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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #640 on: March 02, 2014, 03:16:03 PM »
You're talking about Silk Road and yes, it operated purely through Bitcoins since the wallets don't have any personally identifiable information attached.  It did about $15M of trade volume annually.

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« Reply #641 on: March 03, 2014, 06:09:59 PM »
Oh yeah that.

So far as I know, I haven't spent a $1 on that sort of thing.
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Anyway, I've heard the claim that about 20% of the USA economy is gray or black market.  With that much money at stake, it's no surprise people are trying to make money off of it either sideways, or just as gray/black.  The Freakonomics guy puts the world number a little higher.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #642 on: March 03, 2014, 07:06:51 PM »
The issue I take with your statement is that no money is all that real, anymore.  What would you rather have, an opaque bank telling you that you possess X amount of value because of bits on their computer, or a heavily encrypted ledger that is virtually impossible to forge unless you possess a ridiculous amount of computing power?

Fantasy hypothesis are fascinating.

But in the real world, banks don't rely only on digital records, and crytocurrencies are being cracked down just fine.



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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #644 on: March 04, 2014, 11:32:37 PM »

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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #645 on: March 05, 2014, 07:49:03 PM »

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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #646 on: March 06, 2014, 05:56:52 PM »
The Bitcoin ceo just got offed in Singapore.
Of course it's only suicide.
And the Bitcoin inventor (~"maybe") is the Newsweek coverstory.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #647 on: March 06, 2014, 06:26:26 PM »
The Bitcoin ceo just got offed in Singapore.
Of course it's only suicide.
And the Bitcoin inventor (~"maybe") is the Newsweek coverstory.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/06/us-bitcoin-death-idUSBREA2505120140306
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/06/us-bitcoin-death-idUSBREA250HH20140306

Doesn't sound like "the" CEO of anything to me. From this and the related articles, she was a CEO of some company that happened to also do bitcoins.
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« Reply #648 on: March 06, 2014, 06:36:33 PM »
Basically anything to do with SNP responses to news would qualify here, I guess.*

*That is, the response is always 'this shows that we are right', regardless of the news.

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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #650 on: March 15, 2014, 05:26:47 PM »
Can you explain to me why that news story is WTF? The internet is already run by a few groups around the world (the so-called "root" users), so the ICANN going international doesn't seem so bad to me, I guess...

Then again, I am also assuming that they'll be smart enough to not pull a UN Council on Human Rights...
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #651 on: March 16, 2014, 03:01:31 PM »
The Bitcoin ceo just got offed in Singapore.
Of course it's only suicide.
And the Bitcoin inventor (~"maybe") is the Newsweek coverstory.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/06/us-bitcoin-death-idUSBREA2505120140306
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/06/us-bitcoin-death-idUSBREA250HH20140306

Doesn't sound like "the" CEO of anything to me. From this and the related articles, she was a CEO of some company that happened to also do bitcoins.

My bad.  I seem to have conflated the 3 separate stories, into just 2.  It's still probably a good investment.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #652 on: March 16, 2014, 05:48:13 PM »
Can you explain to me why that news story is WTF? The internet is already run by a few groups around the world (the so-called "root" users), so the ICANN going international doesn't seem so bad to me, I guess...

Then again, I am also assuming that they'll be smart enough to not pull a UN Council on Human Rights...

Cause it will inevitably lead o said clusterfuck.

In other news Fred Phelps is dying.  Hopefully the Hell he ends up in is far too gay for his tastes.

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« Reply #653 on: March 16, 2014, 08:17:54 PM »
In other news Fred Phelps is dying.  Hopefully the Hell he ends up in is far too gay for his tastes.

I can't wait to see the protest at HIS funeral!  :D
Hopefully it includes a massive line of gay people doing a conga line.

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« Reply #655 on: March 17, 2014, 11:03:11 AM »
Hopefully it includes a massive line of gay people doing a conga line.

Many different images in my head, and now that one is stuck there...

At least it would be a good insult to one of the most offensive jackasses alive.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #656 on: March 17, 2014, 11:08:38 AM »
In other news Fred Phelps is dying.  Hopefully the Hell he ends up in is far too gay for his tastes.

I can't wait to see the protest at HIS funeral!  :D
Hopefully it includes a massive line of gay people doing a conga line.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #657 on: March 17, 2014, 11:53:35 AM »
http://cheezburger.com/8092100096
This was a survey done by a shady online cupon vendor that may or may not have met any sort of scientific standards.  Really, it was a multiple choice test with answers clearly designed to confuse people who were not absolutely certain of the correct answer.

On another note, without context SEO could mean any number of things.  Even in the minimal context of "words used in techno-jargon" it could mean any number of things.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #658 on: March 17, 2014, 05:50:51 PM »
In other news Fred Phelps is dying.  Hopefully the Hell he ends up in is far too gay for his tastes.

I can't wait to see the protest at HIS funeral!  :D
Hopefully it includes a massive line of gay people doing a conga line.


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« Reply #659 on: March 18, 2014, 09:19:23 PM »
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/03/18/my-little-pony-backpack-banned-school-north-carolina/6565425/

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