The "Vladimir Club"

[arklan]

I was at 2200 or so but sold 350 at $119.99.  Damn bulls have trampled all over my short selling dream! 

so, are you living off your btc in blissful retirement, or what?

[chiropteran]

I'll keep dollar cost averaging until things get too rich for my taste (a long ways from the $10.65 it is right now).

If you bought into the club at the time of the OP's post, it would cost you $22,365.  Those coins would have a value, today, of approximately* $256,410. 

Net gain of $234,045.  Not a bad return for the time involved.





*As selling 2100 bitcoin at once would drop the value a little.

[Hawker]

I was at 2200 or so but sold 350 at $119.99.  Damn bulls have trampled all over my short selling dream!  

so, are you living off your btc in blissful retirement, or what?

Well I have had other real world businesses that paid off my mortgage and bought me some rentals.  I also have the bots you see in my signature.  Bitcoin is a hobby project - I hoped to make a daytrading bot.  The fact that I suck at timing the market has put a blight on the project but I'm still keen on getting it to work.

[molecular]

How many do you think are eligible for the club today? I would think it is far less than 5000 individuals, maybe closer to 500..

I think it is just about 300 members. And no, I am not in The Club.

Lol.

[vokain]

How many do you think are eligible for the club today? I would think it is far less than 5000 individuals, maybe closer to 500..

I think it is just about 300 members. And no, I am not in The Club.

Lol.

More like the owner of the room above The Club 

[smoothie]

How many do you think are eligible for the club today? I would think it is far less than 5000 individuals, maybe closer to 500..

I think it is just about 300 members. And no, I am not in The Club.

Likely because you are in the Satoshi club 

[Bowjob]

How many of us is part of the Hitler club?

[calian]

I'll keep dollar cost averaging until things get too rich for my taste (a long ways from the $10.65 it is right now).

If you bought into the club at the time of the OP's post, it would cost you $22,365.  Those coins would have a value, today, of approximately* $256,410.  

Net gain of $234,045.  Not a bad return for the time involved.





*As selling 2100 bitcoin at once would drop the value a little.

Jeez, you had to rub it in didn't you. Please don't bump this if BTC hits $476.19...

I've given up on ever joining the club. But maybe someday there will be a flaw in the crypto and we can mint all the BTC we want.

Oh and Bow, why'd you have to Godwinize us? Yeah, I know it's Vladimir's fault for writing that script.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4axmD2YvPnA

[Le Happy Merchant]

Can there be a club if you have over 210?

I don't know if the str4wm4n club (or would that be strawman club?) would sound quite as cool. Although seeing as how it's a bit less exclusive maybe that's OK.

Can the club for people with 21+ be 'Le Happy Merchant' club?

[EuroTrash]

How many do you think are eligible for the club today? I would think it is far less than 5000 individuals, maybe closer to 500..

I think it is just about 300 members. And no, I am not in The Club.

yeah right

I heard TradeHill organized a "VIP&wannabe-snubs" party at the conference.
I wonder whether anyone from this forum had the time to go and crash it?  

[arklan]

Can there be a club if you have over 210?

I don't know if the str4wm4n club (or would that be strawman club?) would sound quite as cool. Although seeing as how it's a bit less exclusive maybe that's OK.

Can the club for people with 21+ be 'Le Happy Merchant' club?

More like "Fruity Loops Club".

oh oh! i'm in this one!

for the moment.

[smoothie]

Now that I think about it my ego is telling me we need a Smoothie Club...

Those who can troll like there is no tomorrow with tons of coins lol...

[Le Happy Merchant]

Those who can troll like there is no tomorrow with tons of coins lol...

I don't troll here, and I don't have lots of coins here.

[seljo]

Plot twist: Most of those addresses are part of one wallet.dat file.

...with private key irreversibly lost a year ago

proof?

protip: only coins in an address which has never spent coins (thereby revealing its public key) can be irreversibly lost. The rest of the coins (those in addresses whose public keys have been revealed) will be trivially claimed by the first Quantum Computers.

Assuming QC "suddenly" appears, and ECDSA is instantaneously crackable using Shor's algorithm, and SHA256/RIPEMD160 become vulnerable to Grover's algorithm:

• Every unspent coin, sent to an address whose pubkey is not yet revealed, is somewhat safe (80 bit security left, instead of 160 bit)
• The block chain is quite safe (128 bit security left, instead of 256 bit)
• Transactions to new quantum-computing-based addresses with corresponding keys, are safe
• ... only unspent coins sent to reused addresses will be trivially claimable by any attacker (a few bits of security left, instead of 128 bit)

Looks like QC suddenly appeard http://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html

[arklan]

" Our latest superconducting 512-qubit processor chip is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded room. "

christ that's a big computer.

[DoomDumas]

I would qualify for the Vlad club if we go back 3 years ago.. I guess I've been a "weak hand"... :-/

[seljo]

" Our latest superconducting 512-qubit processor chip is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded room. "

christ that's a big computer.

NASA just got one. So no more lost BTC NASA got it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22554494

[calian]

Can the club for people with 21+ be 'Le Happy Merchant' club?

I call them Millionthnaires myself.

[Piper67]

2100 BTC isn't cool. You know what's cool? 21 BTC... 

[Prattler]

Can the club for people with 21+ be 'Le Happy Merchant' club?

I call them Millionthnaires myself.

1,000,000 µBTC (1 BTC) is a good amount to have for µBTC millionaires!