No joke - When I lived in Headingly, we had this shelf at the top of the stairs down to the basement kitchen. Nobody had any idea of what to put on it, so it became the Kinder shelf - every time someone went shopping, they'd buy a kinder surprise, and we 3/4 filled a shelf about four feet long and a foot deep with kinder toys. We even had some of the Australian animal ones that a friend back home sent over.
We used to have a similar thing called a wonderball here. Basically a more symmetrical kinder surprise, but eventually they stopped putting toys in them and put stickers or more candy in them because of more choking hazard shit. Those kids are probably the same dumbasses that got those Pokeball toys at Burger King recalled from kids putting them over their mouths and suffocating. Are kids just dumber here or what? The cynic in me wants to say let it happen and get them out of the gene pool, but that wouldn't be very nice.
My theory is that kids here are more sheltered and don't physically play as much, so they have more trouble grasping basic things like how to not injure yourself.
Tap a button for bitcoins. Time for me to use the servos and the spare android phone I have to make a money machine.
Yeah, except that it takes you AGES to even get to the payout, which is about a dollar twenty. If you want, I can just give you two dollars right now, and give you more money in a fraction of the time.
Tap a button for bitcoins. Time for me to use the servos and the spare android phone I have to make a money machine.
Yeah, except that it takes you AGES to even get to the payout, which is about a dollar twenty. If you want, I can just give you two dollars right now, and give you more money in a fraction of the time.
I know it would take ages, but if I can have that thing ticking away 24/7 while I'm just doing what I normally do, who cares?
Edit: Apparently you can only tap once a day. Not worth it.
Tap a button for bitcoins. Time for me to use the servos and the spare android phone I have to make a money machine.
Yeah, except that it takes you AGES to even get to the payout, which is about a dollar twenty. If you want, I can just give you two dollars right now, and give you more money in a fraction of the time.
I know it would take ages, but if I can have that thing ticking away 24/7 while I'm just doing what I normally do, who cares?
Edit: Apparently you can only tap once a day. Not worth it.
Yeah, reports vary from once a day to every few hours. Reports of how long it takes to get to the cash out vary from 6-8 months to (obviously only mathed out, not tried) to 33 years.
Yeah that's what I figured. No legitimate business would accept Bitcoins.
But for a handful of coffee shops and bars scattered around the world, yeah. And said coffee shops and bars only provide it as an option, they mostly do business in regular money.
Yeah. Probably because unless you happen to be earning Bitcoins regularly through "means," I wouldn't imagine you'd use them to buy coffee on a regular basis. Seems like mostly a gimmick to get a tech blog post written about your shop.
You can buy things online with bitcoins besides drugs. I've seen more "pay with bitcoin" buttons pop up in various sites. I still probably wouldn't invest any real money into them. If I had a powerful PC I'd mess around with mining them fo realz but otherwise they're still kind of a gimmick. Really if you want to buy stuff online anonymously prepaid gift cards are probably the way to go.
I've messed around with bitcoin plus since its easy but I've made like 2 cents from it so its not exactly practical. Anyone have any recommendations for a real mining application? There seem to be a lot out there.
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Also, bitcoin price immediately dropped from $125 to $90 in less than an hour. It's slowly coming back up though.
Edit: Apparently you can only tap once a day. Not worth it.
Wait, Shit...
https://www.bitcoinstore.com/ and http://bitroad.co.uk/index.php are the Amazons of bitcoins
http://www.gyft.com/ lets you buy gift cards with bitcoins
Humble bundle lets you pay with bitcoins as well.
For more check out https://www.spendbitcoins.com/places/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-the-feds-took-down-the-dread-pirate-roberts/
(This is according to Mtgox, some of the other measures of value vary, of course.)