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hilariously enough, theres a book on bitcoins in the current humble bundle. I'd get it and share it with you guys... but its 14 bucks.

...Yeah... No.

Wasn't the whole point of the Humble Bundle that silly "pay what you want for X games"? Did they finally realize how bad of an idea that was for business and are hocking things for fixed prices now?

Jeremy Bernal
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Holy shit, there's a name I haven't heard in forever.
 
lol the guy who was most recently claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto (the thus far un-doxable founder of bitcoin) pussied out and retracted his proof of identity, making everybody who vouched for him, including quite a few prominent bitcoin advocates and insiders, look like a bunch of idiots.
 
lol the guy who was most recently claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto (the thus far un-doxable founder of bitcoin) pussied out and retracted his proof of identity, making everybody who vouched for him, including quite a few prominent bitcoin advocates and insiders, look like a bunch of idiots.
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Wasn't the whole point of the Humble Bundle that silly "pay what you want for X games"? Did they finally realize how bad of an idea that was for business and are hocking things for fixed prices now?



Holy shit, there's a name I haven't heard in forever.

They've moved on to being shills for like, books and corporate deals whenever a company needs some more PR
 
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What a bunch of idiots. Proving it is as simple as sending from one of the early Satoshi blocks that is untouched for years.

But this clown is acting like somehow, exposing himself is going to get him kidnapped with a hood over the head, but that it wouldn't if he just made the claim without proving it.

It would be a hoot if some Bitcoin-obsessed mafia type kidnapped him and tried to beat the keys out of him and he doesn't have them because he's just a lying asshat.
 
I knew a major bitcoin tard when I was an undergrad. He was one of the Ron Paul people who joined my school's College Republicans in 2011, because they were all 100% certain that Paul was going to win the nomination and the presidency. (They all left in the spring because they were butthurt about the primaries.) Unlike most of them, he seemed pretty normal. This was not the case, however.

It turns out that he had been squatting in an apartment with no water or power for the entire school year. These weren't normal apartments either; they were essentially a series of two-story, barely-insulated shacks with a unit on each floor. (It regularly gets into the mid-90s in Tuscaloosa during the summer, for reference.) He would walk around campus at like 4am, just staring at people .(I saw him when my car was broken down and I had to cut across campus to go to work, and when my girlfriend called me one morning because he was following her and a group of her friends...) He stopped bathing around the middle of 2012, and sperg constantly about Rothbard and voluntaryism. Despite his ideology, he always leeched off of other people, demanding they pay for his food, entertainment, etc. One of the girls he would mooch off of started dating another guy, and this sent him into a rage. When she nearly died in a wreck, he called her in the hospital and told her that he wished that she had because she wouldn't date or sleep with him. I know that by the end of 2012, he had a few warrants out for his arrest for squatting, debt, theft, and things like that. Also by the end of the year, possibly as a result of the warrants, he skipped town and dropped out to become a full-time "bitcoin investor." He would write all kinds of awful articles on how stupid anyone who used traditional currency was, how bitcoin was the wave of the future, how he would abolish government, and so on; he seems to have deleted a lot of his online footprint, otherwise I'd quote some of them. A bunch of us used to get drunk on cheap wine and laugh at his posts. *yawn*

I kind of suspect that he might have had a mental break or something.
 
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I knew a major bitcoin tard when I was an undergrad. He was one of the Ron Paul people who joined my school's College Republicans in 2011, because they were all 100% that Paul was going to win the nomination and the presidency. (They all left in the spring because they were butthurt about the primaries.) Unlike most of them, he seemed pretty normal. This was not the case, however.

It turns out that he had been squatting in an apartment with no water or power for the entire school year. These weren't normal apartments either; they were essentially a series of two-story, barely-insulated shacks with a unit on each floor. (It regularly gets into the mid-90s in Tuscaloosa during the summer, for reference.) He would walk around campus at like 4am, just staring at people .(I saw him when my car was broken down and I had to cut across campus to go to work, and when my girlfriend called me one morning because he was following her and a group of her friends...) He stopped bathing around the middle of 2012, and sperg constantly about Rothbard and voluntaryism. Despite his ideology, he always leeched off of other people, demanding they pay for his food, entertainment, etc. One of the girls he would mooch off of started dating another guy, and this sent him into a rage. When she nearly died in a wreck, he called her in the hospital and told her that he wished that she had because she would date or sleep with him. I know that by the end of 2012, he had a few warrants out for his arrest for squatting, debt, theft, and things like that. Also by the end of the year, possibly as a result of the warrants, he skipped town and dropped out to become a full-time "bitcoin investor." He would write all kinds of awful articles on how stupid anyone who used traditional currency was, how bitcoin was the wave of the future, how he would abolish government, and so on; he seems to have deleted a lot of his online footprint, otherwise I'd quote some of them. A bunch of us used to get drunk on cheap wine and laugh at his posts. *yawn*

I kind of suspect that he might have had a mental break or something.
Oh I bet.
 
I knew a major bitcoin tard when I was an undergrad. He was one of the Ron Paul people who joined my school's College Republicans in 2011, because they were all 100% that Paul was going to win the nomination and the presidency. (They all left in the spring because they were butthurt about the primaries.) Unlike most of them, he seemed pretty normal. This was not the case, however.

It turns out that he had been squatting in an apartment with no water or power for the entire school year. These weren't normal apartments either; they were essentially a series of two-story, barely-insulated shacks with a unit on each floor. (It regularly gets into the mid-90s in Tuscaloosa during the summer, for reference.) He would walk around campus at like 4am, just staring at people .(I saw him when my car was broken down and I had to cut across campus to go to work, and when my girlfriend called me one morning because he was following her and a group of her friends...) He stopped bathing around the middle of 2012, and sperg constantly about Rothbard and voluntaryism. Despite his ideology, he always leeched off of other people, demanding they pay for his food, entertainment, etc. One of the girls he would mooch off of started dating another guy, and this sent him into a rage. When she nearly died in a wreck, he called her in the hospital and told her that he wished that she had because she would date or sleep with him. I know that by the end of 2012, he had a few warrants out for his arrest for squatting, debt, theft, and things like that. Also by the end of the year, possibly as a result of the warrants, he skipped town and dropped out to become a full-time "bitcoin investor." He would write all kinds of awful articles on how stupid anyone who used traditional currency was, how bitcoin was the wave of the future, how he would abolish government, and so on; he seems to have deleted a lot of his online footprint, otherwise I'd quote some of them. A bunch of us used to get drunk on cheap wine and laugh at his posts. *yawn*

I kind of suspect that he might have had a mental break or something.
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It's that free market at work. Too bad the guy you knew couldn't truly see that.
 
It's always amusing to see how those going on and on about "Free market" this and "Unregulated Government-Free" that are the FIRST to hold a hand out when they run short of cash..... "you can't just let a hard-working person STARVE now can you?"
 
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That Talespin thread is pretty hilarious. This quote also sums up much up Bitcoin btw:

" i dont expect everyone to agree or like what im doing but youre going way overboard with "pointing out the facts" and it quite frankly is pissing me off. "


"So, you like crushing a kids dreams?"

Actually, no, he's merely telling you that if your dream is to fly, you'd be better off saving your money and getting a pilot's license than jumping out a 2nd story window......
 
Butterfly labs are known scam artists, true and honest bitcoiners wouldn't go near them to begin with. I don't know the particulars of where the scam was, but, every time their name comes up, the word "scam" does in short order. Seems to be one of the few things both BTC and fiat users agree on.
 
Butterfly labs are known scam artists, true and honest bitcoiners wouldn't go near them to begin with. I don't know the particulars of where the scam was, but, every time their name comes up, the word "scam" does in short order. Seems to be one of the few things both BTC and fiat users agree on.

A quick Google search tells me that basically, the scam was that paid preorders never came. One of the cofounders of Butterfly Labs actually was on probation, since he pleaded guilty to mail fraud. If anyone has anything else, feel free to add.

EDIT: The range of how much money Butterfly Labs stole is $20 to $50 million dollars, btw.
 
Aren't those the same guys who had to refund customers who paid via paypal but kept the money of every idiot who paid them in bitcoins?
 
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