what did you expect?
I kind of expected this, because I know that even skeptics will come to appreciate how brilliant Bitcoin is when they bother to learn in detail about it. personally I'm starting to doubt bitcoin abit because it requires someone to pay for Energy forever and in increasing amounts to keep it alive Is there another currency that doesn't? Well you need energy to manufacture and transport / carry it. |
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Hmmm... I have 230V @ 16A and 400V @ 16A which is enough for a big welder but could be insufficient for a mining rig. That sucks.
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Where is Zhou? Anyone any idea? Do I need to be brushing up on my mandarin?
I think Zhou Tong was using some of the money he stole/scammed/earned/whatever (delete as appropriate) in Trinity College, Melbourne. No idea if he is still there. |
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I left / am in the process of leaving.
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No, decided to move few days ago already, screw those trading lags and centralization.  |
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Basically what your nickname says. Technical WTF |
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llost the password of 480 btc when they were ~10-12 eur/btc. (but made it with gambling on satoshi, started with 20, 2 days later there was 480 in my pocket) But still sucks  since then quiteded btc and not going to enter the bubble again. Do you know anything about the password? Was it a pass to an online wallet or did you encrypt using a Bitcoin client? Don't want to get your hopes up but you can give it a try asking on the forums, maybe someone will be able to help. |
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I propose we value everything in Fiat. For instance: This would be worth one Fiat:  In that case, this would be worth 1 microFiat:  NanoFiat   |
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US wants to monopolize the virtual currency market and forks their own coin . . . the Obamacoin.
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Maybe some big owners fear that it gets known that they have much money because they kept it hidden from government. No one says you have to ask the government to help with the collection. |
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Paid a hooker from addresses that had lots of Satoshi Dice Dust in it without a fee. Took so long to confirm i fell asleep. Hooker stole my car! Woke up with blue balls.
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I mean, if you are up to something dodgy, internationally, the last thing you need is any connection whatsoever to Poland. If they really did do coding in Poland or have a Polish bank I am more inclined to think this is all just the longest wait for tech support in history. The Polish investigate every accusation of a crime. I recall one guy paying for his meal in a restaurant then ordering pudding and forgetting to pay for it. He was extradited and charged with theft of every ingredient in the pudding. Another went $30 over his overdraft at the bank and had long since paid it off. He was clapped in irons and put on the plane to Poland as well.
That is why I am puzzled about still being separated from my Bitcoins and inclined to think this isn't a scam.
I presume those people who were extradited were Poles? Polish authorities are not usually successful at extraditing foreigners, and sometimes even their own people (like Edward Mazur involved in the assassination of Marek Papala, the Chief of Police or a stalinist prosecutor Helena Wolinska). As for pursuing even minor charges, yes, it sometimes happens... and sometimes they don't bother unless the amount stolen/scammed is >~ 240 EUR (1000 PLN, used to be 4 times less; basically it means stealing up to ~240 EUR is treated as a non-criminal offence). |
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Selling and buying Bitcoins too often at the wrong price.
Buying a 6 month mining contract from a guy who ran away with the money (didn't recover everything).
Trusting Mt.Gox is a reliable company.
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At least cadaver washing like for instance Jared Kenna's would work a lot better then.
Who's that? It sounds like a porn name. CEO of Tradehill (a former Bitcoin exchange that was forced to shut down after losing $100K). Probably wants to ensure no one wants to meet him in person |
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Nefario is well aware 99% of this community can talk the talk but won't walk the walk. This x 10. I was "only" scammed out of $200 in late 2011 / early 2012 and still trying to get back what's mine, only being 10 000 km away makes this endeavor difficult. But I don't understand how a lot of Bitcoin users in US easily accept their losses, move on and make little to no effort in finding the scammers to recuperate their money or at least minimize the losses, despite knowing a lot about their identities. Pirate is not the only one I am talking about now, I can remember at least half a dozen similar scammers. It's not my money and one could say it is none of my business how other people decide to deal with being scammed like that but what I don't like is that this encourages others to scam if they are well aware that they can get away with it. |
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I think he may return; last time he came back with a new version of vanitygen after 11 months of inactivity.
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Don't get your hopes up yet Posted on 1.4.2013 |
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Understand that while FinCEN ruling don't apply just about any first world country has very similar KYC type laws. I live in a first in a 1st world country (former 2nd world) and we do not have as many stupid AML and KYC laws. We have a lot of beaurocracy, more corruption and cronyism, but the financial sector is sector is not so heavily regulated and monopolized through government intervention and the country I live in is not obsessed with ''fighting terrorism'' (whatever that vague term may mean) so operating an exchange here to serve EU customers would not be such a pain in the ass (though as far as I heard UK might be a bit problematic) . OTOH corrupt officials, judges, prosecutors etc. can easily destroy any non-international company (and profit from doing so). |
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Human beings always want an explanation for everything. But maybe there simply isn't an explanation for the recent rise in price. Maybe it was caused by an interplay of factors so complex that it can't be reduced to a nice, simple, human-readable story.
Butterfly effect? |
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