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These spackers have to pay for a train ticket. That's it. Maybe 20 quid for booze. The rest is provided. Food, accommodation (although the room is rented out, so Tam will have to sleep on a couch or something), the lot. Train ticket. That's it. Don't make your problems my problems.

The Peltier is pushing it a bit. Who the hell has that kind of kit in a mcguvery situation? Very cool, but not very applicable IMO.

Euan you're a wbanker. Fleece some taxpayers or something. Hell, hold out a hat at a train station and collect money for the poor gingers. Fuck, this is happening again, isn't it?

COD in "it doesn't work" shocker. I still don't get the whole Facebook thing. I wonder if Google wanted royalties to use YouTube.

My 30th is on the 15th of March you filthy bastards.

This thread is pure awesome. For the battery fire, you can also use wire wool.

Not just drugs, but guns too. Rumour has it that at one point you could put hits on people too. Dunno how true that is though. Isn't it amazing how much tech comes from shady practices? Take a look at what the porn industry has given us, it's insane.

This article explains it better than I could, but I'll have a go anyway. Basically, all mining is is confirming the transactions made by others. Say I give you a bitcoin, from my wallet to yours (we have digital wallets), that transaction gets an ID. Loads of these IDs are rolled into blocks. Blocks are sent to miners to get confirmed. If your wallet has an ID of x and mine has an ID of y, then there will be miners all over the world confirming that I sent one bitcoin from wallet x to wallet y. If someone tries to get funky, those blocks won't match and the transaction will be void. In those blocks are Bitcoin rewards. Not all of them have rewards, which is why some people create "pools" and share the rewards if they find a coin. Still with me? The number of coins hidden in blocks is reduced every so often, so technically speaking we will never hit the cap of 21m coins. We'll get close, but the rewards will be halved over and over until there's almost nothing left. What happens then? When the miners have no incentive to confirm blocks? Well, that seems to be anybody's guess, but this quote makes sense: As for requirements, the way that the coins are kept valuable is by making it exponentially harder to "mine" them. The first Bitcoins could've been mined with a device no more powerful than a calculator. Now, you need some serious hardware to even consider it, and people are investing in this hardware. I don't mine Bitcoins. As silly as this may sound, I mine Dogecoins. These were initially started as a joke but took off like a house on fire. Their value at the moment is fairly high, so I mine them and then exchange them for Bitcoins. I'l also hoarding Worldcoins at the moment because in February a company called Scharmbeck is going live which allows people to buy Worldcoins directly using their bank accounts, which is eliminating a lot of hoops which you currently have to jump through to buy other currencies. Once this service goes live, myself and many others are hoping that the coins value rises. I think it will, provided Scharmbeck don't fuck it up.

That fucking duck sank my ship, the bastard.

Well that's the million dollar question. This is my view on things: It's going to take off. Not as a currency, but as a payment system. Instead of linking bank accounts and paying for stuff with credit or debit cards online, you will be able to buy Bitcoins and use that, a bit like vouchers. The value of the Bitcoin is determined by demand. I see the Bitcoin as the gold or silver. It's not a substitute for something of value, it is the something of value. It's getting accepted more and more and will continue to do so. So far the largest retailer to accept Bitcoins is Overstock.com. Their sales skyrocketed in the first 24 hours, taking $130k in Bitcoin sales alone. There are loads of smaller or even much more extravagant things you can buy with Bitcoin. You can book a space flight with Virgin and pay for it with Bitcoin. Zynga, the company behind big hitting casual games like Farmville and half the stuff on the Apple store, has started testing accepting Bitcoins. You can pay for college with Bitcoin. You can go to an ATM and withdraw Bitcoin, go to a pub and buy a beer, and have a meal on the way home, all paid for by Bitcoin. You can even buy a house with Bitcoin. Obviously I'm making it sound like you can pay with it everywhere, when the fact is that you can't, simple as that. In order to carry out the scenario mentioned above, your choices of where to go, what to eat and drink and what town it'd be in are extremely limited, but it's happening. Every day more and more small establishments are accepting Bitcoin. It's happening, right now. Hell, two days ago a company announced that you can pay your taxes with Bitcoin. There are ATMs available, and some have been installed are are functional already. Canada has one. New York is getting one. Hong Kong and Taiwan are following suit. Australia. Israel. Loads more. China put a stop to as much as they can for good reason - the Chinese government only allows you to take x amount of their currency out of the country, and people were circumventing this by buying Bitcoins, sending them abroad and then selling them again. It is an unregulated and incredibly difficult to trace manner of transferring funds across borders without any tax or revenue implications. It has a huge underground following for this reason, and Bitcoins in China have hit $1k again despite the government's efforts. Similar thing with India. The locals have lost faith in their own rupees so they are using Bitcoin to pay for things. Zimbabwe... well, that speaks for itself. It's not just an alternative, in many places it's a solution. It's not going to die. It can't. There are people depending on it now and the governments know this. They also know that Bitcoin is a contributor towards their GDP. Not much, but if they outlawed the whole system the effects would be noticeable. This is an interesting read: What is a Bitcoin really worth in China and India? We're past the point of no return. This is the next thing and I get called all sorts of things for believing it it, but I just remind myself of the reactions I used to get when I told people that you could send a letter electronically from one computer to another - and look at email today. One thing I'm still struggling to get my head around is the whole Litecoin thing. It's basically accepted amongst the community that Litecoin is the Silver to Bitcoin's Gold. That would make sense, if it wasn't for the fact that Bitcoins can be split up into "satoshis", which are 0.00000001 BTC. The number of coins is finite, and that's where Litecoin might come in. Once Bitcoins are more widely accepted there value will shoot through the roof as there simply won't be enough to go around. Some people believe that one Bitcoin is going to hit $100k. I think they're being optimistic but sooner or later the US government is going to release a statement that they've discussed how to regulate and tax bitcoins, people will start having more faith in them, companies will start accepting them and the value will jump. I'm not talking about a few dollars per coin, I can see them hitting $10k easily. The UK's IRS, called HMRC over here, has already decided that Bitcoin is a private currency and will have laws applied to it. People are really starting to sit up and take this seriously. Some are optimistic, some are pessimistic, and some feel threatened. JPMorgan even applied for a patent for exactly what a Bitcoin is. This is the only article I can find on it, since JPM said that they were in no way inspired by Bitcoin, all the articles seem to have disappeared, but this was a news report on some very reputable pages, including the New York Times if I remember correctly. I'll leave it at that for now, but f you have any questions, fire away!

There are too many kids trying to be the next big thing nowadays, and although funny the first few times, trolling gets tedious as fuck. If you're looking for a decent Youtuber, Devildoggamer is pretty good. Avoid anything with Rhinocrunch in it, that dude's a class A dickhead. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3RxAc57VYc[/media]

Nah, I get your point and I often read your posts and they really get me thinking, but even if Bitcoin was started by Them, it's not having the effect they want because it's spawned too many unregulated currencies.

He'll be Scottish and ginger, homeless is the least of his worries.

Yep. I enjoy his stuff, but don't mention him on the DayZ forums. He was once busted hacking and ever since then it's cool to hate him, most dislike him and don't even know why. Sheep will be sheep eh? Having said that, he really seems to be cranking the arrogance up to 11 lately. Not cool Frankie. Not cool.

The whole point of Bitcoin is to get away from the current banking system, not pander to it. There are also about 40 different cryptos available, which can all be mined and traded, all hopig to steal a piece of the Bitcoin pie. Some are silly, some are scams, and some are actually trying to be successful. These aren't governed by some secret order, lizard men or the illuminati. These are currencies which are started up by average joes like you and me. There is a reason why banks and governments are against the crypto revolution, and why some banks are trying to put a patent on them so they can take charge and regulate them. The price of Bitcoin is fairly stable at the moment which is irritating because I trade them. I expect them to go up and down by factor of 5 so I can make massive amounts of them. Bloody things. I honestly believe that this is the future, and I honestly hope it's going to make me rich.

HAHAHAHA Man I miss playing with you lot. Someone buy me a PS4 pl0x. Kthnxbai.

Euan in SORE LOSER shocker.

SNIPER!!!!!!!!! Seriously, learn to use the recon class. Once you are proficient at it, it's a game changer. Literally. The sniper rifle is probably the weakest piece of kit in your arsenal, tactically. Use C4. Use your spotter thingy. These are massive helps to your team. Headshots are great fun too, but don't even think about centering your scope. Simply learn to adjust for bullet drop, there's nothing more frustrating that calculating bullet drop with your range finder, when you can simply aim at the right distance above a head and get a head shot. It becomes second nature. Use your range finder to lock on. If you have an engineer or two on your team who use rockets, they'll fire at whatever you're locked on to. If you just stand there looking like a tool and nobody shoots at your locks, then swap to something else. //all the above comments are regarding conquest. That's all I play.

Because you're running a graphics card at 100% load all the time. Having said that, I unloaded all my coins and bought an MSI R9 290 Gaming Edition. It gets almost triple what I was getting with my 770. I did at one point have both cards singing in harmony in my system, but the 770 was hitting 96deg. on the chip. Not healthy. I've undervolted the 290 slightly to reduce the heat and consumption, and I'm still getting about 860k/hash per second, whereas the 770 wouldn't go over 330 no matter what I tried. I also have a script which trades automatically for me, and makes a little bit of profit every time it kicks in. It runs every 5 minutes and takes transaction fees into account so unless there's enough of a gap in the market to make a profit, it remains dormant. This morning, it made a few trades which put me 0.01BTC in profit, which as of right now is about $10. Not bad for a bit of software code which I don't touch. I will say that this is a hobby. It's not a case of plug in and get money, it requires some time and dedication to set it all up, and that's assuming you have the necessary kit. Once it's running however, it's pretty much cash in the bank. My new graphics card cost me nothing, although I did pay for the electricity out of my regular bank account. As it stands right now, I'm making about £60 a month in profit after my electric is paid. The whole cryptocurrency scene is booming and very interesting but don't expect to hop in and go. It takes tons of research, tons of time, and tons of patience. I'm at the point now where I can fire up my miner and run a profit immediately, but it's taken me almost two months to hit this point. It's great fun. I really enjoy doing this. If anyone has any questions please ask, I'll explain the answers as best I can.

Once you guys have redeemed your codes please drop a little message in here to say they worked, and if they don't, let me know. Some of them came from a site that... well, looks professional, but once I made the purchase they sent me photos of codes. It's almost as if they took the order and then sent someone shoplifting!

Rottweilers or German Shepherds. These are used by many forces for a reason. My parents bred Shepherds when I was a kid, awesome dogs, very loyal but prone to hip issues later on in life. Can't comment too much on Rotties, only ever had one and it was awesome.

Well isn't it ironic that when I finally get time to do this, I'm at work! Ok, so here are the whiners winners! UK PSN: Madjonny UK PSN: Tronic44 UK XBL: JBR-Kiwi USA PSN: Kylebees USA PSN: Tigerburge USA XBL: Spectre USA XBL: PlayerTD Well done chaps, apologies for the hyooj delay but hey ho! I'll be sorting out the codes right now, so check out your PMs for them. I'll also be dishing out some Steam gashnizzle over the next few days, so stay tuned!

Steve that's insane! I love how you used shadows to give the impression of more depth. Very, very clever! I might hire you to clean my pool decorate my living room one day.

That's a fair amount of stuff. If you can juggle accounts, click here. It's actually amazing how much free storage you can get online.

Sentences? I see no sentences here, only words!