it would have been gr8 if you bought alot and sold at peak - perfect! TOTAL VICTYRY!I WON ALL!
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 13 June 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't this basically one of the plot threads in Cryptonomicon?
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Monday, 13 June 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
that dream has come troo
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 13 June 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Balance: 0.08853843 BTC
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 13 June 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
What machine are you mining on Latham, and how long since you started?
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 June 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
just using bitcoinplus.com for a few weeks
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 13 June 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
The user known as "allinvain" is a long-time contributor to the Bitcoin forums. He says he's been mining Bitcoins for over a year, and had amassed a fortune of 25,000 BTC. This was a modest sum a few months ago, when Bitcoins were worth pennies, but over the last two months the value of a Bitcoin skyrocketed to around $20, which means 25,000 BTC would have been worth half a million dollars. "I remember watching the price like a hawk," he wrote.
And then disaster struck. "I just woke up to see a very large chunk of my bitcoin balance gone," he wrote. "Needles [sic] to say I feel like I have lost faith in bitcoin." He speculated that a Windows security flaw may have allowed the culprit to gain access to his digital wallet. "I feel like killing myself now," he said.
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
wow the payout amount just went way down - good thing I was an early adopter!
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Balance: 0.09034359 BTC
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Friday, 17 June 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
psyched for .01 party
― i love the smell of facepalm in the morning (ledge), Friday, 17 June 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
.1 duh
― i love the smell of facepalm in the morning (ledge), Friday, 17 June 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
BIT DIM EHEAVEN!!!!!!!
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Friday, 17 June 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure which quote is more depressing, tbh:
"Needles to say"
or
"I feel like killing myself now"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 17 June 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Are we sure this isn't Morrissey?
― wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Friday, 17 June 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/i-hate-myself-mug.jpg
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Friday, 17 June 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Bitcoin value plummets as main exchange is hacked
Inside the Mega-Hack of Bitcoin: the Full Story
― 美国有很多丰富的傻瓜 (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh nooes!still it sounds like it was the exchange that was hacked, not the actual cryptography of the bitcoin
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
love it
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, although wasn't MtGox the only game in town for turning bitcoins into $?
Seems like a) nobody trusts it any longer and b) it's even easier than people feared to crash the value of bitcoins, especially with some early adopters out there holding huge sums.
― stet, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
I think the main usefulness of it will be not having to turn it into $
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
There are other exchange places for turning bitcoins into $, but none is as big as Mt GoX was. Also, this entire story is making me laugh so much because it made me realise that this currency was mainly being traded on what used to be a Magic: the Gathering exchange website (Magic:the Gathering online Xchange = Mt GoX).
― Jibe, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
always knew magic cards were going to be the eventual world currency
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
hope I can find my old shivan
http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Bitcoins
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
― Jibe, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this explains so much
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
Hanlepedia! An encyclopedia you can trust! :-)
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
lol, I was wondering what mt. gox meant.
― Ktulu says, I've come to hate my body (wk), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
I just thought it was a mountain
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
its the future of the internet
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.coolstuffinc.com/images/Products/mtg%20art/Fourth/Land%20Tax.jpg
^^^hacker probably looks like this
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
Somehow I doubt it ;)
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
god dammit
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=1624&type=card
who took all the monopoly money!
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.screwthestatusquo.com/storage/post-images/letters/monopoly%20guy.gif?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1273091093189Come to think of it, he kind of looks a lot like the 1u1z5ec guy
― wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
I always try to steal money when I play monopoly - wait until people look away then grab some 500$ s
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
I did that with my little brother all the time when I was a kid
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
but I would do it like one bill at a time
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
so he wouldn't notice until some point where I had 75% of the bank
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
cheating is more fun when it comes to board games
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
I loved stealing Monopoly money.
― I don't know who Cerebus is, and I'm 6'0 and 192 (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
do you love bitcoins?
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Sadly, no.
― I don't know who Cerebus is, and I'm 6'0 and 192 (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Is there a single reason why this thing is a good idea?
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
I think what needs to happen is for bitcoins to be backed by gold
― dayo, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
how about gold being backed by bitcoins?
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Chocolate gold coins?
― wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
we're back baby!
https://mtgox.com/trade/buy
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9555513.stm
bitcoinplus now blocked by our firewall!
― hwy not write Ohkhaye!" Onktean? (Latham Green), Friday, 5 August 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
A couple months ago I wanted to sell flash drives filled with a "starter purse" of 35 "bitcoinz" (note the z!) on eBay. Bundle it with some phony .PDF about starting your exciting journey into the world of crypto currency!
― errant flynn, Friday, 5 August 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link