How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man

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remirol said:
Yeah, I bet the author was/is a big text adventure fan -- that's clearly some webvariant of Inform, since it has all the Infocom-style defaults ("kill" produces the stock response, etc) embedded into it.

(It probably says so somewhere on the webpage, I'm just not gonna wade through it again to find that :) )
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Once you get to TacoX, there's an About button at the bottom. Clicking it opens up a page with the source information:

Portions of Beep Boop Bitcoin use yui3, Inform 7, and parchment.
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TjW said:
I certainly don't understand the laughing dog. The capital cost of the equipment to mine Bitcoins isn't free. The electricity to run the equipment isn't free.
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Unless of course you steal from others, pretty common amongst coiners.

TjW said:
There is certainly some real cost, not just computational cost involved in mining Bitcoins. The exact value, I don't know, but there must be one.
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Oh yes, not forgetting the dangers from incompetently jerryrigged hardware causing fires.
 
remirol said:
Advanced Bitcoin Simulator

Try it out first!
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A bit of a boring game. I bought and withdrew 13 bitcoins at a total cost ("loss" according to the link) of $829.40 (an average of $63.80 per bitcoin) before the "tacoX" exchange went down under.

Now what?

It's not as if I am going to invest in a 3rd party repository with a name like "PirateAtHome" nor am I going to risk large sums of money in a bitcoin miner so it's game over and I still have the bitcoins.
 
psionl0 said:
A bit of a boring game. I bought and withdrew 13 bitcoins at a total cost ("loss" according to the link) of $829.40 (an average of $63.80 per bitcoin) before the "tacoX" exchange went down under.

Now what?

It's not as if I am going to invest in a 3rd party repository with a name like "PirateAtHome" nor am I going to risk large sums of money in a bitcoin miner so it's game over and I still have the bitcoins.
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:rolleyes: You know, most people would have learned something just from the process of writing that post.
 
psionl0 said:
A bit of a boring game. I bought and withdrew 13 bitcoins at a total cost ("loss" according to the link) of $829.40 (an average of $63.80 per bitcoin) before the "tacoX" exchange went down under.

Now what?
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Well, you're going to have to pretend-work a few days to make up for the loss.

Seriously, you don't know "now what" ?
 
remirol said:
:rolleyes: You know, most people would have learned something just from the process of writing that post.
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I might not have learned much from writing that post but it seems that some of the people reading that post have learned even less. ;)
 
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Belz... said:
Well, you're going to have to pretend-work a few days to make up for the loss.
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What loss? I still have the pretend bitcoins and I'm not spending any pretend currency that I can't afford to.

Belz... said:
Seriously, you don't know "now what" ?
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In the real world, there would be other bitcoin exchanges I could turn to if I wanted to continue my bitcoin buying quest but in this game, there is only one (defunct) exchange so I will have to wait until somebody makes up some new rules before I can continue playing this game.
 
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psionl0 said:
What loss? I still have the pretend bitcoins and I'm not spending any pretend currency that I can't afford to.
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The only exchange you have access to has crashed, Psi. How are you going to sell those BTC ?

I realise that this is a Kobayashimaru scenario, and none of us are James T Kirk, but you still lost.
 
psionl0 said:
You can call real bitcoins a game too if you like but don't forget that it takes real money to speculate with them.
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It is a game. With real money. And secret interchangeable rules that only a few privileged know. Sort of like a scam, or at best, a scammers wet dream.
 
Humanzee said:
I've got no play in this game but saw Testeds vid on bitcoin, thought it was amusing so I'll pass it along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnm4xFC2xNo&list=UUiDJtJKMICpb9B1qf7qjEOA
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That Bitcoin "ATM Machine" is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.

Giving the machine your phone number, palm-print, government-ID and photograph... just to buy a Bitcoin in CASH? :boggled:

Hell, you can just walk into a bank and pay for a bitcoin in cash (after ordering one online) without having to provide any ID, and with a lot less of a markup than with that machine.

For example...

https://www.getbitcoin.com.au/buy-bitcoins
Step 2: Either, make a CASH Deposit

Visit any Commonwealth or NAB branch (9:30-4:00pm mon-thurs, 9:30-5:00pm fri). Click to view extended hours for Commonwealth or NAB

Fill out and submit a deposit slip with our account details. Ask the teller to include your reference number in the notes. Your reference number will be issued when you submit this form.

IMPORTANT : PLEASE KEEP THE RECEIPT UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED YOUR BITCOINS.

Note: If a deposit is not made within the selected time frame your quote will automatically expire. In which case, please get a new quote before making your deposit.
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ETA: And I don't think I'd want to transfer a whole Bitcoin to a machine when I have no way to tell in advance if it has enough money in the machine to pay it out in full, even if the transfer does go through in a reasonable amount of time.
 
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Comments from Bobby Lee of BTC China on this April 15 PBOC deadline.

“What we’re hearing is that banks will disallow us from using commercial bank accounts to store customer deposits, what’s not clear to us yet is whether the business of running a bitcoin exchange will be classed as legal or not.”
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