I personally never attacked the coin.  I attacked the dipshit runnin' the show.

It's interesting.  Scientists make rockets, missiles, and mushroom clouds.....run-of-the-mouth computer nerds make 'solid'coin.   I think there are enough cases to establish a correlation, don't you?

Hm...knowing you use steroids makes me not want to buy.

Dude, use a degree.

Then you can make that every 20 hours for a lifetime.

It's called being rich.

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I have to ask, however...does that look anything like you?  Because I have this odd sensation that it might, and coupled with the tone of voice I'd imagine one to have if they looked as such, I'm not sure I'd feel entirely comfortable posting

Does she have a B cup bra?  Cause I could think of another way to piss her off...

It's interesting that when I joined this forum in June, OldMiner was the first person that caught my attention.

I wonder why this is...

Made my day, Nhodges!!  

Edit:  This dude rocks IMO

I agree some of his posts are hilarious.

But, there is no chance in trading.  There may be factors unknown to you, but that does not make it chance.  Everyone is placing conscious bid/sell orders and the bots are running according to algorithms dependent upon set parameters.

The more factors you are aware of, and the more you can understand the interrelationships between these factors simultaneously, your returns will be better.

I said this in another post, but chance in itself is a bogus word.
Saying something is due to chance is saying that acausality caused it.
Even probability theory doesn't rule out causality (e.g. the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes is said to be acausal) because one cannot assume that they can necessarily perceive/understand the logical syntax that guides this unique process.  Just cause you don't understand it doesn't mean it was luck or chance.

And, the Bitcoin market is far from the probabilistic nature of radioactive decay.

Honestly, it's a good idea.  But do you really trust drug cartels to be smart and only make local transactions and communicate without any traceable reference to BTC?  If this actually happened, this WOULD get a governmental ban.

not to mention he admitted to being in legal trouble for criminal damage to property and that apparently was a reason he didn't want his handwriting shown in a picture next to the products.  he feared he could get into more legal trouble.  This is weird in an of itself, but I actually suspect he made that whole part up as well as a really lame reason why he couldn't show his handwriting next to the product.

If you are saying it was due to chance, you are saying it was caused by chanced, or caused by the acausal.

I don't need the dictionary to think.  Just because you cant predict it, understand it, or control it does not mean there is no cause.  It means you don't know what it is and you don't understand it, so you input the word chance instead.  "I don't know" governs all.  Chance (subject) governs all (object).  The thing acts upon a thing.  You really don't get this?

I thought he's a bad liar...my gut reaction before ANYone said anything about a potential scam was that it was a scam.

Come on, what newb to the forum would come and try to sell $3000 worth of equipment spanning multiple threads in a matter of hours?

I read 3 pages of this and this is what I conclude.

At this point, I don't even care if Bruce is a pedophile.

This entire conversation is sick.  His desire is outta control, he has absolutely no mindfulness in distancing Bitcoin from Pattaya, and there is good reason to believe that his desires are linked with the MyBitcoin scandal.

Think of Bruce as an investment correlated with Bitcoin.  At this point, would you invest in Bruce?  Would you invest all your trust, your money, your BTC investment with Bruce?

Hell no, not me.  I do NOT trust him.  If you knew all this about a person with whom you were about to conduct business with on the marketplace section, would you buy from him?

Again, hell no, not me.  And if he came on my property, I'd grab a bat.

If you're all rational, you will put Bruce in the dark corner of the Bitcoin basement with all the other scammers and bad publicity and run far, far away.

A good con artist will charm the pants off you in person, on TV, etc.  That's what makes them good.

But, they can only be good for so long.  Let's move on from this shmuck.

Edit:  Seriously, you guys want a dude that will pay thousands of dollars to fuck in another country?  Think of the impulsive nature of such a person and the exaggerations Bruce has made recently regarding Bitcoin.  A cruise was the big conference news?  You all want to go on a cruise with Captain Bruce? 

Just wanted to say that although I haven't yet bought anything from him, he was very timely in response to my email questions.  Nice communication

Holy shit, either I just had an epiphany, or I didn't and thought I did.

What about bitcoins AS products?  Like the guy who is making tangible bitcoins that are equal in value to a bitcoin.  What if you made 'cute,' 'fun,' and 'functional' products that have a digital retrieval code built into them?

Here's what happens.  The people buy the product because they like the product.  But, the product also contains bitcoins that can be retrieved and cashed out or traded.  It'd probably have to be some cheap novelty item or toy...like a beanie baby!  Or something like it.  Holiday cards perhaps?  Birthday cards?  The whole idea is to get the consumer to pay a price that isn't too far off from the Bitcoin value without thinking they overpaid for their product.  This way, they feel as if they get their 'product' at a significantly reduced rate and then can get their money back, but ONLY by using BTC.

Example:   Consumer pays $5 for holiday/birthday card or toy.  Card or toy has $3 BTC retrieval value.  The hard part would be finding products people want that can be developed cheaply without severely overcharging the consumer for the product and so the product maker doesn't actually lose money developing and selling the item.

Mining is actually quite essential to Bitcoin, I think.  Those 50 BTC have to go somewhere, and assuming that Bitcoin becomes widely adopted, even a small fraction of that 50BTC will become radically valuable.  The more miners there are, the more the currency is distributed and the longer it would take on average for each individual person to sell their holdings.  It's like a communal investment that naturally helps stabilize the economy and increase demand/value.

The terms of the study conducted were $50 now or $52 a week from now, and the $52 would be guaranteed.  But yes I suppose they could die between now or then or something.  But then it really doesn't matter, anyway.  But, if you apply this to things such as interest, then the implications become significant.  People enjoy instant gratification.  Honestly, BTC prostitution or escort services would probably be a killer market.  5 BTC for a girl to suck you off, 10 for some nookie.  I'm pretty sure it'd sell like hotcakes.

Edit:   The other guy suggested that Bitcoin isn't cute like a beanie baby, so we shouldn't make it out to be like one.  Maybe so, but that doesn't mean that Bitcoin can't still target the desires of people in a way that traditional money has done or even can't do.  Sadly, the prostitution example and silk road are probably two methods that would work very well.

I guess I'd like to ask you why you think this is a bad idea.  I guess I imagined that they would still have the option to change pools/exchanges if they wish, but I was suggesting this as a solution to overcoming the technical difficulty of startup mining.