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October 21, 2014, 12:32:09 AM
Last edit: October 21, 2014, 11:56:55 AM by TimS
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Inspired by http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jsca2/something_to_think_about_when_explaining_bitcoin/

Can you explain Bitcoin concisely enough to fit in a limerick (5, 10, or 15 lines...the shorter the better)?

Here's my first attempt. I'm happy with it except that the last line doesn't fit the required AABBA rhyme (but it tries!).

Bitcoins are digital cash  
Transferred worldwide in a flash  
  Just don't lose your keys  
  Or they're gone in the breeze  
'Cause they're controlled by all of us[h]

Edit: at first, I had
Bitcoin is digital cash  
Transferred worldwide in a flash  
  Just don't lose your keys  
  Or it's gone in the breeze  
For it's controlled by all (or none, depending on your view)
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October 21, 2014, 12:43:31 AM
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Inspired by http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jsca2/something_to_think_about_when_explaining_bitcoin/

Can you explain Bitcoin concisely enough to fit in a limerick (5, 10, or 15 lines...the shorter the better)?

Here's my first attempt. I'm happy with it except that the last line doesn't fit the required rhyme.

Bitcoin is digital cash  
Transferred worldwide in a flash  
  Just don't lose your keys  
  Or they're gone in the breeze  
For it's controlled by all (or none, depending on your view)

"Bitcoin" instead of "A Bitcoin" could mean plural.  Change the "it's" to "they're"  ?

(no suggestions for your last line, sorry)

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October 21, 2014, 12:55:07 AM
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[quote
Bitcoin is digital cash 
Transferred worldwide in a flash 
  Just don't lose your keys 
  Or it's gone in the breeze 
For it's controlled by all (or none, depending on your view)
[/quote]

you say very good.

Btc can't  been touched
can't been seen
Beat the bank
Give you freedom

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October 21, 2014, 01:00:02 AM
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Here's my take:

There once was a man named Satoshi
He made some bits you could host free
So pass them around, all over town,
and now you've got a new form of money.


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October 21, 2014, 01:01:43 AM
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Bitcoin is digital cash  
Transferred worldwide in a flash  
  Just don't lose your keys  
  Or they're gone in a breeze  
Unrecoverable for even Kardash[ian]
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October 21, 2014, 01:39:30 AM
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I carefully backed up my keys
To ensure I could pay for the freeze.
  Cryogenics it's true!
  To the future I flew!
That'll be thirty million doge please. Sad
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October 21, 2014, 10:05:01 AM
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Bitcoin is going to shoot to the moon
It is going to do that very soon
All the bear whales who try to push the price down
Will end up looking like digital clowns.

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October 21, 2014, 11:21:28 AM
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For it's controlled by nobody... (just my view)

In Bitcoin world
It's common for price up ten fold
Truth be told
It is good as gold
Makes the paper money feel cold

How's that? Lol

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October 21, 2014, 11:38:38 AM
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This limerick is about Bitcoin.  Smiley
Is there a word rhyming with "Bitcoin"?  Huh
  I can't think of one  Angry
  and this rhyme's nearly done  Shocked
so I guess I'll end on the word "Bitcoin".  Undecided
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October 21, 2014, 12:00:14 PM
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This limerick is about Bitcoin.  Smiley
Is there a word rhyming with "Bitcoin"?  Huh
  I can't think of one  Angry
  and this rhyme's nearly done  Shocked
so I guess I'll end on the word "Bitcoin".  Undecided
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October 21, 2014, 12:31:32 PM
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Barking at the Bar King

A dog was barking
at the Bar King
There was no bitcoin
at that time
A man was talking
about banking
And the King was biting
his gold coins.
Then bitcoin was invented
and the dog bit its tail!

{ Imagine a sequence of bits generated from the first decimal place of the square roots of whole integers that are irrational numbers. If the decimal falls between 0 and 5, it's considered bit 0, and if it falls between 5 and 10, it's considered bit 1. This sequence from a simple integer count of contiguous irrationals and their logical decimal expansion of the first decimal place is called the 'main irrational stream.' Our goal is to design a physical and optical computing system system that can detect when this stream starts matching a specific pattern of a given size of bits. bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166760.0 } Satoshi did use a friend class in C++ and put a comment on the code saying: "This is why people hate C++".
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October 21, 2014, 01:08:51 PM
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lol, nice, very creative! I like it  Grin

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