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http://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sept+11-Comic+Tribute_Acco.jpg

yeah I mean I'm sure it's not uncommon for federal agents to palm a few stacks of cash in a drug raid but bitcoin is literally the least anonymous and most traceable currency on the planet so

also lol that Ross's crime journal wound up taking these guys with him

http://pinkicecube.com/images/death_cat_snuffy_smith.jpg

That is a huge, yet rather simple, crossword puzzle.

oh my god this is amazing

http://bitcalc.beepboopbitcoin.com/

oh lord that's gonna get me in trouble

http://i.imgur.com/BowHK1o.png

whoopsie: https://twitter.com/AP/status/604380093612445696

cant find anywhere in the law it says "dont create drug dealing website" smh fascists

http://tucker.liberty.me/the-deeply-tragic-jailing-of-ross-ulbricht/

don't even know what to quote from it, all gold

“I know you must take away my middle years, but please leave me my old age," Ulbricht, now 31, wrote.

So um, is a pedo who posts child porn on TOR called a torpedo?

This brilliant and creative young man has been put away for performing a much-needed digital experiment. He opened an open-air market in the digital cloud and thereby demonstrated to the world that there is a better way than the state’s deeply destructive war on drugs.

guy literally tried to have like 5 online tormentors killed irl

Judge Forrest spent nearly an hour tearing down all those arguments and a lot of it is gold

“The idea that it’s harm reducing is so very narrow,” she said. “It’s…about a privileged group, sitting in their own homes, with their high speed internet connections.”

btw I think it's worth mentioning that several dealers on SR would threaten to doxx anyone who ordered from them and didn't give them a 5/5 rating

Judge Forrest spent nearly an hour tearing down all those arguments and a lot of it is gold

“The idea that it’s harm reducing is so very narrow,” she said. “It’s…about a privileged group, sitting in their own homes, with their high speed internet connections.”

btw I think it's worth mentioning that several dealers on SR would threaten to doxx anyone who ordered from them and didn't give them a 5/5 rating

― frogbs, Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:03 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Where can I find this online?

Well first you need this thing called tor...

http://animalnewyork.com/2015/a-guy-got-mugged-for-his-bitcoin-in-crown-heights

strictly speaking, that is no laughing matter. strictly speaking

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-19/bitcoin-bucket-shop-kicks-bucket

guys I didn't take pictures but there was some storefront in Montreal labeled "bitcoin embassy" or something

a lot ppl dont know u cn do a whole country on the blockchain

https://bitcoinembassy.ca/
I walked by this thing every day I was there and I have no idea how it exists

theres a bitcoin store in manhattan too (or there was) think i posted a pic upthread

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/paypal-limits-voats-account-site-now-accepts-donations-bitcoin/

Many in Voat's camp believe PayPal interrupted the site's PayPal account over the site's adherence to freedom of speech principles. Voat is like Reddit, nearly identical in appearance and functionality, with a focus on freedom of speech.

higher fedora percentage compared to reddit then?

I walked by this in paris

http://www.bitcoinfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/b1.jpg

if we're documenting bitcoin's physical presence

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-is-even-happening-with-bitcoin-right-now

price has skyrocketed to nearly $500 in the last few days for apparently no good reason, I'm sure this is totally legit and not some kind of mega-ponzi or anything

drone whistleblowers get their accounts frozen, bitcoin jerks hop on to say "shoulda used bitcoin!"

https://twitter.com/JesselynRadack/status/668253880271114240

price is back in the low 300's again btw.

http://www.bitwalking.com/

That is bizarre. Where's the money coming from?

Presumably since they will be literally monitoring your every step, they can flog all your data to advertisers.

hmm, constant monitoring of location in exchange for a few pennies a day perhaps?

Q: Am I paid for walking?
A: No. You are generating money by walking on your own. We provide the platform to do that.
Unlike other digital currencies that are mined by computers, BW$ are generated by human movement - walking.

Yeah it's the "generating money" bit that I don't get

this might be too crazy a theory, but maybe it harnesses the processing power of your phone for mining whenever you are walking around (and hence presumably using your phone less), and then shares some part of the mining spoils with you?

there's a company called 21 inc. which is basically doing exactly that (without the walking bit) and it is probably one of the dumbest business ventures I can think of - essentially reduces your battery life to 90 minutes in exchange for something like $0.00001/day

How much does the company make on one phone x one day?

the mining of cybor currencies is always arbitrary using yr computer to play a digital lottery or using yr smartphone to track yr walking w/e same diff

Yeah it's the "generating money" bit that I don't get
― calstars, Wednesday, 25 November 2015

instead of overheated gpus powering the mining computations its using human legs for power

so, d0xed?

apparently.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-founder-craig-wrights-home-raided-by-australian-police

http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-friend-invented-bi-1746958692
Several of the emails and documents sent to Gizmodo point to a close relationship between Wright and Kleiman, a U.S. Army veteran who lived in Palm Beach County, Florida. Kleiman was confined to a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident in 1995, and became a reclusive computer forensics obsessive thereafter. He died broke and in squalor, after suffering from infected bedsores. His body was found decomposing and surrounded by empty alcohol bottles and a loaded handgun. Bloody feces was tracked along the floor, and a bullet hole was found in his mattress, though no spent shell casings were found on the scene. But documents shared with Gizmodo suggest that Kleiman may have possessed a Bitcoin trust worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and seemed to be deeply involved with the currency and Wright’s plans. “Craig, I think you’re mad and this is risky,” Kleiman writes in one 2011 email to Wright. “But I believe in what we are trying to do.”

strange that the price spiked on this news, if the raid is for what I think it is (tons of unpaid taxes) one would think that massive stash may be starting to cash out

been thinking about it and this is such a crazy story is my conclusion

to be fair this is really only like the 6th or 7th craziest thing that's happened in the world of bitcoin

yeah i mean the world of bitcoin itself is an extremely crazy story but a couple reclusive lunatic geniuses with sophomoric opinions about government/economics create a gigantic fortune just from basically an idea, like its virtuoso computer programing but its also m/l a total failure for its stated use its estimated that ~25% of all bitcoins have been lost and a ton more stolen, but people are extremely attracted to the idea, almost everyone fucking w bitcoin is doing it for ideological reasons, the rest are in it to buy drugs online which is a bad idea btw, then there are a handful of thinkfluencers/investors w free associative dreams of the blockchain dancing in their heads (tho many of these ppl have moved on by now), and the creator(s) fortune or at least a good chuck of it is just sitting there untouched, of course if they did try to sell much of it it wld destroy the value of the rest, also they were anonymous and very secrative for years, just so hella crazy cyberpunk lol someone shd write a scifi book about it except all the main facts are true