The album is missing. Please reload it. I would like to research this myself. This fits into a Ghash.Io casino attack senario I'm researching. |
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I thought Abe Lincoln said that ...
No, he said "anything is a dildo if you're brave enough."  ROFL I got a whole new respect for Abe. |
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Hey, don't worry about it. Bitcoin will crash back down to $1 eventually and you can buy back those 500 coins and get ready for the next jump to $1000.
99% would not do that. thats the reason why he sold his 500BTC. most people are not patient enough. when bitcoin drops 30%, they sell. Yeah, I know. Bitcoin will never be $1 again. I was just trying to make him feel better. |
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Hey, don't worry about it. Bitcoin will crash back down to $1 eventually and you can buy back those 500 coins and get ready for the next jump to $1000.
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Tenarlty picked up on the fact that Ron Paul said "Bitcon" by mistake at the end of the video. Notice "con" instead of "coin." My comment is going along with that as a joke.
I think it's just his accent  No, it's because he's a 112 years old. He looks like a cadaver. What happened to his lips - they're missing. The guy is rolling in money, can someone please hire a beautician to fix the old mans eyebrows. |
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* g00gsy wonders what my time factor would be to assist in estimating my activity! i cant partake in a giveaway cuz my sig is to short to enter the required info :/ The software won't allow you to have a long signature because it knows you talk about yourself in the third person. |
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Forgive me if I misread you, but I would think that Ticketmaster would hate bitcoin - an open financial transaction network. My take on Ticketmaster is that they unashamedly work to maintain a monopoly to charge highly profitable fees on every transaction.
I meant that Bitcoin would make ticketmaster not needed. Ticketmaster ia basically a monopoly when it comes to ticket sales. Bitcoin would let venues go around ticketmaster and cut out a very expensive middleman in the ticket buying process. Burning Man is a big money making business controlled by Black Rock City LLC. Why don't you contact them and see of they would be interested in direct sales for Bitcoin. The way the Org covers up all the deaths, rapes and accidents at BM every year I'm sure they are all about profit. Just tell them a way they can increase their profit and it should be easy to sell them on it. http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/people/project_bio.html |
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How are you going to protect the chosen altcoin from the Eligius pool. I not sure you will get LukeJr's support for this idea. lol
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all my coins are bought
Have bought a few games for steam, still hoping more places accepting them (or at least have trusted sites that help to convert it) so I can use more services without entering CC info.
That's actually a great thing. Most places know of Bitcoin and have started to consider Bitcoin so we might hear less of credit card fraud. Credit card fraud? That's a strange thing to worry about considering one out of every 16-17 Bitcoins belongs to someone who stole it. If you ignore the 5 million or so of hoarded Bitcoins and that means about 1 in 6 Bitcoins have been stolen. There is a thread on this forum that shows a fraud total of 818,485 stolen Bitcoins worth around $500,000,000.00. That means almost 7% of all Bitcoins in existence have been taken by fraud. Could you imagine a credit card company, or any company for that matter, staying around long if 7% of their business was involved in fraud? I don't think so. Your $500 million figure is misleading as many of those frauds took place when the price of bitcoin was much lower. As per https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337.0;all the 2014 equivalent BTC stolen is roughly 22,400 BTC or ~$14 million. Another point is that some of these coins have subsequently been traded to other users either from the perp selling the coins or from them exchanging them for goods/services. In theory some of the "coins" that were stolen could have been stolen more then once (thief steals coins from victim a, transfers coins to an exchange, and the exchange has all their coins stolen from thief b). It should also be noted that there is a large percentage of cash that has been at one point stolen. You're right, it is closer to a billion in today's dollars. Don't forget to add the Gox coins to your number. The Bitcoin economy compared to any other economy in the world is minuscule. The market cap of Apple computers is 50 times larger than Bitcoin. Facebook is 17 times larger. I wonder if 1 in 6 Apple computers are stolen? Of course cash is stolen but Bitcoin isn't cash. He was comparing it to credit card fraud. Oh, with credit cards you are only responsible for the first $50 of loss. If Allinvain were using credit cards his total loss would have been $50. I was only counting actual thefts in my rough calculation, I would not consider the gox incident a theft, at least not yet. Bitcoin is very similar to cash, with cash whoever is in possession of the cash can spend the cash on goods and services of their choice, the same is true with bitcoin as whoever is in possession of the private keys can send the bitcoin to the address of their choice. The fact that many of the stolen coins have since been spent after being stolen and the fact that bitcoin is fungible would make it so that 1 in 6 btc are not really stolen at the present time as many of these "stolen" coins have been acquired legitimately I get your point but he was talking about Bitcoin helping with credit card fraud. Credit cards don't have the fraud problem for card users, Bitcoin does. Credit cards users are already protected from fraud. MasterCard Zero Liability Protection
Have peace of mind knowing that the bank that issued your MasterCard won't hold you responsible for "unauthorized transactions." Zero liability applies to transactions made in the store, over the telephone or online. As a cardholder, you will not be held responsible for unauthorized transactions.
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Bitcoin is in the process of becoming the mainstream alternative to classic banking and payments. The general public is confused enough about crypto currencies as it is and altcoins aren't helping that perception. I've never believed that crap about Litecoins silver to Bitcoins gold. That's like saying the USA needs to have Pesos and Dollars to pay for different items. That's total bullshit. Altcoins are pulling users away from adopting Bitcoin and more importantly using Bitcoin. They create an unnecessary confusion when the uninitiated look at Bitcoin. It already looks like a list of game money (WoW gold, Bitcoin, Linden, Litecoin, Zeevex, Doge). I have pumped and dumped my share of alts and made a tidy sum doing it. When Litecoin first came out I was mining Bitcoin on GPUs and Litecoin on the idle processors of a dozen computers. Alts can be money makers like a Ponzi can be a money maker.
I don't want to require the survival of any altcoin because Bitcoin is tied to it. I think if Bitcoins problems are addressed by the dev team it will be the survivor because it has a head start. All of the alts will die a slow death while Overstock and Expedia are still taking Bitcoin. There must be another solution to PoW.
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I actually go out nearby Sandwich twice a week, so if anyone is really worried about his well being I could do a friendly check, even tho I would prefer to leave his privacy undisturbed. If he was down, he woulda told everyone, so I think he's fine. He's near the biggest regional rat's den, Chicago, so he can hide FOREVER if he so desires. I THINK i actually may have seen him 8 months ago, outside a Batavia post office with a table set up with anti-Obama literature, no shit. I didn't make the connection til I saw his photo. Coulda been him, maybe not. As a fellow Illinoisan, take care Bruno, wherever you are. Sorry, I just saw this. I don't think it's a good idea for some random stranger from the internet to go by his house even if we do know where it is. I'm sure he's fine. Thanks for volunteering though. That was very nice. |
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That's got to be him. Phrases like the bees knees and the excessive use of images convinced me. He's also pretty knowledgable for a newbie. |
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all my coins are bought
Have bought a few games for steam, still hoping more places accepting them (or at least have trusted sites that help to convert it) so I can use more services without entering CC info.
That's actually a great thing. Most places know of Bitcoin and have started to consider Bitcoin so we might hear less of credit card fraud. Credit card fraud? That's a strange thing to worry about considering one out of every 16-17 Bitcoins belongs to someone who stole it. If you ignore the 5 million or so of hoarded Bitcoins and that means about 1 in 6 Bitcoins have been stolen. There is a thread on this forum that shows a fraud total of 818,485 stolen Bitcoins worth around $500,000,000.00. That means almost 7% of all Bitcoins in existence have been taken by fraud. Could you imagine a credit card company, or any company for that matter, staying around long if 7% of their business was involved in fraud? I don't think so. Your $500 million figure is misleading as many of those frauds took place when the price of bitcoin was much lower. As per https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337.0;all the 2014 equivalent BTC stolen is roughly 22,400 BTC or ~$14 million. Another point is that some of these coins have subsequently been traded to other users either from the perp selling the coins or from them exchanging them for goods/services. In theory some of the "coins" that were stolen could have been stolen more then once (thief steals coins from victim a, transfers coins to an exchange, and the exchange has all their coins stolen from thief b). It should also be noted that there is a large percentage of cash that has been at one point stolen. You're right, it is closer to a billion in today's dollars. Don't forget to add the Gox coins to your number. The Bitcoin economy compared to any other economy in the world is minuscule. The market cap of Apple computers is 50 times larger than Bitcoin. Facebook is 17 times larger. I wonder if 1 in 6 Apple computers are stolen? Of course cash is stolen but Bitcoin isn't cash. He was comparing it to credit card fraud. Oh, with credit cards you are only responsible for the first $50 of loss. If Allinvain were using credit cards his total loss would have been $50. |
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two socks
nibbknot and ...? buffalodoge |
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Maybe he died.
Could be, he is an older gentleman. Maybe he started thinking about Davout stealing all that money from him and he grabbed his chest and hit the ground in the barn. I did check around, didn't find any news on it. There is an obituary for Bruno Kucinskas from 2010 @age 72, probably his father, IIRC Bruno is in his 50's. Or maybe that's not actually his real name? I found that before when I googled his name and just assumed he'd appropriated the moniker for himself. It would be pretty ballsy to give your real name and address out on here when you do what he does. Maybe somebody paid him off to not troll or that black guy that apparently beat up his cousin or whatever she was caught up with him? He's mentioned he has several alt accounts and that they're known to others, so has he stopped posting from them too? No, that's his real name. I met him at conference and he may be a few degrees off center but he didn't seem like a liar. He doesn't seem to have much fear either or care for what other people think. I actually kind of admire that about him. I'm not sure if that makes him nuts or brave. I don't think anyone caught up with him or paid him not to post (other than BFL). I'm sure he's fine. I do think there are two socks he's been posting with. That's kind of the reason for this thread. I wanted to say something that would irritate him into responding. So far that hasn't worked very well. There are two things driving you crazy Bruno and I know what they are. You aren't going to solve either one of them. What's gone is gone. |
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Its been 3 days. Any explosions yet ??
I just exploded in the men's room at Whole Foods and used a Bitcoin gyft card to pay for my order. Does that count? |
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I don't think there's many prisons that let prisoners have internet access but I'm guessing people sneak smartphones in. Would be interesting if anybody is caught with one and sending and recieving payments in bitcoin.
Nah, they're too busy posting shit to Facebook, looking at porn, texting their "wifeys" to care about Bitcoin. I pity the guys these days that have to "suitcase" some of these newer smartphones during a shake down. Years ago the phones were smaller. I couldn't imagine sticking a Galaxy S4 up my ass...could you? Ok, this is clearly the strangest thread I've seen in years. |
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Are you suggesting Bitcoin replace cigarettes and blow jobs in prison?
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