check your flags. wrong space or extra space anywhere will spit connection problems instantly. in addition to a screenie of your settings, paste the text of the console here, too.

you can buy porn on silkroad, pretty sure. Also, I'm thinking "Porn and drugs" isn't great for crypto, so while new services are valuable, less seedy ones would probably be best.

You should sell scarves for bitcoins! Or little kitty sweaters!

seriously.

Anyone who can figure out crypto can figure out how to get free porn. Legally.

they have probably heard of a little thing called google, or numerous free sites. Like a jillion of them.

well I don't drink beer. I mean, a very small fragment of my budget set aside to burn or consume.

Hey. I usually don't head out of alts much besides lurkin' (but let me tell you, it is nice out here!)

So, I usually have a little BTC change hanging out between the wallets and the exchanges, a couple bucks, maybe 10 here and there. I don't like to send that all back to coinbase to sell because I don't like it sitting there, or ending up xferring it back out to use and paying a bajillion transaction fees.

And I don't really gamble, but gambling with a little BTC seems legal, and I'm essentially burning what equates to beer money; secondary income/investment income.

Can you guys recommend some good blackjack, maybe poker (except I suck at poker) where I can bet maybe .01 or .001 btc, for practice and fun with some real risk/reward involved? I don't want any of this blackjack pays 6:5 or 1:1 crap, and if it exists, blackjack that isn't "shuffles every hand/random dealing completely.

Again, I've only played blackjack among friends and such, so I'm just lookin' for a good place to give it a shot that isn't 100% straight burning btc. Ideally less than 1% house edge.

Decentralized, unmoderated, uncontrolled currency! Not the forums though, no sir, the forums need more people telling us what's allowed.


The balloon of shitcoins is deflating or bursting as we speak. we can sit and wait until someone starts innovating, or leap on the shitcoins, but the way it's handled is not going to change.

these analogies are terrible because they are apples and oranges half the time. It's like X was to Y doesn't solve anything.


Bitcoin is an anonymous, decentralized, unregulated digital currency  and is protected from duplication by proof of it's existence from communal "work" or calculations similar to password cracking (or very simply, complex math that only computers are equipped for); the value is determined entirely by the holders of the coins.

I can't imagine a way to simplify it better than that.

Uh, if they do sell, that's exactly the point. you've now proved without even being a part of the scam that they will sell for this bloated, insane price. They'd LOVE for you to get in on it before an exchange slurps it up, that's pure profit. .01 per btc now is a GREAT sell versus .00000000001btc later, per shitcoin. It's nasty out there, this isn't even tinfoil hat stuff.

The real problem is this tiny, shitty, unmoderated subforum is the holy grail of where to talk about altcoins, and uh. That sucks.

Well, it's more like playing king of the hill with a whole bunch of naked retards for space on page one. you really don't want to touch them, because they are all naked, and covered in shit, and smelly, but you also want to hang out at the top of the hill.

What we need is a real alt coin forum with some real moderation staff we can all beeline to. More moderation might mean more censorship but it can't be worse than self moderated posts.

We're trying to pack hundreds of hours of work, research, learning and bullshit into one teeny, tiny baby forum and it's ending up more cramped than an imageboard. Couple that with the heavy hitter shitposters, shitcoin rollout, and general vitriol and.... well, I'm just describing the forum. Wipe the retard shit out of your eyes and take a good look around, it sucks.

JK, JK, it was all, you know, a jk.

oh good, digitalcoin rolls out, worldcoin crashes. seriously.

I KEEP MISSIN' THE PROFIT TRAIN.

full disclosure: I'm a little pissy I didn't hedge my bets on RYC at all. I mined it for I think 15 days straight? maybe more? and amassed 3000 coins.

I am very frustrated these are worth roughly the same as a bag of old salty dicks.


So I'm curious, what set the two apart?

Is it honestly just the name? Are people that into the transact speed on WDC?

I've switched over to WDC hoping to ride the profit chain for a little while, but of course, I recognize it's probably a dump, anyhow. We shall see, though!

are these seriously selling for 20ltc per 1k? for real?

I'll offer 600RYC for your 1500 RYC.

ITS ALL I'VE BEEN MINING FOR DAAAAAAYS

Um. Realtime AV's purpose is to detect realtime threats. when that thing unencrypts, it's going to take a shit.

If you just mean compressed, yeah, same deal. seriously.

I'm sorry, but what about this coin deviates it from LTC at all?

And why is it OK that this says exchange confirmed? HAS ANYONE ADDRESSED THIS?

It's a scam cooked up between OP and HDclover, who pretends to but does not work for BTer.

I think it's time we take a little bit of a stand on the shovelfuck we've got with coins, here.

oh wow. I'd never seen the altcoin hate until now, like geniune, bitcoin is the one true god stuff.

That's nuts, man. I like scrypt. If someone CAN make more money mining litecoins, or more bitcoin, why is that bad?

How does that hurt bitcoin or hurt anyone? If no one buys litecoins, well then, it wouldn't work. Clearly, it has some value.... isn't this the advantage to a decentralized currency? no banks, regulation, or rulers, just de facto values assigned based on what one is willing to pay?

you realize a lot of these guys aren't devs, right? You would need only a very rudimentary understanding of the code to find/replace a couple variables, and rename a few things here and there.

Devs put together a discussion, maybe test the coin publicly and open it to discussion, see where things COULD go wrong so you don't NEED to fork down the road, and then PLAN a PUBLIC launch of the coin, ahead of time, to a specific time, so people who want to mine it can get ready, and know ahead of time.

This wouldn't be generated for serious programers. it would be created as a proof of concept, released very specifically to overflow and then crash the altcoin market: to destroy the copy/paste coins by allowing anyone to make them, and see how easy it IS to make them.

These coins aren't being pumped out by real programmers. they are being pumped out by someone who just learned to compile in highschool courses and knows how to use search and replace.

Or in the case of say, gamecoin, not even that.

Right now, we have a ballon 1/3 full of shit, the rest empty. You don't know what's in the balloon, at least, most people don't, they just think "ok, great, altcoins!" and each new coin just seems like another drop in the bucket.
 If something is created that allows ANYONE to shit into that balloon, it will explode, and everyone will be like "oh, it was full of shit, well.... shit"

the fbi very famously subpoena'd google for a backdoor to some guy's password lock on his phone.

The one where you draw the little dots together.


Let's not panic too hard, folks. Facial recognition is far away from being useful in positive ID situations. It's hard to break it all down, but getting a 100% guaranteed positive ID on someone is hard as hell.

If you go and say, murder your neighbor, and leave some of your own fingerprints in your own blood, you could absolutely get away with it.

If there is no reason to suspect you, they would have no reason to take your prints or a DNA sample.
If you haven't been convicted of an offense in the past, your prints won't be on file.

I don't want to super get into it, and I'm not god or anything, but see above, and google it. You can strap on all the tinfoil hats you want to, but when it boils right down to it, cases fall to the roadside with the perp literally right there, ready to go, because of incompetence, privacy rights, and straight up human error.

When you add in the lack of understanding the average officer of any organization, be it interpol, fbi, police or whatever, has for tech in general, and then throw in insane foreign currencies and CCTV facial recognition, well at that point you might as well start screaming enhance at your monitor and expecting it to sharpen a tiny image to perfect clarity. magically.

I spent a lot of time studying professional forensic science, got to know a couple fed agents who were teachers on their free time. Having nothing to hide, I was deeply inquisitive and attempted to be as challenging as possible.

I learned a lot.

1: see above. Backdoor to a password lock. subpoena. seriously. THAT HAPPENED.

2: For real, for IT pros, I was uh.... well I was very frequently embarassed for them.

Us guys here, some members here and such could really benefit these forces as additions to it, but at this point it's kind of a mess of misunderstanding and assumption both on the part of the public and the fed.

I know an anecdote isn't anything, at all, especially on the internet.
But seriously, let's try not to worry too much. Stop watching CSI. seriously, please. I'd send you LTC to stop forever. it's making EVERYONE stupid.

Seriously though. subpoena'd google.
I googled it because I really couldn't post it without it:
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/03/16/google-subpoenaed-by-fbi-who-failed-to-break-into-pattern-locked-samsung-smartphone/

They aren't magic, crime stopping wizards. Solve rates aren't great in this country, and I don't think the IRS is going to come after your balls for a couple hundred dollars piling into your paypal once in a while.

If you're super worried, pay taxes on it. If you're super against taxes, power to you. Find a way to cash out to direct cash, likely locally. The guy you sell BTC in person to.... well, he's probably not a secret IRS agent. and if he is, be like 'duh dude I'm totally going to pay taxes on this" and then what's he going to do? Maybe audit you? OK, fine, good luck trailing all the cash that came in and was spent straight away on beer.

ENHANCE.

and I'm going to assume you don't know how to whitelist something you know is legit. Or shutdown your AV temporarily. Good luck! you not hashing is my diff staying down.