Oops.

Canadians don't have SSNs.  They use social indication numbers: SINs, isn't that right?

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i KNOW THE SECRET TO MAKING PEOPLE DO WHAT YOU WANT.  i MEAN i KIND OF have TO KNOW IT, RIGHT?

The fastest sure fire way is to BUY one from an exchange.  Coinbase maybe?

This one looks great:
https://bitsimple.com/

For me the next best way is poker.  I've made dozens of bitcoins this way:
http://sealswithclubs.eu

But you have to be either good at poker, or just lucky like me.

I'd ban them at least temporarily if I were in charge.  But I am a butt.   

It's just not cool to mess with peoples money.  Especially at a time when BTC is under such stress...

What Sealsdeals did was break the trust of their users, plan and simple.  And then they had the gall to post a Gox style message "Dont worry...  we are gone, but your coins are all safe".

Micon was spot on.  Perhaps SWC will forgive this, but I think it was a ridiculously terrible thing to do.

On another note:

Wow.  They are still claiming "malleability" as a legitimate reason for losing almost 1 million bitcoins.

LOL.

People confuse Bitstamp with BTC-e.

Because Slovania = Russia = Latvia = Czech Republic = Russia in many people minds.

My little 20 coin protoshares stake went down 60% overnight just recently...  no idea what my bitshares will be worth.

I don't know if you know this...  but you just reiterated all of my points.    We are in agreement.

Of course you can call people nigger without being at least overtly racist.

But those who do are insensitive, ignorant and extremely foolish in my humble opinion.  And many of them are a wee bit racist as well.

But this is a great thread...

Just what the bitcoin community needs right now.

Well it seems anonymint has committed another temporary bitcointalk suicide.  Promising to "really sign off and see us on the other side" of presumably his magnum opus coin development.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=455141.msg5475768#msg5475768

I was briefly interested in what he had to say, but he is an unbalanced man, and quite an asshole to boot.

He likes to call people out for ad-hominem out of one side of his mouth, and then call people "low-IQ" "Betamales" out of the other.

He's butthurt for being ripped off selling BTC on paypal, and I believe it is in part because he was stolen from that he imagines this great scenario of clawback and the lives of all BTC holders being ruined by giant conspiracies within world governments.

He's a bright fellow, but not the genius he likes to portray.  He is hateful, exceedingly arrogant, and paranoid to an extent that must certainly interfere with a normal life.  I feel concern for his mental health.  But more I am concerned because (somewhat) intelligent aggressive unbalanced people like him with delusions of grandeur can sometimes be dangerous.

All that said, I predict his internet suicide, like all the others I've seen so far from him will last a few days, maybe a little more.

He always comes back pretty quicly after tearing up all the papers and storming off with all his toys.

Lol.

Wow...  not a very advanced troll, but a very effective one.

Nasty.  Sad to see it here.

The seeming non sequitur hate is strong here...

NO.

For so many reasons, NO.  I am sorry to those who lost their money.

I have no doubt there is conspiracy and fraud.  I only have doubt that the US Gvmnt  is at the center of it... not Mark Karpeles.

Textbook confirmation bias happening in the thread.

Does no one ever stop to think that no matter how powerful the FBI (who is in charge of DOMESTIC issues by the way, but that is another thing) is they would never be able to take bitcoins away from Mt Gox without the private keys.

How would the FBI or any other government agency get the private keys to Gox's coins?

Think.  Think people.

There is no doubt, though the majority of us in the bitcoin community are law abiding non muderers, there are going to be some types who lurk around the darknet who may be, shall we say, sociopathic to some extent or another.

Could there be any truth to the allegations that DPR hired assassins?It seems possible.  And you have to imagine there are some folks who had fortunes on gox who may indeed have been using BTC to launder money.  Some of them the new digital drug lords...  some who are more old style bad guys just giving the new currency a try.

I would be worried as hell if I were Karpeles.

His life is most certainly in danger.

An important question.  Without any substantive argument the accusation is worthless.

I don't know a lot about the foundation, but I did notice they (most likely) shuffled Karpeles and Gox out the back door summarily.  That is a plus IMHO.

It has nothing to do with the forum, instead it is your browser.  Therefor also your responsibility to add it to your own dictionary.  Right clicking usually helps here.

It is as you think... a game of flipping for blinds.  At least until you start to accumulate a stack... then obviously the dynamics can change a little.

I assume the software doesn't like the idea of the SB = BB so they overcome this by making the SB -.01.

The game is not really my cup of tea as I get enough of this feeling when I play most of the tournaments I play.  However this game will always be instructuve for playing a little push-fold style in a cash setting.