#coins

I did lose all my litecoins

fuck litecoin

yes fuck them

coins are stupid lol people bought them because they think it's anonymous currency and even when made public by its founder that it's not secure and the media even going wide about the fact that the govt can easily, very very easily trace them, still people think they're clever buying drugs and stuff with them lol

it's actually totally secure, been holding a multimillion dollar market for the past several years

bitcoin is awesome

if you don't appreciate it you probably have a really shitty life

personal jabs aside, bitcoin's just.. really exciting

dothacker was that supposed to be a parody of the idiots who criticize bitcoin using a combo of gross oversimplification and technical misunderstanding?

soiled, I don't mean secure financially, because it may be, I mean secure as a currency, which it is proven not

tingkatu, not a parody; I just meant that bitcoins became popular because of drugs and other illegal exchanges and it's still one of the largest uses for bitcoins, though some legitimate businesses are reluctantly accepting them as payment methods

oh so you are one of those idiots

idiots? These are facts lol

you or I can disagree with it all we'd want, but it doesn't change what happened

they are facts but not really meaningful

also, steam is accepting bitcoin now

so long as there's liquidity between btc/usd, you can use bitcoin as a payment network, which is its intended function, not as a literal currency.

not meaningful how? I made no assertions nor am I trying to persuade anyone. All I said was that my opinion is that bitcoins are stupid because of how they came to rise and that people are still misguided about their security, especially those who use them for illegal transactions

cash is used for the exact same things and is actually more anonymous than bitcoin

exactly right, but cash is harder to send long distances, which is why people thought they could have an anonymous currency, though it was never intended to be anonymous, according to its founder

i don't really care, it's a peripheral argument

if i make money off it, i'm paying my taxes on capital gains so whatever

you can't hide from the NSA

I don't really care for it either, but I do think it's sad that people won't even listen to something's creator about how it works

there's a lot of other things that are also sad

indeed, though they were not active topics of conversation

There are ways of using bitcoin anonymously, although most casual users won't take the required steps, because it's irrelevant: investor interest and the scope, aims and technical innovations of the bitcoin project aren't about coming up with a better drug currency, and you focusing on that is a stupid mischaracterization of the project, one that you have probably gained by getting all your "facts" about bitcoin from sensationalist media

sources

BTC darknet drug trading is small compared to exchange trading volumes. Anyway It's like saying pounds sterling are stupid because our black market is worth 150 billion a year.

also, I think buying drugs off the darknet with BTC is great

your focusing on my perceived focus on the drug history of bitcoins combined with your like of buying drugs shows your mindset on the topic

lol

buy bitcoin you two

I thought tea was supposed to make people calming

Yes, yes it does. I.e., the correct mindset.

no wonder we threw it all into the harbor

depends on the tea, really

maybe you should consider trying new ones

you have some recommendations?

I favor shaded early-harvest Japanese greens with high L-theanine content

I might even be developing a preference for kabusecha above gyokuro, but then there is so much variety in both types

but my evening tea presently is a high-mountain small plantation Taiwanese oolong

you probably couldn't afford any

true; I don't have tea in my budget. I save it for things which provide value

sour grapes

dormio.

huh?

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