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ביטקוין‎

You're the world's first digital cryptohuman. You're the blockchain made flesh.

http://i.imgur.com/H4MexQE.png

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lmao

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/megan-miller-bitcoin/

http://pando.com/2014/05/26/calling-all-bulls-bitcoin-climbs-32-in-a-week-prompting-cheers-of-to-the-moon/

http://www.coindesk.com/two-charts-difference-bitcoin-fiat-payments/

http://media.coindesk.com/2014/05/GlenbrookCorrespondentBanking.png

http://media.coindesk.com/2014/05/functionsofmoney.jpg

http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/bitcoins/

THIS AUCTION IS FOR THE BITCOINS CONTAINED IN WALLET FILES THAT RESIDED ON SILK ROAD SERVERS, INCLUDING THE SERVERS ASSIGNED THE FOLLOWING INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES: 46.183.219.244; 109.163.234.40; 193.107.86.34; 193.107.86.49; 207.106.6.25; AND 207.106.6.32 (“SILKROAD SEIZED COINS”).

29,656 bitcoins is supposedly worth $17.5 million right now. I'm surprised that the gov't is granting bitcoins the legitimacy of treating them like actual property, or currency, or whatever.

I think the IRS already found them to be property. Really I don't think they're "granting legitimacy" by doing so, it's not like the government has broad control over what can be considered a thing that can be bought with money.

its basically like selling off a gangster's car, the stuff is property and it's taxed as property and if they can get some revenue from it why not

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--f7VCfpf6--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/773507390726026922.jpg

oh you laugh now

Bolivia bans bitoins!
http://www.erbol.com.bo/noticia/economia/20062014/bolivia_el_primer_pais_americano_en_prohibir_bitcoin

Bolivia knows nothing about noise currency

https://twitter.com/bn2b/status/487245850431991809

and the tiny table

lean couches iirc

disrupt

http://www.thecoinsman.com/2014/08/bitcoin/inside-chinese-bitcoin-mine

Too many in the world get paid well at the expense of others, or dedicate their lives to giving back to society without a penny in return, but mining farms like these are participating in the economy in a purely capitalist way

this rather undoes the 'its a currency not a commodity' claim underneath the whole belief system

the abstract uselessness of all of that 'economic particiaption' is quite beautiful though

golden ball: the ultimate humiliation

yeah, you know I watched somebody play this when it was all white tendency and it's about, oh, half to a quarter as hard as it is on all black. Good luck with that.
Btw, do NOT try to grind before you beat the first boss. You start grinding after that.

poor Iker

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Zing malfunction pls ignore/delete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuQZTAJ2KLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrNnrvet7Ao

Tony Jah
4 days ago

Quark is just another pointless shitcoin for people thinking they missed the bitcoin boat. 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/29/us-usa-crime-bitcoin-idUSKBN0GT2J420140829

I think we may be entering our final descent

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5431ca6c6bb3f7fd40a032a4-1014-437/screen%20shot%202014-10-05%20at%206.40.42%20pm.png

rip i will miss the millions of tossed off ideas by tech luminaries and randos alike about how u were going to disrupt global finance

"you can do anything with the blockchain" --people

something weird is happening at the $300 price point. dunno if it's bots or someone selling a massive amount to themselves but there was an insane buywall there

Wait. I meant sell wall. Someone dumped like 25k coins at $300 apiece and the price has gone up since then. we're back to the levels of, say...Friday

http://bitcoinexaminer.org/fire-destroys-massive-bitcoin-mining-operation-thailand/

lol

The picture identified the mining operation as property of the group Cowboyminers, a team of European crypto-supporters currently based in Bangkok

According to Spondoolies-Tech, the equipment was uninsured and the warehouse’s “buildup was definitely not according to US electric code”.

(...)the culprit should be the flammable acoustic foam embedded into the warehouse’s walls.

a true libertarian utopia

Thought this bump would be about Silk Road 2 getting taken down, long story short someone from the FBI was an admin from day one and has everyone's addresses, lol

XD

The picture identified the mining operation as property of the group Cowboyminers, a team of European crypto-supporters currently based in Bangkok

this whole thing is like a neal stephenson story rewritten in the style of chris morris' four lions

BTW my bitcoin-loving computer programmer relative has gotten off the bitcoin train, moved on to other things, so the shine is definitely off

another category to add to the list of terrible westerners you meet traveling in asia

Oh man I have a story about that from a friend that I shouldn't post online

you can post it, just change your friend's name to "Dan Y."

Roberto S.!

Anyway the story is my friend (who is white) was sitting at an airport in China one day waiting for his flight

This other white guy sits next to him and strikes up a conversation

Within 5 minutes the other white guy is telling my friend how he's a professor at [x] university in [y big city] in China

And that he's had sex with a number of his grad students in exchange for approving their topics, being their advisor, etc. etc.

Like putting aside the awfulness of it, it just made me think how terrible westerners in Asia feel like they have nobody to brag about their 'conquests' to and will literally tell the first white person they see at an airport