yeah I mean I'm sure it's not uncommon for federal agents to palm a few stacks of cash in a drug raid but bitcoin is literally the least anonymous and most traceable currency on the planet so
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
also lol that Ross's crime journal wound up taking these guys with him
http://pinkicecube.com/images/death_cat_snuffy_smith.jpg
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 07:08 (nine years ago) link
That is a huge, yet rather simple, crossword puzzle.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link
oh my god this is amazing
http://bitcalc.beepboopbitcoin.com/
― frogbs, Monday, 20 April 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
oh lord that's gonna get me in trouble
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BowHK1o.png
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
whoopsie: https://twitter.com/AP/status/604380093612445696
― DJP, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
cant find anywhere in the law it says "dont create drug dealing website" smh fascists
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
http://tucker.liberty.me/the-deeply-tragic-jailing-of-ross-ulbricht/
― entry-level umami (mild bleu cheese vibes) (s.clover), Saturday, 30 May 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
don't even know what to quote from it, all gold
― entry-level umami (mild bleu cheese vibes) (s.clover), Saturday, 30 May 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link
“I know you must take away my middle years, but please leave me my old age," Ulbricht, now 31, wrote.
So um, is a pedo who posts child porn on TOR called a torpedo?
― StanM, Saturday, 30 May 2015 06:39 (eight years ago) link
This brilliant and creative young man has been put away for performing a much-needed digital experiment. He opened an open-air market in the digital cloud and thereby demonstrated to the world that there is a better way than the state’s deeply destructive war on drugs.
guy literally tried to have like 5 online tormentors killed irl
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 May 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Judge Forrest spent nearly an hour tearing down all those arguments and a lot of it is gold
“The idea that it’s harm reducing is so very narrow,” she said. “It’s…about a privileged group, sitting in their own homes, with their high speed internet connections.”
btw I think it's worth mentioning that several dealers on SR would threaten to doxx anyone who ordered from them and didn't give them a 5/5 rating
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
Judge Forrest spent nearly an hour tearing down all those arguments and a lot of it is gold “The idea that it’s harm reducing is so very narrow,” she said. “It’s…about a privileged group, sitting in their own homes, with their high speed internet connections.”btw I think it's worth mentioning that several dealers on SR would threaten to doxx anyone who ordered from them and didn't give them a 5/5 rating― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:03 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Where can I find this online?
― écorché (S-), Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:50 (eight years ago) link
Well first you need this thing called tor...
― pplains, Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link
http://animalnewyork.com/2015/a-guy-got-mugged-for-his-bitcoin-in-crown-heights
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 June 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
strictly speaking, that is no laughing matter. strictly speaking
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 5 June 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-19/bitcoin-bucket-shop-kicks-bucket
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 June 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
guys I didn't take pictures but there was some storefront in Montreal labeled "bitcoin embassy" or something
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 19 June 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
a lot ppl dont know u cn do a whole country on the blockchain
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 June 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
https://bitcoinembassy.ca/I walked by this thing every day I was there and I have no idea how it exists
theres a bitcoin store in manhattan too (or there was) think i posted a pic upthread
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 June 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/paypal-limits-voats-account-site-now-accepts-donations-bitcoin/
― goole, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
Many in Voat's camp believe PayPal interrupted the site's PayPal account over the site's adherence to freedom of speech principles. Voat is like Reddit, nearly identical in appearance and functionality, with a focus on freedom of speech.
― goole, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
higher fedora percentage compared to reddit then?
― écorché (S-), Thursday, 2 July 2015 05:52 (eight years ago) link
I walked by this in paris
http://www.bitcoinfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/b1.jpg
if we're documenting bitcoin's physical presence
― chinavision!, Thursday, 2 July 2015 13:26 (eight years ago) link
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-is-even-happening-with-bitcoin-right-now
― goole, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
price has skyrocketed to nearly $500 in the last few days for apparently no good reason, I'm sure this is totally legit and not some kind of mega-ponzi or anything
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
drone whistleblowers get their accounts frozen, bitcoin jerks hop on to say "shoulda used bitcoin!"
https://twitter.com/JesselynRadack/status/668253880271114240
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Monday, 23 November 2015 03:28 (eight years ago) link
price is back in the low 300's again btw.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 23 November 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bitwalking.com/
― am0n, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
That is bizarre. Where's the money coming from?
― calstars, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
Presumably since they will be literally monitoring your every step, they can flog all your data to advertisers.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 00:34 (eight years ago) link
hmm, constant monitoring of location in exchange for a few pennies a day perhaps?
― calstars, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 02:36 (eight years ago) link
Q: Am I paid for walking? A: No. You are generating money by walking on your own. We provide the platform to do that.Unlike other digital currencies that are mined by computers, BW$ are generated by human movement - walking.
― am0n, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it's the "generating money" bit that I don't get
― calstars, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
this might be too crazy a theory, but maybe it harnesses the processing power of your phone for mining whenever you are walking around (and hence presumably using your phone less), and then shares some part of the mining spoils with you?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
there's a company called 21 inc. which is basically doing exactly that (without the walking bit) and it is probably one of the dumbest business ventures I can think of - essentially reduces your battery life to 90 minutes in exchange for something like $0.00001/day
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
How much does the company make on one phone x one day?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
the mining of cybor currencies is always arbitrary using yr computer to play a digital lottery or using yr smartphone to track yr walking w/e same diff
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it's the "generating money" bit that I don't get― calstars, Wednesday, 25 November 2015
instead of overheated gpus powering the mining computations its using human legs for power
― am0n, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
so, d0xed?
― sktsh, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 14:16 (eight years ago) link
apparently. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-founder-craig-wrights-home-raided-by-australian-police
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-friend-invented-bi-1746958692Several of the emails and documents sent to Gizmodo point to a close relationship between Wright and Kleiman, a U.S. Army veteran who lived in Palm Beach County, Florida. Kleiman was confined to a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident in 1995, and became a reclusive computer forensics obsessive thereafter. He died broke and in squalor, after suffering from infected bedsores. His body was found decomposing and surrounded by empty alcohol bottles and a loaded handgun. Bloody feces was tracked along the floor, and a bullet hole was found in his mattress, though no spent shell casings were found on the scene. But documents shared with Gizmodo suggest that Kleiman may have possessed a Bitcoin trust worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and seemed to be deeply involved with the currency and Wright’s plans. “Craig, I think you’re mad and this is risky,” Kleiman writes in one 2011 email to Wright. “But I believe in what we are trying to do.”
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
strange that the price spiked on this news, if the raid is for what I think it is (tons of unpaid taxes) one would think that massive stash may be starting to cash out
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
been thinking about it and this is such a crazy story is my conclusion
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
to be fair this is really only like the 6th or 7th craziest thing that's happened in the world of bitcoin
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
yeah i mean the world of bitcoin itself is an extremely crazy story but a couple reclusive lunatic geniuses with sophomoric opinions about government/economics create a gigantic fortune just from basically an idea, like its virtuoso computer programing but its also m/l a total failure for its stated use its estimated that ~25% of all bitcoins have been lost and a ton more stolen, but people are extremely attracted to the idea, almost everyone fucking w bitcoin is doing it for ideological reasons, the rest are in it to buy drugs online which is a bad idea btw, then there are a handful of thinkfluencers/investors w free associative dreams of the blockchain dancing in their heads (tho many of these ppl have moved on by now), and the creator(s) fortune or at least a good chuck of it is just sitting there untouched, of course if they did try to sell much of it it wld destroy the value of the rest, also they were anonymous and very secrative for years, just so hella crazy cyberpunk lol someone shd write a scifi book about it except all the main facts are true
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
some guy posted this morning on reddit that he would pay 90.5btc (about 38K USD) to anyone who played a very bad magic card (seance) at the next magic pro tour. hearing that the price is spiking makes me even more eager to snap that offer up
― LEGIT (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link