All posts made by MrPiggles in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread
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Post 8377139 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.05h):
Never realised how thinly traded this is.
You could move bitfinex and bitstamp up by $50 each with $2 million!!
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Post 8377215 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.05h):
WARNING that Bitcoinity doesn't show even 10% of the Bitstamp order book, and hasn't done in months.
Sometimes the book looks completely flat in some direction but when you look at the official page there are some decent walls instead.
They look the same to me?
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Post 8377222 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.05h):
Never realised how thinly traded this is.
You could move bitfinex and bitstamp up by $50 each with $2 million!!
Perhaps most exchanges are not on exchanges.
No shit sherlock.
People still use the "official" rate from the exchanges though and it'd be easy as fuck to manipulate those prices with a few million $
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Post 8377627 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.05h):
Why people care so much about Bitfinex? They don't have volume like the chinese, or even like Bitstamp, and I guess they don't even have a trollbox, like btc-e
The chinese exchanges are irrelevant too, it's bots trading with each other, it's too hard to get money on a chinese exchange now. The chinese are more or less out of bitcoin for now.
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Post 8378071 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.05h):
Why people care so much about Bitfinex? They don't have volume like the chinese, or even like Bitstamp, and I guess they don't even have a trollbox, like btc-e
The chinese exchanges are irrelevant too, it's bots trading with each other, it's too hard to get money on a chinese exchange now. The chinese are more or less out of bitcoin for now.
Hard to get money out of the chinese exchanges? True?
Are we about to see a Gox 2.0 with steroids?
I never said out I said on, and it's been the case for months, it's not about to cause anything, stop looking for FUD
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Post 8378111 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.05h):
Goodbye 490's, was nice to see you downhill
Can you please let me know what was so good and is so good in watching bitcoin price going down?
I don't care too much about the current drop but there are a few people who really amaze me with their joy ...
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Post 8378124 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.05h):
good morning, a shameless $5 million on the bid side....
if it was that easy why did Tim Draper and hedgefunds/banks bid/spend nearly $20m on 30,000 bitcoins when they could just collapse it and buy them all for $5 million?
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Post 8378158 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.05h):
good morning, a shameless $5 million on the bid side....
if it was that easy why did Tim Draper and hedgefunds/banks bid/spend nearly $20m on 30,000 bitcoins when t
hey could just collapse it and buy them all for $5 million?
They needed the bitcoin first to sell them to collapse the market.
I see, it's all coming together nicely.
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Post 8411413 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.06h):
It's always amusing to log in and see the change in sentiment you guys get from a 3-5% swing in either direction.
5% up this thread is TO DA MOON with happy gifs, rockets and bulls.
5% down and everyones crying into their hankies, talking about blood and posting expert analyses on why bitcoin will be worthless soon.
There's no middle ground with many of you
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Post 8415600 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.06h):
btc-e had a flash crash to $102 in feb too.
this is funny
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Post 8433068 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.07h):
The ask side is getting bigger. It's starting to look "normal". 480 is the new 580. Wouldn't surprise me if we go sideways here for a while and then get another round of dumping. It will probably be the same. People waiting for the next bubble, which won't happen because absolutely nothing is able to raise the price it seems.
So was this what all the dumpers wanted? The same thing but 100 dollars lower? Is everyone happy now or what?
I think the dumpers are surprised by how resilient the price was/is so far.
They dropped what, 7000 coins and only dropped the price by $130 for 5 minutes.
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Post 8756443 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.11h):
You're all fuckin mental.
It goes up 2% everyones a bull, it goes down 2% everyones crying, saying this is the final capitulation,
Y'all need your heads checked
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Post 8824251 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.12h):
I'll be retired by 33.
I save 75-80% of my income currently, have plans to build a house within the next year (eco home made with earthbags, very low cost)
Once I remove my housing costs I will easily save 90%+ of my income.
By 33 I will be financially independent (have enough to never work again) but I will continue working, or i'd get bored.
My plan is to continue til about 40, then Ill have way more money than I need, and I can take up something interesting and expensive like diving without worrying about paying for it.
This is assuming that my x amount of bitcoins do not go up. Even if they stagnate I am on course for this, if they go to $5000 a piece it'd knock at least 2 years off that, I would be financially independent if that alone happened, let alone my savings.
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Post 8824267 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.12h):
I'll be retired by 33.
I save 75-80% of my income currently, have plans to build a house within the next year (eco home made with earthbags, very low cost)
Once I remove my housing costs I will easily save 90%+ of my income.
By 33 I will be financially independent (have enough to never work again) but I will continue working, or i'd get bored.
My plan is to continue til about 40, then Ill have way more money than I need, and I can take up something interesting and expensive like diving without worrying about paying for it.
Do you have a wife and kids? I'm guessing no.
I have a wife, no kids. The wife is my main expense, lol
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Post 8827963 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.12h):
I would surmise that both of you are adding income to this plan, no? And, maybe her need to spend is higher than yours? Well, anyhow if both are on board for the plan, then you need to account for whether there is going to be future satisfaction with the planned spending and savings .. and then are there plans for kids and what about accidents? I mean unplanned for kids?
I'm less than 5 years away, don't want to give my exact age.
My wife doesn't work.
I'm lucky in that I work in a developing country where cost of living is very low and I earn six figures, I plan to stay here even if I stop working. So I have it easier than most, but that is the main reason I relocated here.
If I stop working in a few years, I will be able to live off my passive income as I currently live, an additional 7 years of compound interest + my other investments means I will have at a minimum (and barring any huge black swan type events such as massive stock market collapses across Asia) 3x as much as I need.
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Post 8828004 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.12h):
This is offtopic, but if you'd like to read more about this kind of thing look up mrmoneymustaches blog or early retirement extreme
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Post 8831318 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.12h):
This is offtopic, but if you'd like to read more about this kind of thing look up mrmoneymustaches blog or early retirement extreme
I believe that these kinds of topics can be fairly relevant to the interests of people who invest in BTC; however, as you suggest, you may NOT want to place all of your plans in BTC appreciation b/c you need to have your investment portfolio to be sufficiently diversified in order to more or less count on such appreciation and that your estimations are reasonable and even conservative.
More or less, I believe what you are saying and I am very familiar with investment plans that prescribe living well within your means and saving considerable amounts in order to be able to live off of passive income. Additionally, I believe that it is possible to have such plans (b/c more or less I have such a plan and I am already living under it); however, some of my inquisition into your plan(s) was b/c I perceived that there just seemed to be a few contradictory aspects in your stated plan.. .and maybe even a bit of appeared waffling - however, some of those appearances of such may be that you cannot be completely sure about the future and about how well your investment portfolio will perform.
Also, sometimes, it can be good to build a bit of an extra cushion in your nest egg, as you seem to be planning, in order to have some assurances and security that you are going to be safe with your plan, once you stop working.
Not sure what was contradictory. I was a little vague about my circumstances because I don't want to put too much on this forum.
If you PM me I'd be glad to talk more specifically
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Post 8853918 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.13h):
To me, it's a good sign when banks try and block crypto.
They're afraid.
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Post 8938319 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
I'm sorry to have to explain this to you but drawling lines on charts doesn't work.
lol
I agree, everytime I see someone post one of these dumb fuckin charts I want to do one myself with rainbows and unicorns, but I cba.
If it was a case of being that easy to predict everyone in the world who owned a ruler would be a gazillionaire
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Post 8938578 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
I just sold $6000 worth of bitcoin because I need it in a hurry.
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Post 8948655 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
YOU KNOW WHAT CAUSED THIS?
I FUCKING SOLD 15 LAST NIGHT THATS WHAT CAUSED THIS
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
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Post 8948735 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
YOU KNOW WHAT CAUSED THIS?
I FUCKING SOLD 15 LAST NIGHT THATS WHAT CAUSED THIS
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
I remember reading about your selling $6k or something... b/c you "need it".. right before the green dildos... Who the fuck knows really? Except maybe a few insiders?
Yeah my wife needs knee surgery. Nothing urgent but just figured I'd put the money in the bank now because it'll be in the next week, I could have liquidated some of my brokerage account + lost money on exchange rate + fees, wired from the UK + lost money on exchange rate + fees, or sold btc on LBC.
Selling on LBC I get bitstamp rate here, so I figured fuck it. Probably was just gonna go sideways for another few weeks until I had the chance to buy them back.
Already regretting it.
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Post 8948943 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
I just use multibit and electrum, multibit for day to day, electrum for storage. I have paper backups of the seed.
Asked my wife what the encryption key is for her copy of the backup today - she has no idea.
Fuckin women. Lucky I have other backups, cuz hers is lost forever.
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Post 8948988 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
I just use multibit and electrum, multibit for day to day, electrum for storage. I have paper backups of the seed.
Asked my wife what the encryption key is for her copy of the backup today - she has no idea.
Fuckin women. Lucky I have other backups, cuz hers is lost forever.
Haha shouting at her worked, she just remembered it.
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Post 8949335 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
Anyone else wake up to dust from btcsmart this morning?
Thanks for the beer in 2058
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Post 8951672 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
I just use multibit and electrum, multibit for day to day, electrum for storage. I have paper backups of the seed.
Asked my wife what the encryption key is for her copy of the backup today - she has no idea.
Fuckin women. Lucky I have other backups, cuz hers is lost forever.
Ms. Piggles needs to get an account here on Bitcoin talk, so she can defend herself in this thread, and then we will have two women here...
(that is BitChick and Ms. Piggles.. unless she would preferred to be called PigglesChick or some other name?)
She makes fun of me having "internet friiiiiiiends" as it is, no chance she'd ever post on a forum.
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Post 8951687 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
Yeah my wife needs knee surgery. Nothing urgent but just figured I'd put the money in the bank now because it'll be in the next week, I could have liquidated some of my brokerage account + lost money on exchange rate + fees, wired from the UK + lost money on exchange rate + fees, or sold btc on LBC.
Selling on LBC I get bitstamp rate here, so I figured fuck it. Probably was just gonna go sideways for another few weeks until I had the chance to buy them back.
Already regretting it.
I know that there can be some unexpected needs for cash.. from time to time. I am in the red on my BTC... since my average buy-in price is $600... Accordingly, I attempt to have enough of a cash flow in fiat on reserve in various accounts.. so I do NOT have to sell BTC .. especially while I am in the red... however, i do understand that sometimes the situation could be forced for whatever reason or even seem to be the least of the evils (regarding which account should be cashed out).
My average buy in price this year is $510.
if I count the ones I bought in july + sold in dec my average buy price is $220. which is actually a lot higher than I thought it was until I just calculated it.
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Post 8962954 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.15h):
I've managed to buy back 7 bitcoins so far.
I'm still down 8. Must buy 8 more btc
must buy 8 more btc
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Post 8965312 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
PayPal acceptance is a game changer
that will add even more selling pressure.
remember, every time new merchant jumps in - just sell.
Paypal is bigger than that, if they offer bitcoin as a payment method to their customers, unless they're only one way (which I doubt) they'd need to keep them on hand for their customers to both pay with and receive.
It wouldn't be like dell dumping it all on bitpay, paypal would need a certain amount of btc in their reserve
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Post 8965384 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
^ i don't know where all the hate for MMI comes from. Back in the day he mined and was hugely bullish. He reads the charts and now calls a bear market = everyone pours vitriol and hate.
This sort of behaviour simply reinforces the cultist profile of BTC users -- tow the party line or be ridiculed. Sad but I guess a symptom of the interweb these days.
I think doge is stoopid but I don't spend all day on a doge forum gloating about the price of dogecoin and insisting people recognise that I was right all along.
That's why people dislike him, because only an asshole would spend so much time and energy on something they dislike.
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Post 8965398 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Paypal is bigger than that, if they offer bitcoin as a payment method to their customers, unless they're only one way (which I doubt) they'd need to keep them on hand for their customers to both pay with and receive.
It wouldn't be like dell dumping it all on bitpay, paypal would need a certain amount of btc in their reserve
I understood that PayPal is merely accepting dollars from BitPay/Coinbase/Coinsetter and delivering them to merchants who subscribe to PayPal. And for "digital goods" only. And only in North America. Isn't that so?
In other words, it is just like Dell: people who buy BTC now (on the exchanges or over the counter, in bulk or retail) are paying the shopping bills of owners of old cheap coins who choose to "pay with bitcoin". Only that there is one more intermediary (PayPal) taking their fee.
Yeah, so far. No one expected paypal to turn around and say "fuck dollars we're now a bitcoin only business" at one fell swoop
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Post 8965781 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
I have some business issues in the US of A that I am trying to get in order - otherwise I am considering various ways to become location independent. Currently, I am attracted to south east asia, more than europe - and part of my thinking is that I can live a lot better on a lot less (accordingly, live well within my means, and continue to accumulate wealth with a mostly passive income). Potentially, later in life, I will be able to travel and live in more expensive areas...... Well, anyhow, this is more of a work of progress than anything set in stone...
Further, I am anticipating that there are going to be a lot of ongoing wishy-washy developments and adjustments when it comes to various tax treatments of BTC... from what I understand, Americans traveling abroad would NOT be required to count the gains of their spent BTC, so long as those BTC are spent overseas.
Regarding number of merchants, the more the better, and regarding spending, there are a lot of mixed blessings about that, and the USA, as most of us already realize, has one of the worst spending records - and some of the american consumerism habits are spreading to other areas around the world... NO simple solutions there when it comes to inequality and wasteful spending while some people are barely able to scratch by meager livings others are living wastefully high on the hog. Seems to be a topic beyond the scope of this thread (though this thread seems to be fairly tolerant of a variety of topics so long as they are anywhere remotely connected to BTC walls - and even then... ooofffffta...).
I think we have a lot in common, I became "location independent" about 2 years ago now.
I live in South East Asia, I live on around $2000 a month. That's in a nice villa, with a nice car, and I eat out at least 2x a day (in western restaurants not local food)
in Europe my lifestyle would eat 90% of my income, over here I save >75% of my income.
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Post 8965944 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
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I live in South East Asia, I live on around $2000 a month. That's in a nice villa, with a nice car, and I eat out at least 2x a day (in western restaurants not local food)
in Europe my lifestyle would eat 90% of my income, over here I save >75% of my income.
In most of US, you wouldn't be able to afford your lifestyle, period. I lived on $2k a month (NYC) and trust me, there was no talk of "villas" or saving
Yeah, I lived in NYC, my friend's gym membership in manhattan was $300 a month.
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Post 8965970 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Currently, I have a pretty steady $2500 to $3000 per month of mostly passive income (investment related so does NOT take too much time to manage); however, I have an ongoing business that I am having some troubles with keeping it completely operating on its own (thus takes way too much of my time, without any additional payoff for the time i spend, except perhaps to lessen various potential liabilities), and I am considering that it could be better to figure out a way to completely sever from the business... because I am ready to move to the next stage.... and to spend my time in more leisure activities.. accordingly, your response makes me a little anxious about moving on...
Well, in any event, I have to think practically and I cannot just cut my business issues... so I gotta work them out... hopefully, sooner rather than later...
I have a wife, if you're single you could half that or more easily.
Honestly I could live off $500-750 a month by myself, she's the one who insists on the villa + car. I'd be happy with a condo and a motorbike.
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Post 8966080 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
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I live in South East Asia, I live on around $2000 a month. That's in a nice villa, with a nice car, and I eat out at least 2x a day (in western restaurants not local food)
in Europe my lifestyle would eat 90% of my income, over here I save >75% of my income.
In most of US, you wouldn't be able to afford your lifestyle, period. I lived on $2k a month (NYC) and trust me, there was no talk of "villas" or saving
Yeah, I lived in NYC, my friend's gym membership in manhattan was $300 a month.
2k$/month even after tax sets you for a very poor and stressing life in a big rich western city
2k$/month + 2k$/month for your girlfriend all after tax may start paying you a kind of confortable life
I never said I make 2k a month, i said I live off 2k a month and I save more than 75% of my income.
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Post 8966100 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
My thought have been that I would use some of the extra cash flow for frequent traveling.. but it never hurts to have a little extra cash flow (even for savings purposes).. and I anticipate needing to return to the states about two times a year which is NOT cheap... . at least maybe until I make sure most of my matters/affairs in the states are settled... and the reality may be that it will NOT be completely feasible to sever from the USA business.. .. still contemplating options in that regard.. I am actually in my late 40s, so NOT a spring chicken, but pretty decent energy and health.. Knock on wood.
I still travel a little, but to be honest I was in the forces and I lived in 4 countries before I turned 18. I've seen a lot of the world, there aren't too many places I fancy going left.
You got 20 years on me old man, haha, I must be wise beyond my years
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Post 8966272 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
...I was in the forces and I lived in 4 countries before I turned 18. I've seen a lot of the world, there aren't too many places I fancy going left.
You got 20 years on me old man, haha, I must be wise beyond my years
lol google image search resulted in "child smoking photography"
I'm not sure what you mean hah
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Post 8966828 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Time flies fast
When you're 10, each year is 1/10th of your entire life, so it seems like it goes on forever.
By the time you're 50 one year is only 2% of your life, so it seems like it passes by so much faster.
But yes, time is going by increasingly rapidly. It's a bit disconcerting.
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Post 8966877 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Why are there two people arguing in the general conversation thread?
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Post 8975772 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Jesus christ, he sure spends a lot of time trying to convince us no one cares about bitcoin considering he really believes no one cares about bitcoin.
Surely thats the kind of thing you don't need to point out?
To use an often cited example, no one gives a fuck about beanie babies anymore. Why are the investment experts not harping on about how beanie babies should be ignored?
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Post 8976312 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
You will need to mention the limitation in your research. For instance, many of the posts are created from troll accounts. Most of them do not offer meaningful comments. Look no further than this thread.
Surely... but the distortion caused by trolls should be somewhat lessened by counting recently active
threads rather than recent
posts. (A trollpost may cause some low-activity thread to show up as active in the sampling window. However, a thread that is heavily "infested" by trolls will still be counted only once.)
It can be argued also that even trollposts are evidence of public interest on some broad topic.
Anyway, if the proportion of trollposts to good posts in each category is about the same, they will not have much effect on the percentages.
Whats the point you're trying to get across with those figures?
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Post 8976971 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Whats the point you're trying to get across with those figures?
They are the figures I got as described. I have no point to get across. You can draw your own conclusions, or not.
Of course you do, you have an agenda just like everyone else here.
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Post 8977976 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
I´m pretty optimistic that 150$ will hold by the end of the year absent of any flash crash.
Back to the good ole bearish, Fonzie... You must have sold...
Hopefully, you are NOT going to get burned by your decision.
I still have some that are on their way for real life use to SR which can take up to 20h. Hopefully Bitcoin will not drop below 300$ in the next 36 hours. Otherwise the amount of solid LSD coins will be much less that what i have planed. I´m also pretty worried that some of the SR vendors will pause their activities after the last weeks, it must really suck for them to lose up to 5-10% of their profit after a deal has taken part . Too bad for them that they can´t use Bitpay
Bitcoin is destroying lives!!!!!!!!!!!
SR is a joke.
I bought off Agora today and my coins were deposited within 30 mins, I overpaid in case of any fluctuations, bought the item, withdrew the balance (broadcast within 30 seconds) and I have full escrow protection if anything goes wrong.
Or ya know, use SR, wait 2 days for my payment to be credited if at all, then have no escrow protection either.
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Post 8978237 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Will check out Agora next time, was always too lazy so far, but that sounds pretty good. Thanks for the recommendation
I really missed the escrow option from SR 1.0 or early SR 2.0. Otherwise, it was removed for safety reasons which is understandable after so many marketplaces got hacked.
SR2 was never hacked, but that's beside the point.
Agora has never been hacked, nor evolution, and now evolution is multisig there is no point in hacking it.
Evolution is the fastest market these days. DrClu from SR2 is always DDOSing agora so it can be a bit slow.
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Post 8978238 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Bitcoin talk wisdom...
This thing is gonna take off majorly, otherwise its going down hard, with a strong possibility we will see some sideways action
I wish i could fit this in my signature
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Post 8988123 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
why is there talk of final capitulation when the price is the same as when i went to bed, what did i miss
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Post 8999185 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.16h):
Precious metals are less about the economy imploding to me, and more about energy. It takes a shit load of energy to mine and refine, and as ore grades continue to decline, the amount of oil used for each ounce just continues to rise. Silver and gold are already very close to cost of production, so as a long term investment, it makes sense to me. the other thing about stacking that is different to bitcoin is you actually get something to put in the safe, and it's hard to sell, so even occasionally when i am broke, its not like i am going to go sell any. I used to waste a large proportion of my income, now i think in term of oucnes, kgs and BTC. Do i really need to spend 3BTC/1 ounce/ 2 kgs on a new laptop, or can i just keep using my sandy bridge based thinkpad? What is the better decision, a second hand hyundai for 10 ounces, or a new mazda for 25?
I'm the same but since my goal is financial independence (a fixed £x00k in investments, providing passive income) I think in terms of months.
If I buy this monster truck I nearly bought the other day for $30,000 (big, lifted toyota hilux on huge wheels) that is 12 months extra I need to work. And suddenly the really nice monster truck didn't look like such a bargain
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Post 9012993 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.17h):
How should a currency rise into existence? How should a technology be adopted. It's not a post-IPO company we're dealing with here. It's the rise of a start-up currency / technology / store of value. All idicators besides price this past year have been growing strong. Price can't lag adoption forever.
Oh..and while we're looking at charts. Let's take a look at the measuring stick the world uses to price everything.
Bubble? or a broken global financial system?
your post is called despair.
so up from here?
The bear trolls are just as retarded as the mega-bull trolls.
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Post 9013733 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.17h):
Please see edit above. I opted out of the bet. Again, I apologize to Mmitech.
lets do it this way, a word bet, If the price wont touch touch $100 I will quit posting on this forum
You wanna do the bet with a "e-handshake?" If so, I will gladly say YES.
Of course, its up to us to hold each other accountable. But I will gladly pay you 20 BTC the day LTC reaches $100 in 2014.
And I can just hope you are as true to your word.
OK, I Mourad Ilyes Mlik will honor my word if LTC price wont reach $100 this year, I will pay 20 BTC to windjc later provided address, let other members be witnesses. in fact this will go to my signature.
mmitech, is this bet still valid?
lol is this real
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Post 9024568 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.17h):
The girl has a shadow, the glass has a shadow. The ATM has a low light casting the shadow. You can see its reflection. You can see the light lighting up the trim on the wall as well. If it's shopped, it is really pro work.
The ATM was rendered from a 3D model with that lighting and alpha channel, then composited over the photo, and the shadow was photoshopped by hand.
The light that is supposed to cast the ATM shadow on the floor should also cast a fainter shadow of the glass railing on the floor at left, but there is none.
Also the shadow of the ATM on the floor is too sharp. Compare with the shadow of the cheque on the ATM body (which should be sharper).
Also, the lighter area at the top of the glass railing, behind the ATM, is the reflection of a light wall located behind the camera. But then there should be a reflection of the ATM as well, just to the left of the ATM.
There are other defects, but those should suffice...
I don't think anyone thought it was real, dumbass
edit - never mind i read more and people did think it was real
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Post 9024584 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.17h):
hey guise, i put my bitcoin atm on the beach
don't listen to jorge stolfi, this is real guise
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Post 9024602 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.17h):
The girl has a shadow, the glass has a shadow. The ATM has a low light casting the shadow. You can see its reflection. You can see the light lighting up the trim on the wall as well. If it's shopped, it is really pro work.
The ATM was rendered from a 3D model with that lighting and alpha channel, then composited over the photo, and the shadow was photoshopped by hand.
The light that is supposed to cast the ATM shadow on the floor should also cast a fainter shadow of the glass railing on the floor at left, but there is none.
Also the shadow of the ATM on the floor is too sharp. Compare with the shadow of the cheque on the ATM body (which should be sharper).
Also, the lighter area at the top of the glass railing, behind the ATM, is the reflection of a light wall located behind the camera. But then there should be a reflection of the ATM as well, just to the left of the ATM.
There are other defects, but those should suffice...
I don't think anyone thought it was real, dumbass
so its not real?
lol i just read his post i didn't realise other people thought it was real. he loves to do his pseudo-intellectual act.
guise, i'm a pro at life, I got a phd online and everything, listen to my overinflated opinions on bitcoin and photoshop - jorgestolfi
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Post 9024800 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.17h):
well i regret going all out...
tomorrow its gonna crash tho, and my fresh fiat will hit the exchange
and then
Everything changes Hasn't your fiat been about to hit the exchange for a week or two?
I actually sold a bunch yesterday cuz I needed cash fast, and living where I do LBC is usually the best option for me.
So i'm kinda hopin we hit $300 and i can buy back in in a week or so.
For the first time I'm a hoping bear
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Post 9025838 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.17h):
hey guise, i put my bitcoin atm on the beach
don't listen to jorge stolfi, this is real guise
Oh what a good idea for an ATM machine, on the beach... ...
Oh? there is a girl in the picture, I had NOT noticed...
Yeah, right...
it's definitely real
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Post 9038228 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.18h):
Wait, hasn't this happened recently.
Price drops 5%. Everyone panics, shits their pants, it's the final capitulation, it's over. Oh noes.
Price stabilizes, rises a couple percent, everyones like wow this is over. TO DA MOON.
Price drops another 5%. Everyone panics, shits their pants, it's the final capitulation, it's over. Oh noes.
Price stabilizes, rises a couple percent, everyones like wow this is over. TO DA MOON.
Price drops another 5%. Everyone panics, shits their pants, it's the final capitulation, it's over. Oh noes.
Price stabilizes, rises a couple percent, everyones like wow this is over. TO DA MOON.
but the price is still dropping overall.
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Post 9038320 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.18h):
Wait, hasn't this happened recently.
Price drops 5%. Everyone panics, shits their pants, it's the final capitulation, it's over. Oh noes.
Price stabilizes, rises a couple percent, everyones like wow this is over. TO DA MOON.
Price drops another 5%. Everyone panics, shits their pants, it's the final capitulation, it's over. Oh noes.
Price stabilizes, rises a couple percent, everyones like wow this is over. TO DA MOON.
Price drops another 5%. Everyone panics, shits their pants, it's the final capitulation, it's over. Oh noes.
Price stabilizes, rises a couple percent, everyones like wow this is over. TO DA MOON.
but the price is still dropping overall.
That is essentially the exact definition of a shakeout. Price falls, small recovery, price falls more, rinse and repeat until the whale thinks he has made all the weak hands sell their coins off. Then places massive buy orders to make the cheap buys and lets the market build the price up again.
The question is when will the shakeout end
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Post 9073680 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.18h):
Actually glad I sold now.
I sold majority of my stash at $380, figured the downtrend would continue.
Just waitin til I feel right and i'll buy back in
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Post 9073900 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.18h):
Most important thing:
Will Silkroad switch to another coin if Bitcoin goes to 0$? Will it be Doge?
why would bitcoin goes to 0$???
You dear sir is right! It won't or shant go that low. The only (killer) argument to buy bitcon is to buy drugs. So it shall stabilise around $10 like it was for so long (the only true demand). But then again I could be wrong.. According to Adam Africa is buying
BTC. We might indeed see $10k soon.
Yeah! And because in Africa they nearly don't have smartphones or internet they will use the rockchain
Wait until they dump "all" their fiat to buy bitcoin.
Jokes aside, Africa needs lot of development before they can consider buying or using bitcoin. Now it is only for lucky people with internet access.
Nah, you'd be surprised at the level of internet access in Africa, my somalian friend has been tryin to figure out a way to utilise btc to help his remittance business. This is somalia, third world, war torn shithole, and most people receive their remittances in USD to their smart phone.
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Post 9078859 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.19h):
since 800$ I'm telling bitcoin is the past and the it will crash. Ripple is signing several huge bank soon and you stil don't understand that the value web won't be bitcoin.
ya i can't wait til they give 80 billion ripple away for free, then to the moon right?
right?
how's that gonna work?
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Post 9090437 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.19h):
is there blood in the streets yet? when do I buy?
it doesn't smell like desperation yet
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Post 9112869 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
I still don't really feel like we've had blood in the streets.
No one posted a suicide hotline on r/bitcoin yet
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Post 9112940 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
WhatsApp has over 600 million users, at $30 person value thats 18 Billion market cap.
If Bitcoin had even 60 million users at $30 person value is only 1.8 Billion, so it seems over valued now?
are you being silly... 60 million people using bitcoin atm would mean almost no1 having a single coin... depending on distribution but really a terrible comparison
Just comparing the users of whatsapp are worth money to advertisers.
The users for bitcoin must increase from its current base to spread to survive.
Then comes the problem will value increase? and why? because of limited availability like a commodity? which is opposite of what it was intended to be a medium for transactions with lower fees.
In the end I think btc needs to be pegged to some definite value to be worth anything. Other than that the Fed is correct that it can only be a "storage" mechanism.
We're currently in a bubble for "users" though.
Companies with millions of users are bought up, with absolutely no idea how to monetize them.
Snapchat anyone? Value in the billions, absolutely ZERO revenue.
A lot of these companies are just VCs and investors playing hot potato, I invest $25m in the hope that somewhere further down the road a bigger fool will inject $250m and my stake is worth more than I paid. It's nearly a ponzi
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Post 9113022 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
I still don't really feel like we've had blood in the streets.
No one posted a suicide hotline on r/bitcoin yet
In other words, you are still holding out concerning when you are going to buy back in.
You may want to be safe and buy back part, so that you are NOT gambling all of your stash.. but I have my doubts if prices are going lower than they did yesterday, any time in the near future.... though anything seems possible in bitcoinlandia.
My income is entirely in btc. I did sell 60 this month at $380 but technically i'm buying in on a daily basis, to the tune of around $500-600
I have $20k that I haven't bought back in with yet. I'm actually more comfortable with the amount I have in btc right now (around 40 currently) so I can only assume I was overinvested, as I was far too emotional about it. I'll keep "buying back in" via my income in btc, but I think I'll put the $20k into a nice mutual fund or ETF
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Post 9113036 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
Now, you seem to be talking your book... and once you buy back in, you will fix this kind of language, hopefully? It's a bit charged to be throwing out the "nearly a ponzi" language.... b/c that is nearly total BS.
There are a lot of overhyped, overvalued companies that get investment, and go for round after round of seed money, and often time the only purpose of an investment in a business is the hope they'll raise more funds later on and thus make their stake more valuable. If the only purpose is to increase income then I think that is nearly a ponzi, isn't it?
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Post 9113068 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
btw I wasn't calling btc a ponzi at all, I was referring to the venture capitalists and their stakes in zero revenue tech companies with high userbases.
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Post 9113070 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
now my Bitcoin can't buy a Laptop!
You can get a chromebook or cheap laptop for $300
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Post 9113349 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
I spend 20% of my income partying and traveling for football games.
This is extremely wise
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Post 9113444 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
Now, you seem to be talking your book... and once you buy back in, you will fix this kind of language, hopefully? It's a bit charged to be throwing out the "nearly a ponzi" language.... b/c that is nearly total BS.
There are a lot of overhyped, overvalued companies that get investment, and go for round after round of seed money, and often time the only purpose of an investment in a business is the hope they'll raise more funds later on and thus make their stake more valuable. If the only purpose is to increase income then I think that is nearly a ponzi, isn't it?
For one thing: Bitcoin is NOT a company, and the infrastructure and the space of BTC is much too complex and too many people involved in order to be characterized as a ponzi scheme. Even if you attempt to suggest that the earliest 100 or 1000 adopters are trying to get rich off the rest of us b/c they are just trying to cash out and there is NO value in BTC or the infrastructure. Those kinds of characterizing would be totally misplaced.
Now maybe some of the companies within bitcoin could be ponzi schemes and some of the alt coins could be ponzi schemes b/c they are small and tightly controlled and sometimes scams and schemes.... but Bitcoin is not the various companies or the related companies or even some of the corrupt and greedy people within the space.
I just believe that you should know better than to engage in such loaded and inaccurate assertions regarding the nature of bitcoin, and you lose credibility when you employ such loaded and inaccurate language.
On the other hand, there are a lot of reasons that you could argue that you believe the price of BTC is going to continue to go down, but arguing ponzi scheme (or "near" ponzi scheme) is way out there and only triggers emotions based on incorrect facts/characterizations rather than making a more accurate assessment.
Anyhow you believe what you believe, and if you truly believe BTC is a ponzi scheme or a near ponzi scheme then you certainly will want to be careful about whether and/or how much to invest.
Dude you totally missed my point i wasn't talking about bitcoin I was talking about tech startups with unmonetized user bases who go for round after round of seed money
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Post 9113463 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
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Post 9113498 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
btw I wasn't calling btc a ponzi at all, I was referring to the venture capitalists and their stakes in zero revenue tech companies with high userbases.
I already responded to your other post, but I doubt this really clarifies... b/c you are still throwing out a whole bunch of generalizations. There are a lot of varieties, some of these guys have good intentions and some are scams.. buyer beware,no?
It does clarify because you responded with the assumption I was talking about bitcoin, which i wasn't.
For many the process isn't about building a profitable company. It's literally build a userbase, get some VC money, hire people, get a nice office, try and get more users for the next round of VC investment, the whole aim becomes VC money rather than ever having an income outside of that.
That's pretty ponzi-ish
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Post 9113519 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
Relax buddy
Can you be more specific?
He was referring to your long post about how btc isn't a ponzi and how i was generalising when I also said right after that that I was NOT calling btc a ponzi. lol
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Post 9113601 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
I still believe that without naming specific companies, it may be a bit much to say "for many," but maybe the subject does NOT matter too much? I mean if we are talking about a practice that is abused, o.k., But I cannot recall if we were talking about any particular company? So maybe i am losing the train of this topic or what was the original point.
well, Snapchat is one. Turned down 3 billion in cash despite having never made a penny.
WhatsApp has over 600 million users, at $30 person value thats 18 Billion market cap.
If Bitcoin had even 60 million users at $30 person value is only 1.8 Billion, so it seems over valued now?
This is the quote that started it^
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Post 9114268 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
huobi 1h double top, 1h macd cross
blah blah blah
if ta was actually accurate then why aren't you a billionaire yet?
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Post 9116233 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
Bitcoin is a very safe asset. It won't go away, unlike fiat
Central Banks of Serbia and Portugal didnt think so... http://cointelegraph.com/news/112687/central-banks-of-serbia-and-portugal-warn-bitcoin-users
serbia, lol
portugal, lol
that is all.
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Post 9116321 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
wtf, how is a website registered 3 months ago, not even a particularly advanced website "blue chip"
I could throw that together in 2 hours and get coindesk to give me a good press release.
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Post 9116381 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
I laughed more than I should have. LOL
Yea i'm not bein racist but those two countries are known for havin shitty economies. I don't take financial advice from homeless people neither do I care what portugal and serbias central banks think.
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Post 9137451 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
Problem with having an extra $20,000 of fiat lying around is you do stupid stuff like buy a $500 robotic vacuum cleaner just to troll your dogs.
damnit
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Post 9137492 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.21h):
Problem with having an extra $20,000 of fiat lying around is you do stupid stuff like buy a $500 robotic vacuum cleaner just to troll your dogs.
damnit
I got one of those, definitely keeps the shedding under control this time of year... Theres no way you'd ever get me to vacuum the whole house daily, and it picks up a full bin every day.
I can't wait to see what the dogs make of it
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Post 9139757 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
It's all because of that 30k sell off it seems. Just a random guy cashing out and everyone thinks the downtrend has reversed. Maybe it has but i don't see how that had anything to do with that guy. As far as i can see the dumper(s) that have taken us down are still dumping and nothing fundamental has changed.
Just some short term hype based on nothing really.
I really hope we will go up but i don't think we will. In a few days the hype will be over, the dumper will keep dumping and it's back to where we were before the 30k got dumped.
Really? You think this guy has an endless supply of coins? He can dump indefinitely?
at some point he's going to hit the figure where a lot of people feel happy buying in, and he won't be able to take it lower.
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Post 9140666 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
Am I the only one who doesn't really care which way BTC goes as long as there's some volume and active trading going on?
At least I don't have to identify with circus trains transporting screaming bears and cultist bulls.
I'm the same, i'm slightly bemused by both sides.
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Post 9148105 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
she's a fuckin lawyer, of course you can't get a straight answer out of her.
also, she's a woman. since when do women know how long anything takes. my wifes 5 mins can be several minutes to an hour
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Post 9148693 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
she's a fuckin lawyer, of course you can't get a straight answer out of her.
also, she's a woman. since when do women know how long anything takes. my wifes 5 mins can be several minutes to an hour
I bet she knows how long you take!
Absolutely, and I bet 5mins in the company of such a charming man like 'Piggles' would feel like an hour for most women.
Oh look at that I made a sarcastic generalisation about women and someone got butthurt.
Calm down dear
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Post 9148788 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
And some people wonder why there is a lack of women in technology and trading.
because they take everything personally ?
don't worry, there's usually a bunch of white knight neckbeards around to rush to their defense
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Post 9148834 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
that bull whale is disgusting
gonorrhoea whale
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Post 9149036 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
And some people wonder why there is a lack of women in technology and trading.
because they take everything personally ?
don't worry, there's usually a bunch of white knight neckbeards around to rush to their defense
Fuck man, if you're going to troll, at least do it better than a 14 year old 4channer.
ooh here's another
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Post 9150503 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
Not sure which version of Shroomskit I'm talking to but I think you know that's untrue; I hate the lazy, casual sexism that pervades this thread and the fact that as soon as there is any resistance to it, it prompts comments that you are either sensitive or 'hate men'.
I'm not going to get into this (mainly because I'm hopelessly outnumbered and have done it, fruitlessly, before nearly a year ago) but I do wonder if Piggles et al actually behave like this with their wives, partners and daughters in the 'real' world. I imagine not.
Back on topic: I'm not going to change my view supporting the theory that we'll back in the high 200's in the next 9 days.
oh yes, because me saying that my wifes 5 minutes can be anywhere from 2 mins to an hour is oh so sexist.
quick, call the waaaaaaaaaaahmbulance, someones feelings have been hurt.
That is literally all I said, you must really like playing the victim if you believe me casually saying "my wifes 5 mins can mean 2 mins or an hour" is something
so sexist that you actually wonder if i say things like that in the real world.Are you fuckin retarded?
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Post 9160147 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
i love her.
Love isn't that hard to find, it's trust that's hard to find.
I've loved several women, I've only ever trusted one.
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Post 9160265 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
i love her.
Love isn't that hard to find, it's trust that's hard to find.
I've loved several women, I've only ever trusted one.
Ever heard of "without trust, there is no love?"
You can't really know whether or not someone is trustworthy until they've been put in a position to prove it though.
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Post 9160367 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
We have separate his and hers bathrooms, if MrsPiggles ever complains about my toilet seat being up I tell her to use her own goddamn bathroom.
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Post 9160514 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
i cant sleep without her
...
i NEED MY BITCH!
10 beers in me and and am i am drinviring to my mother inlaws
everyone parynthe cop done stop me!
FML
I NEED THIS!
If you're going to drive this drunk you should send all your btc to me to keep a close eye on in case you need bail money
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Post 9160551 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.22h):
i cant sleep without her
...
i NEED MY BITCH!
10 beers in me and and am i am drinviring to my mother inlaws
everyone parynthe cop done stop me!
FML
I NEED THIS!
If you're going to drive this drunk you should send all your btc to me to keep a close eye on in case you need bail money
fuck you bicth!
I'm trying to help
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Post 9170834 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.23h):
Glad I sold the 200k ripple I was given back in January
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Post 9170940 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.23h):
Why would any of you need Adam to send you Bitcoins? Based on today's news, clearly Ripple is capable of synthesizing any amount of any currency you desire. It's a fractional reservist's wet dream. (R.I.P. Ripple.)
They're actually going to hardwire the network so that the stolen funds can't be used?
lmfao.
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Post 9194694 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.23h):
Oh dear btc e back to sub 400
They just keep dumping as if their life depends on it. The way up is gonna be hard and slow.
It seems that their coins getting worth more is the worst thing that could happen to these people and they will do anything to avoid it.
If you purchased sub $300 coins 10 days ago, it would be foolish not to take some off the table with a >40% profit.
I purchased some around $300. I'm not selling
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Post 9194833 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.23h):
I purchased some around $300. I'm not selling
Same here.
I also bought some around $500, $450, $400 and $350 on the way down. I'd be crazy to sell now.
That doesn't even include my old coins, bought in early 2013, average cost $120. No way I sell for triple digits.
I don't count my old coins cuz I sold them all in December when it was clearly a frenzy, I figured it'd pop, I was waiting to buy back in. Started buying back in around May when I realised I couldn't really predict what was happening
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Post 9194995 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.23h):
Some walls are skiddish,
Skiddish is not a word
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Post 9195390 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.23h):
It looks like my prediction is still on track.
bubble start between 25th sept. and 25th oct.
Now CCMF!
Maybe this IS the bubble start?
Yes it is
That's why I say it is on track.
I also predict the top, hope I'm right. My trades are dependent on it.
Google trends has been a real time method that could have told you the last 3 bubbles were occuring.
Currently showing an upswing in attention. Has increased the last 3 months
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05p0rrx
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Post 9196012 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
Even though i sold half my btc at $380 last month if we hit $3k it would make enough of a difference to my long term FI goal that I could pretty much quit working on the spot.
Therefore i think it's unlikely as I am never that lucky
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Post 9196560 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
I thought that you were buying those coins back in the low $300s? NOT enough cash flow to buy them all back?
By the way, trend reversal again, we are in the $300s... back to a bear market.... Fuck..
Nah, I did say I changed my mind about buying back in:
I have $20k that I haven't bought back in with yet. I'm actually more comfortable with the amount I have in btc right now (around 40 currently) so I can only assume I was overinvested, as I was far too emotional about it. I'll keep "buying back in" via my income in btc, but I think I'll put the $20k into a nice mutual fund or ETF
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Post 9208026 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
Is it a case that, everytime the price dips, the bitcoin community switches into a cripto-anarchist sect?
its been dipping for like 10 months now bub
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Post 9218245 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
what would the price of gold have to be to make it economical to get it out of sea water?
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Post 9218340 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
what would the price of gold have to be to make it economical to get it out of sea water?
never gana happen...
if you double slivers price, suddenly everyone goes in there dusty attics and pull out their silver coin collection from 2011 and sells it!
I wasn't askin if it could happen, i was wondering what price it would have to be to make it ecomical.
$10,000 per oz? $20,000 per oz? there must be a point where it's worthwhile
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Post 9218412 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
I'm not talkin about sunken treasure. There is gold in sea water
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Post 9218416 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
what would the price of gold have to be to make it economical to get it out of sea water?
never gana happen...
if you double slivers price, suddenly everyone goes in there dusty attics and pull out their silver coin collection from 2011 and sells it!
I wasn't askin if it could happen, i was wondering what price it would have to be to make it ecomical.
$10,000 per oz? $20,000 per oz? there must be a point where it's worthwhile
mining asteroids might make more sense ?
yeah maybe
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Post 9218547 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
There is 20 million tonnes in the ocean so the moment it becomes worthwhile it would probably make gold worthless, so i guess it's one of those things that will never happen
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Post 9229930 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
we've been going sideways for over 6hours now, will bitcoin ever move again O_o?
based on my analysis of bitcoin movements (data set taken between 6 hours ago and now) I have concluded that bitcoin will never move in price again.
i'd actually be happy with this.
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Post 9231064 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
Are there actually any trustworthy places to sell bitcoin outside of LBC these days?
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Post 9244429 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.24h):
If people think you are dumb investing in BTC, then what to call those investing in such ETF.
How is it that such stupid people have so much money to get rid of?
Look at the way things are spun these days
investing in btc now is still kinda throwing money into a completely speculative commodity used by drug dealers hitmen and kiddyporn weirdos
if it gets launched in an ETF it's now investing into a speculative commodity via your brokerage account
Pretty major difference there
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Post 9275183 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.25h):
I wonder why do a lot of people vote for the worst in the voting above. It seems we have a lot of pessimistic people on the bitcoin forum here. Its just promotes the price to go down further.
People choose the worst option because that way if the price drops, they can at least take comfort of having made a correct prediction. If the price rises, they will be happy and they won't care about the poll.
I always pick the most negative just for the hell of it
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Post 9275193 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.25h):
How to trade effectiently using bitcoin technical analysis
I am goingt to start a websitet for soopertdooper techitical analytsis to provet how to effectiently tradet bitcoint
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Post 9278017 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.25h):
apple pay is only available on apple products right?
the products that even most rich westerners finance because they can't blow $600 on a phone
yeah thats gonna take over the world where global average income is like $200 a month lol
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Post 9278165 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.25h):
apple pay is only available on apple products right?
the products that even most rich westerners finance because they can't blow $600 on a phone
yeah thats gonna take over the world where global average income is like $200 a month lol
Don't be ridiculous. If Apple Pay takes off, the phones will be free! Do CC companies charge you for the plastic/chip/magstrip that is your CC?
@findftp: Trusted fiat + exciting, convenient wrapper = pure win!
one is a 20 cent piece of plastic the other a 600 dollar phone. rdiculous comparison
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Post 9310652 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
How much money do you make shorting?
Can someone explain it to me?
Like say you have 1 coin.
You short at $390
What does it need to hit/how do you profit?
If it goes to $350 what would you make on that?
ELI5 please someone who knows more than I do
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Post 9310739 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
How much money do you make shorting?
Can someone explain it to me?
Like say you have 1 coin.
You short at $390
What does it need to hit/how do you profit?
If it goes to $350 what would you make on that?
ELI5 please someone who knows more than I do
10% is huge move for a days trading.... if you have say 1000 BTC leveraged x7 THATS LIKE 700BTC !! ;-)
So buy 20,000 btc @ $390 = $7.8m
open short positions on 20,000 btc
Sell 5000 btc, cause price drop x 10%
Profit = 2000 btc? $780,000
Your loss on the 5000 btc = 10% $195,000
Total profit = $585k
Am I bein a tard here or is it really that simple to short stuff
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Post 9310996 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
I suspect that the Chinese were responsible also for the Jan-Apr/2013 bubble, that lifted the price from ~12$ to ~120$. Specifically, the start of that bubble seems to coincide with the hiring of Bobby Lee by BTC-China in Shanghai. In that case, if that market closes too, so that the Jan-Apr/2013 bubble gets undone, the price could go down again to 10--20$.
At least the other trolls realise they're trolls for the most part, I think you really think you're an academic
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Post 9311151 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
Please state your understanding of what is going on, then.
You're always making bold assertions. "I assume this" "I suspect this"
I don't know, but I don't make shit up all the time like you do.
I do not know where to get reliable data on bitcoin usage.
Exactly, so shut the fuck up
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Post 9312939 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
Aren't you a trader? Can't you make money whether the price is $10 or $1000? Why be mad at the guy? At least he's not like "DEFI GOING DOWN OMG DOOOOOM AND FUKKIN GLOOOOOM C U @ 5 FGTS!" That is much more trollish than what this dude is doing.
Nope I do not trade. I would have thought that was apparent when my last question was asking people what shorting is. Never ever have I said I trade bitcoin.
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Post 9314072 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
You don't get a refund because of your payment method - you get a refund because of consumer protection law.
Companies that think they can get away with not giving refunds because people have paid with bitcoin will find that what happened to Butterflylabs happens to them.
Consumer protection law is what matters here - not your payment method. Most times you want to get a refund/take something back you talk directly to the retailer and they refund you directly or give you store credit. You only go to the credit card that one time in a hundred when that doesn't work.
Simply not true, I lost money this week to a shitty merchant of a software license. I have no recourse. they have whois protection on their domain. I'm not gonna sue over $40.
I did my research, domain was 18 months old, no scam reports.
Welcome to bitcoin. It sucks for consumers
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Post 9315772 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
You all worry far too much about governments and laws.
You should try this book
http://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World/dp/0965603679PDF for cheapskates:
http://eiiiforum.com/picsfromusers/howifoundfreedom.pdfStop worrying about the freedom of other people, just become free yourselves. You cannot change anything, so stop worrying. Stop trying to convince other people your method or theory of government will work for them, just disentangle yourself from the system you dislike and become free.
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Post 9315870 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
Stop worrying about the freedom of other people, just become free yourselves. You cannot change anything, so stop worrying. Stop trying to convince other people your method or theory of government will work for them, just disentangle yourself from the system you dislike and become free.
So true
It is a waste of time to complain about things that you cannot change.
It is just wrong to convince people of what you think is good for them.
I'm aware I'm doing the same thing, lol
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Post 9315880 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
...You cannot change anything, so stop worrying...
Your feed rations will be increased.
~Your Beneficent Reptilian Overlords.
I'm cutting for a fight, but thanks.
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Post 9316563 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
You don't need to be. You chose to be.
I respect the life choices of everyone.
Yes.
Some people in here get angry and upset that others don't agree with them. They have to convince everyone that their way is right, rather than simply leaving everyone alone and making themselves happy.
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Post 9333771 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
Openexchange rates appears to be broken, just opened multibit to see 1 btc = £270
i wish
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Post 9333968 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.26h):
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa very funny. How many poor guys trying to bite crumbs of money (you are paid, that's clear). Get a real job, even if I have to say that you entertain me a lot! Thank you for writing all those bullshits
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(I mean, I am sorry for you, your life must to be a real shit!)
Who are you referring to
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Post 9358852 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.27h):
I looked at mining and I figured out it'd cost me, with whatever hardware I looked, and my current electric price $270 ish per bitcoin
Can't rmemeber my exact calculations, it wasn't too long ago either
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Post 9376976 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.27h):
The carlyle group is up there with goldman sachs in terms of blood sucking parasites on the face of this earths financial systems.
they'll either destroy it or turn it into a massive fortune
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Post 9377306 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.27h):
buy Buy BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since bitcoin is a new technology, I redesigned the bubble graph people like to use.
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Post 9377354 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.27h):
vodka straight up... not for everyone...
i made vodka for a personal science project... it tastes like water when u done it right
i don't think you made it right
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Post 9377551 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.27h):
vodka straight up... not for everyone...
i made vodka for a personal science project... it tastes like water when u done it right
water tastes bad. also thats not really possible afaik (for vodka to taste like water)
water taste bad because all the fluoride they keep adding.
btw vodka means water
well i have tried just about every type of water there is (distilled/reverse osmosis) and they all taste bad, even fluoride and mineral free...
but youre right on the vodka. i never realized quality vodka would be like water
According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—which sets the rules for spirits sold in the United States—vodka is defined as a neutral spirit "without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color.
ya it just tastes like spirit, lol
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Post 9388947 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
Who is TheMatt on reddit, stealing my bubble graph, damnit
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Post 9389011 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
Guy got 259 upvotes for my updated bubble graph and didn't even credit MrPiggles
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Post 9389080 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
Guy got 259 upvotes for my updated bubble graph and didn't even credit MrPiggles
You forgot to watermark it.
he even got changetipped like a dollar.
I got scammed
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Post 9389239 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
Stamp is anemic right about now.
That's putting it mildly. Bid depth of almost $25 million late February to $3.5 million today.
what is ripple volume like
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Post 9389293 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
Stamp is anemic right about now.
That's putting it mildly. Bid depth of almost $25 million late February to $3.5 million today.
what is ripple volume like
Explain yourself.
it doesn't need explaining.
you posted the stats for bitcoin, post the same stats for your beloved twinkle
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Post 9389309 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
Stamp is anemic right about now.
That's putting it mildly. Bid depth of almost $25 million late February to $3.5 million today.
what is ripple volume like
Explain yourself.
it doesn't need explaining.
you posted the stats for bitcoin, post the same stats for your beloved twinkle
Explain how that stat you demand is relevant to what I posted.
because i am curious as to how ripple is doing in comparison.
clearly it's doing worse or you'd simply post the stats
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Post 9389387 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
you posted the stats for bitcoin, post the same stats for your beloved twinkle
I'm just perplexed at why you are associating volume with bid depth. Why not point to Ripple's bid depth?
You knew what I meant
you avoided the question for a reason
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Post 9421610 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
conspiracy theorists are gonna love this.
bitcoin + jews. oh noes
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Post 9422003 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
with so many good news... i dare you dumper... i dare you bahahahahaha
Elliot Insurance Brokers announced that it will now allow clients to pay for their insurance and other financial products through Bitcoin.
if they did life insurance i would have bought it this instant.
i need a new life insurance policy
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Post 9423886 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.28h):
i just sold 90% of this months btc income which means the price is going to the moon because fuck me, thats why
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Post 9441257 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
i got my sell orders filled, nice. i like to put them $10 over whatever the current price is when i go to bed and usually in the morning i've got that extra $10
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Post 9441395 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
i got my sell orders filled, nice. i like to put them $10 over whatever the current price is when i go to bed and usually in the morning i've got that extra $10
dont sleep, may be 1000 when you wake up...
i'm waitin for my seroquel to arrive that I ordered off the dark web recently, i've been sleepin like shit. gah
100mg of seroquel is literally the best sleep you will ever have, 12 hours straight. i'll wake up and the price will be $332
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Post 9441451 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
Looks like we're back into a rule of thirds cycle. We should rally strongly to 366 USD and the lucky CNY 2222.
I have 10 waiting to sell at $350. You dare me to pull it and put them at $365.
Will you give me the $150 if you're wrong
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Post 9441471 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
Looks like we're back into a rule of thirds cycle. We should rally strongly to 366 USD and the lucky CNY 2222.
I have 10 waiting to sell at $350. You dare me to pull it and put them at $365.
Will you give me the $150 if you're wrong
What's in it for me?
i'll give you $1.50 if you're right
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Post 9441613 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
Looks like we're back into a rule of thirds cycle. We should rally strongly to 366 USD and the lucky CNY 2222.
I have 10 waiting to sell at $350. You dare me to pull it and put them at $365.
Will you give me the $150 if you're wrong
What's in it for me?
i'll give you $1.50 if you're right
Better yet, why don't you just sell your bitcoins now then you can gloat if you are right.
ill wait for 350. it's close. i earned the btc at the current price so if it hits $350 ill be happy
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Post 9441637 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
filled @ just over $350
I dunno why everyone sticks to shitty bitstamp when you can get higher prices all over the world.
Current price in malaysia just hit $355
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Post 9441658 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
I wish I had an Australian bank, they're sellin for $400 there
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Post 9441673 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
I wonder if it'd be worth the cost of flying to Australia to open a bank account purely to sell bitcoins via LBC there.
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Post 9441687 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
I wish I had an Australian bank, they're sellin for $400 there
sellers in the bitswamp must like getting reamed
The guy on LBC with the most feedback in Aus that I can find is selling for $480 AUD that is $420
fuck it, brb goin to Australia
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Post 9441891 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
lol Murray gets everywhere, he just has a reputation for being a cool dude, but i don't think i'd buy murraycoin because it borrowed a cool dudes name,
if they came up with a KeanuReevesCoin then I'd have to consider it
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Post 9442030 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
You don't like the washington times? what's wrong with a paper founded by the self proclaimed messiah "the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world"?
It clearly doesn't have any agenda
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Post 9443273 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
I love that we have the internet just so that these idiots ignorance can eventually get exposed
Didn't sound that unreasonable to me.
It doesn't make much sense though.
"the blockchain technology is this brilliant technology but the currency isn't any good" is his argument.
Without the currency no one would be supporting the blockchain technology
No one would be spending $ on mining if there wasn't a reward.
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Post 9443455 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
Spot on, this guy say how it is. As I can see by the comments here, delusional cultist weren't even able to watch the video to the end. Truth is too painful
Ahh fallllling, there you are.
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Post 9443631 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
He comes off like a dbag for the first minute or so, no doubt. No need for him to lead with "omg fukkin cultists" (or even use the term at all) because it shuts out anybody who doesn't already agree with him.
Based on that, I understand if most of you didn't get this far, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on his calling out the Winkles on pumping it up so they can dump at a higher price? You might believe in the technology, but do you think it is a cash grab for them, or do you think they're really on board with this?
people like the winkles are just trying to grab what they think is an opportunity to make money by exploiting something before people realise it's actual worth.
Kinda like all the douchebag russian oligarchs who made billions/millions by swapping loaves of bread for shares in newly nationalised soviet companies with workers who had no idea of their worth.
whether or not they are trying to get the greater fool to invest or they saw the value people did not remains to be seen i guess, and largely depends on whether bitcoin succeeds.
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Post 9453083 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
THIS is what Bitcoin is. The ability of Random Matrix Math to solve the human greed factor. The flaw is not the money. It's US.
People often suggest there is a greater "Math" behind why bitcoin is limited in supply.
Basically it is a few lines of code in the protocol an the fact that the majority of miners and users follow that protocol.
It is horribly trivial to change the supply of bitcoin to an arbitrary amount if there was enough backing by the community for it.
Saying it is impossible to change is having a fundamental misunderstanding of how or why bitcoin works
What you say may be true. But bitcoin's value proposition lies in those few lines of code. And that is why they will never be changed.
Bitcoin was meant to be an e-payment method (decentralized, trutless, etc.). A fixed bitcoin supply is not necessary for that goal. Indeed, bitcoin is being used in that role, in spite of still having 10%/year inflation (and even higher in the past). And dollars and euros work fine as payment methods, in spite of their "horrendous" 1-2%/year inflation rate.
Thus, the argument that "raising the emission limit would destroy the value of bitcoin" does not sound convincing. Hoarders would be very unhappy, of course. Miners, however, may someday find it advantageous, especially by the time they are expected do depend on transaction fees instead of block rewards. Block reward is steady and predictable, whereas fees depend on transaction volume -- which will probably shrink substantially if fees became mandatory. People who use bitcoin for payments may not care, or may prefer block rewards because they provides "free" transactions.
It has been argued that, if some miners tried to change the protocol, the rest of the network would stick to the old one. However, this correction mechanism has never been tested, and it seems difficult to predict what would happen, in all possible scenarios. (After all, it was "proved", with the same certainty, that altcoins would die as soon as they were born.) What if those "some miners" had 70% of the hash rate? What if a large subset of the users became convinced that the change was necessary for the health of the network, or got some immediate benefit from it (such as no-fee transactions)? What if payment processors and merchants accepted only the "new" bitcoin?
(By the way, some bitcoiners seem to be trying to convince people to adopt bitcoin by telling them that money sucks. I sense a problem with that marketing strategy: it seems that many people have used money sometime in their lives, and may even have enjoyed the experience -- unlikely as that may sound.
)
All of this leads me to the conclusion that Ripple is the future of cryptocurrency. In fact, I am currently in the process of selling all of my assets to invest solely in XRP.
Jorge, thanks for your thoughtful comments. I'm bullish on Ripple too, but I wouldn't recommend anyone invest more than 50% of their net worth. Ripple is not a get-rich-quick scheme like bitcoin. It might take 6 months to a year before the first mega-bubble. Be smart and patient.
ahhahahahahaha
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Post 9453117 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
All of this leads me to the conclusion that Ripple is the future of cryptocurrency. In fact, I am currently in the process of selling all of my assets to invest solely in XRP.
Jorge, thanks for your thoughtful comments. I'm bullish on Ripple too, but I wouldn't recommend anyone invest more than 50% of their net worth. Ripple is not a get-rich-quick scheme like bitcoin. It might take 6 months to a year before the first mega-bubble. Be smart and patient.
lol I didn't realise Walsoraj had edited Jorges comment to add the selling all his assets parts.
I thought Jorge was going full retard
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Post 9453165 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
(By the way, some bitcoiners seem to be trying to convince people to adopt bitcoin by telling them that money sucks. I sense a problem with that marketing strategy: it seems that many people have used money sometime in their lives, and may even have enjoyed the experience -- unlikely as that may sound.
)
If anyone is telling you money sucks, they are sure right about this junk. Fortunately, I never had to use it, and really pity any poor soul who had to.
i want to buy one with bitcoin...
Why spend bitcoin when you can spend a few "bits" on this stuff.
I am sure the Brazilian public loved the
inflation is good mantra when these were being printed.
I have some million dollar notes somewhere, from Zaire. They're pretty cool
edit, maybe 100 million, i forget
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Post 9453234 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
But it is true: I did sell all my BTC to invest in XRP, months ago. And I have been doubling my XRP holdings every day since then, as I did before with BTC.
Ah that explains so much.
I dumped the 200,000 ripple i was given in January for 5.5 bitcoins (at the time around $4000 I think). That same ripple today is worth about 2.8 bitcoins, or $1000 ish.
Ripple holders .... the only people who've done worse than btc holders this year
Also I doubt you're doubling your holdings everyday, or you'd quickly run out of cash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
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Post 9453410 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
The last paragraph in my quote above is not mine, of course; it was inserted by @walsoraj.
A weird sense of humor, or the desperation of a bag-holder?
But it is true: I did sell all my BTC to invest in XRP, months ago. And I have been doubling my XRP holdings every day since then, as I did before with BTC.
Considering I am one of your alt accounts, technically you wrote it.
Not a bag holder. Just trying to help.
I can only imagine how much xrp you now have considering you were long suspected to be The Great Manipulator with tens of thousnds of btc.
Sorry about that, sometimes my other personalities get on my nerves. Never mind.
My holdings are easy to compute: I learned about bitcoin ~350 days ago, and I have been doubling my hoard every day since then.
I am not the Great Manipulator, of course. Watashi-wa Nakamoto Satoshi-san desu, but don't tell that to anyone.
if you started with 1 btc
30 days ago and doubled every day you'd have 1,073,741,839 bitcoin by now.
If you started 350 days ago I really can't be arsed to calculate it, but either way you're clearly full of shit even if you only started with 0.01 btc or a few satoshis.
http://www.al6400.com/blog/2006/07/10/a-penny-doubled-everyday/
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Post 9453463 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
for a maths professor jorge isn't very good at maths, lol
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Post 9453580 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
I am beginning to wonder if I was wrong about Jorge not being a troll...
I've been calling him a troll for some time
If you started 350 days ago I really can't be arsed to calculate it, but either way you're clearly full of shit even if you only started with 0.01 btc or a few satoshis.
Which obviously means he has
0BTC. Pretty easy to double 0BTC everyday now ain't it.
Yeah, but is it possible to sell 0 btc to buy 0 xrp?
Pretty sure that just makes him full of shit, if he's claiming to have something and double it daily but really has zero, it's not clever semantics, it's bullshit.
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Post 9454654 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
But it is true: I did sell all my BTC to invest in XRP, months ago. And I have been doubling my XRP holdings every day since then, as I did before with BTC.
Ah that explains so much.
I dumped the 200,000 ripple i was given in January for 5.5 bitcoins (at the time around $4000 I think). That same ripple today is worth about 2.8 bitcoins, or $1000 ish.
Ripple holders .... the only people who've done worse than btc holders this year
Also I doubt you're doubling your holdings everyday, or you'd quickly run out of cash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problemThere are a large number of alt-coins that have done worse than BTC in the last year - probably, quite a few of them that was sufficiently in existence in the last year has done worse than bitcoin in the last year... it would be easier to count the ones that did NOT do worse than BTC in the last year than to count the ones that did do better than BTC.
shhhhh, i'm just feeding the troll
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Post 9455639 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
blahblah troll blahblah
you are a well respected academic in your field of study -
is he? How do we know this is the jorge stolfi we presume it is?
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Post 9455933 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
has anyone here ever published a kindle book?
I wonder if I take bitcoin will I sell any. Free publicity if I tell people an author is taking bitcoin without converting it to fiat on r/bitcoin anyway
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Post 9463926 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
Still don't get why people buy drugs online.
What happened to ringing friends, asking for a contact, ringing a dealer & meeting them in a car park or some shit.
Who wants to wait to get their stuff delivered.
Because you get higher quality cheaper drugs without worrying about violence?
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Post 9464087 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
jesus fuckin christ, has anyone read the criminal complaint against SR2 yet? The guy rented the server using his personal gmail and didn't even use a VPN to log in
what the titty fucking christ, are they serious
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Post 9464241 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
jesus fuckin christ, has anyone read the criminal complaint against SR2 yet? The guy rented the server using his personal gmail and didn't even use a VPN to log in
what the titty fucking christ, are they serious
lmao
I take more care with my credit card number than this guy did with the worlds most infamous black market.
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Post 9464554 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
jesus fuckin christ, has anyone read the criminal complaint against SR2 yet? The guy rented the server using his personal gmail and didn't even use a VPN to log in
what the titty fucking christ, are they serious
Why did it take them so long to shut it down? Seems like that would have been an easy bust. Unless they were allowing it to thrive for a while to get some data gathering on people who use it...
Yeah they imaged his server which was rented with his personal email like 6 months ago, must have been intel gathering for a long time.
Glad I never touched that site.
Agora FTW btw.
I just went on and finalised my orders for Agora so the vendors can get their btc, i'd rather it go to the vendor even if it's a scam than the FBI
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Post 9465258 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
jesus fuckin christ, has anyone read the criminal complaint against SR2 yet? The guy rented the server using his personal gmail and didn't even use a VPN to log in
what the titty fucking christ, are they serious
Why did it take them so long to shut it down? Seems like that would have been an easy bust. Unless they were allowing it to thrive for a while to get some data gathering on people who use it...
1. waiting for 1 year from sr2 launch, makes for a good anniversary surprise
2. BTC prices lower than most of the past year = more coins for FBI
3. They busted it mid October and have been running a honey pot ever since.
they haven't had escrow for a long time, so very few btc on the servers
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Post 9465264 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
jesus fuckin christ, has anyone read the criminal complaint against SR2 yet? The guy rented the server using his personal gmail and didn't even use a VPN to log in
what the titty fucking christ, are they serious
He probably didnt think it would go that far. So he just didn't care.
they set it up with a big "fuck you" to the FBI, if he wasn't aware that the FBI were gonna go after them then he was either retarded or .. nah he was retarded. No other possibility
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Post 9465722 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.29h):
Why does anyone care about a drug dealing website? Sorry SOBs think they're Heisenberg because they use Bitcoin.
Because SR2 SUCKED, literally it was the shittiest market and it accounted for around $10m in sales last month.
Agora + Evo are both bigger.
It's definitely not unimportant to the btc landscape.
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Post 9474371 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
"foreign law enforcement authorities" imaged the Silk Road 2.0 server on May 30—which means the site was allowed to continue to operate for five more months while the FBI, HSI, and partner law enforcement organizations gathered data.[/b]"
That's wise of them to have done that, why should that surprise anyone?
Nah, just people here bragging about still using Agora because its "working just fine." Unbelievable fail
Agora has never once been hacked, just like it's sister site bitcoinfog. It's pretty clear they're on another level to Silkroad, got hacked twice, makes public statements taunting the FBI etc etc
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Post 9474408 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
besides lampchop, if you really think that they beat anyone, that they really damaged the darknet movement at all by taking out some ass hat who no one took seriously for the past year.
A guy who loudly beat his chest about "having the best OPSEC in history" whilst posting pics of pigs in San Francisco on his instagram and tweeting about silkroad, who handed the KEYS to his admin panel to an FBI agent, who posted screenshots of his bitcoin balance and cashed out his bitcoins via coinbase in his real name whilst renting the server with his
blake@benthall.net email address, then you are retarded.
If you really think the fact they managed to catch him means *anything* at all to the movement as a whole, then you are clueless.
I'm just amazed it took them a whole 12 months.
It's a good thing, at least they're weeding out the amateurs.
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Post 9474604 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
besides lampchop, if you really think that they beat anyone, that they really damaged the darknet movement at all by taking out some ass hat who no one took seriously for the past year.
A guy who loudly beat his chest about "having the best OPSEC in history" whilst posting pics of pigs in San Francisco on his instagram and tweeting about silkroad, who handed the KEYS to his admin panel to an FBI agent, who posted screenshots of his bitcoin balance and cashed out his bitcoins via coinbase in his real name whilst renting the server with his
blake@benthall.net email address, then you are retarded.
...
I never claimed that Bitcoiners were particularly bright. SR1 failed due to DPR's braggadocio and mistakes. SR2 failed due to more of the same, but lulzier. Happens in real wars too, you get progressively shittier generals as the good ones get owned.
As far as thinning the heard being a good thing? Well, at least the wolves sure have no cause for complaint. According to the
Coindesk article:
At least 400 dark net web domains have been reported seized and 17 individuals individuals arrested in connection with Operation Onymous, an ongoing global cybercrime crackdown.
So it appears that your asshat friend wasn't the only assclown in teh "darknet movement." [*stifled giggles*]
Guyfawkesmask.jpg
Wow they spent a year and managed to arrest 17 out of the hundreds of thousands, and they've already admitted 400 domains weren't seized, it was more like 50. Which is likely due to them taking down one host in Bulgaria.
So they didn't touch Tor, they didn't touch the big sites, they took out one idiot who handed them the keys and when they found out where his server was located they looked at all the other servers in the same room and found out some host in bulgaria was making it easy for .onion administrators so they shut down all his servers.
Not quite such an impressive headline for the FBI though, is it
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Post 9474717 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
Not quite such an impressive headline for the FBI though, is it
Better than nothin' I suppose. They probably could do better if you'd really like them to
Nah, that's the point. They can't. However much little sheep like you would like the FBI to be all powerful they can't actually do much.
Agora + Evolution + BitcoinFog + BMR all the other sites that have been around for much longer than SR2 are proof of that.
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Post 9474822 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
Not quite such an impressive headline for the FBI though, is it
Better than nothin' I suppose. They probably could do better if you'd really like them to
Nah, that's the point. They can't. However much little sheep like you would like the FBI to be all powerful they can't actually do much.
Agora + Evolution + BitcoinFog + BMR all the other sites that have been around for much longer than SR2 are proof of that.
Lol, yeah. Whatever eases the butthurt
Teh Man: 1
Neckbeards: 0.
lol you're taking this personally. What happened to the benevolent reptilians, now you're using words like butthurt
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Post 9474853 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
interesting that the shills trolls weird people who hate bitcoin yet spend all their time on bitcoin forums are so anti dark web markets isn't it.
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Post 9474868 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
Lambchop, let me guess your story. Like so many of the other people who hate bitcoin yet spend all their time here.
You bought in under $10
You cashed out around $1200
You now want others to realise the error of their ways?
Am I close?
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Post 9474911 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
No. Unlike many here, I don't brag about my boss trading or prognostication skills.
Yes, I got lucky, but I won't rub it in your face. Not even if you beg. Though don't let me stop you from begging--get as much practice in as you can before having to do it 4 a livin'
Yep, the ole "I got lucky" story and now I'm here to teach you the error of your ways.
so I was close.
any one saying shit like this is a perma bull troll, bitcoin dropped like $900 and bounced back $10 and trolls calling it "to da moon"
bitcoin is going up? no, you lost your money and lost hard
I'm far from a permabull troll and I convert nearly all my btc to fiat on a weekly basis. so 0/10 for accuracy kiddo.
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Post 9475022 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
No. Unlike many here, I don't brag about my boss trading or prognostication skills.
Yes, I got lucky, but I won't rub it in your face. Not even if you beg. Though don't let me stop you from begging--get as much practice in as you can before having to do it 4 a livin'
Yep, the ole "I got lucky" story and now I'm here to teach you the error of your ways.
so I was close.
...
Wrong again. You're uneducable, you can benefit from my advice no more than ...oh, a rusty shovel. But you do quite a passable job as a teaching aid, the Bitcoin Poster Boy
to point to as I gravely say to my young charges: "Keep neglecting your lessons, and you'll grow up just like THAT!"
The tikes get horribly spooked at first, but then we all point fingers and laugh.
lol you trotted out the exact story I predicted you would, funny that.
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Post 9475103 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
it's amazing, literally amazing how all these bear trolls got in under $10 and sold off at over $1000
they all have perfect timing.
Not a single one missed the boat, or is bitter about it, they all "got lucky" then turned bearish.
Apart from the mathematically challenged mathematician of course, he never got on board because he knew all along that he'd double his ripple daily until he had $100 billion
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Post 9477062 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
I remember there being a guy on here who bragged about his strategy of buying at the all-time high and it being fine because it's made him money up to this point. The idea being that every time it hits the ATH it breaks it. Clearly this couldn't go on forever, but in this person's mind it could. When people start acting like that, it's time for smart holders to be very nervous.
i was being sarcastic abut how many of the trolls claim to have got lucky and made a fortune off bitcoin. they all timed it perfectly apparently, not one of the trolls on here will admit to missing out on any money.
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Post 9477089 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
It was a perfect storm of carelessness to be sure.
Indeed, the following information ought to be widely known:
SECURITY PRIMER FOR DRUG SITE OPERATORS* Never use your real life name for any purpose related to your site.
* Choose a secure moniker: 10 or more characters, including at least two digits and a spelling error, e.g. "PyrateAt17".
* Keep a low web profile: gray background, 8 pt fonts max, no flashy images.
* Paint your server with camouflage pattern.
* Be sure to wear the Guy Fawkes mask and hat whenever you log into your server.
* Always use a condom when plugging the internet cable into your computer.
* To receive payments from customers, never use blockchain addresses generated in your own country. When needed, take a weekend trip to Mexico (or, better, North Korea) and generate a few thousand addresses there. (If you can't travel, find someone in those places who is willing to do that for you and send you the address-key pairs by email.)
* To protect your coins and records from being seized, spell all file names in your laptop backawards, e.g. "tad.tellaw".
* Post an "EXIT" sign on your front door. That may give you a few precious extra minutes in case of a raid.
* If a customer insists on picking up the merchandise in person, before giving him your location make him swear that he is not from the FBI.
I know you're joking but the sad thing is both DPR and Defcon wouldn't be in jail if they'd followed this
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Post 9477329 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
Yes, I understand you were being sarcastic, but I'm not. The price cannot simply go up (or down) forever, and when 95% of people are bullish, there's a ton of green on the charts, and people start ranting about 100k/coin, that's a serious warning sign for anyone that is remaining objective. The reverse is true when the doomsayers come out of the woodworks screaming the end, and especially when some people who were seemingly permabulls during big rises start talking about shorting.
Now, whether the permabears knew this, or are just bitter that they sold at whatever much lower price, I couldn't tell you, and I imagine it would be different for each individual.
It's like, people are being mocked for buying at these prices, but in my opinion, anyone that was patient and waited to buy at these prices is doing it way more right than the guys who bought at 800+, even if it does turn out to be wrong.
I don't think we've seen crazy bullishness lately, have we?
I know it's dumb when people go choo choo everytime it raises a single dollar, but i think they're joking half the time
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Post 9477344 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
The point is that most traders lose money. The forum is littered with people who sold early and wished they hadn't. There may be a very select few who have sold at near a peak and bought in much lower. It isn't the vast majority of the bearish posters on here who simply wish to buy at a low price. I would say buying at a third of the previous ATH is a decent entry.
This is what I was referring to.
Most "traders" lose money and yet all the perma bears in here knew it was a steal at $10 and recognised it was a bubble at $1000... lol
I held and made money last year but I got in well over $100 per btc, I also sold a bit early in December, but I did pretty well.
I have lost over $5000 this year so far
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Post 9477408 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
The point is that most traders lose money. The forum is littered with people who sold early and wished they hadn't. There may be a very select few who have sold at near a peak and bought in much lower. It isn't the vast majority of the bearish posters on here who simply wish to buy at a low price. I would say buying at a third of the previous ATH is a decent entry.
This is what I was referring to.
Most "traders" lose money and yet all the perma bears in here knew it was a steal at $10 and recognised it was a bubble at $1000... lol
I held and made money last year but I got in well over $100 per btc, I also sold a bit early in December, but I did pretty well.
I have lost over $5000 this year so far
I've invested about 6000 GBP in BTC , I'm down about 1500 GBP based on the price today.
I'm not a trader though, I'm HODLING all of my coins in the hope one day they will give me a decent cash sum.
I never meant to hold any, it was accidental. Although I was telling everyone how great bitcoin was at $2 I never thought to buy any as an investment
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Post 9477591 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
That's a big "If"
Someone called deadcoin is obviously objective.
The amount of people who are obviously paid to shill here almost makes me think the conspiracy theorists are right.
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Post 9477697 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
That's a big "If"
Someone called deadcoin is obviously objective.
The amount of people who are obviously paid to shill here almost makes me think the conspiracy theorists are right.
Yep, you got me, it's a conspiracy
You're that dim that you can't even see the "almost" in the post you quoted.
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Post 9493734 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
Abandon shippppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp!
OMG
abandon ripple ?
no. not ripple. anything but ripple.
ripple is doomed. rip ripple
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Post 9495206 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
quiet, usually going up this much would result in at least 3x more pictures of rocket ships and trains.
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Post 9496954 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
Or unverified accounts are just moving coins out of bitstamp.
that is not possible as of last year...
I guess that the easiest way out for an unverified account holder is to borrow the legit ID of some poor chap, without his knowledge or in exchange for a small sum; and then withdraw BTC to the holder's wallet. That route is used for money laundering, but it is risky since the money can be followed through the chap's bank account to the holder; whereas the BTC can't.
It's not that easy to do, bitstamp needs pics of your ID, you holding them, and notarised copies of everything with the pics of notarised copies taken at an angle. You can't use an unknowing smurf, they need to be in on it.
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Post 9506521 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
I spent $10,000 today. ouch
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Post 9506678 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
^^ Nobody gives a fuck about $
what about £?
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Post 9506683 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
I spent $10,000 today. ouch
you will be a very rich man ... soon.
No, but the surgeon is (probably) already rich
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Post 9508353 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
I spent $10,000 today. ouch
I'm sure the penis extension will be totally worth it.
your mom said she can't wait
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Post 9519072 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
what was btc lowest point in 2014? it wasn't under $250 was it
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Post 9519251 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.30h):
what was btc lowest point in 2014? it wasn't under $250 was it
at early november 2013 btc was around 200... so what
someone said it doubled in a few months, i was thinkin it hadnt gone that low this year that's all
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Post 9528841 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.31h):
Pretty sure it's being manipulated up just as much as it's manipulated down
I just don't know what to make of it lol
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Post 9528846 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.31h):
Market cap: $6,000,272,292.00
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Post 9529081 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.31h):
Pretty sure it's being manipulated up just as much as it's manipulated down
I just don't know what to make of it lol
pls put the mony where you think is heading... pls short if you believe its going down...
nah
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Post 9529121 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.31h):
It's not yet confirmed, but I have it from reliable sources that Bitcoin is dead.
every time btc goes up i am torn between "fuck i sold loads at a lower price" and "woohoo my coins are worth more"
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Post 9531773 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.31h):
Richard Branson tweeted about bitcoin today.
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Post 9548997 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.32h):
I was waiting for a drop, if you bought at 275 - 300 you'd be super tempted to take profit on such a sharp spike... even in reversal mode there would be a likely retracement.
Expecting pop shortly on Stamp then OKcoin following.
I base this on... absolutely nothing
(Actually of the fact the futures are shooting up and getting thin.)
1Month:
Ask(1) 406.14 25 6.1555
Bid(1) 401.61 22 5.4779
The BTC/USD rally has entered resistance from former congestion that spans 395-399 Look for the decline to resume from this zone. The next major support is 380
One more low may complete 5 waves down from the June high. BTC/USD traded into $480, which is the objective from equality between waves 1 and 5 (from the June high). Exceeding $480 is needed in order to suggest that the near term path is not lower but equality between waves 1 and 5 is a common relationship thus the risk of a turn higher.
This is completely made up of course, but it's just as convincing as any argument I've seen on here.
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Post 9550494 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.32h):
yet another hero on "ignore"
How much does a hero account go for these days?
I didn't ask to be a hero.
Registered Aug 2012, lemme guess you bought under $10 sold for over $1000 like all the other really convincing bears
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Post 9550513 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.32h):
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Post 9551081 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.32h):
ignored
you really believe that in a market where the price rises due to demand being larger than supply, anyone is losing money or trying to make money because of others losing money, than you are mistaken by an order of magnitude that i cannot express without getting offensive.
if 10 people hold 10 apples and there are another 10 people want to have some of those apples- what will happen? Price rises. Who the fuck lost money? you say that apple scheme is a ponzi, being a hero in a BITCOIN forum. wow.
Dear @Chang_Hum, I hope you are enjoying the warm welcome that this thread reserves for those who have the bad habit of pointing out the obvious.
In case you didn't notice, I quoted his post from 2012 saying bitcoin was useless
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Post 9557655 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.32h):
They gave you bail already?
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Post 9577858 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.32h):
I got bad news fellas, Snapcash just beat bitcoin, big time. I would cut your loose as I am sure Snapchat will be the go-to for secure payments across the globe
ooh it's almost like paypal
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Post 9578496 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.32h):
what date are the next SR coins up for auction
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Post 9578562 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.32h):
Wedbush Securities Inc., the Los Angeles-based financial-services firm founded in 1955 by friends fresh out of college, took a stake in bitcoin venture Buttercoin and is using the platform to buy and sell the virtual currency.
The deal makes Wedbush, with offices from Manhattan to Honolulu, the first Wall Street firm to announce a stake in a bitcoin startup, Buttercoin Chief Executive Officer Cedric Dahl said. Buttercoin, with backers including Google Ventures and Y Combinator, helps businesses shift between cash and bitcoins to use the virtual currency or provide related services to clients.
“Wedbush will be bringing in their friends from Wall Street,” Dahl said in an interview. The Palo Alto, California-based startup plans to talk with potential investors in January about raising more than $25 million, he said, declining to specify the size of Wedbush’s holding.
so in one day Bitcoin has attracted the investement of mostly anyone that matters in the tech world to a 20 million
seed round (blockstream)
and
we learn that Wedbush Security are buying Bitcoins and investing in Google-venture backed Bitcoin company (Buttercoin)
more gentleman please
yes ... these are majorly gentlemanly moves ... lucky they had the Feds watching their backs to unload the DPR/SR coin dump 'news' right ahead of the real news to keep the lid on the pressure cooker and under the bullish trendlines eh?
after the auction.........
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Post 9588427 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.33h):
- coins by busted people in the free world like EU or South America facing 1 till 5 years prison are safe this way
Unless the FBI has hacked into your computer, six months earlier, and the wallet software that you installed on your offline computer is a doctored version that picks keys from a predefined list. Or unless you are kidnapped by gangsters who offer you a more convincing deal. Or unless the police shows you what a Brazilian prison looks like.
Brazilian prison ain't that bad, provided you have control of your money and are able to pay people off.
If you hand over all your money and then you're facing prison with zero assets, it'd be a shitty situation.
Same goes for the whole world, pretty much.
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Post 9593343 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.33h):
The raid found ~30'000 BTC in the server and ~150'000 BTC in Ross's laptop. Those were presumably the proceeds of fees from hosting businessess on SilkRoad. Those 180'000 BTC were kept away from the market; and part of them, at least, must have been bought by SR customers on the open market. So Ross was obviously accumulating. I would even guess that he had been holding almost all the bitcoins that he got.
You are the dumbest fuckin troll because you hide behind your dumbass credentials which some people take you seriously for.
If you even read the FBI indictment you'll see how many coins in total he dealt with and realise how far off the mark your stupid ass is
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Post 9593534 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.33h):
Brazilian prison ain't that bad, provided you have control of your money and are able to pay people off.
If you hand over all your money and then you're facing prison with zero assets, it'd be a shitty situation.
Same goes for the whole world, pretty much.
enjoy...
Yeah, from the outside it does not look that bad, does it?
looks like a lot of public buildings in that poor south american shithole
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Post 9598591 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.33h):
It sounds like some of them found buyers. Good for them. I managed to trade my XRB for BTC before the spike and made about $.12 per XRP compared to your $.006. That's 2000% ROI over if I had held them.
I swapped 200k XRP that I was given free for 6 bitcoins, in your face. I don't even know how to calculate the profit percentage on free.
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Post 9614231 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.33h):
Miners are NOT dumping bitcoin. Miners are generally bullish about bitcoin and generally holders.
Is there any evidence for that claim (other than some big miners saying so)?
Surely some miners are making such statements, and you should already realize that you do NOT need a lot of coins in order to manipulate prices downward. If someone has 10k coins, then s/he it can accomplish a lot of BTC price manipulation.
Miners dumping is NOT a logical conclusion,
There is Jorge, and you know it:
http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20141020/pdf/42t0mqrygyzd74.pdfHowever, because of investments in mining equipment and the fact that the firm is holding a significant portion of its mined bitcoin, the company posted an operating loss of $261,000.
Despite the figures, the company is downplaying the effect of short-term price fluctuations on its business and still maintains its performance is "robust".
Unlike most bitcoin companies, Digital CC Limited is a public company, trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) as 'digitalBTC'. This makes it is the only major mining operation with an obligation to provide such information, giving outsiders a rare glimpse into the inner working of a bitcoin mining company.
Jorge is just a dumbass troll who tells lies he's easily caught out on, ignore him.
I just had dinner cooked by Heston Blumenthal, it was rather good. The meatfruit was an especially nice touch.
<paid for with bitcoin, I might add.
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Post 9620593 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.34h):
The market will not move much until the 50000 FBI coins have been sold.
then it will go up just like the last time when it was 30000 for sale
No , these coin will be sold out the exchange .. so the price will not be affected "too much".
If we learn the coins have been sold 50% more than the value of the exchanges, it WILL go up. BIG.
1) Tim Draper
wants this coins. It's his way to acquire lot of coins without moving the market and beyond that, his plan of communication (if people learn Tim Draper bought all the coins for the second time, every one will remeber the name of his exchange and take him seriously)... How much costs a full campaign of communication for the same result ?
2) The others participants, at the first auction, didn't know what to expect, they tried to get a discount. Now they
know that the battle will be hard to obtain the coins and if they really want them, they'll have to pay a serious price.
3) The price has declined during a whole year. During this time, bitcoin has been taken seriously by the banks/governements, infrastructure has been built. So the end of the decline may be soon. During the last bounce, we saw that everyone is ready to get in and has his mouse above the "buy" button. At each possible start of a new trend, everyone wants to buy. If big players enter during a rise, they'll have to pay minimum the double of the actual price. And they can't get in right now without moving the market. The interest of the big players is to enter now off exchange, no matter what price they pay.
Conclusion : Maybe the price will fall sort term, but the auction of the coins may be the initiating event of the next bubble
very speculation. much imagination. so wow
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Post 9630313 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.34h):
page 10k
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Post 9649017 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
and post traniz, rockets and other spaceships
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Post 9649189 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
and post traniz, rockets and other spaceships
...pic deleted for obvious reasons...
I liek trainz and moonz... dont liek ugly even with boobs.
he asked for traniz bro, jus doin as asked
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Post 9650603 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
TO DA MOON
WTF , are some of those male?
hahhahaaahahahah aahhh ahhh.. Oh Jeez...
Dude. Do not go to Thailand on holidays.
I know right, if he can't spot those trannies he should def not try Thailand.
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Post 9650856 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
*let's not have another debate about whether women exist on the internet, we're here...deal with it.
Did someone saying they like boobs accidentally oppress you?
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Post 9657338 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
I own a beanie baby
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Post 9657457 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
I own a beanie baby
I own a bitcoin
And soon hopefully I'll own a comic about bitcoin
Do you own a comic about beanie babies?
Nah fraid not, maybe I should get one.
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Post 9657463 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
I own a beanie baby
I'm definitely getting one, just to be able to do what you just did--tell people I own one.
Awesome conversation starter. And stopper. Every marketer who calls will learn about my Beanies!
*post pics?
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Post 9657518 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
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Awesome. Hope you enjoy it. <==no sarcasm.
how would I "enjoy" a beanie baby? I'm not a furry
ya fuckin weirdo
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Post 9657691 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
Wait, so you bought it as an investment?
No.
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Post 9658920 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
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They can take our FREEDOM, but they'll never take our BITCOIN!
Yeah, That's what D
read Pirate Ross used to say. And now his Bitcoin is tanking the market.
Unfortunate
Unfortunate indeed to think that if Mr Roberts had simply employed better control and protection of his private keys, his bitcoins would still remain under his control...
Worst case at least he would have some leverage.. maybe even enough to get the "big bank treatment" and only have to pay a multi million dollar fine, just like all the other crooks that are part of the club...
FBI couldve just administered some meds and got him to reveal everything. Not sure what steps you can take to prevent such a thing from happening.
Any ideas people?
Isn't there another wallet with 100k+ that they haven't gotten hold of yet??
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Post 9659332 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
Isn't there another [Ross Ulbrich ] wallet with 100k+ that they haven't gotten hold of yet??
I doubt it. The FBI etc had hacked into his computers before the raid, and can follow trails on the blockchain.
Shut the fuck up moron they never hacked into his computers, and whether or not they can follow them on the blockchain is irrelevant. By that measure i could just steal tim drapers coins.
I'm pretty sure there is 100k+ that they suspect is his and didn't get the private keys to. I'll find the source
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Post 9659362 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
Shut the fuck up moron
http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1obvm2/estimating_dprs_income_after_expenses_exchange/he made over 600,000 bitcoins, the government seized 175,000
there are 425,000 bitcoins unaccounted for. It's unlikely he spent 425,000 btc on running silk road.
feel free to make up a bunch of speculation with no sources though like you usually do stolfi
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Post 9659457 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
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Post 9659526 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
That wallet was split into 1,100+ wallets each containing exactly 100 btc like so
https://blockchain.info/address/1FwoAyL2cLD2cKDd2bh11FtsB7TVjHRFGcfollow the money back, you'll see it goes to the 111k wallet I posted.
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Post 9659686 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
what are you trying to say?
i was pointing out how wrong shit for brains jorge is
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Post 9659765 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
Oh look. A big dump half a hour ago. Someone saw the price slowly going up again and totally freaked out that his coins were becoming worth more so he quickly dumped them and made sure the uptrend would be stopped.
There's no stopping the uptrend, just slowing it down.
Some people think that could actually be good for Bitcoin.
Actually it's stopping the uptrend every single time.
But every time there is an uptrend
And the bottom has been higher every time since capitulation at $275.
Assuming this one goes past $450, the tops have been higher too.
We'll see. So far little has changed. Just people dumping and dumping some more.
I don't think this will change anytime soon.
somebody change the fuckin record, please.
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Post 9660081 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
Auctions have usually been won by long term investors. Why buy at a premium (and they do buy at a premium most of the time) only to dump immediately? That's burning money...
How do you know they buy at a premium? Have there been any major auctions where the price was made public?
Nope, and never quite figured out why people think this.
The losing bids that were made public after the first USMS were up to 10% below the market price. No reason to think the winning bid wasn't 9% or 5% under, or even just market price.
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Post 9661772 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
they never hacked into his computers, and whether or not they can follow them on the blockchain is irrelevant.
Perhaps I am mis-remembering about the hacking. But, from day 0, the police can buy stuff on the site, pay in bitcoins, and follow them on the blockchain. That tracing could reveal if there were other wallets beyond those that that they seized (~30'000 on the server and ~150'000 on his laptop).
It's a good thing for law enforcement that no one ever invented a tumbler, or any other method to hide bitcoins eh
you fuckin spastic
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Post 9662412 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
not saying germany is perfect, but regarding laws and security we are in the top 3-5, only the scandinavian nations have it better
I've heard German prisons are pretty rough though
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Post 9662794 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.35h):
i doubt that would be legal, atleast in germany im pretty sure that the the police are not be able to do stuff like this by law. (i mean from buying on SR or etc. to setting up tumbling services)
Not even with a warrant?
Since 9/11, it seems that the US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have legal authorization to do anything to anyone, anywhere. But, even before 9/11, I believe that they could legally plant cameras, hack computers, or infiltrate criminal organizations, if they got a judge's authorization to do so.
Law enforcement was inside Silk Road 2.0 almost since the beginning.
If the German police cannot legally place a trap order on a German drug-selling site, or set up a fake tumbling site in a laptop over a desk in a building in German soil, they can give a call to an Italian or French colleague and have him do that favor for them.
They were inside SR2 from its very inception. Anyone with any sense (look through my post history) warned repeatedly that SR2 was either a scam or a honeypot.
And you're somewhat right here (for a change) the US can do nearly whatever it wants, it's truly a police state.
In the EU however they still respect their own laws, SWIM had a case fall apart because one EU countries police acted contrary to another EU states laws. So simply asking the French or Italians to get involved wouldn't work in most of western Europe.
In Eastern Europe of course you'd just bribe your way out of it anyway, much like in South America or Asia, or in fact the entire world apart from North America or Western Europe.
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Post 9690104 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.36h):
finally gave in and ignored some of the dumbest trolls, stolfi, lambchop etc.
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Post 9699029 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.36h):
Stolfi, noone can stop the pump bots. Given the lack of laws in this area, it is inevitable that Bitcoin will be manipulated to new highs, even if it doesn't get there legitimately.
Stolfi has bet his reputation on the fact bitcoin is gonna fail, if it was driven to new highs by fake volume he'd probably kill himself.
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Post 9699068 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.36h):
Sometimes I'm almost tempted to see what LambChop is saying, but then I think nahhh
Posted by: NotLambchop
This user is currently ignored.
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Post 9699268 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.36h):
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Stolfi has bet his reputation on the fact bitcoin is gonna fail, if it was driven to new highs by fake volume he'd probably kill himself.
Lol @ thinking that normal people are emotionally invested in this pump & dump
via Imgflip Meme MakerIf this idiot thinks they're not invested why do they invest all their time on the speculation thread.
also please don't quote ReptileChops or you're goin on ignore too
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Post 9786222 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_13.38h):
NotLambChop, are you currently short your position and if so, on which exchange?
Just curious, where professional traders like yourself that make alot money go to, and what strategies they use in this bear market.
hahaha
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Post 18690014 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.08h):
Just sent $25k to an exchange and had it confirmed in 1 minute for $0.40
Niiiiice. backlog was annoying a week or so ago
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Post 19292162 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.11h):
If Jihan was in any other country than China pretty sure someone would have offed him by now.
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Post 27522095 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.37h):
got sick of waiting for coinbase $ withdrawal so rebought 11.5 btc to send to another exchange, takes 12 hours to withdraw so I went so sleep and I wake up and the price is about $1k higher, nice one
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Post 27523423 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.37h):
got sick of waiting for coinbase $ withdrawal so rebought 11.5 btc to send to another exchange, takes 12 hours to withdraw so I went so sleep and I wake up and the price is about $1k higher, nice one
coinbase money launderers
remove btc
run
as fast as you can
what makes you say that? aren't they one of the best funded (VC wise) exchanges?
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Post 27635744 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.37h):
Did everyone here manage to claim/dump their superbitcoin and bitcoindiamond? I figured out the easiest method last night and got a few extra btc for dumping them
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Post 28001080 (copy this link) (by MrPiggles) (scraped on 2020-04-04_Sat_15.38h):
some 40 hours since Kraken began their "2 hour" outage
no updates for 5 hours
starting to wonder if I got off cheap with the fucking I got there
lol i have 5 btc and 150k on kraken :?
