What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
― dan m, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
- Bob Marley
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
I'm looking forward to the collapse of Google Glass. I hope it's right out of "The Jerk."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
I am trained in gorilla warfare
gorilla warfare
gorilla
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
uh oh
http://newswatch.us/28-year-old-ceo-of-bitcoin-exchange-dead-after-possible-suicide/
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
Rupert Chappelle •12 hours agoGhaddafi farked with the bankers, Kennedy farked with the Bankers, Lincoln farked with the bankers, any questions?
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― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
flexcoin got caught sleepin in the turning laneganked
http://www.businessinsider.com/flexcoin-2014-3
― gimme the lute (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
anyone want to buy ILECOIN?
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
ile buy that for a dollar!
― sktsh, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
someone come up with 133 ways to make the number 752834756982734658723645 using multiplication
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
ILE buy that for a dollar
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
I fucked up a dadjoke :(
― sktsh, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2144703/i-learned-it-by-watching-you-o.gif
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 March 2014 05:39 (ten years ago) link
Dear Mr. Karpeles,Perhaps you could upload a few videos to youtube and speak directly to us? Show off your cat, seems to be a big hit! I think you'd get a lot more credit for some regular communication. Keep it flowing, please.If you are restricted from discussing anything, or specific topics, you could possibly indicate in a manner of morse code blinks. Just kidding, that would be too obvious. Just start out and say something like "I can only say this: MtGox is ...." and we will know.Mark, I sincerely hope you can pull through and make MtGox successful, I know you've put a lot of time and work into it. You are well aware that your customers have grievances and I am one of them. If you can't at least restore our money, return our money, or generate some type of repayment scenario, then at the end of this I hope you give a big interview or AMA, something to give us a solid closure of how we lost all our hard earned money.If repayment is not possible, please work your heart out to do something very positive that will benefit those who need it, in a measure greater than all of us who gave.I'd like to finish with a quote from the following song:"All gave some, some gave all" - Billy Ray Cyrus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydWhRObVxrM&feature=kpSincerely,Your CustomerLogged “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”― Bob Marley
Perhaps you could upload a few videos to youtube and speak directly to us? Show off your cat, seems to be a big hit! I think you'd get a lot more credit for some regular communication. Keep it flowing, please.
If you are restricted from discussing anything, or specific topics, you could possibly indicate in a manner of morse code blinks. Just kidding, that would be too obvious. Just start out and say something like "I can only say this: MtGox is ...." and we will know.
Mark, I sincerely hope you can pull through and make MtGox successful, I know you've put a lot of time and work into it. You are well aware that your customers have grievances and I am one of them. If you can't at least restore our money, return our money, or generate some type of repayment scenario, then at the end of this I hope you give a big interview or AMA, something to give us a solid closure of how we lost all our hard earned money.
If repayment is not possible, please work your heart out to do something very positive that will benefit those who need it, in a measure greater than all of us who gave.
I'd like to finish with a quote from the following song:
"All gave some, some gave all" - Billy Ray Cyrus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydWhRObVxrM&feature=kp
Sincerely,
Your Customer
Logged
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”― Bob Marley
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html
satoshi nakamoto is... satoshi nakamoto
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 March 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
Feel mad at Newsweek for blowing up this dude's spot
― 龜, Thursday, 6 March 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
yeah I think they should'a left him alone considering he clearly didn't want to be found. and obviously he's not interested in 'cashing out' at the moment. it kinda confirms what my impression was of this all along (that bitcoin was probably created as a 'proof of concept', not an actual workable currency)
still, the comments really reveal the mindset of the bitcoin community:
If something happens to him, the blood is on Leah Goodman's hands. It's too late now. What a sad day for journalism.
Is Newsweek going to provide 24/7 protection for this man, after you've just outed the name and address of a man potentially worth 1000 million dollars, who likely holds the private keys to his BTC in his home?
Newsweek is going to be responsible for this man's death. NewWeek, there are some things that should have been left private. This is one of them. I now have a strong, very very strong, hatred for Newsweek, and all of it's subsidiaries.
This guy has potentially hundred millions in "cash" in his house and you post photo & location? I hope you rot in jail if he gets killed.
Can we get photos of Leah, along with her address and photos of where she lives? I'm sure there are a lot of people just *dying* to talk to her.
Your speculative article on the person behind bitcoin was blatantly disrespectful, a breach of journalist integrity, and has placed this man and his family in potentially life-threatening danger. Whether your theory is true or false, do you realize that you've turned this man--someone who clearly wanted his privacy to be respected--into a target with a billion-dollar bounty? If this turns out badly, blood will be on the hands of yourself and Newsweek.
Whether your theory is true or false, do you realize that you've turned this man--someone who clearly wanted his privacy to be respected--into a target with a billion-dollar bounty?
If this turns out badly, blood will be on the hands of yourself and Newsweek.
This article is criminal. That guy and his family are in danger now.
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
http://blog.mainstreethost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Dr.-Evil-One-Million-Dollars.png
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 6 March 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
Those guys are crazy. Fuck those dudes xp
― 龜, Thursday, 6 March 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
lol can't believe newsweek doxed a guy who went under his OWN NAME
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
gimme a break
Whatever, it's a good scoop (assuming true), and IMO if you involve yourself with a project of that scale your identity is fair game, especially if you don't take greater measures to hide it and use your real name as your alias.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
or also what s1ocki said I guess
well it's one thing if he was still involved with it and taking money out regularly, I guess
kinda funny how the bitcoiners are referring to him as a Zuckerberg/Bill Gates type, and that in a bitcoiner world this means that he will likely be murdered so people can steal his precious precious bitcoins. as though hes literally sitting on a vault with billions dollars. for all we know he lost the private key to his wallet.
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
Lol at that letter....in lieu of FDIC protection, could we at LEAST get a reddit AMA?
― gimme the lute (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
"They be tryin' to steal me lucky bitcoin!"
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
the Bob Marley quote is making me wonder which one of you this is
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Definitely gives you a sense of the kind of self-importance/persecution complex a lot of bitcoiners feel that they're so incensed about this.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
its definitely unethical to reveal the names of rich ppl because they will obviously be murdered
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
writing a person of public interest doing business in his own name is not blowing up anyones spot
― max, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
that being said its a weirdly sloppy and underinformed article. i assume they were rushing it for the first print issue
Of course, none of this puts to rest the biggest question of all - the one that only Satoshi Nakamoto himself can answer: What has kept him from spending his hundreds of millions of dollars of Bitcoin, which he reaped when he launched the currency years ago? According to his family both he - and they - could really use the money.
― max, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
wait what's wrong with that?
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
he didn't "reap" it years ago, that's the current value
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
"...Mt. Gox, a former Magic: The Gathering card exchange that morphed into Bitcoin’s largest trading floor..."I did not know this.― nickn, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 7:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkmind was blown when i realized mt gox was an acronym for magic the gathering online xchange― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, March 4, 2014 9:39 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I did not know this.
― nickn, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 7:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
mind was blown when i realized mt gox was an acronym for magic the gathering online xchange
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, March 4, 2014 9:39 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
they are not
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
― sleeve, Thursday, March 6, 2014 11:08 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh I see, I guess it's just unclear writing -- I took it as meaning he reaped the bitcoin years ago, which is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, not that he could have sold it years ago for hundreds of millions.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
please tell me you guys are pulling my leg― Nhex, Thursday, March 6, 2014
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
people always mining and reaping bitcoin. just grab some bitcoin imo.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
i need a bitcoin convenient as gogurt. i don't have time to reap and mine.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
my mind is also blown regarding that Magic revelation. wowzers!
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
not that he could have sold it years ago for hundreds of millions.
the other important point is that he couldn't do that now either
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Well no, but he could presumably sell off a small portion of it and his family would be more than set.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
He would just need to dribble it out, the same way institutional investors often sell off large, semi-illiquid blocks of stock -- a little at a time. Unless I'm missing something here.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
given that btc trading volume is way down I do wonder how much $$$ you could get out right now without crashing the whole thing. Satoshi could certainly get out enough to change his life but certainly nothing in the realm of what's mentioned in the article. the fact that he hasn't is rather curious (like the Gox thing, you half-wonder if he lost his private key?)
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
From the description I could kind of see him just being weird and eccentric and constipated about the whole thing. Maybe he doesn't like the way bitcoin has gone and doesn't want to profit from it or something.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
frogbs otm, just a weird question to leave hanging without pointing out that converting btc to real dollars at that rate is impossible and would destroy the market
― max, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
But he could easily sell off a mil or two without causing a blip, I'd think. Why not just do that?
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
(a million united states of amerikkka fiat dollars worth I mean)
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
has anyone been able to do that?
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Aren't there still Winklevosses etc. out there willing to pony up real cash?
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link