I saw that earlier in the day during College Gameday. I am surprised that the QR Code was readable though. Of course I was more interested in the Georgia Southern 1-0 In the SEC sign. http://30fps.mocksession.com/2013/11/30/georgia-southern-1-0...
Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
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Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#32As a confused Belgian, what is meant by "Unlike traditional bank accounts, where you would never share your account number on national television, Bitcoin public addresses are secure"? Giving out your account number in Belgium is pretty secure, nobody can do anything with it beyond putting money on it. What's different in the USA? What extra info are you handing out by giving your account number beyond "this is a 'ba…
I guess that will change next year with SEPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area The German equivalent is called ELV/Lastschrift and allows you to retrieve money from a bank account, but the owner can revoke that within a few weeks.
Japan also has a system to automatically withdraw money from someone elses account, eg for rent, but requires the account owner to authorize the other account first. does germany not have that step?
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#33He's only keeping the first 2.26 bitcoins.
He's donating the rest (over 20 bitcoins) to Sean's Outpost, a bitcoin charity.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rs2zf/on_college_g...
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is the implication. He got sent very large sums of Bitcoin, you would expect that he'd just get a bunch of small ones, but he got 2-3 large ones ($5,000 a piece).
Maybe from people who didn't realise how much they are worth?
What number of people do you think qualify:
1) Have 5+ BTC 2) Recognize a QR code on a TV broadcast 3) Think to pause the tv broadcast, decode the QR code and send BTC 4) Completely unaware of the 1000s of news articles and broadcasts about the soaring value of BTC
Maybe he sent it to himself, maybe someone else was just very generous, but no one purposefully sent 5BTC without knowing it was valuable.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#35https://blockchain.info/address/1HiMoMgBaAikFHgAt3M4YJtetp4H...
Looks like people are using the address to publicize messages now too.
"Public Note: Here's the money you asked for honey; please don't spend it all on strippers and blow like you did the last time. Love Mommy."
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#36It's worth noting that a very large percentage of these donations are coming from a very small number of parties. Notably over $10,000 each from https://blockchain.info/address/1F8UFEeVJGXUzR9TWfBMkyqbipjM... and https://blockchain.info/address/1JSDMMDybTZ9nEZgMUtTXQSW4hGR...
I bet one of them is a winklevii
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#37I love how whenever a new technology comes out the amount of applications are never fully apparent.
When I first heard of bitcoin back in 2010 I thought it was a cool concept, but sending money to unknown people across the world? That never crossed my mind.
Now that I think about it, we do it all the time in the forms of charities. Tsunami victims on the other side of the world, a fund is set up to help them out, and most people might say, I'll chip in a dollar, but I can't be fucked to find out how, and sending a dollar is hard anyway. Then mobile phone operators started offering SMS payments, and people had a simple solution.
With cryptocurrency this solution is even easier. It wasn't until it actually happened that this clicked for me.
Consider telephone for example, initially it was used to talk to other people over a long distance, but it was thanks to that concept of sending information down a wire that made it possible today to eg. look at a live webcam on the other side of the world right now.
Imagine telling someone 200 years ago that you could talk/see a person on the other side of the world in real time. Remember, phones didn't exist, motion picture was unheard of etc.
They would think you are mad.
It would be as unbelievable as saying today you can use buy a Rolex watch made in Europe online and it would be teleported to your desk.
But who knows, maybe this will be possible in the future.
And maybe in retrospect it would have been obvious.
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#38Story about Bitcoin being a good thing on Hacker News. Cue negativity: Comment negative about scams, silly stories and QR codes being bad - check Deeply cynical comment - "They were probably donating for their own gain" - check Skeptical comment that this isn't true - check You're a cynical, negative bunch of pissants these days, HN.
I'm not sure how you could look at HN and think it's anything but zealous about Bitcoins. You'd have to have some deep and powerful victimization complex.
I only ever see comments like yours on Bitcoin articles. Most every other article, HN is even more negative, and everyone goes along with it, but as soon as it's about Bitcoin, "How dare you say those things!" It's almost as if you've convinced yourself of Bitcoin to the point of not being able to handle anyone questioning it. Your mind just can't comprehend why anyone would not hold the same view as you.
I wonder what that sounds like?
Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#39I love how whenever a new technology comes out the amount of applications are never fully apparent. When I first heard of bitcoin back in 2010 I thought it was a cool concept, but sending money to unknown people across the world? That never crossed my mind. Now that I think about it, we do it all the time in the forms of charities. Tsunami victims on the other side of the world, a fund is set up to help them out, and…
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Re: Signholder Receives Over $24,000 In Bitcoin After QR Code Appears On ESPN
#40Story about Bitcoin being a good thing on Hacker News. Cue negativity: Comment negative about scams, silly stories and QR codes being bad - check Deeply cynical comment - "They were probably donating for their own gain" - check Skeptical comment that this isn't true - check You're a cynical, negative bunch of pissants these days, HN.
I'm not sure how you could look at HN and think it's anything but zealous about Bitcoins. You'd have to have some deep and powerful victimization complex. I only ever see comments like yours on Bitcoin articles. Most every other article, HN is even more negative, and everyone goes along with it, but as soon as it's about Bitcoin, "How dare you say those things!" It's almost as if you've convinced yourself of Bitcoin…
No there's always a few posters that can't stop themselves from referencing tulips or pyramids. And humans remember unpleasant things better in the short term. So there you have it, the GP isn't irrational, but possibly hasn't done a statistical survey.