Bitcoin is on fire again

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halik

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Not surprised in the least. Still has a little more to go before Wall Street moves in:





I'm sure you can get funds into MtGox, but I highly doubt you'll get anything back out at this point, so the answer is "no".

Wall street is moving in any day now.
 

kranky

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Oct 9, 1999
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What is it doing/what has it been doing?

I really haven't heard anything about it since the heist of MtGox.
 

bbhaag

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Not much. I think the current rate is around $197. So it has fallen quiet a bit since the hype has slowly died off. That's a good thing though because it helped stabilize the exchange rate.
 

LegendKiller

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Not much. I think the current rate is around $197. So it has fallen quiet a bit since the hype has slowly died off. That's a good thing though because it helped stabilize the exchange rate.

lol. Yes, it has stabilized SO much. Bitcoin always has been, is, and will be a niche for geeks and anarchists to dream of a shitty world which their anti-social and apathetic pea-brains can wrap around. Then their Mom runs out of hot pockets and they lose their shit.
 

Crusty

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Sep 30, 2001
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lol. Yes, it has stabilized SO much. Bitcoin always has been, is, and will be a niche for geeks and anarchists to dream of a shitty world which their anti-social and apathetic pea-brains can wrap around. Then their Mom runs out of hot pockets and they lose their shit.

lol
 

Blanky

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Haha I bet this thread is full of a lot of people who got raked over the coals on this stupid venture. Some might even think its laughable crash is a "good" thing or it is still going to get into the thousands again. Bitcoin was always a stupid implementation of virtual currencies.
 

Crusty

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Haha I bet this thread is full of a lot of people who got raked over the coals on this stupid venture. Some might even think its laughable crash is a "good" thing or it is still going to get into the thousands again. Bitcoin was always a stupid implementation of virtual currencies.

How so? What exactly is stupid about it?
 

LegendKiller

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Haha I bet this thread is full of a lot of people who got raked over the coals on this stupid venture. Some might even think its laughable crash is a "good" thing or it is still going to get into the thousands again. Virtual Currency, like Virtual Reality, was always a stupid implementation of reality for geeks who can't make real money, or get a real girlfriend and need to make up money and screw a VR chick while using a fleshlight.


FTFY.
 

Blanky

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How so? What exactly is stupid about it?
everything that is stupid about it must surely be in this thread. The proof in the pudding is its crash now of 80% from peak and it will keep crashing. it is a shitty currency, it has no stability, no security, exchanges that keep getting hosed, etc. the better question is what doesn't suck about it and the answer is very little.

Honestly at this point if you still have faith in Bitcoin, you can't be educated except by buying some and losing more money. That may drive home the lesson.
 

Crusty

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everything that is stupid about it must surely be in this thread. The proof in the pudding is its crash now of 80% from peak and it will keep crashing. it is a shitty currency, it has no stability, no security, exchanges that keep getting hosed, etc. the better question is what doesn't suck about it and the answer is very little.

Honestly at this point if you still have faith in Bitcoin, you can't be educated except by buying some and losing more money. That may drive home the lesson.

So you have no actual idea what is 'stupid' about it.

The bread and butter of the bitcoin protocol is the blockchain. The solution it provides to a specific problem of transferring arbitrary data and messages securely between two parties on a trustless network. The applications for that ability reach far beyond walking into a store and buying something with Bitcoins ala fiat currency.

What you see today of 'Bitcoins' is not the final stop for the 'bitcoin protocol'. It doesn't matter if the price of one "Bitcoin' is $0.000001 or if it is $1,000,000, the 'bitcoin protocol' will still function.
 

LegendKiller

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So you have no actual idea what is 'stupid' about it.

The bread and butter of the bitcoin protocol is the blockchain. The solution it provides to a specific problem of transferring arbitrary data and messages securely between two parties on a trustless network. The applications for that ability reach far beyond walking into a store and buying something with Bitcoins ala fiat currency.

What you see today of 'Bitcoins' is not the final stop for the 'bitcoin protocol'. It doesn't matter if the price of one "Bitcoin' is $0.000001 or if it is $1,000,000, the 'bitcoin protocol' will still function.


Yes yes, we all know that it solves a problem that doesn't really need to exist for the vast majority of people living their lives in a normalized society.
 

Crusty

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Yes yes, we all know that it solves a problem that doesn't really need to exist for the vast majority of people living their lives in a normalized society.

You are literally talking nonsense. The problem exists for any set of two people in the entire world that wish to transfer data/information among themselves. Just because it has no practical use to *you* at this very moment doesn't mean the bitcoin protocol hasn't solved a very important problem.
 

Crusty

Lifer
Sep 30, 2001
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Not really, I just send an email with a file attached.


Yet you can not prove that while transmitting your e-mail someone(bad actor) hasn't intercepted it, read it, altered it, copied it etc.
 

dud

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Feb 18, 2001
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Reuters: Bitcoin is latest victim of disinflation


"Bitcoin is proving a big disappointment. The would-be currency is down 33 percent against the dollar so far in 2015, and 71 percent in the last year. There’s almost certainly more bad news to come.

The electronic token has lots of enduring problems. As a store of value that is not subject to government intervention, it lacks the support of authorities and is always in danger of being banned.

The market was illiquid to begin with and is becoming even more so, increasing the risk of abuse. Bitcoins generate no income, so they count as collectibles – more like an artwork than a few shares of Google. In these matters, beauty and value depend on the fickle eyes of the beholder and potential buyer."




http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2015/01/16/bitcoin-is-latest-victim-of-disinflation/
 

bbhaag

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lol. Yes, it has stabilized SO much. Bitcoin always has been, is, and will be a niche for geeks and anarchists to dream of a shitty world which their anti-social and apathetic pea-brains can wrap around. Then their Mom runs out of hot pockets and they lose their shit.

Why you riding my ass man? You follow it right because you know how stable it is. I like how you use the term niche. It reminds me of K based cpus and guys who buy them.
 
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