All posts made by ZyclonRacerX in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 13311422 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.38h):
425.72 on Stamp - Will this hold over the next 12-24 hours?
If I had to bet on it I'd say no!
we are fucked
... so I'm pretty relaxed.
Smart. It'll hurt so much less.
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Post 14104351 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
Last chance to buy above $400.
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Post 14105201 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
holy shit wtf is going on?
We're downsizing.
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Post 14106257 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
but you can always fork off and play with eth dapps derps.
ETH: Price > 10x in 2 months
BTC: Keeps tanking, predictably
Man, you must feel AWFUL
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Post 14106404 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
but you can always fork off and play with eth dapps derps.
ETH: Price > 10x in 2 months
BTC: Keeps tanking, predictably
Man, you must feel AWFUL
And if you even decided to invest in Ethereum, you can hope to see tears once the whales start dumping their coins and dropping the price back down to where it's supposed to be, and feeling bad about not sticking with bitcoin.
Bad as the tears around here, when BTC started tanking at $1,200?
Man, would'a cried my eyes out, myself, because such not P&D
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Post 14116281 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
50 minutes since last block sucks if you are waiting for a transaction
hodlers still not affected tho
What the fuck has sending a transaction got to do with holding BTC or not?
Bitcoin is for hodling, not transacting (sodling). Delayed transactions are not a bug, but a feature: helping you hodl.
I'll give you an example, show you what I mean:
Say you decide to reward yourself for years of hodling with a pair of alpaca socks & some honey and/or honey products.
Your smart bitcoin wallet senses this, and automatically (and virtually instantaneously) calculates the tx fee required.
Required to have your bitcoins safely returned to you (or, rather, to it) in 72hrs, that is.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from dark magic."
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Post 14129309 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
I just bought a rug on Overstock. Paid a 4 cent fee, transaction went right through. Turns out bitcoin works! Who knew
Enjoy your rug. If you bought it with a CC, you could have done it faster, sans 4c fee, & with all the perks CC offer
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Post 14129410 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
I just bought a rug on Overstock. Paid a 4 cent fee, transaction went right through. Turns out bitcoin works! Who knew
Enjoy your rug. If you bought it with a CC, you could have done it faster, sans 4c fee, & with all the perks CC offer
you can't put a price on the good feeling you get using bitcoin, silly nub.
Dwugz and kiddy pr0nz, yes. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
>but not exactly professional...
If it was, it wouldn't be Bitcoin, n00by n00b.
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Post 14130243 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
...I don't agree on your timeline......
Here are a few reasons why you should:
> I can walk up to kiosk and wave my credit card or bank card and pay for anything under $30 in less than 3 seconds.
> I've got several credit cards and I haven't paid a penny for them or to use them for years. But I still get all sorts of payment protection insurance and free replacement cards whenever I want.
> My cards are linked to my bank account. As long as I get paid, I don't have to do any extra work to use my cards that give me quick and easy access to as many cups of coffee as my brain can handle before getting completely wired.
If I use Bitcoin to pay for $3 of coffee and cake, first I need to do some extra work; then I incur exchange fees; and then I have to
pre-pay for the LN; before I get charged a fee for a transaction I can get for free, with less cost and for less effort.
That. Also boldface bit that LN fans don't mention for some reason..
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Post 14130476 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
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Americans (I guess you are also exhibiting the same pattern even if you are a Canadian) always blow my mind. They are burning fuel by the gallons, they can buy all types of junk for hundreds or thousands of dollars, they've been born in such abundance and quality of life that they can afford to say things like "ohh fuck bloat, I'll just buy a hard disk that costs 300$" (which is the wage of a developing nation worker) and the next minute they'll be saying things like "I don't want to pay 1-2-5 cents in fees" or they'll be pushing for the massive destruction of value, such as in the case of a contentious hard fork, saying that this will somehow lift some obstacle and increase their ...value. It's plain stupidity. ...
Envious foreigner:
Roughly half of humankind lives on $2 a day or less.
Those humans can't afford to run nodes.
They also can't afford the 8c fees you propose.
They can't afford to use Bitcoin, period.
You foreigners always blow my mind. How can you be so fucking ignorant?
Also: how come are you foreign guys always so poor?
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Post 14136270 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
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Westerners / people of developed countries are lucky enough to not even have to care about such low fees, hence why I'm condemning the hypocrisy of "ohh fees are too high", "who cares for bloat, let's just buy larger hard disks for hundreds of $$$" and then also raising the point of how easy it is to "destroy value" by reckless moves - and this happens because BTC is unappreciated.
Alex. Bloating blockchain is irrelevant to people living in developing countries. Because half of mankind lives on ~2 dollars a day.
That half is not going to run a full node -- not @ $20/mo, not @ $40/mo, not even @$5/mo.
That half also can't afford the 8c tx fee you propose, because already spent their $2//day on internet access. Internet is expensive in God-forsaken hellholes.
So let's stop pretending that any of this matters.
As for those who live in developing countries and value these 3 cents proportionately more they won't complain because they'd lose 100 times that using legacy payment systems to move money around the planet. Immigrants from developing countries know this kind of exploitation by first hand experience, while transferring money back to their countries.
Curious fact #1: The developing world doesn't subsist on WU sent from America. Some of
those people work. Or panhandle locally.
Curious fact #2: Sending bitcoin to developing countries is stupid, that's why almost no one does it, because no one accepts it there. Because people need cash there, because the beggars are still using last gen iPhones.
Bitcoin remittance isn't a thing, it's just another implausible
use case backstory, which falls apart when met with reality.
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Post 14136469 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
Miners can also simply go out of business due to unprofitability
this is simply IMPOSSIBLE, maybe individual miners can go out of business, the the bitcoin mining industry as a whole simply cannot go under, it's impossible.
Unlikely, but not impossible. Modeling economics on perfect feedback/decaying oscillation models doesn't work is why.
Think brewer's yeast. Population explodes til suffocates in own piss, never a stable population. Due to lagging feedback (by the time the first ones start dying from alcohol poisoning, there's already enough poison to kill the entire yeast industry).
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Post 14136882 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
Curious fact #2: Sending bitcoin to developing countries is stupid, that's why almost no one does it
Bitcoin is designed for Russian oligarchs to send millions of dollars over their cell phone while standing on the helicopter pad of their yacht.
Possibly. Although, much like the egg-buying beggar boys, Russian oligarchs remain unimpressed.
Owell, another shattered dream
your all convinced the ship won't sink because it's the biggest, a titanic mistake.
Hope you meant it in the "y'all" sense, I certainly ain't.
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Post 14136953 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
If you have a vanishingly small budget and correspondingly high time preference, Bitcoin isn't really the best fit for your situation.
comments like this is why bitcoin has lost 6% market share in 2 months
NO bitcoin is NOT ready to take over central banking, get over it,
we are small potatoes, and we best realize that before litecoin ( or ETH ) steals all the TX vol.
Your
concern is duly noted. Please file your Bitcoin Obituary with the appropriate departmental clerk.
Fear. Uncertainty. Concern. Doubt. The four hoursemen of the blockocalypse!
Don't worry, it's just the Gavinista media campaign pushing the price down.
Have you noticed when Brian Armstrong speaks the price retreats? He's like Hearn 2.0.
already banks have turned away from bitcoin in favor of dev.ing there own private chains.
bitcoin isn't the only game in town, and bitcoin's network effect can't shield us forever.
the clock is ticking, and Vitalik Buterin is writing 1000's lines a minute trying to takeover, please do keep arguing about exactly when and how we will roll out the inevitable block size increase, do we even need a block size increase? let's go back the drawing board 1 more time to make sure we are not making a BIG mistake.
get a grip!
If someone makes a better mouse trap, then why should we give a fuck? We can just move over to using that better mousetrap, no?
< ... >
Because you got a bag of worse mousetraps, i.e. Bitcoin?
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Post 14137377 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
If someone makes a better mouse trap, then why should we give a fuck? We can just move over to using that better mousetrap, no?
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Because you got a bag of worse mousetraps, i.e. Bitcoin?
For some reason, you seem to be twisting my point. Yes, you can move over to the better mousetrap, if there is such a thing, and whether your worse mousetraps retain any value whatsoever is another part of the story and preparation. I personally believe that bitcoin is not a worse mousetrap, but it could be possible for some better mousetrap to emerge over time.. and each of us needs to decide for himself whether and how much to invest in that better mousetrap and the timing for such... which we may get wrong, in part.
1. You asked "If someone makes a better mouse trap, then why should we give a fuck?"
2. I explained to you why you should.
Instead of thanking me for setting you straight, you:
1. Tell me I "can move over to the better mousetrap," apropos of nothing.
2. Redundantly doubt the existence of a better mousetrap ("if there is such a thing"). So that's why you wrote "If someone makes a better mouse trap," not "THERE IS a better mousetrap"? Well I'll be...
3. Issue a confusing non sequitur: "and whether [my] worse mousetraps retain any value whatsoever is another part of the story and preparation."
4. Restate your faith in Bitcoin: "I personally believe that bitcoin is not a worse mousetrap," see (2).
5. Show what an open-minded bro you are by stating the obvious: "but it could be possible for some better mousetrap to emerge over time," stressing the temporal aspect of being with "emerge over time."
6. Share a platitude re. investing: "and each of us needs to decide for himself whether and how much to invest in that better mousetrap and the timing for such..."
7. And warn us to be prepared for [partial] failure, even if we choose to follow your sound financial advice: "which we may get wrong, in part."
...which is all good and well, and evaluates mostly to "true," but did you know that giraffes have special valves in their necks to prevent their brains from exploding when they bend down? And also a little snubber choke at 807 plate caps goes a long way for killing parasitics when you run a bunch in parallel?
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Post 14137459 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
... biggest block i have ever seen ...
She's the sweetest queen I've ever seen
(CPL593H)
...we talk and talk...
I could talk talk talk, talk myself to death
But I believe I would only waste my breath
Boredom. Not even once.
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Post 14137650 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
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Your attempted break down, analysis and parsing of my post makes gobbledy gook out of the whole matter, no?
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No. Was gobbledygook, I turned it into edifying gobbledygook.
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Post 14137923 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
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credit where credit is due.
Credit is the first step on the road to ruin
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Post 14145632 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
ETH has no limit on the amount of coins.
Enjoy your "investment".
QED
Well that's not a bad point in itself... But what's sure is that it's really different from BTC.
Am I the only one to understand that it was not meant to be used as a currency though?
Can't it be used as a backbone, a "settlement layer" for currencies? In which case, how is it different from Bitcoin, which, as I understand it, is being groomed to be just that?
*though my understanding of ETH is rather limited, won't lie. Why bloat the blockchain of my mind with useless infos?
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Post 14145725 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
Just because something is not limited in supply or meant to be a currency doesn't mean the price cannot accelerate to the upside far higher than is rational. ...
My worldview!
Thanks for shattering it into a billion pieces and pissing on it, as I look on in horror and disbelief
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Post 14146512 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
Most recent article on the linked website:
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Post 14146922 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket maaa a a aaq n
A rocket man
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Post 14147878 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
Another Bitcoin enthusiast jailed for a victimless crime*
http://nypost.com/2016/03/09/ex-nyu-student-gets-16-years-in-jail-for-trying-to-buy-ricin/*Well, victimless due to failing, lol.
Bitcoin crime remains largely victimless due to Bitcoin enthusiasts being such failures at everything, crime being no exception.
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Post 14147917 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
^This is a year old news story. Can't we get some decent bad news up in here?
Unless my windows calendar thing is lying to me, today's news
But since you asked for something more recent:
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Post 14148034 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
^This is a year old news story. Can't we get some decent bad news up in here?
Unless my windows calendar thing is lying to me, today's news
Well just because New York is still talking about it, don’t make it news. ...
Yeah, Bitcoin enthusiasts keep trying to poison people, why is that?
About a year ago, one particularly smart Bitcoitcoin enthusiast tried to extort a pumpkin farmer, claimed he poisoned one of the pumpkins in the pumpkin farmer's pumpkin patch. Pumpkin farmer had to plow under an entire bumper crop of pumpkins, because would rather go broke than buy bitcoins.
Edit: Ah, found it, last September:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3249745/Give-50-000-ll-poison-pumpkins-Bitcoin-blackmailer-told-farmer-produces-half-UK-s-supply.html
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Post 14150678 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
ETH going tru the roof again, +10% in barely 3 hours.
ETH is like the internet in the early 90s
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Post 14150995 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
adam I put that info in my edit. A little over 8000 bytes
i think they should have paid like 0.005 in fees
this TX might just get dropped out after 48hours of sitting in the mempool.... ( i think thats how it work ? )
I believe it's 72 hrs. How will I know when it gets dropped?
The exchange rate they used was $410.xx
What this means is that it will get dropped in another 2 1/2 days during which time btc will go up and I will get less btc. :- Time to buy
Why do I always think/feel like this
On the plus side, there's no chargeback, so you're good there. Did the person you transact with use a full non-mining node Core 0.12 wallet? Because I hear that one is really good at guessing how much fees to include. Sometimes when you use
LukeJr gamepack tho, it gets confused a little, so that could be it
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Post 14151399 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
Im a true bitcoin believer and lately there is a lot of fud going around about BTC, why is this?
Even cryptolovers in forums are fudding, dont understand this
I think people are a little upset about Ether blocking our shine. Up 20% today. Just doesn't seem fair...
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Post 14151620 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
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Median versus Average what is this sorcery?
yes yes i know the diff between Median and Average -_-And you know what else?
ETH $11.99 (22.78%) 
It's as if the Heavens themselves have conspired against us!
Either that, or filthy Gypsy witchcraft!
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Post 14152032 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
... I'm actually conducting a quantum experiment where consciousness interacts with hashing in order to ...generate hashing collisions and do so spectacularly against the odds. So if the experiment succeeds (in a universe of infinite possibilities, it has already succeeded) it would be a tragedy if I found a block and have it get orphaned because of my slow upload speed or other propagation and verification delays. Maxblock 0 it is then...
Even odds you're not joking. Because Bitcoin.
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Post 14157056 (copy this link) (by ZyclonRacerX) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_14.47h):
not too late, seats still available on the train.
don't be this guy!!
Don't run into an oncoming train, even when chased by vicious Grizzly.