Bitcoins

dogecoins?

umm...with regard to dogecoins...HEY LOOK OVER THERE!

you have to throw the stick

http://lh5.ggpht.com/RuY2VEJLX2UuilVj2-xYIpv1wcvDzx_hy5zP0cX8Ize079WcEQsNggARrpguRc-TmACLo_RjnetCXNVSN51ovjrGqPWHAfgZPlbn%3Ds630

the ole hurting gives a TED talk while lagoon heckles from the back row routine

http://ariannasimpson.com/post/74400025051/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-bitcoin

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-01-27/men-tied-to-silk-road-bitcoin-exchange-subject-of-u-dot-s-dot-charges

Kind of surprised Bharara went after this guy, seems like a stretch. Maybe he wants to press him for info.

http://business.time.com/2014/01/27/bitinstant-ceo-charlie-shrem-arrested-for-alleged-money-laundering/

Russia Bans Bitcoin

The Central Bank of Russia reiterated that the official currency is the Ruble, and that it considers Bitcoin a money surrogate. That’s why the cryptocurrency should be aboided

Interesting. Mt. Gox now claiming that the problems that took it offline are related to a flaw in the Bitcoin protocol itself:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-exchange-struggles/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

The ultimate win for the future is for people to just stop using currency in general and everyone just gets food and shelter and things and we throw away our wealth hoarding consumerist culture - like in Star Trek

Anyway I'm not sure why people think bitcoin is really any different than something like frequent flyer miles or something - anything can have value right? Havent people used things like shells for currency? Money is an idea we all believe in - but more and more it seems like technology is helping some people hoard more and more of it

This is the best (somewhat technical) explanation of what's going on that I've been able to find:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x93tf/some_irc_chatter_about_what_is_going_on_at_mtgox/cf99yac

Things are getting interesting in Bitcoinland:

http://www.coindesk.com/massive-concerted-attack-launched-bitcoin-exchanges/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoinDesk+%28CoinDesk+-+The+Voice+of+Digital+Currency%29

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John Law simply shrugs his shoulders and buys more digicoins with his morning paper.

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How many digicoins is your morning paper worth?

anyone into dogecoins?

good domain name for magic the gathering soon to be available

http://i.imgur.com/kvzCnG8.jpg

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20140225&id=17378845&ocid=ansmony11

probably a good time to buy bitcoin right now really

it's never a bad time to buy bitcoins

iiiinteresting

https://blockchain.info/address/1Drt3c8pSdrkyjuBiwVcSSixZwQtMZ3Tew

I'm surprised it bounced back as much as it has -- it was as low as $400 last night, now it's at $517.

frogbs, explain?

it appears that 782,556 BTC just went through some wallet which means a ton of BTC (like, 3-4% of all that could ever exist) is being tumbled (laundered) as we speak

it's never a bad time to buy bitcoins

― iatee, Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:27 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

it appears that 782,556 BTC just went through some wallet which means a ton of BTC (like, 3-4% of all that could ever exist) is being tumbled (laundered) as we speak

― frogbs, Tuesday, February 25, 2014 3:39 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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*It would also be poetic if a genius embezzler stole 744,000 Bitcoins that, through his own theft, were reduced to utter worthlessness.

was wondering what happens to the value once all of the bitcoins are stolen

simply supply and demand if the supply goes to zero the price approaches infinity

New message up:

Dear MtGox Customers,

In the event of recent news reports and the potential repercussions on MtGox's operations and the market, a decision was taken to close all transactions for the time being in order to protect the site and our users. We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly.

Best regards,
MtGox Team

https://www.mtgox.com

In the event of recent news reports

Dear MtGox Customers,

Haha we got yr money, sucks to be you.

Best regards,
MtGox Team

In the event of recent news reports

the greatest opening clause in the history of the internet

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this is the first sign that there may be a problem in keeping pretend dollars inside your computer

1:33 AM - 25 Feb 2014

I personally believe that Mt Gox users are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have bitcoin and, uh, I believe that our economy like such as in Mt Gox and, uh, the Coinbase, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our exchanges over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help Mt Gox and should help the Coinfloor and the Asian bitcoins, so we will be able to build up our future

loll (under: "Gox's new ownership")

Here is the process we are going to put in place. We've set up a wallet here:

1EgQ4pz8bEBn2LNGxgSVcTNHyS5xm1fpxZ -

If you send a small transaction to this wallet, using the wallet that originally sent coins to Gox, we will be able to trace back to your wallet once we have entered the recovery phase.

Include a note in this transaction of your reddit username and leave a comment in the thread below.

Think of this as a sort of Paypal verification step, we will send the amount back to you shortly after you've sent it and will then have your data on file to receive your Mt. Gox holdings after we've completed the recovery.

The order of processing refunds will be determined by sorting the size of the sum total of transactions sent from your source address to the verification wallet in descending order. That way there is no unfair advantage to those who saw this message first, and those who have the strongest need to recover what was lost will recover their bitcoins or fiat first.

bravo aero

Include a note in this transaction of your reddit username and leave a comment in the thread below.

So it Mt. Gox a reddit thing? Or do they just assume that the overlap ot bitcoin users and redditors is basically 100%?

ha i was guessing the latter

I think that's a joke. Sort of like saying: "Anyone who lost Bitcoins please post your bank account number, routing information, social security number and credit card information and I'll make sure you get a refund."

My friend has a mining machine that runs 24/7 and it is LOUD.

the carbon footprint of dogecoin mining

good domain name for magic the gathering soon to be available

http://www.abugames.com/images/products/magic2014m14/pillarfieldox.jpg

Very fitting text too

XP: Cryptocoin mining is has brought a worldwide shortage of the high-to-medium range AMD graphics cards for the past 3 months.

AMD graphics card pricing skyrockets due to cryptocurrency mining, could kill AMD’s gaming efforts

A typical setup would be two cards (cost $1400-$3000) drawing 700-1000 watts for the machine.

Pretty much the first time cryptocurrencies have effected me personally (I'm a big fan of Mackey's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds), as AMD has an intriguing API (Mantle) and I'm about to build a new midrange gaming rig.

i won like .0045 of a bitcoin but cant get it because i owl ended more to have it sent to a wallet

bitcoinplus

I think someone should invent the Obamacoin

ok so there is a chance that MtGox literally just lost their private key

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/28/investing/mt-gox-bankruptcy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

this whole thing has been amazing to watch

def feel p stupid for not getting in on this stealing bitcoins thing early

its about time this got the Taiwanese Animation treatment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVobjVZK6ho&noredirect=1

http://i.imgur.com/JFRz2QV.gif

Comments on this - http://valleywag.gawker.com/bitcoin-kingpin-admits-everyones-money-is-gone-1533315083 - are pure gold. (As is the line Funny, how these people only want anything to do with the government after they've fucked themselves over into another dimension.) My favorite:

Here's how Bitcoin works - you give your money to a beefy libertarian video game company executive in a foreign country (who speaks damn good Japanese for a Gaijin), he does some bullshit computer razzmataz, you tell all your friends "I'm free of Fiat Money - John Galt Rules!".....and then your money is gone.