From my heart, bro