can we talk more about the aussiee
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
yes
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
oi m8
― 龜, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
the mixture of bragging / trying to hide his identity reminds me of walt in mid-series breaking bad
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZZP8RDuV--/gmoyhqntwlvt1uzbu6fp.png
― iatee, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:14 (eight years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/MkB4Jim.gif
― iatee, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
the guy gets outed as a bitcoin founder then hours later the police raid his home and say its unrelated
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link
he's kind of a candidate for People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry, S/D C/D
― 龜, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
imo the best way to think about a bitcoin is that it's equivalent to like having a level 80 character in diablo ii (pre expansion pack) or a complete unique set or real stones of jordan, that you could only get through hours and hours of grinding n you could sell on eBay for money but only to the extent there were other diablo ii players who wanted them
― 龜, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:07 (eight years ago) link
a bitcoin is basically like a whirlwind barbarian and can get nerfed at any moment
I am glad that sterling post about the BG problem so I don't have to. But yeah egghead's line about that produced gas face
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:22 (eight years ago) link
GG, MMO analogues
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:23 (eight years ago) link
the rest are in it to buy drugs online which is a bad idea btw
do you know anybody who's gotten busted for it? I don't fuck around but I know people who do and they're v evangelical about Silk Road etc, certain they can't be traced
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
i dont personally but theres plenty of documented cases of that happening, and if it does youre facing more charges than you wld if it happened in person because of shipping it, also my understanding ppl get ripped off w fair regularity online
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
i mean if youre just buying recreational amounts yr exposure is prob p minimal but still
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah don't get me wrong I think it's madness, like waaaay back in the 80s I sent acid through the mail to a girlfriend in NY and years later I was like "do you even know how bad they can ding you for anything that goes down through the mail," but the feeling I get is yeah the risk isn't much worse than buying on the street
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 10 December 2015 02:05 (eight years ago) link
can def understand the appeal of just getting whatever drugs u want sent to u
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 December 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
i prob shdnt think abt that too much
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 10 December 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
medco express scripts is sweet, not sure what u guys are worried abt
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 December 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
amazon prime... for drugs
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 10 December 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
wb for more on this fast moving story
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax
― sktsh, Thursday, 10 December 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nRB305Y.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 December 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
so these guys killed satoshi nakamoto, right
or they have no idea who he is and were trying to set up a case for claiming ownership of his bitcoins by pretending they were him all along
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 10 December 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
the key proabbly belongs to the other guy who died
― 龜, Thursday, 10 December 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
actually... it belongs to me
I am glad that sterling post about the BG problem so I don't have to. But yeah egghead's line about that produced gas face― El Tomboto, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 8:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 8:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't think i understood sterling's post. he said bitcoin is only semi-related (to BG) and not even a solution to this semi-relatd problem "but ... fundamentally about recognizing a new _class_ of problem rather than a new solution to a longstanding known problem." that doesn't make sense to me. not knowing anything about BG, it was obvious to me from the context that MA was talking about a sub-class of problems, even though literally it reads that way. but i don't get how it's not even a solution to a subproblem. does it not actually do what it is purported to do?
almost everyone fucking w bitcoin is doing it for ideological reasons― lag∞n, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 5:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 5:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is contrarianism an ideology? ;-)
― flopson, Thursday, 10 December 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
When you turn over the stone you will find an inscription telling you that the Original Key is...love.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/12/11/2147499/doubts-grow-over-craig-s-wrights-connection-to-satoshi-nakamoto/
might not be him after all, which is too bad cause it made a good narrative
― iatee, Friday, 11 December 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
but i don't get how it's not even a solution to a subproblem. does it not actually do what it is purported to do?
― flopson, Thursday, December 10, 2015 10:59 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its a solution to a "distributed ledger" -- which is related to BG, but only in the sense that every system that involves more than one party and some degree of trust is related to BG.
it does provide a relatively trustworthy way to provide an account of transactions that are "witnessed" by the "public" (where here the "public" is "machines running bitcoin mining operations").
So instead of "Bitcoin is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the Byzantine Generals Problem" imagine somebody wrote "Uber is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem called getting from one place to another" -- its not a great analogy, but maybe it gives a sense.
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
good roundup http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/bizarre-saga-craig-wright-latest-inventor-bitcoin
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 December 2015 05:40 (eight years ago) link
http://blog.acton.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bitcoin-dead.jpg
― am0n, Sunday, 13 December 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OjOi8I8.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 28 January 2016 12:10 (eight years ago) link
who makes those jeans
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Thursday, 28 January 2016 13:02 (eight years ago) link
Casual Male XL?
― its subtle brume (DJP), Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
can those arms even hold that sword upright?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
it's Inner Strength that matters duh
― The Male Gaz Coombes (Neil S), Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/3FnkOJW.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
because you're an idiot, best known for playing idiots on TV
― frogbs, Friday, 29 January 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
surely the right move is to use the butterfly effect power to make his past self buy bitcoin imo
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/hackers-are-holding-a-hospitals-patient-data-ransom/463008/
A hospital in Los Angeles has been operating without access to email or electronic health records for more than a week, after hackers took over its computer systems and demanded millions of dollars in ransom to return it.The hackers that broke into the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s servers are asking for $3.6 million in Bitcoin, a local Fox News affiliate reported. Hospital staff are working with investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI to find the intruders’ identities.
The hackers that broke into the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s servers are asking for $3.6 million in Bitcoin, a local Fox News affiliate reported. Hospital staff are working with investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI to find the intruders’ identities.
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
bitcoin is fostering so many great innovations
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
it's already disrupting a hospital
― its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/files/2014/10/Beetcoin.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
This is why you have to hand over all your phone passwords to the government immediately
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
It is physically impossible to investigate and prosecute an extortion case without breaking into everybody's phone. It has never been done before. Look it up!
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
as a law abiding citizen i want the government to have my phone
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
going to have tons of pictures of my genitals with a bitcoin logo in the corner and tell them there is steganographic data hidden in the images
after scrutinizing my dick they will realize there is no data
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
your genitals... have corners?
― its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link