I see the number in your google docs spreadsheet keeps going up Matthew. If you're still taking bets, I would like to increase mine to 500BTC.
Accepted. If you're still accepting bets (which would be insane!), I'll increase mine to 238.8 BTC. Accepted |
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I see the number in your google docs spreadsheet keeps going up Matthew. If you're still taking bets, I would like to increase mine to 500BTC.
I'd like to up my bet from 500 to 1k Matthew. I saw betting was closed yesterday and it seems you've allowed new bets since then. Please let me know. Thanks. Declined. |
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I see the number in your google docs spreadsheet keeps going up Matthew. If you're still taking bets, I would like to increase mine to 500BTC.
Accepted. |
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so who got the bounty? my address is 1EvCVytASszoUq6S7ioPaLQScjg8ptt5s9 i hoped to win 2BTC for helping but what happen  i though bounty supposed to be given out-amirite? Sent! (I'll be using Bitcoin-QT afterall but I pay my bounties regardless ^^. Cheers!) Thanks everyone. Electrum is apparently no where near user friendly enough to use. |
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my thoughts on pirate business:  Is it just me or is there a shitload of these new people who joined like "yesterday" being very vocal about the "stupidity of investors " and pirate should not be publicly identified or have his life history posted up ? seems like these "new people " are very opinionated about the BTCST and potential outcome that may land on pirate .....  +1, so many new people seem to have come here to do nothing but talk about Pirate. Possible, but unlikely. |
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SCAM!
"ponzi scheme" ok? or other SCAM? Clearly an HYIP. Haven't you heard? |
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Lol, "largest"
Largest volume? MtGox/Silkroad
Most transactions? SatoshiDICE
Most company members? BitInstant (?)
Biggest deposit taker? Bitcoin Savings & Trust
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Largest is such a funny word
Largest company members: Bitcoin Magazine, no contest. |
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Waht am I looking at?
Gay porn no doubt. Yes! How did you know? In fact I am looking at my favorite gay pron star getting ready for the action!  Eww, you host my photos on your photobucket to jack off to? I'm honored. People should get it from the source though: http://www.facebook.com/matthew.n.wrightAlso, that hair on the desk in the picture is from my balls. FYI |
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Waht am I looking at?
Gay porn no doubt. |
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What the fuck is this crap. Are you trying to scare away investors? |
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If pirateat40 pays back, I pledge to buy a BFL Minirig for $30,000 and make mining more difficult for everyone.
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...mmm...Brunic, do you actually know what pirate was doing to legitimately earn 7%/week, or do you just have a theory?
It's the "unofficial" theory I could say. I can't say I know, since I'm only a small part of his business, I can only suppose. But this theory is a great business model IMHO. If I had the resources and the customers, don't worry, I would not be losing my time on this forum trying to explain it. So just a theory, then. Thanks for responding.  Definitely not trolling - although I do admit I often come off as a troll. I guess I should work on that.  The theory involving pirates business model depends on there being enough people who wish to bypass rules and regulations on moving cash around. I dont consider wanting financial privacy as money laundering even though the government might. I would say that if hes involved in doing that theres is probably only so long you can before it gets noticed. Didn't pirate say he's made 30k BTC or $300.000 USD in profits from his scam? I'm sure the IRS would love to know about this. Fuck the IRS. Enemies can be friends in times like this. Indeed. In Korea, irregardless of shady business practices, local codes, or various unlawful activities, no one will touch you if you're paying your taxes. |
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Didn't pirate say he's made 30k BTC or $300.000 USD in profits from his scam? I'm sure the IRS would love to know about this.
If it were a scam, he'd have made $5 milllion off of it, and seems the FBI would be more interested than the IRS. |
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What math background is needed for the course?
The course is mostly self contained, however some knowledge of discrete probability will be helpful. The wikibooks article on discrete probability should give sufficient background.
That's a relief. However, as far as I know, to really understand cryptography, you have know some crazy high level math. Don't let the course description fool you. It's insanely hard for anyone who isn't good at advanced algebra. I'd post an example question here, but I'm pretty sure that's against the rules. |
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Pirate's scheme from the getgo had all the hallmarks of a typical ponzi. Without more information than what was and is known publicly, anyone who can think should and would have assumed it to be a ponzi.
The only reason I gave this scheme any credibility whatsoever was the fact that a lot of generally intelligent and (apparently at least ) even honest long timers on this forum gave it not only the benefit of the doubt, but full credibility. Many of them did know more than I did, because they met Pirate, because some at least claimed to know and understand his business model. People who I assume to be smart enough to recognize a ponzi when staring at one this obvious. If they were totally convinced it wasn't one, what was it they knew that I did not?
This is still true today, perhaps even more so than 6 months ago. IF 6 months ago, I was 95% sure it was a ponzi, right now, ironically, I am *less * sure . Why ? Because these same, generally intelligent people dont seem to be thrown off one bit, despite the fact that it looks like a ponzi now more than anything ever could. Because I dont believe Matthew, crazy as he may be, is actually stupid enough or can even afford to bet $1M on something he wouldnt be sure off or doesnt understand himself. Because none of those big Pirate backers are getting out their pitchforks. In fact most of them are still tacitly supporting him.
There are not so many explications for this. Either it is not a ponzi and somehow Pirate will pay up, crazy as that may sound to anyone who has no more information than I have.
Or if it is a ponzi, then the vast majority of pirate backers were given an incentive to pretend to believe him. I might believe Goat is stupid enough to be fooled by pirate, but I will not believe that from most of the others. IOW, if this unfolds like it appears it will, they would be knowing accomplices. And very effective ones at that.
What happened to the conspiracy theory where I was dating Pirate's sister? I liked that one better.  I agree. If it turns out to be a Ponzi, the people who met him in real life and agreed to run passthrus etc should be looked at more closely. |
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The Longest Plank
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Swarming Booty
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Reserved, to mock raffle.
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