On bitbuddychat everyone is talking about a scam some people fell for.
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This is hilarious. Thanks.
posted by ob1quixote at 12:51 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by ob1quixote at 12:51 AM on April 3, 2014
If only this were a DOGEcoin sim, things would be different!
wow
so trust
such community very profit
to the moon
posted by Rangi at 12:56 AM on April 3, 2014 [5 favorites] This is not obvious, but if you haven't mined a few bitcoins with the ASIC, you're at most about halfway through.
posted by Pope Guilty at 12:59 AM on April 3, 2014 [6 favorites]
posted by Pope Guilty at 12:59 AM on April 3, 2014 [6 favorites]
Bwithh: I haven't tried on an ipad, but on my desktop, it takes about a minute of blank (black) screen before it progresses. If the issue is that you have a blank white screen, then I guess it's proceeding but the background color change function didn't work, so you'll have to try it in a different browser/on a computer, because the text from that point on is all white.
posted by Bugbread at 1:15 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by Bugbread at 1:15 AM on April 3, 2014
I wonder if you can acquire bitcoins without giving up no bitcoins. I wonder if you can acquire bitcoins.>look no bitcoins Seeing no bitcoins is like looking at the hole in your heart.
posted by Rangi at 1:16 AM on April 3, 2014
I wonder if you can acquire bitcoins without giving up no bitcoins.
First you need to use the portable improbability drive with the atomic vector plotter and the tea.
posted by JHarris at 1:21 AM on April 3, 2014 [4 favorites]
First you need to use the portable improbability drive with the atomic vector plotter and the tea.
posted by JHarris at 1:21 AM on April 3, 2014 [4 favorites]
Glad to see all my already-held beliefs about bitcoin confirmed.
posted by cthuljew at 1:42 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by cthuljew at 1:42 AM on April 3, 2014
Rangi: "I wonder if you can acquire bitcoins."
You mean late-game, right? Because early-game: Buy at tacoX and then withdraw them.
posted by Bugbread at 1:45 AM on April 3, 2014
You mean late-game, right? Because early-game: Buy at tacoX and then withdraw them.
posted by Bugbread at 1:45 AM on April 3, 2014
I have acquired 100,000 bitcoins by selling everything I own, and, uh some human beings I didn't actually own at all.
Can someone explain like I'm Calvin how to sell bitcoins? I mean, not to cheesy smelling neck beards with grocery bags of giftcards? Or greasy nightclub owners coated in finely powdered coke?
posted by loquacious at 1:58 AM on April 3, 2014
Can someone explain like I'm Calvin how to sell bitcoins? I mean, not to cheesy smelling neck beards with grocery bags of giftcards? Or greasy nightclub owners coated in finely powdered coke?
posted by loquacious at 1:58 AM on April 3, 2014
The achievements in this are amazing. Every time I play with it I crack up harder.
posted by emptythought at 3:38 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by emptythought at 3:38 AM on April 3, 2014
I just have to wait 22 months to withdraw to fiat currency...
posted by bystander at 3:38 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by bystander at 3:38 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
The only correct move is not to play.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:38 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 4:38 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
The only correct move is not to play.
You see? It's realistic!
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:02 AM on April 3, 2014
You see? It's realistic!
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:02 AM on April 3, 2014
I won. I won. I won.
posted by jet_manifesto at 5:22 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by jet_manifesto at 5:22 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
Now design a simulator for a bitcoin thread on MetaFilter.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:32 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:32 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
Now design a simulator for a bitcoin thread on MetaFilter.
It's so good, you didn't even notice it was a simulator!
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:41 AM on April 3, 2014 [8 favorites]
It's so good, you didn't even notice it was a simulator!
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:41 AM on April 3, 2014 [8 favorites]
Now design a simulator for a bitcoin thread on MetaFilter.
10 PRINT "WHY U MOCK BITCOIN";
20 GOTO 10;
Whoa, that was realistic.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:49 AM on April 3, 2014 [8 favorites]
10 PRINT "WHY U MOCK BITCOIN";
20 GOTO 10;
Whoa, that was realistic.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:49 AM on April 3, 2014 [8 favorites]
Bitcoin is a simulacrum of real money. You know what they say about simulacrums...
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 6:03 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 6:03 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
Bitcoin is a simulacrum of real money.
Not really related, but I started getting much more enjoyment out of Bitcoin articles and threads after I learned to mentally replace "Bitcoin" with "Franklin Mint Commemorative Coin".
posted by xbonesgt at 6:49 AM on April 3, 2014 [22 favorites]
Not really related, but I started getting much more enjoyment out of Bitcoin articles and threads after I learned to mentally replace "Bitcoin" with "Franklin Mint Commemorative Coin".
posted by xbonesgt at 6:49 AM on April 3, 2014 [22 favorites]
The accomplishments/non-accomplishments list is great
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 6:58 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 6:58 AM on April 3, 2014
Well now I know what late game is.
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 7:03 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 7:03 AM on April 3, 2014
If nothing happens for you after the screen goes dark, I think you can access the next part at this link.
posted by jepler at 7:06 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by jepler at 7:06 AM on April 3, 2014
That said, I have not actually accomplished anything in the second part; if there's anything to do but move, look and wait, can someone drop me a hint?
posted by jepler at 7:23 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by jepler at 7:23 AM on April 3, 2014
ah, just "wait" is not enough. You have to jnvg va yvar (rot13)
posted by jepler at 7:30 AM on April 3, 2014
posted by jepler at 7:30 AM on April 3, 2014
Whoa, that was realistic.
You are missing a couple of lines of Bitcoin defense, a derail about paper money also having no worth, and suggestions of exchanges that are not scams.
That in a later thread turn out to be scams.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:31 AM on April 3, 2014 [11 favorites]
You are missing a couple of lines of Bitcoin defense, a derail about paper money also having no worth, and suggestions of exchanges that are not scams.
That in a later thread turn out to be scams.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:31 AM on April 3, 2014 [11 favorites]
if there's anything to do but move, look and wait, can someone drop me a hint?
Soup.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 7:41 AM on April 3, 2014
Soup.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 7:41 AM on April 3, 2014
This is by far the most eloquent criticism of Bitcoin to date.
posted by DWRoelands at 7:43 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by DWRoelands at 7:43 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
You know what they say about simulacrums...
They make a sim out of u and lacrums?
lacra?
posted by aubilenon at 10:01 AM on April 3, 2014 [6 favorites]
They make a sim out of u and lacrums?
lacra?
posted by aubilenon at 10:01 AM on April 3, 2014 [6 favorites]
Anybody know what I'm supposed to do once I get to the tax collector?
posted by ckape at 10:17 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by ckape at 10:17 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
They make a sim out of u and lacrums?
They make Similac out of you and rum?
posted by The Tensor at 10:40 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
They make Similac out of you and rum?
posted by The Tensor at 10:40 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]
You know what they say about simulacrums...
They say "It's simulacra!".
But I tend to hang out with pedantic assholes.
posted by benito.strauss at 12:57 PM on April 3, 2014 [4 favorites]
They say "It's simulacra!".
But I tend to hang out with pedantic assholes.
posted by benito.strauss at 12:57 PM on April 3, 2014 [4 favorites]
Anybody know what I'm supposed to do once I get to the tax collector?
You need more information.
posted by hap_hazard at 2:41 PM on April 3, 2014
You need more information.
posted by hap_hazard at 2:41 PM on April 3, 2014
I tried to eat the tax collector. Like I always do.
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 3:39 PM on April 3, 2014
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 3:39 PM on April 3, 2014
Trolling is simulacrums of a art.
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 4:58 PM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 4:58 PM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]
Zhou Tonged - B.R.E.A.M. (Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M)
posted by Golden Eternity at 10:18 AM on April 4, 2014
posted by Golden Eternity at 10:18 AM on April 4, 2014
my brain immediately jumped to "Butts Rule Everything Around Me".
which i guess is eerily prescient of my assbrain?
posted by emptythought at 3:28 PM on April 4, 2014 [1 favorite]
which i guess is eerily prescient of my assbrain?
posted by emptythought at 3:28 PM on April 4, 2014 [1 favorite]
I love the bitbuddychat.
On bitbuddychat it has been reported that the founders of a large bitcoin business have been arrested for money laundering. Some people are saying that the police being involved shows that bitcoin is being taken more seriously, which is good for bitcoin.
posted by autoclavicle at 5:38 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
On bitbuddychat it has been reported that the founders of a large bitcoin business have been arrested for money laundering. Some people are saying that the police being involved shows that bitcoin is being taken more seriously, which is good for bitcoin.
posted by autoclavicle at 5:38 PM on April 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
Honestly I don't know why you guys play parody coin games when you could play real coin games for like twenty bucks. I am some kind of a Dogecoin market maker on this one exchange right now, though I think that's just a fun distraction and if I keep it up it'll only be through automation.... Many bids such spread wow so liquid.
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 7:44 AM on April 6, 2014
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 7:44 AM on April 6, 2014
Because cryptocurrencies are stupid and good only for parody.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:43 AM on April 6, 2014
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:43 AM on April 6, 2014
And so we invented Dogecoin, and it also lets you use a pretty good payments / digital cash technology.
What's hilarious is if the banks invented it you'd get posts about this pretty cool new technology. If Silicon Valley had invented it you'd get posts with a little grumbling about representation of minorities. But some anon invents it and, you guys on the Internet get a rage up...
I send out minor market research ... most people haven't even heard of the Ron Paul association with Bitcoin. My barista day trades...
There's a guy on Twitter stress testing his dogetech and establishing his honesty by running an honest Ponzi scheme in daily rounds. This is a very sensible business decision as long as I assume he got the proper legal advice.
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 12:26 PM on April 6, 2014
What's hilarious is if the banks invented it you'd get posts about this pretty cool new technology. If Silicon Valley had invented it you'd get posts with a little grumbling about representation of minorities. But some anon invents it and, you guys on the Internet get a rage up...
I send out minor market research ... most people haven't even heard of the Ron Paul association with Bitcoin. My barista day trades...
There's a guy on Twitter stress testing his dogetech and establishing his honesty by running an honest Ponzi scheme in daily rounds. This is a very sensible business decision as long as I assume he got the proper legal advice.
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 12:26 PM on April 6, 2014
establishing his honesty by running an honest Ponzi scheme
You know, one of the funniest things about BitCoin is watching people fall for scams that were old when our parents were young, but the fact that you apparently don't comprehend that "establishing his honesty by running an honest Ponzi scheme" is in fact step one of the Ponzi scheme is just sad.
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:57 AM on April 7, 2014
You know, one of the funniest things about BitCoin is watching people fall for scams that were old when our parents were young, but the fact that you apparently don't comprehend that "establishing his honesty by running an honest Ponzi scheme" is in fact step one of the Ponzi scheme is just sad.
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:57 AM on April 7, 2014
establishing his honesty by running an honest Ponzi scheme
That's beautiful. Some people buy entertainment by paying their cable provider. I'd chuck $10 to the techno-utopian libertarians if they'd keep coming up with stuff like that. I'd give them $20 if in addition they'd promise to never vote again.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:49 AM on April 7, 2014
That's beautiful. Some people buy entertainment by paying their cable provider. I'd chuck $10 to the techno-utopian libertarians if they'd keep coming up with stuff like that. I'd give them $20 if in addition they'd promise to never vote again.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:49 AM on April 7, 2014
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