Incredible how quickly one can ruin his good reputation in this forum. On the one hand, I see a parallel here to pirate's actions ("I would have wasted my perfect OTC ratings"), and this makes you think about the issue of how much credibility and trustworthiness an online identity can possibly achieve (which probably was part of Matthew's plan). On the other hand, pirate ran BS&T for personal profit, so his initial ratings weren't wasted after all.

Why Matthew thought education of the masses was worth the amount of defamation and trolling that is up and coming after *this*, I can't really grasp.

Congratulations!

Lots of fun and trolling to the others
-md2k7

Earned 0.0005 BTC... Thanks.

How's your payment, has it come in yet?

Here is their message:

http://pastebin.com/nfVT7b0Z

EDIT: oh wait, the zerohedge.com page already links to that. My bad.

He probably stopped to think ;-)

I'm really stunned by the high values of BTC bet on Pirate's payout. Waiting for the announcements of BTC put out on Pirate's head

Where's your obligatory PGP signature? ;-)

I would have been surprised to see a reputable merchant using the Mt.Gox leak list...

Anyway, casascius.net seems to redirect to www.casascius.com for me, so you got to fix the problem?

Yours
David

So you mean you print your message onto those $1 bills in red paint, and then banks still need to accept them?

Nice clocks :-)

Quote from yesterday evening's irc.freenode.net #bitcoin-dev (CEST, UTC+02):

I'm not sure what "qt thread" BlueMatt meant, or if this has to do anything with your version... Any hints?

Keep up the good work!

David

Quoting someone from IRC #bitcoin-dev:

I've made some 16x16 icons. Don't blame me if they are ugly, I usually code and don't design stuff. Try to make or google something better, while the latter option has some license fun included for sure.

Pending (0 confirmations): http://www.abanbytes.eu/files/btc/pending.png
Unconfirmed: http://www.abanbytes.eu/files/btc/unconfirmed.png
Confirmed: http://www.abanbytes.eu/files/btc/confirmed.png

License: You are free to do with these icons as you wish, including selling, copying, modifying etc.

Yours
David

Fun that people still think CAPTCHA, especially reCaptcha - which is extremely widely used - is any good against bots. I have a small personal website with a simple comment form secured by reCaptcha. One or two spam entries per week. Don't tell me some Chinese guy is being forced to solve them, because posting spam on a website without any traffic doesn't generate profits. That leaves bots solving them. Welcome the 21st century's image recognition.

Yours
David

BetweentheFabric: If someone controls over 50 % of the computing power, they can (re-)write new blocks of history as they choose. Besides deciding what will and what won't make it into the blockchain (thus arbitrarily accepting or rejecting transactions), they could also double-spend their bitcoins.

The kind of risky investment bitcoins are at the moment, however, I guess most rich people have many more profitable options than paying a lot for rapidly outdating hardware to make a few bitcoin users angry.

Yours
David

Nath: I think speculation is necessary to "give BTC value" before much of a BTC-based economy is established. When more and more people start trading for BTC, prices will probably stabilize, especially if one can cover all his expenses in BTC.

Of course, as long as you need to exchange BTC for some state's currency to be able to buy goods with it, the value of a BTC will solely be bound to speculation.

Yours
David

I wonder why it would be in any sensible rich man's interest to make the economy collapse. There would be no more people paying off their debts to them, thus their power would vanish.

Thus, I don't think it is in the interest of large banks to make the economy collapse. They are probably just trying out how far they can go before it does.

Yours
David

I just wanted to post some ideas (e.g. encrypted "piggybank" wallet) into the Bitcoin-Qt thread, before finding that noobs are supposed to post here first.

An idea for making this easier: People could pay some low BTC fee for bypassing this noob forum.

Yours
David