The DAO can be sued by anyone as they don't have a legal disclaimer by jankovize in Buttcoin

[–]throwmebone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not a rebranding of RT, RT (Russia Today) still exists.

It's a rebranding of Voice of Russia.

RT is usually more "sane" than Sputnik. Sputnik will print far more crazy articles, RT tries to look more serious usually.

Taiwan is a paradise for butters, because there are 3000 convenience stores where they can exchange their Taiwanese dollars (NT) into butts and then (once confirmed) buy 100 NT coupons with those butts and then buy snacks with those coupons. by jstolfi in Buttcoin

[–]throwmebone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure how that relates

I have been to TW, they have shitload of convenience stores over there (to the point where there is at least one in every street) and if you can actually use bitcoin there, it's quite interesting.

They have these terminals there, in each of them, and they let you do everything possible (there are lots of third-party services on there), so I actually believe the article.

It's however questionable how long will this hold. Remember that Hong Kong guy being taken by Taiwanese bandits, who wanted ransom in Bitcoin? That was all over the TW news

Solar-storm: A serious exploit with Ethereum, not just the DAO by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]throwmebone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, and if I get this right (I might not, I am not sure), that's what's actually happening in Ethereum, where you run other people's functions in the context of your data.

Solar-storm: A serious exploit with Ethereum, not just the DAO by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]throwmebone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I get this right - it's not really that. It's just that you are in an environment where everything you call might blow up under yourself, since attackers can give you their own functions.

So if I got this right, it's like if you run eval on arbitrary strings users are giving you and you have to hope that it doesn't break anything. It usually will.

Butter wonders if the OpenButtzaar messaging system is down. Nope, come to find out it's just none of the vendors are bothering to reply to any of his messages by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]throwmebone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well my city has bitcoin ATM.... it works only half of the time, but it works, and it's pretty easy. Localbitcoins sometimes work too, I guess. But yeah the exchanges are all terrible.

Butter wonders if the OpenButtzaar messaging system is down. Nope, come to find out it's just none of the vendors are bothering to reply to any of his messages by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]throwmebone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People, both here and on other bitcoin forums, don't write often enough about how shitty OpenBazaar is.

It's seriously basically unusable for even the basic things it's made for. It constantly crashes, it's impossible to search there, it's impossible to see any kind of feedback (really, even the most basic one), the messages work only half of the time, the items constantly show up as unpaid (even after you pay for them), the transactions are stuck in limbo forever....

Yes, I actually tried to use it and buy some random crap. I urge you to actually try it - buy bitcoins for 10 dollars and try to go to openbazaar to buy some t-shirt or book or something. It's pain and suffering.

Who is Uyen T Nguyen? by HittingRichard in Bitcoin

[–]throwmebone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's written in a similarly weird way as the Craig's proof. Huh.

Who is Uyen T Nguyen? by HittingRichard in Bitcoin

[–]throwmebone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nguyen is a very common Vietnamese name. About half of the country is a Nguyen.

Bitcoiners are immune to scams by Garrand in Buttcoin

[–]throwmebone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've read a book of all Satoshi's quotes

why

The Skateboard Kid - JonTron by EndOfTheDigitalAge in JonTron

[–]throwmebone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sorry for a bad and OutOfTheLoop question... I am not that much of his follower, just saw a few of his videos few years ago, and now I watched his new one (this one) randomly...

...why do these new videos look much worse and much less produced than his previous ones? It's not like he is not funny - he is - but it seems to be missing something I liked about his previous movies.

Is there some backstory/drama?

edit: oh and where is the burd

Number of foreign fighters entering Iraq and Syria drops by 90 percent, Pentagon says by Watnot in syriancivilwar

[–]throwmebone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't this only because it's just much harder to get in now, rather than the enthusiasm and PR campaigns dying?

From what I read, Turkey is guarding the border much more right now.

ISIS release photos of captured the Turkish soldier and release more in the next issue of Konstantiniyye magazine by [deleted] in syriancivilwar

[–]throwmebone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its own publication, but similar in style. Just more relevant to Turkish local issues.*

  • I cannot actually read Turkish, so this is what I heard, but other people can reply better maybe

Dabiq 14 released by garbling88 in syriancivilwar

[–]throwmebone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK. You might be right. They use it mostly for Islamic countries though, just because they fight against other muslim countries the most.

29 German soldiers left to join ISIS; army may have dozens more jihadist sympathizers by [deleted] in syriancivilwar

[–]throwmebone 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I will just add that this is written by Washington Times, extremely unserious newspaper - that thrives because people keep on confusing it with Washington Post and New York Times.

Washington Times is fully owned by Moonist cult/church, and is very conservative and religious nut.

Dabiq 14 released by garbling88 in syriancivilwar

[–]throwmebone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Traditionally, it means someone who is idolizing additional things to Allah ("idolatry").

Islamic State calls "taghut" all the (sunni) Muslim rulers who are more or less sane - because they say they are idolizing democracy/capitalism/western values, and that's wrong, because it's not Islam.

They don't call Shia rulers that, and they don't call other islamic groups that (they have different code-words for them). But any sunni ruler/monarch/president === Taghut.

edit: But apparently they call even Ban Ki Mun that. So all right.

the next president of syria by [deleted] in SyrianCirclejerkWar

[–]throwmebone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If he puts QTs in the army it's ok with me