that made me lol hard.  I think lots of people have "heard" of bitcoin, most ppl i talk to have.  I've yet to meet someone irl who uses bitcoins, other than ppl i've talking into holding a few.  I'd say its very small still, but growing rapidly. 

well i'd prefer to see him close the site than go to jail. as long as there is a demand for weed on the internet, someone will step in to supply it.

surveys yay!

yeah except now they call it the end when litecoin goes from 2.50 to 1.89 instead of when bitcoin goes from 2.50 to 1.89

gold silver and platinum all have many many practical uses. 

roger ver gave me my first bitcoin, i was ordering 2 casacius bitcoins from him and at the time he had a special for 5 percent of the total order back in bitcoin.  The offer was for his memoryonly but i didn't realize that and sent him a bitcoin address. He said lol i can't give you five percent back in bitcoins when you are buying bitcoins but here is one bitcoin so you can now have one.  they were roughly 2.37 each at the time.  Moral of the story, Roger Ver is kickass.

its pretty impressive that you found that. i also didn't know that dpr is thought to be username altoid.  I guess in theory he could have just used a random address in the thread but unlikely.  now if we could only figure out the private key...

i will sell you a coke for 1 btc, shipped.

so,does this mean they got the database and some pwds decrypted?

why are people trading their right mouse buttons for bitcoin? i have a few icould part with if anyones interested send a pm

yeah its an ok idea, although i agree that there would be much better ways to require human input. how about a need for speed coin where every x amount of minutes there is a race in a game like need for speed and the winner of said race is reward with one block of coins.  that way you can't use child laborers (or at least if you do they will have fun!)  and you can accurately predict the generation curve.  You could make the tracks more and more difficult as more miners (ie racers) join the game.  

thanks for the extra elite amount of shit!

oh man it would be epic if they added shitcoin, i have 600 million of em! my bet would be litecoin and namecoin tho

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this is one of my big defenses of alt currency. it keeps crypto extremely fluid.  If the gov goes after btc blockchain you can switch to ltc blockchain fairly painlessly, then if they go after ltc blockchain you can go back to bitcoin or on to namecoins or whatever.  This is just a theory tho based on the current ease of exchange between btc and alt currency. 
at the end of the day history has shown that governments as large and corrupt as the us government fail at more and more things until they ultimately collapse.  The idea that they could provide positive benefits to a system intentionally designed to not need their help is a bit naive.

yeah i wonder, i had never heard of dwolla until i found out i could use it to (then) xfer/receive money from mtgox.  I thought they had already done this tho, and i was wondering about it when i saw that coinmkt.com was going to use dwolla. i guess they just decided to completely severe ties in fear of our overlords.

yay! im now 50 million poo's richer! thanks

the honesty in this coin is refreshing. i would like 50 million turds please
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heh, i like how my first address starts with BM

multiple dpr's seems legit, as anyone would with a brain would want out after their first few million.  especially given the dpr reference in the first place, which was that the dread pirate roberts was a cover that was handed down after a certain amount of time.  Im not sure where i stand on the alleged murder for hire plots.  For sure if there was even a shred of that the feds/media would for sure to play it up to keep him from being a total martyr.  On the other hand power corrupts, money corrupts, and at his height dpr had both.   either way i hope that it comes out that ulbricht is innocent