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February 15, 2013, 03:38:49 AM |
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I'd Accept a bit of a news worthy hack now. So as to drop the price of BTC. So that I can go and buy them a little cheaper.  you monster! i want my coins to be worth $90 I don't doubt for a second that they will go up to $90 and beyond. up uP UP!! Never mind the fact that wild swings in value is horrible for a currency and makes it a shitty medium to do business with. |
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Every time a block is mined, a certain amount of BTC (called the
subsidy) is created out of thin air and given to the miner. The
subsidy halves every four years and will reach 0 in about 130 years.
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Monster Tent
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February 15, 2013, 03:40:29 AM |
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Hmm, what fresh drama will the mid-season of All My Bitcoins deliver?
Here are some possibilities.
Prisoner Z - Satoshi is being held incommunicado in an Israeli prison. To save Sprinkles, his beloved Corgi, he's forced to activate Bitcoin's auto-destruct code.
SuperNovaCoin - Vlad Putin makes RuCoin the official currency of Russia. KGB intercepts all Avalon shipments, mines under the Kremlin.
Game of Pwns - BitcoinTalk troll wars escalate into ruthless blood feuds. Assassination markets overtake Silk Road, new users are scared of being mistaken for scammers and killed.
JPMorgue - MtGox is purchased by a certain TBTF Wall St firm with shady ties to the Federal Reserve. BTC prices are suppressed by massive uncovered short positions. Rallies are stymied by rapid margin hikes.
Not likely  |
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hashman
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February 15, 2013, 02:28:43 PM |
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Hmm, what fresh drama will the mid-season of All My Bitcoins deliver?
Here are some possibilities.
Prisoner Z - Satoshi is being held incommunicado in an Israeli prison. To save Sprinkles, his beloved Corgi, he's forced to activate Bitcoin's auto-destruct code.
SuperNovaCoin - Vlad Putin makes RuCoin the official currency of Russia. KGB intercepts all Avalon shipments, mines under the Kremlin.
Game of Pwns - BitcoinTalk troll wars escalate into ruthless blood feuds. Assassination markets overtake Silk Road, new users are scared of being mistaken for scammers and killed.
JPMorgue - MtGox is purchased by a certain TBTF Wall St firm with shady ties to the Federal Reserve. BTC prices are suppressed by massive uncovered short positions. Rallies are stymied by rapid margin hikes.
Great drama! I will buy the books and the movies  more chapters: GatesGate - a wallet stealing trojan is slipped into an automatic windows update, grabbing coins from a large percentage of users ETcSDA - an Annunaki faction somehow able to crack elliptic curve crypto sells coins for gold. HoBomaland FEMAcurity - armed with hollowpoints, merecenaries simultaneously raid homes of 1000 biggest names in bitcoin and grab coins with rubber hose attack. 2ndGenAsics - Usain Bolt helps design a running shoe capable of the 100 gigahash in 2.2 seconds |
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February 15, 2013, 02:57:41 PM |
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Hmm, what fresh drama will the mid-season of All My Bitcoins deliver?
Here are some possibilities.
Prisoner Z - Satoshi is being held incommunicado in an Israeli prison. To save Sprinkles, his beloved Corgi, he's forced to activate Bitcoin's auto-destruct code.
SuperNovaCoin - Vlad Putin makes RuCoin the official currency of Russia. KGB intercepts all Avalon shipments, mines under the Kremlin.
Game of Pwns - BitcoinTalk troll wars escalate into ruthless blood feuds. Assassination markets overtake Silk Road, new users are scared of being mistaken for scammers and killed.
JPMorgue - MtGox is purchased by a certain TBTF Wall St firm with shady ties to the Federal Reserve. BTC prices are suppressed by massive uncovered short positions. Rallies are stymied by rapid margin hikes.
oh god, glorious! Though hashman, none of those were particularly funny  |
ZOMG Moo!  |
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February 15, 2013, 03:56:49 PM |
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I don't agree.
Gox is (HOPEFULLY) locked down like fort knox now.
The only thing that will stop this forward motion will be SERIOUS US govn't regulation or some time of police (bankster) state crackdown on exchanges an/or bitcoin businesses. Fortunately the amount of time it take to get anything done in the US congress, any regulation will be years in coming.
He're looking at 50 (an beyond!).
I consider it a small miracle that Mt. Gox retained my deposit after their hack and company sale. Those coins I bought at $20 ~18 months ago are finally profitable  |
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Ente
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February 17, 2013, 01:56:46 PM |
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Mid-term (think 12 months) I see the size of MtGox the biggest risk. Exchanges are the easiest place for crackdown from any government, MtGox having the largest "attack here" mark on their back ;-)
I am pleased by the growing of alternate exchanges, and OTC especially!
It's a race, let's see what happens!
Ente
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mobile4ever
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February 17, 2013, 02:32:03 PM |
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MtGox hack number 3 (or 4? 5? I lost count...) imminent! It does not have to happen like that again. |
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Nesetalis
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February 17, 2013, 06:32:49 PM |
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some people only want to watch the world burn.
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ZOMG Moo! |
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February 18, 2013, 01:29:48 AM |
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...
The only thing that will stop this forward motion will be SERIOUS US govn't regulation or some time of police (bankster) state crackdown on exchanges an/or bitcoin businesses. Fortunately the amount of time it take to get anything done in the US congress, any regulation will be years in coming.
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I'm not so sure about that. The rather complex and encompassing USA PATRIOT act went through the entire process in less than two months from 9/11 and the anthrax attacks. |
sig spam anywhere and self-moderated threads on the pol&soc board are for losers.
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Monster Tent
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February 18, 2013, 01:52:14 AM |
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The only thing that will stop this forward motion will be SERIOUS US govn't regulation or some time of police (bankster) state crackdown on exchanges an/or bitcoin businesses. Fortunately the amount of time it take to get anything done in the US congress, any regulation will be years in coming.
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I'm not so sure about that. The rather complex and encompassing USA PATRIOT act went through the entire process in less than two months from 9/11 and the anthrax attacks. All it would need is an executive order declaring bitcoin users as terrorists. Remembering that Obama can kill anyone designated as a terrorist even if its a US citizen. Im guessing there would be bigger problems if they did this such as martial law etc. |
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brb keeping up with the Kardashians
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March 12, 2013, 02:29:03 AM |
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And there it is...
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March 12, 2013, 02:33:16 AM |
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And there it is...
Now let's hope the price drops so we can buy! |
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March 12, 2013, 03:04:30 AM
Last edit: March 12, 2013, 03:16:56 AM by n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU |
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And there it is...
Tempest in a teacup. I've personally seen much, much worse episodes in commercial software products and financial services. All will be totally forgotten by general public within 30 days, max. Fallout from this will be more seriousness & budget for testing, and more caution when considering effects of changes on backwards compatibility. Short term disruption. Long-term improvement. Antifragility. |
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March 12, 2013, 03:15:58 AM |
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And there it is...
congratulations, this post "predicted" a disaster with accuracy of 1 month. |
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March 12, 2013, 03:24:03 AM |
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...meanwhile, disaster is pretty much resolved, and price is back up to $45.50. If that was it, I think we can rule out software bugs as causing bitcoins to tank, and it will have to be something more social/political.
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March 12, 2013, 03:25:07 AM |
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Right on que.
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el_rlee
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March 12, 2013, 03:25:59 AM |
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...meanwhile, disaster is pretty much resolved, and price is back up to $45.50. If that was it, I think we can rule out software bugs as causing bitcoins to tank, and it will have to be something more social/political.
that is maybe the price of 9 minutes ago. https://mtgox.com/api/1/generic/order/lag{"result":"success","return":{"lag":554576231,"lag_secs":554.576231,"lag_text":"9 minutes"}} |
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March 12, 2013, 05:00:50 AM |
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And there it is...
Tempest in a teacup. I've personally seen much, much worse episodes in commercial software products and financial services. All will be totally forgotten by general public within 30 days, max. I had to deal with a "small" y2k problem that wasn't caught - battery backup software wasn't y2k compliant, so at the turn of midnight, the software (which is supposed to gracefully shut down computers if the power goes out) started turning off every point-of-sale computer, and would continue to turn them off five minutes after they were turned back on. I think there were about 3600 or so of those deployed in all 50 states. Try to remotely manage computers that are off... |
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