Maybe because they are counting the USD value of the BTC they hold?

I have a theory. You're both the same person, creating this fake drama so that you can later play the victim and use it to build false trust so you can actually scam someone else.

With the influx of newbies, I honestly can't tell anymore if these threads are serious attempts or if they're just trolling to make fun of idiots who would support them.

On a serious note, for various reasons I am convinced that a good majority of "traders" here are 12 years old.

13? Jesus. I remember being 9 and being obsessed with T&A, kissing girls, etc.

Disclaimer: I thought CP meant "copy/paste" until I stumbled upon 4chan.

It's May 5th already here in Korea. Batch 3 would have been shipping on today's date under normal circumstances. I wonder if Batch 2 and 3 will be sent out at the same time or if Batch 3 owners need to wait an additional 2~4 weeks.

It's an emotional topic for anyone who has worked in law enforcement and actually seen the sickos involved and what they do. Anyone who has will read what you said as condoning it. *That* is the real problem behind that law and any other-- emotional backing versus logical backing.

You're basically highlighting the point of the anime group-- how the hell are you supposed to argue intent and age with a cartoon? As with all things though, it always depends on the judge. If a judge sees this thread and someone posting "fuck the government, I do what I want", it will probably make it harder for a judge to be impartial.

I remember some anime community bitching about a new US law a few years back that went after people who watch anime because some of the porn showed girls whose age was up to question. I think that whole grey area is a bit weird to defend, but I do think it's a bit over the line (kind of like making murder in movies illegal). Anyway, that may be what TheKoziTwo is referring to-- hentai.

Kind of like how he had found an exploit for instawallet and then asked what would happen, then told everyone that coins were stolen long before instawallet had even announced that coins were stolen?

As much as it's disturbing watching super-obvious scams climb their ways up into the cracks of exchanges, it's impossible to argue against as all the same valid arguments apply against Bitcoin itself.

Never before in the history of mankind has it been so easy to send value from one person to another. That is the "greatness" of bitcoin. When the "greatness" of man catches up, there will be many less scumbags. Until then, it's apparently quite profitable to be the one scumbag in the ten sheep if just one of them falls for a ponzi, fraud, scam, bait and switch, non-escrow transaction or confidence trick.

Just think about all the scumbags there already were in the world, preying on innocent victims but still requiring names, addresses, complete bank account information, credit card numbers, expirations, CVV2, etc in order to rob them. Now all it takes is someone to press a single button based on "faith".

TL;DR? Easy money attracts scumbags.

Rofl.

Who would decide who "hit" the block? It could always be cheated. There are very real and complicated problems with decentralizing power and control. Bitcoin is a very, very sloppy mickey moused solution, but it is indeed intended to give us better ideas later.

Who would decide who is viable for donation or not? What if a scammer set up a fake donation group? This sounds like it needs complex oversight and management by people skilled in doing so, not just blind acceptance from some people on the network (which is what bitcoin currently does).

Uhh. This is not MSNBC, it's NSNBC.ME which uses a newspaper wordpress theme. Why would anything from this site be considered any more credible than the opinion of a poster here on this very forum? (Not that any news site these days deserves much credit at that).


I'm no conspiracy theorist, but the "source" for this article is the same article from the same author on a different site http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/04/16/federal-reserve-refuses-to-submit-to-an-audit-of-germanys-gold-held-in-u-s-vaults/ where the only comments were:



TL;DR? I'm not saying people shouldn't spread their opinions around like diarrhea, but they should at least have the common courtesy to provide some source paper to wipe it up with.

Yep.

Bitcoin already has one second transactions, but it takes longer than one second to make sure no one is using 2 wallets in different locations for example to try and buy two different things with the same money. (Think of it as having a copy of your VISA card, taking it to two different stores and maxing it out at the exact same time. With a window of only 1 second, it'd probably be possible to rip one of those stores off).

Bitcoin already has dynamic difficulty, but it's hard to get a good average of how things are moving just by a single block. It'd be like trying to gauge how fast a car is going by taking just one picture of it. When the financial stake of all bitcoin holders is in play, a longer difficulty readjustment time is probably better.

This is a controversial subject, but the general rule is that if you lose money, there's a good reason for it. If you lose your USD from your wallet or your gold from your pocket, will the banks refund it? Why should Bitcoin? Especially considering the price of bitcoin is affected by the knowledge of how many coins there are. Randomly being able to bring those back now, after 4 years of bitcoin mining, would have an adverse effect and probably no one would agree with it imo.

I'd like to hear someone smarter than me explain why we can't have both.

Oh the irony.

sergeyrar, my advice for what it's worth, is to start not being a newbie by being productive. Selling things isn't as productive as buying, and buying it's as productive as creating, and creating isn't as productive as creating something original of high-quality. The same rules outside bitcoin work inside bitcoin. Spammers get ignored and banned, scammers get ostracized, and people who sell domains no one wants get made fun of.

When you're out of newbie jail, jump into the technical and political discussion subforums and see what the "non-newbies" are up to. You'll catch up in no time.

Dude. Figlet. http://www.network-science.de/ascii/