All posts made by FierceRadish in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 4588049 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
Most boring week in btc in months.
Boring is good for the time being, people. Boring is good.
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Post 4599586 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
Sadness, such much.
I kinda understand. I assume you, and other hardcore butt digging Bitcoiners are feeling raped cause of such a coin getting such attention. Such wow, such currency.
For all I know, and what it looks like, this will continue for some time. Gotta say, I fucking love it.
-MASSIVE EDIT-
Reid Webb FL, FL 13 days ago Liked 70
Doge is possibly one of the worst things to happen to america since 9/11. It's causing our society to crumble and risks our future children's lives! We must stop doge before it brings more harm!
Just by looking at those kinda comments make me believe, Doge owners outsmart Doge haters. Jesus.
Or perhaps you need to turn up your sarcasm detector a notch or two?
Doge is fun, and an interesting playground for understanding crypto. But the "such much" language is wearing pretty thin.
Good luck to you anyway.
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Post 4602236 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
Perhaps because Dogecoin is what Bitcoin should have been?
There are a number of economic reasons that make me skeptical about Bitcoin's chances of success. But there is one reason that makes me wary of it: the fact that its is being "marketed" more as an investment than a payment system.
Here is what a true Bitcoin believer, pure of heart, should be saying:
* Our goal is cheap, easy, unrestricted international payments;
* We will succeed if everybody uses uses crypto, we will fail if no one uses it;
* Other cryptocoins are welcome and we hope they prosper.
* Our hope is that SOME crypto will succeed; it doesn't have to be Bitcoin.
* We do not know how much a Bitcoin will be worth, and it does not matter.
* However, the value of a cryptocoin should be as stable as the dollar's value is now.
* The sooner the price stabilizes, the better.
* Hoarding or speculating with cryptocoins is evil as it defeats those goals.
* Large cryptocoin-based financial institutions are just as evil as dollar-based ones.
* Our priority is to convince merchants to accept crypto as payment method.
* People should change dollars for crypto only if and when it is is clearly worth it.
Instead, here is what Bitcoin enthusiasts seem to be saying, here and in other forums:
* Our goal is to get rich.
* We will succeed if Bitcoin's value rises to the Moon, fail if it goes down to cents.
* Other cryptocoins are unwelcome competition and we must speak out against them.
* Our hope is that BITCOIN succeeds, we will be mad if some other crypto crushes it.
* One Bitcoin must be, and surely will be, worth at least 1000 USD.
* The price should keep rising in the long run so that Bitcoin hoarders can have a steady income.
* Large price oscillations are good now because one can make money or grab more Bitcoins.
* Hoarding and speculating with Bitcoins is what the thing is all about.
* Large cryptocoin-based institutions are welcome because they will want to push the price up.
* Our priority is to convince everybody to change all their dollars for Bitcoins and hold them fast.
* People should pay for things and services with Bitcoins even if it is not worth it.
That unfortunatey is the mindset that fuels bubbles and Ponzi schemes...
This is what your post tells me:
- You haven't read Satoshi's White Paper.
- You base your understanding of the 'goals' of Bitcoin, and its many and diverse users, on recent headlines and the Speculation forum of this site.
- You haven't spent much time on the Dogecoin thread or subReddit.
- Something about the price rise, and the fact that people have - and continue - to profit from it, annoys you.
"People should change dollars for crypto only if and when it is is clearly worth it."How do you expect this ^^ to ever come true if people aren't willing to speculate? Someone has to take the chance. When is it
clearly worth it? If you're looking for signals, maybe it's clearly worth it when it can go from a few dollars to 1,000 in a year?
Actually, why am I arguing here.... You're someone who comes to the "Wall Observer" in the Bitcoin speculation forum to complain that people are treating Bitcoin as a speculation vehicle, and then suggests that Doge is somehow immune the whims of traders and their pump and dump evils.
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Post 4604959 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
This thread (theoretically) exists to discuss price movements on an almost real-time basis, so it makes sense that it's very long. Though to be fair, 86% of posts are pictures of trains/charts/lambos...
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Post 4644128 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
I recently explained the whole Bitcoin phenomenon and current state of affair to someone who I will describe as a Man of the Street/Wide-boy.
Seek no further. MatTheCat has found
The Oracle.
(Was he a London cabbie?)
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Post 4644352 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
I recently explained the whole Bitcoin phenomenon and current state of affair to someone who I will describe as a Man of the Street/Wide-boy.
Seek no further. MatTheCat has found
The Oracle.
(Was he a London cabbie?)
Fuck off u silly wanker.
Come on, you have to admit it's quite funny quoting a "wideboy"! Sorry, couldn't resist
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Post 4644585 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.57h):
Come on, you have to admit it's quite funny quoting a "wideboy"! Sorry, couldn't resist
Well, I how can I express myself without coming over all Guy Ritchie.
How about, "A notably 'heavy' man from an impoverished violent background who has earned his wealth operating a black market buying and selling franchise" ?
I like it. Ask him what he thinks of Dogecoin.
(You're right about looking at things from the perspective of the most ruthless person in the room. Lots of people too naive about the sharks that circle bitcoin.)
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Post 4687890 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.58h):
Yeah, I more or less used LTC to get some DOGE but figured why not. 1.6 Million DOGE really is not much as it sounds. Just wanted a few:)
What shocks me about DOGE is just the number of people who support it, it will be interesting but in the end I do hope it goes to 0. BTC and LTC for the win unless the "Bitcoin Foundation" kills off BTC
Also I guess I need to look into what the Bitcoin Foundation is proposing and possibly pick up some LTC.
What's all this talk about the Bitcoin Foundation in the last few pages? Am I missing something?
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Post 4693201 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_11.58h):
I added this to my above post, but I want to make sure people see it as it is helpful confirmed bad news to show why SHOTRING bitcoin on maximum leverage is a winning strategy. Here, I'll quote a verified source:
I forgot to add another devastating fact from confirmed sources. When companies like Overstock implement bitcoin we see it gets used "a lot" for the first few days and then usage drops off after a while. The fact that Overstock's entire customer base isn't using bitcoin yet demonstrates in yet another conclusive and verifiable way that the whole system is a failure. This is all proven. You can check it with a simple google search.
Prouhon is Andy Kaufman and I claim my ฿5.
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Post 4838741 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.01h):
But in the next 24-36 months, bitcoin is somewhere between 10k-50k. It simply has to be. The scale at which the entities getting involved now operate scale wise, bitcoin will be forced there. And 17 year olds that mined this useless Internet money will have their minds blown.
Ah, the forced $50,000 per Bitcoin in 2017. Let's see what this means.
If miners decide to sell all their mined Bitcoins, (or 50%), this is how much daily fresh money is needed on the exchanges for the price to be stable:
2014-2016 : $180 million ($90 million daily if 50% sold)
2017-2020: $90 million ($45 million daily) <--- look here
2021-2024: $45 million ($22 million daily)
etc.
Don't forget that they have to sell to cover their electricity costs. So, if Bitcoin is $50,000 in 2017, good luck in finding that daily fifty million dollars.
It's an interesting point.
But then, at 50,000 a coin, with around 15,000,000 coins in distribution (for the sake of argument), that gives a market cap roughly equivalent to the annual GDP of Benin or Moldova.
IF (and that's a big IF) Bitcoin does start really taking off
worldwide, then 50m p/d is nothing. Forex sees around $5 trillion traded a day - around 0.2% of the daily Bitcoin USD trading volume in mid-Jan.
I know, I know. These numbers aren't direct comparisons, but it helps to put these big numbers in perspective now and again.
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Post 4842016 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.01h):
You go inside the cage. Cage goes in the water. You go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
Why do I get the feeling I'm gonna need a bigger boat?
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Post 4863537 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.01h):
For example, I claim that on Feb/22 the price will be between 300 USD and 2200 USD with 95% probability.
That's a well-thought out argument, but this is a pretty wide price bracket. Plus, people here seem to demand either confirmed bull or confirmed bear. This kind of scope will fry minds
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Post 4979878 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.03h):
Someone is about to dump...
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Post 5088676 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.06h):
As per my earlier posts the Bitcoin Foundation carries just as large a portion of blame for this as Gox does.
As I wrote before, I can't understand why the bitcoin community still puts its trust on a Foundation
Answer: we don't.
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Post 5125795 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.08h):
Is there a list of all such bitcoin scams/thefts somewhere?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0EDIT: Oops, Stompix already in with the link...
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Post 5164895 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.10h):
This forum has one of the most lenient spam/troll/idiot tolerance levels I've ever seen.
Mah87, for example, appears to have around 400 posts of nothing more than "BTC crashing buy Ripple!!!"
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Post 5164921 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.10h):
Do not feed the trolls.
Good point. The ignore button is our friend.
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Post 5199737 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.12h):
Can everyone just remember there is a human being at the other end of these messages
I take exception to that!
Ha! Brilliant
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Post 5262663 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.14h):
If it's a security measure, that's great.
However, it does show the importance of a well-written error message.
"You are not allowed to withdraw bitcoins" is both vague and slightly threatening.
Copy and UX, people. Crucial parts of web design.
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Post 5266678 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.14h):
Stamp is going down further. But below $500 very unlikely.
There is no floor for Gox though.
Is it me or has Walsoraj gotten a bit tame and reasonable?
Unlike any other "sky is falling" Walsoraj posts, this one made my bearish hair bristle.
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Post 5301166 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.15h):
I'm thinking some Goxers are thinking the Reddit reports are true.
If so, a lot of people got a lot of dirt cheap coins. And a lot of people got screwed.
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Post 5365407 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.19h):
What a time for Kraken (my exchange of choice) to experience transfer delays.
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Post 5370744 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.20h):
... wedgie image...
Is it me or is Martin enjoying that situation?
lol, maybe. I think he has a perma-smile except when Lisa noted the exact moment his heart broke during Valentine's Day. Martin's always been a little odd.
<off topic geekery>that was Ralph Wiggum</off topic geekery>
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Post 5382855 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.20h):
Well, thank the stars he's
still in Japan.
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Post 5387360 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.20h):
What I find amazing it the variation in opinion about Gox.
But, We have almost no facts and information!, everything is guess work based on a couple of lines of text here and there.
Everyone seems to be going down a mental trip, coming up with their own plausible outcome, but its simply fantasy.
Its interesting reading these ideas, and I should think one or two people may get it spot on, but that would be luck, not their Poirot style intellect.
Well, yes. But I think even from those few lines of text it's pretty obvious that something is seriously rotten in the state of Karpeles, Mark.
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Post 5406980 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.21h):
That could be a way to move the market.
You want to move the market? Its not on the site yet..hoax maybe!!
Edit: Hoax surely
Seems that they removed it fast! Maybe it wasn't meant to be published today.
Yes, enough of this you silly six-post sod.
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Post 5407417 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.21h):
So does this mean that if when I transferred in my BTC it was worth $1200 I will be getting $1200 per btc refund?
That would be epic..
But I do not believe that statement, even if its indeed by Mark. He may have written it only to buy time and hold off possible lawsuits. Of course he could not promise to return the BTC because he has admitted that he does not have them. I do not believe that he has the dollars either, but the world still has no information on that.
And, characteristically, he does not give any numbers or firm dates.
The post could also be a way to manipulate markets, e. g. Bitcoinbuilder.
At this point I do not believe in any statement or revelation by
anyone from the "bitcoin community", even if "proved" by PDFs or screenshots. I do not know who is honest and who is spinning lies to cover up his own wrongdoings or moving the market. Three months ago they were all good friends of Shrem and Karpeles...
I am afraid that the only way we may get minimally reliable information about what happened inside MtGOX is through liquidation and/or criminal investigation.
It's quite obviously bollocks, Jorge.
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Post 5408169 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.21h):
Because markets. And because someone potentially just borked thousands of people out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Post 5479728 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.23h):
whats with that "FUD" about BTC-e being insolvent or could shut down anytime soon?
Link? Otherwise this FUD alert sounds like FUD.
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Post 5507924 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
So yesterday here was a tweet about some very good news will come tomorrow (today). What was ist?
Some blockchain.info exchange acquisiti....oh god I've fallen asleep.
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Post 5533516 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
According to solid TA i will have a lot of work to do in the forum in the next days/weeks/months.
I´m looking forward to it.
And so arrives a clear 'buy' signal.
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Post 5544270 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
You can summarize this long rant into "I'm right, even if I'm not right". Religious nuts like these create more harm then good to bitcoin imo.
This could be said of you as well.
Whats up with intelligent people arguing desperately against bitcoin in a bitcoin forum like Jorge Trollfi and you, kkaspar?
Is there a point in shouting bitcoin will fail to a group that mostly believe in bitcoin? What if you actually turn out to be right?
You gain absolutely nothing from this. And don't come with the "I'm only here to help" argument. Thats utter bullshit
Yeah, I hate to put people who clearly have a brain on ignore, but kkaspar has become so bloody tiresome. At least Jorges is a touch lighthearted. Kkasper is a ghost at the feast.
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Post 5545316 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Uh oh. Tinfoilers going to have a field day with this comment:
He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military.
I mean, MODEL TRAINS? What could be more sinister?
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Post 5545581 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Poor guy, he's going to have to move, get bodyguards, and maybe change his name. What a vicious journalist.
Yeah, posting a pic of his house and the man himself (and without actual concrete PROOF of this guy's involvement) is pretty fucking tacky. And incredibly irresponsible.
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Post 5545910 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
I am surprised what kind of sissies you are.. Seemingly never had a million dollars yourselves...
Satoshi is welcome to
my castle if he needs protection.
That's the point. He clearly doesn't want to be some guy in a photoshopped castle. He wants to be left alone in an average family home with, I assume, average family home levels of security and protection.
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Post 5546097 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
I'm bullish just because of all the anti-bitcoiners who were scared that Satoshi was the CIA, IMF, NWO etc.
Have you read the article? I think there's plenty of ammunition in there for the conspiracy theorists.
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Post 5546121 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
That journalist is insane and ruthless.
He just condemned the poor guy to death sentence, whether he is The Nakamoto or not.
edit: fuck that he is even showing pictures of Satoshi and his house so that everybody could recognize him/it... just wow..
Oh man I'm so pissed right now at this reporter for putting this man and his family in danger. I doubt he really is Satoshi Nakamoto, but whether he is or not there's now a huge target painted on his back because of this reporter. If anything happens to him an angry mob is going to find the author of this article and take out some sweet revenge on him. Maybe even before that happens.
The journo in question is a 'she'.
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Post 5546199 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
That journalist is insane and ruthless.
He just condemned the poor guy to death sentence, whether he is The Nakamoto or not.
Really now? Mark Karpeles, the guy that lost close to 1 million Bitcoins is still alive and you do not see any news about his family members getting death threats or robbed. I pretty sure he has more enemies than Satoshi does. Why does it even matter who he is? Everyone knows the creator of Litecoins and it does not change anything other than him promoting it.
Yeah, I think 'condemned to a death sentence" is a little exaggerated, but it's fair to say that the article has changed – and possibly endangered – the life of a man who didn't want to be found. But hey, that's journalism.
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Post 5549463 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Yup this is bad news. SELL.
The letter in that link really doesn't sound very, erm, satoshiesque...
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Post 5549746 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
The vultures are descending. You need to understand how journalists think. I was on my college newspaper, so I have a little experience.
This article
http://www.businessinsider.com/dorian-satoshi-letter-and-train-2014-3is going to be used as a rationalization that Dorian Nakamoto is a public figure, and therefor not subject to the legal protections provided to private citizens.
They are going to hound this man. He needs to lawyer up in a hurry.
I simply cannot believe that the man who wrote this:
"Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model."
Also wrote this:
"the parking fee + gasoline costs $10 now to get there from my home and i would go there more often with my mother for shoppings."
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Post 5549795 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Agreed. And I was previously pretty convinced that they'd got the right guy. Newsweek done made a howler.
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Post 5549904 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
The letter in that link really doesn't sound very, erm, satoshiesque...
This is one reason why it was nice SN stayed unknown. We begin to focus on the person instead of his invention.
When we look into people's lives we find humans, character flaws and all. We find out that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Henry Ford was an anti-semite. Martin Luther King was apparently a plagiarist and philanderer.
Well, yes. But none of them turned out to secretly write like a child in their spare time.
Something doesn't add up. Of course, the letter comes from notorious journalism vomit bath BusinessInsider, so it may have no relation to the story whatsoever.
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Post 5549925 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
The vultures are descending. You need to understand how journalists think. I was on my college newspaper, so I have a little experience.
This article
http://www.businessinsider.com/dorian-satoshi-letter-and-train-2014-3is going to be used as a rationalization that Dorian Nakamoto is a public figure, and therefor not subject to the legal protections provided to private citizens.
They are going to hound this man. He needs to lawyer up in a hurry.
I simply cannot believe that the man who wrote this:
"Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model."
Also wrote this:
"the parking fee + gasoline costs $10 now to get there from my home and i would go there more often with my mother for shoppings."
Journalism is a cutthroat business and they only need the slimmest of pretexts to do awful things to people.
Yes, I get that. But I'm pretty much saying that they've got the wrong guy. And the fallout, for him, will indeed be pretty awful for a while.
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Post 5555292 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Well, the headlines are going pretty much as expected:
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Post 5555499 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
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Post 5555520 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Well, the headlines are going pretty much as expected:
Headline on RT, what do you expect from Putin's media
That's why I said I expected it.
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Post 5556226 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Interesting choice of words. Denies "being the creator of Bitcoin". Cue theories of a conspiratorial NSA-based nature.
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Post 5556498 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
Newsweek deletes this para from story:
An unravelling taking place? Reps are on the line. And much more.
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Post 5556636 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.24h):
"Nakamoto, when I asked him in elevator why he told Newsweek he used to be involved with #bitcoin: "No no no I was never involved.""
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Post 5567191 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.25h):
kkasper's weekly routine:
Monday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Tuesday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Wednesday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Thursday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Friday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Saturday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Sunday
Get up, have a wank, go back to sleep. Dream about going on Wall Observer and telling everyone they're religious zealots.
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Post 5567235 (copy this link) (by FierceRadish) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_12.25h):
kkasper's weekly routine:
Monday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Tuesday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Wednesday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Thursday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Friday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Saturday
Get up, open laptop, go on Wall Observer, tell everyone they're religious zealots.
Sunday
Get up, have a wank, go back to sleep. Dream about going on Wall Observer and telling everyone they're religious zealots.
How do you know that I'm using a laptop not a desktop?
I figured it needs to be within reach of the bed
