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12:07 AM
But no batch file came with it
 
12:28 AM
 
12:53 AM
@TheMattbat999 the one from archive.org works for me
if I run "game.exe" it prints "you need to type spire <return>" etc. but if I just run spire.bat it runs
I actually have no idea what the dosgamesarchive file does
 
1:31 AM
@Jimmy do you know the download size?
 
about 700MB
 
Well nevermind.
 
 
5 hours later…
6:46 AM
Google is very slow at collecting my data
It's been 3 weeks and the most it was able to figure out based on the recommended news is that I'm probably a boy and I probably like to code
 
 
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10:25 AM
It seems like bitcoin's in a freefall
It fell a $1500 since 7AM
 
@Bálint News is that South Korea is planning to shut down usage of cryptocurrencies in its jurisidiction, so probably everyone in SK is selling as much as they can.
 
nwp
That's like 10% right? I wouldn't call that free fall.
 
Yep, something in the vicinity of 10% of its value
 
10:41 AM
@nwp Yes, but a lot of people see that and want to sell theirs in a hurry, so that they don't lose money
It's definitely not a complete crash, but more than 10%
 
nwp
I was under the impression that selling bitcoins is so inconvenient that people just don't do it.
You buy some, you are happy when the price goes up and when it eventually loses all your value you tell yourself that it was just a fun experiment anyways.
 
Sure, but when you're scared to lose thousands, because you invested when it was already on the top, then you won't care about the inconvenience
 
@nwp It is expensive to sell bitcoins, so people only trade them in large amounts.
(a single technical problem made of a myriad of smaller technical problems which overall make the future prospects of bitcoin really uncertain.)
 
 
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2:47 PM
@doppelgreener it's not that expensive to sell them
I sold 0.25 of one to buy my wife an iPhone X for christmas
I paid more for delivery of the packet of cash
I don't trust BTC long term though, and have never put any real money into it (and won't)
 
@Almo costs like £20-30 though doesn't it?
 
3:19 PM
No
lemme check what their trade fees are
withdrawl options (I chose cash to hide the transaction from my wife since it was for her present
trading fees: "Yes, we charge a 0.5% fee on all completed trades on the following order books BTC/CAD, BTC/USD, ETH/CAD, LTC/CAD & BCH/CAD. The fee on the ETH/BTC order book is 0.2%.

Note that the fee does not apply to open orders, and is only charged after a trade is executed."
So it's really not expensive there to convert BTC into CAD
 
3:34 PM
Isn't there currently a giant transaction fee in the network it's self? I.e. before any trading fees anyone else charges
 
user92578
Yeah what's up with everyone dropping BTC as a payment method?
 
user92578
Something about it not being suitable for actually paying anything?
 
yes, there's a transaction fee. Depends on how fast you want the transaction to go through: estimatefee.com
It's not suitable as a currency
transaction fees are too high, transactions are too slow.
VCash (one I'm invested in) works much better. Transactions are cheap, and near instant (less than one second)
 
I've heard hours to process a transaction, that's pretty crazy...
 
yes, the speed at which blocks are added (and thus new transactions) is pretty slow
Anyone who thinks BTC is a currency doesn't know what "currency" means
or what makes a good one
Many of them think gold is a good currency.
In fact, I think it was designed specifically to take money from people who believe gold is a good currency.
That's just an opinion of mine regarding the motives.
 
3:44 PM
Bitcoin was really a proof of concept...
 
I'm not sure I beleive that
with the ease of mining in the first weeks, the guy knew he'd make a fucking fortune if it caught on
 
It really was though, it solved a really cool math problem
 
maybe it functioned as a proof of concept, but the motivation was likely to get rich
 
user92578
did the guy invent blockchains or were they a known concept?
 
@Tyyppi_77 new idea
 
user92578
3:45 PM
'cause I believe the proof of concept theory too
 
I don't know if he invented the concept, but it's the first working implementation
 
Lot's of old things in the idea, but the method of having a decentralized consensus building system in an environment where everyone distrusts each other is pretty cool
 
Were it just a case of proof of blockchain, it didn't have to be structured with the increasing difficulty that heavily favored the early adopters
 
It's funny, I guess the creator of Bitcoin is unknown, and owns 25% of all bitcoins.
You'd think he'd cash out... I mean, that's a whole lot of cash...
 
with market cap of around $200 billion, he's super rich if he cashes out
My guess is he's dribbling it out slowly
 
3:47 PM
I think it could be seen if he was.
 
if it's spread among a ton of accounts (which it should be if he's smart) then it would be ahrd to trace
one guy analyzed a bunch of transactions on the chain and found huge amounts of BTC moving around from one acount to a whole ton of accounts back to another single account
lots of fucking around going on in that world
 
If someone knew he had that many accounts, could be tough to know.
There's at least one single account with $2 billion in bitcoins in it...
I'm trying to remember if I own any bitcoin or not. Most likely no.
I played with it 6-7 years ago, but...
 
I've made most of mine collecting various alts from chatrooms and trading to increase the value
wish I had noticed RDD at 1 sat a couple months back; would have gotten a bunch of those
they're over 100 now
I've made good trades on RDD before
 
Back in the day, I remember people who would trade about 0.05 bitcoin for almost anything, or just give it away.
 
yeah
 
3:52 PM
And there's also the famous bitcoin pizza.
 
the 20,000 BTC pizza
yeah
 
It shows up as 10,000, but still...
 
oh right
sorry
:)
 
@bitcoin_pizza
On 22nd May 2010, Laszlo Hanyec bought a pizza for 10,000 bitcoins. This is the current USD value of that pizza. #bitcoin
1.1k tweets, 5.7k followers, following 3 users
I wonder if he continued to invest...
Okay, so the guess is that the creator of Bitcoin owns about a million of them.
Or at least owned.
 
 
2 hours later…
6:01 PM
I think bitcoin is closer to what stocks are. Nobody really uses it for anything apart from illegal activity and trading it for money and vica-versa
Nobody wants to buy a couple hundreds of a bitcoin to buy a pizza just to realise half a minute later, that he lost some of it already
 
It's not like stocks at all
stocks can be issued by the corp, so the supply can be controlled.
stocks often pay dividends, BTC does not
it's like gold, a hoarding commodity.
which is at the heart of its design.
 
6:18 PM
This is the screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday. The operator clicked the PACOM (CDW) State Only link. The drill link is the one that was supposed to be clicked. #Hawaii
 
6:49 PM
Interface was designed by the same school of thought which placed Eject & Format next to each other in the windows drive context menu.
 
Yep.
Looks about the same era too.
 
7:20 PM
@PearsonArtPhoto this is going straight to the UX people I know
 
As it well should:-)
 
wow that's pretty bad
 
7:37 PM
It's bad if I know it's bad...
I'm far from a UX expert.
I mean, you'd think they would have a "Drill" mode button to even get in to this menu, and not even have it as an option...
 
LOL
This one is real, I'm pretty sure.
I found an annotated image in a Hawaii newspaper.
 
:D
 

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