Bitcoin Developer declares the death of Bitcoin
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Yes, there are bad things happening in the Bitcoin Foundation but that's not the same as dying.
No; it's been dead since day one, since even THEN you couldn't do a bitcoin transaction and guarantee it'd be complete before the merchant delivers the merchandise. It never worked as a payment system, and the way it's designed, it can't ever work as a payment system.
The fact that it's worse now than it was a year ago is hardly consequential-- it didn't meet needs a year ago either!
I love the irony, too, that since the biggest miners refuse to up the block size, the fee for completing a bitcoin transaction is actually HIGHER than the credit card company fees. Delicious.
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:letitgo.yar:
OK.
*sound of heavy weight falling*
*sound of impact*
*sound of distant screams*
Ah.
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No; it's been dead since day one, since even THEN you couldn't do a bitcoin transaction and guarantee it'd be complete before the merchant delivers the merchandise.
I don't know about you, but I'm used to only ever giving money to anyone after I've already got the goods with me.
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Hey RaceProgeriaUK, why don't you retire again.
Goddamned, reading this bickering, I really appreciated you being gone.
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No one forces you to read it.
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My point is that if you want to buy something with BitCoin, you have to just kind of stand around for minutes or hours before the BC network can even confirm you possess the amount of coins to make the payment. No merchant is going to stand for making transactions with all the force of a post-it note reading "IOU".
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TBH, I was just bored; felt like having a bit of fun.
*goes to do something else*
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No merchant is going to stand for making transactions with all the force of a post-it note reading "IOU".
That'll be news to everyone using darknet marketplaces.
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They do business with BitCoin because they have literally no other choice, not because they like it.
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This is what I have been saying about bitcoin since the very beginning. It's only useful for money laundering and super-hardcore-libertarians
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@boomzilla said:
:letitgo.yar:
OK.
*sound of heavy weight falling*
*sound of impact*
*sound of distant screams*
Ah.
Isn't that:
*sound of heavy weight falling*
*sound of distant screams*
*sound of impact*
*silence*
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They didn't see the weight until it landed, and there were survivors
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Don't encourage this stupid shit.
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We don't encourage that stupid shit - we just encourage your even more stupid responses!
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Don'tencourage thisstupidFantasticshitHumour.Fixed that for Everyone who isn't Blakeyrat
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@accalia said:
Fixed that for Everyone who isn't Blakeyrat
No.
@accalia said:
Fixed that for Everyone who isn't Blakeyrat
No.
it's okay, you can admit it. we won't judge.
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It is, of course, Friday, September 8172, 1993.
AOL is gone, I think I saw something about Google Groups no longer doing usenet either. But it is still not October?
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I just helped a coworker here in the US temporarily from overseas get a SIM card and a local phone number and you guessed it, same thing.
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you agree with me, but fancied arguing anyway.
I hear if you @translator that, you get “fuck you dicksource why can't I have ą in name”
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They do business with BitCoin because they have literally no other choice, not because they like it.
It means it won't die.
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I would love to see some numbers about how many tons of CO2 were created by "mining" (given that the majority of "miners" are in china now) and how much bigger the average car engine could have been instead.
Well, I'm currently at 6.2 liters. If I ever have to replace the block (which I'm hoping is not anytime soon), I'm going to try to get a 7 liter crate motor, since another trim of the car offers such a displacement, and from my limited understanding of the local emissions laws, you are only allowed to engine swap with an equal or lesser displacement based on the engines available for that given car.
Or I wait until the car is 20 years old, get a Historic license plate and go nuts. Either way, what's my displacement allotment?
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I think you are under estimating the seriousness of porn.
<and over estimating the seriousness of my statements
You have to take porn serious. If you do it wrong, you can put out someone's eye.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
you can put out someone's eye
Isn't that what the goggles are for?
Only in California.
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Sssst! Don't tell my wife. I like the school teacher with glasses look.
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Your school teachers now wear theses?
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You had chemistry labs without?
And now excuse me while I clean up.
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I don't know about you, but I'm used to only ever giving money to anyone after I've already got the goods with me.
So you've never purchased anything from Amazon?
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Sssst! Don't tell my wife. I like the school teacher with glasses look.
Sssh, don't tell my wife, but I married a school teacher with glasses.
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You lucky basterd
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So you've never purchased anything from Amazon?
Not available in this country until recently.
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@Gaska said:
I don't know about you, but I'm used to only ever giving money to anyone after I've already got the goods with me.
So you've never purchased anything from Amazon?I give Amazon my credit card number. I usually don't have to pay those guys for at least a month or so after the order.
