..So! Today we get ever closer to the 4-5 weeks that has so far elapsed in between each hacking & theft this summer, starting w/ late June, then last day of July, if this unfortunate pattern were to reproduce itself the next attack would take place between next week & the week after that ;/

 I remember how many people kept telling me I was being paranoid, that since the one attack vector used in the June hack had been patched (tipping), every balance was perfectly safe again & there was no way those same losers would figure out a different vulnerability to exploit later on. Well sadly as we all witnessed the site and its attached MoneyPot wallet infrastructure did not turn out invulnerable, quite the contrary ;/

 Now to ward off those buzzards who'll invariably come & get offended/attack me for making this post : No, I did not play nor have any balance in MoneyPot (It was elsewhere at the time) around July 31. And that is not a particularly fortunate occurence actually, because were it to have been stolen as well, there of course isn't the slightest shadow of a doubt Ryan & Bjorn would've promptly refunded it. This isn't the point.

 Point is, I was concerned the hackers would find another attack vector after they'd experienced how successful their June heist had been, regardless of the tipping vulnerability being patched quickly & securely. And I was correct. No later than 5 weeks after they managed to squirm their way into users' balances again ;/ Let us hope that this time, both MP & BB teams have truly taken the lesson to heart, and started prioritizing security over & beyond user convenience, marketing, and 'new features'..

 I'm down to rock-bottom BTC net worth values atm, but am looking forward to returning to the very best dice casino ever made yet sometime in September once I've earned back my stupid losses, perhaps earn enough tickets to win the Sept. 30 BB Raffle ;p

 Again, this post is NOT to nag, just to reflect jointly on our shared history with what I consider a great overall experience since May 2015, thanks to the efforts of Bjorn, Lobos & Ryan. Keep up the good work & best of luck vs. those hacking, parasitic subhumans, guys <3

 Ahh yes the good ol' 800lb bear of all bitcoin casinos - PrimeDice, one of the very first, most resilient, most popular. With the legendary Stunna at the helm - Whose fame is only rivaled by the likes of Dooglus & Theymos himself.

 ..But tell me something Stunna/MICRO/Edward/etc.

 How is it.

 ..that the revered PrimeDice, mother of bitcoin gambling, can call itself 'most popular' if it doesn't even accept US & AU/NZ residents without resorting to VPS/VPN proxies..?

 By caving in & nodding head to the Vegas-Casino-Magnate-lobbied, Bought-&-Paid-For Corrupt Nanny-State 'Authorities' & their bullsht laws such as the UIGEA, you set a weak example, no..?

 SatoshiBet caved in.

 BustABit & MoneyPot didn't.

 JD, LB & even FortuneJack haven't.

 Why has PD given in..?

 Yes Martingale gambling really does work ..until it doesn't.

 Try to withdraw/stop-loss/cashout everything & invest your money in very safe, unleveraged, long-term, diversified enterprises before the casino invariably busts your Martingale. It's all you can do.

 Labouchere, Reverse-Martingale, Flat-Betting, doesn't matter what you try - they will all get destroyed in the end. The key is in stopping before this happens, this requires patience, empirical study of the patterns in rolls distribution, some skill, some math, & a tiny bit of luck, to cashout before the death streak occurs.

 With all the renewed media attention on the negative aspects of bitcoin's history, brought about by Mark Karpeles' recent arrest in Japan, critics haven't missed a chance to reiterate with vehemence all the reasons why bitcoin - or any cryptocurrency, for that matter - is doomed as a medium of exchange.

 It can't be denied that cryptomarkets' price manipulations, causing extreme value appreciations followed by severe crashes throughout 2014 and as recently as January this year, have left a lot of adopters feeling burned and cheated, and have fueled the mainstream media's portrayal of cryptocurrencies as a ponzi scheme to stay away from, a perspective the general public have taken up as gospel.

 What certainly merits consideration however, is the question of whether it would've been possible at all, for cryptocurrency - and blockchain technology as a whole - to emerge from whitepaper conceptualization stages in 2008, through to reach the towering scales of usage it sees today, powering Series-A-funded hundred-million-dollar-capitalized business ventures & being indirectly used or acknowledged by the largest globalized financial institutions, were it not for the single, simple icon, 'Bitcoin', that cryptocurrency technology was able to leverage as a rallying banner in the tumultuous half-decade of rollercoaster price valuations..?

 In other words, even if Bitcoin itself would not prove to be a resilient currency reaching wide adoption, even if all cryptocurrencies were to fail as mediums of exchange - has it not been proven by now that it is actually the myriad potential applications of blockchain technology itself that has been Satoshi Nakamoto's true heritage to mankind, via the launch & wide popularization of Bitcoin..?

 And so if BTC's network and/or price were to crash & burn more critically than it has - We'd still be left with the most disruptive financial innovation in several centuries..??

I would start by learning the basics of the world's major business language (other than math of course ;p) - English, to reach the point where one no longer misspells a common word such as 'to' - To get something, To go somewhere.

 Bingo that's what I've always said. The general public gets money exclusively from their regular paycheck. The only way to overcome their laziness & resistance to new payment systems / currency vehicles is to pay them w/ said new currency, in this case, in Bitcoin.

 Once they get paid with it in the first place they won't bother converting it to fiat if they don't have to (merchant adoption) - they'll simply use the bitcoin for their expenses. Then they get used to it, and it has become mainstream. Mass adoption achieved.

 Ex Machina

 ~> My movie database.

 As an aside, I should mention the very old (by internet standards xD) site that might've inspired McCaleb when he initially thought of creating a '{M}agic {t}he {G}athering {O}nline e{X}change ;p  ..and instead ended up creating the platform for a bitcoin exchange which he then sold to the notorious Mark Karpeles -> The Hollywood Stock Exchange! - Where users get to buy & sell virtual 'tokens' whose market prices are based on the box-office success and/or expected returns from movies, celebrities, tv series, etc.

 The site's 'virtual moviestock market game' denominates users' account balances in 'Hollywood Bucks' so it's all just for fun/'trading & chart pattern recognition practice', but makes one wonder how in the hell they haven't turned up an option already to allow successful users to convert all that fake money into withdrawable fiat or better yet into a cryptocurrency - perhaps requiring a bitcoin or litecoin/etc. deposit each time ;p

 The answer to that puzzle might well lie in what happened to InTrade as well as the SEC, CFTC & FinCEN's various rulings concerning virtual commodity or digital 'currency/stock tokens' ;/

 Can anyone think of a loophole HSX could potentially use to let people trade on its virtual stock market & be able to withdraw profits as fiat or as a given cryptocurrency..?

 Hey there, I've always maintained notepad/Google Drive databases for various topics, & some of them I've poured hundreds of hours into researching/compiling data & notes.

 One of them in particular contains over 1000 movies & tv series of note - Minimum ~5/10 for motion pictures, ~6.8/10 for tv series. The database favors sci-fi, historical, fantasy, thrillers, & drama's over comedy, biographies/documentaries (very few) & musicals/sports-related (practically none). They range from the 1950's to 2015, though pre-2000 entries are sparse. Most are Hollywood/American mainstream fare of course, though there's quite a lot of arthouse/indie films in there, from both the americas, asia, & europe. The file also contains data concerning noteworthy writers, directors, and of course interesting actors/actresses.

 Now I happen to be unemployed atm, and rather poor (a little under 0.1 BTC net total..)  So I was thinking, if I could share this database with you & perhaps even edit it up into a much more easily digestible format, and you'd find it useful, then perhaps I could get tipped a small token (say 0.002 BTC) and thus we'd both benefit..?  What d'you think

 I've traded forex, equities, and commodity/index futures both in -> Actual Market ; CFD's ; & Binary Option Derivatives format for over 8 years and can most likely equate or top 'CoinBateman's experience & perspective, for the appealingly affordable price of 0.0045 BTC per 1hour of lesson. Were I not unemployed & thus have much less time available the fee would easily be 10-30x this amount.

 It is far from easy which is how after all this time I still have little consistent longer-term success, albeit thousands of hours of hands-on markets/economics/chart learning experiences ; The core thing every experienced trader will always tell you is what makes it so difficult is simply, yourself. Your own emotions, presumptions, human flaws, are your worst enemy, on the markets. When someone succeeds it is because they have finally mastered how to overcome this.

 I've taught what I know to others before satisfyingly & maintain Google Drive databases of information / posts I had compiled for their benefit. PM me if interested so we can discuss it further.

 Some of the most well-known, best service, fully fiat-funded brokers right now include the legendary Oanda, XM Markets (which used to be Trading Point), and xTB. These will offer unparallelled platform performance, reliability, customer support as well as the strictest full compliance with global industry regulations and thus the lowest, most secure, insured counterparty risk.

 The problem is, they will also limit your deposit/funding options (which payment providers etc), they won't accept bitcoin deposits, they'll limit your maximum trading leverage, limit your trading position options to some degree (FIFO/Hedging rules) and, if you're in the USA or any other regulation-limited or terrorist-financing-blocked country, they will detect your IP address and ban you from using their service. Not to mention, of course, that in order to even open an account with them, you'd have to first submit a passport issued from a country they allow..

 Now to get around those issues, and have a lot more flexibility, at the only possible cost of dealing w/ a broker with less 'prestigious' industry awards & reputation than the major players^ above, you'll have to use a broker that not only won't strike you with any such limitations, like TradersWay which I've used spotlessly for over a year and allow deposit/withdrawals in bitcoin (which get instantly converted to USD & stay this way as your account balance, until withdrawn back into BTC)..

 ..Or, even better yet, you'll use brokers that not only take BTC but also literally denominate users' balances, as well as gains/losses, entirely in Bitcoin, anonymously (no ID verification) and automate deposits/withdrawals such that they can be processed often in less than 1 hour..!

 -> A steadily growing, fully-featured operator in this space is 1Broker who for the past 3+ years has maintained a superb reputation among the small community of bitcoin forex traders, refunding users w/ full benefit of the doubt at every dispute ;
 -> Another competitor is the newly minted SimpleFX who since earlier this year has offered a more visually elegant trading platform than 1Broker's, along with a higher maximum allowed trading leverage & full BTCUSD + LTCUSD trading, however they lack 1Broker's proven several-year record of trustworthiness while also requiring the BTC-equivalent of ~$10 to trade any position (which is ~4x 1Broker's 0.01 BTC trade position size & account withdrawal minimum), and not offering as wide a range of individual stock CFD's as 1Broker does.

 Those buttcrack shots of flabby bulging typical low-class youths' backsides ;p


 Yes of course it's a socio-economic issue. Back in my school days in the american south, just anecdotally, the only females to have ever harassed & physically attacked me were all black, and all manifestly upstart feminist 'angry-at-my-dad/poor-home-situations/stress' cases. Try to fight back or stand your ground you get framed as a 'woman hitter' & knocked by the guys standing by who're just yearning to jump at the chance to 'defend' an [aggressive] girl & 'maybe strike up some poon' ;/

 Lol, all those cheating indians, vs. so few in rest of asia. Makes me laugh xD

 As an aside, you should not pirate games.

 Only media, such as novels, nonfiction books, movies, tv series, art, and music have a legitimate need to be consumed at a rate greater than the average poor/unemployed/third-world person may be able to afford to purchase them 'properly'. Therefore, one can excuse torrenting the above^

 However, you do not need to play hundreds or even dozens of new games per year. Only a small handful, is sufficient. This is because in this day & age of continuously internet-updated games, a gamer ideally wants to seek out the best games and/or those most befitting for his gameplay style preferences, and then stick to it, master it in depth - a lot better value than just grabbing every newly hyped piece of mainstream popculture'd garbage heaped onto the store shelves every month & ending up steaming through it only to discard/uninstall/resell after a paltry amount of hours of gameplay.

 I am, as a matter of fact one of my drones is currently located outside your window, some of its gooey bioluminescent tentacles are already squirming their way eekily under your bed.. soiling your bedsheets.. rubbing against your mattress...

 I don't know if Coinbase/Coinsetter/Any of the major cryptocurrency news sites maintain events/economic calendars for crypto, but in mainstream world markets :

 [->] http://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php?week=sep20.2015

 ..September is typically a big month in finance, the first one starting the fall season (back to school/back to work/end of summer/etc) & preceding the beginning of the year's final quarter (Q4). The first week of Sept. should be momentous, w/ US, British, & European Central Banks as well as Labor Statistics Bureau's releasing much-anticipated economic reports ; As for the last week of Sept., that will also be an important time full of price volatility in equity, forex & futures markets, probably more than the Sept. 23-34 dates you specifically inquired about.

 At first I was already amused as I clicked on this obvious-motive absurd thread's title from the main board 9_^

 Then, as I read the OP, the straight-faced nature of the pure spam it consisted of became jarring. Then, scrolling through, coming across hilariousandco's username further'd my hilarity, which was more ironic given the name itself.. Upon reading his actual post, the choice of adjectives inside cracked me up even more. Lastly, reading the 'knowing/tongue-in-cheek' #hashtags under his post count brought me into a blissful euphoria

 ..No. The year of bitcoin was 2009. Specifically from January 3rd to January 12th 2009.


 ..The 'honorary/second-tier' year of bitcoin was 2011. Specifically around June 12th 2009.

 ..The 'honorary/third-tier' year of bitcoin was 2013, as we all know ;p  Specifically between March 6th 2013 & April 29th 2013, as well as from Sept. 29th 2013 to ~Jan. 6th 2014.


 Understandably you froth at the mouth aching for your starry-eyed 2015-2017 bubble dreams to come to save you from financial disaster ; However, merely solving the blocksize debate + great bitcoin/blockchain-based service announcement news + the block reward halving of 2016 may certainly not be sufficient to turn BTC from a brushed-off curiosity into a *must-use* vehicle for the mainstream masses worldwide (a mass adoption scenario which indeed would raise prices stratospherically) - And thus, fail to mark 2016 as solid candidate for 'The [New] Year of Bitcoin'.

 SOME KINDS OF BITCORNS ARE A BIT LIEK DIS, & SOME OTHER KINDS ARE MORE LIEK DAT <3

[ WB ;p  Just got destroyed on a NFLX long btw, & I knew it had been coming ;/

Then I lost even moar on gold long's ;// ]


 Oh & btw, this fellow here's username is truly apt ;o :

 ..So incredibly true.

 Just as how Greece won't save Bitcoin

 Nor will China's or the US/EU's stock market troubles ;

 Nor would (for any lasting adoption and/or price gains) any further P&D's by large-scale Ponzi promoters like that LTC pump chinese guy ;

 ..the only thing that can save BTC is 1. Global apocalyptic event -or- 2a. Another 2008 Subprime-Style global fiat financial meltdown -&- 2b. The BitcoinCore & Blockchain Tech fundamental technical problems have been addressed & Bitcoin is vastly easier to use & features a more secure/stable blockchain network.

 After all, just a few days ago, people like me were shaking our heads as the degenerates in this thread were howling for CCMF as if those fundamental human psychology & sociological factors were suddenly not applying anymore [General public(plebians) are lazy | Mediocrity-minded/Tolerate corrupt & inefficient fiat banking + traditional payments | Soft/Don't like change/Prefer Status Quo], & blockchain's core challenges were magically solved thus enabling global mass user adoption all of a sudden ~ Meanwhile I loaded shorts @ $315 (but I got scared & closed them at 300 ;p), because after all :