Calling on Satoshi Nakamoto

[DanielVG]

This thread is stupid. As if satoshi could or should prevent people from forming foundations and then decide who can and can not join those foundations.

Bitcoin is fine, Gox and it's users are temporarily putting a bad taste in everyone's mouth. In time this will pass and Bitcoin will be better off because of it (if people learn to make better choices when it comes to picking an exchange and how they use it).

The revered George Carlin once said;

"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."

George was a smart guy.

was?

oh no....don't say it...is he...?

Well?

 

[keithers]

This thread is stupid. As if satoshi could or should prevent people from forming foundations and then decide who can and can not join those foundations.

Bitcoin is fine, Gox and it's users are temporarily putting a bad taste in everyone's mouth. In time this will pass and Bitcoin will be better off because of it (if people learn to make better choices when it comes to picking an exchange and how they use it).

Yes, this is true.  It is probably going to be a slower recovery than we all hope after the media gets through pounding into everyone's head how "the number 1 bitcoin exchange in the world imploded, costing investors millions..."  

Headlines will be something like that...  In the grand scheme of things, this is more than likely just a small bump in the road, but it's a painful one for a lot of people...

[dascampman]

sweet

[BittBurger]

Dear Mr. Nakamoto,

I know you're retired and all - probably sitting down to another episode of Duck Dynasty with a bag of cool ranch doritos in one hand and a diet squirt in the other - sounds great.  But, out here in bitcoinland the sh*t is hitting the fan.  You see, there's this fat f**k in Tokyo who is really doing some serious damage to your brainchild. 

Can you please come back and fix this sh*t before this great idea of yours dies an ugly death at the hands of Mr. Frappuccino, and then later the general public and subsequent media frenzies of "I told you not to go near that thing."  I hear that you're a tech kind of guy - I'm sure you can figure out a way to record Duck Dynasty on your DVR.

Anyway, I think you handed off the baton a little bit too early.  Mark Karpeles, on the board of the bitcoin foundation?  Mtgox, a gold member?  Seriously?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Respectfully yours in the blockchain,
The Bitcoiners

P.S. What was the reason for allowing a transaction to be modified prior to it being confirmed by the blockchain anyway?

   

This event is inconsequential to the lifespan of Bitcoin.   

Remember.  Bitcoin is not the market price.  Bitcoin is a protocol, enabling hundreds / thousands of new financial services, and new innovations.

The price of Bitcoin is a secondary circus show to what is really going on in the industry right now. 

This is a very important read:  http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/15/bitcoin-platform-currency/2/#!wljTt

-B-

[pleiotropik]

Just remember, Such a rich ecosystem attracts predators... it's a cyber world and predators can parade around with little fear of justice or retribution. The K was not the first, neither will he be the last, to have client's chopped, sauteed liver for breakfast (with mandatory Frapp on the side). Remember the smug satisfied grin of K when confronted by the guy who flew from somewhere far... He has the same grin for all that were goxxed.

[Chris_Sabian]

Satoshi won't be heard from again nor the coins that he/she/they mined will ever move.

I would like to think that Satoshi created Bitcoin and then stepped back to watch it evolve on its own.  I also think that when Satoshi was mining in 2009 alone, he was deleting the private keys to the addresses in which all of those blocks/coins are held.

[hostmaster]

Dear Mr. Nakamoto,

I know you're retired and all - probably sitting down to another episode of Duck Dynasty with a bag of cool ranch doritos in one hand and a diet squirt in the other - sounds great.  But, out here in bitcoinland the sh*t is hitting the fan.  You see, there's this fat f**k in Tokyo who is really doing some serious damage to your brainchild. 

Can you please come back and fix this sh*t before this great idea of yours dies an ugly death at the hands of Mr. Frappuccino, and then later the general public and subsequent media frenzies of "I told you not to go near that thing."  I hear that you're a tech kind of guy - I'm sure you can figure out a way to record Duck Dynasty on your DVR.

Anyway, I think you handed off the baton a little bit too early.  Mark Karpeles, on the board of the bitcoin foundation?  Mtgox, a gold member?  Seriously?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Respectfully yours in the blockchain,
The Bitcoiners

P.S. What was the reason for allowing a transaction to be modified prior to it being confirmed by the blockchain anyway?

   

Like end of SAW movie. You wake up and bring your old son Bitcoin to Life again.

[Beliathon]

This thread is stupid. As if satoshi could or should prevent people from forming foundations and then decide who can and can not join those foundations.

Bitcoin is fine, Gox and it's users are temporarily putting a bad taste in everyone's mouth. In time this will pass and Bitcoin will be better off because of it (if people learn to make better choices when it comes to picking an exchange and how they use it).

QFT

Best post ITT.

[Bit_Happy]

Satoshi won't be heard from again nor the coins that he/she/they mined will ever move.

I would like to think that Satoshi created Bitcoin and then stepped back to watch it evolve on its own.  I also think that when Satoshi was mining in 2009 alone, he was deleting the private keys to the addresses in which all of those blocks/coins are held.

Why would he destroy those when they could be used someday?

[kain35m]

What's probably going to happen is that Mt. Gox is going to be to BTC what AOL was to the internet. In it's hayday, it was THE thing to have. Then other things come out and soon enough, they disappear into obscurity; with a few dinosaurs holding on for dear life.

I've shifted to BTER for now(yahoo??), but am looking for the next thing. Bitcoin needs a Google. Someone to come in and take over and do things right.

Until then, let's just enjoy the ride. Oh, and OP? I don't think it matters if Mr. Nakamoto ever comes back on scene. Bitcoin will survive.

Mr. Nakamoto is probably just frickin' Bill Gates or something. Whomever it is, I guarantee he/she is rich enough to live forever and never touch the BTC in that account.

We shall overcome!

[luv2drnkbr]

Fuck you OP, how dare you presume to speak for me.

Also what the fuck do you think Satoshi could do? He has no more control over bitcoin than anybody else. That's what fucking open source means dumbass.  Additionally, good luck in the future if you're getting this panicked now. This shit didn't even belong in the top ten list of bitcoin disasters that have happened.