Fuck is a fine word to say. I couldn't even fucking imagine my fucking life if I couldn't say fuck!!!
Amen! er- I mean, Fuckin-A!
Silk Roads a force for good?
Of course it was. It was a free market. It was honest. People were getting quality goods because of the reputation system.
So snitch on stuff you personally think is evil and let the good slide. K.
Of course! What would you do, snitch on what someone else tells you is evil and let slide what someone else tells you is good? You have a (fucking) conscience, use it! Fucking public education makes people think that good and evil is defined by the
assholes legislators.
What happens when you snitch on the wrong person cause someone sold a priv key to some poor Dentist who was just interested in Bitcoin?
Who is the asshole then?
Define "snitch". Perhaps you misread this part:
rejecting payments in obviously stolen [sic - oops forgot to type bitcoin] in the hope that you have a record of how you got them.
It's important to assume that the people you trade with aren't the
assholes thieves. You think your dentist who pays you (for what?) in stolen bitcoin doesn't want to know that he bought the private key from the bitstamp hacker? That would be nice info to have! You don't like dentists, do you?
You think most of your Bitcoin stash didn't get ran though the Silk Road, some scam mining company first or any other various scam Crypto business?
Again with the Silk Road?!! Silk Road was a shining light.
A guy told me he was working on a pump and dump. I told him not to be an asshole. He understood me. Does he still do mining scams? I don't know. The victims never published a btc address to which their scammed funds went. "Various scam Crypto businesses" suck ass. Scammers build themselves a little worldview consisting of "most people are idiots I can exploit if I'm careful enough," which also means "most people are cool enough to trust me," but instead of making the world better with this opportunity, they fuck it up. Assholes! Of course I know I got some bitcoin that some assholes got first. I would happily cut them out of the economy if I could: they are assholes. And it's not just other people they screw up. They screw up themselves because they view trusting souls as hosts to their parasite selves. It's bad for the victim, and it's bad for the perp. It rots your soul to exploit people like that. So they're not just assholes. They're stupid assholes. Unfortunately, often not stupid enough to get into enough trouble to learn their lesson. Do you not bother keeping track of people who try to screw you over so you can avoid them? Do you not share that information with your friends so they don't get screwed? WTF dude? You a scammer?
Are we talking as Gentleman or is this a Congress meeting
Gentlemen meeting. Congress is a parasite. Government should be replaced with individual consciences which work a lot better. Try it! You'll like it!
Bitcoin has a lot of strength because it one. Any time you start splitting up Bitcoin by being a nosey fuck you'll take away from it.
Paying attention = being a nosey fuck? You really do sound like a scammer! So I should keep my mouth shut when I know someone lied to you? Ok. But you're the only one. I protect all my other friends from the assholes whenever I can. I suppose I may have published a picture of you if you scammed me. Check my newsletter (
http://goo.gl/MzJC8S). If you rectify the situation and I publish that, people will think you're a great guy. Then you just have to actually be one. But that probably wasn't you. Hopefully you're already a great guy. Or girl. WTF? A girl on bitcointalk? Hmm...
1. Stealing Bitcoins is going to happen. Even if its just for the lolz. It helps Bitcoin & the users become stronger as well.
2. Should never reject any BTC transaction.
3. So your going to bust some poor dudes balls who is trying to sell Honey or anything else like that via BTC. What if you ID the person wrong and then you've just slandered the shit out of some poor honest small business owner.
4. Who is being controling!? I don't think the answer to controlling is via controlling.
1. In what ways do Bitcoin & the users become stronger? Do they pay MORE attention? Do they invite statist assholes to interfere to catch criminals? I think it would be great to pay more attention and to crowd out statist assholes. I think it would be great for people to worry that if they do something too assholish, they might have trouble using any btc they got. Do you think Silk Road was assholish? Mining scams? The Bistamp theft? Inquiring Minds want to know! (My answers are NO, A little, and absolutely!)
2. Why not reject transactions from people you think are assholes? Because maybe you make a mistake, right? Why not do some due diligence? Just a little. Provide incentive to them to rectify their heist. Encourage the victim to offer a reward. The "Figure out how to steal from me and then explain it for a reward" strategy would also strengthen Bitcoin & the users.
3. I don't bust dudes or their balls. I'm not a thug. I pass along valuable information, and the fact that someone who wants to trade with me has bitcoins that came from the Bitstamp hack is one such piece of information. Property rights is a foundational concept in the progress of the human species. Assholes! They don't get it. They dis it. FUCK them. No, not really - they're just stupid and I'd like to make it easy for them to learn. So the taint-based tracking available to every miner is a great way to do that.
4. Everyone ought to be controlling over their own stuff, which includes their participation in any transaction to which they might be a party. You know that governments enjoy this inane and idiotic privilege of violating people for breaking the fucking laws they invent, right? VIOLATING people - stealing their stuff, locking them up, all kinds of crap like that, just because they made up some stupid law (don't sell raw milk? WTF? Don't grow hemp? WTF? see? they are bigger assholes than the thieves). I don't have that privilege, so we don't really need to worry about me controlling people. Controlling myself, though, that is something on which I pride myself. You should too. Like I said, you have a conscience, so use it! We should all be controlling, but only controlling of ourselves. There ought to be 7 billion governments on this planet = 7 billion consciences, each one taking responsibility to help assholes learn not to be assholes.
So do you know Mr. Gornick? Have you discussed bitcoin fungibility with him? He apparently believed that fungibility is more important than property rights. I do not. But whether a bitcoin user or a miner excludes or includes any given transaction with which they are involved is under their own individual control, so the aggregate of all those individual decisions is generally controlling anyway. Stephen was, and now you are, just encouraging people to ignore facts to preserve some precious ideal that you feel is more important than property rights. I think property rights are more important, but I would NEVER EVER EVER use coercion to force acceptance or rejection of bitcoin transactions for any reason. Coercion is a serious and harmful tool that diminishes the development of the conscience. The more we (like bitcoin) rely on individual decisions to be made well, the better things will get.
