CARPE DIEM on the Cyprus news! - page 3.

caveden

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Quote from: muyuu on March 18, 2013, 04:04:38 AM

A bit late for that I'd guess. If they have partially locked accounts for transfers and withdrawals, why would it be different for SEPA transfers?

It can't remain locked forever. And there are multiple ways to move money around. Localbitcoins could see some increasing traffic from Cyprus, if only Cypriots were more aware of Bitcoin... (and a good part of the money being sold via localbitcoins would likely have been bought via exchanges, so they could still profit from some advertising)

muyuu

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Quote from: caveden on March 18, 2013, 04:00:57 AM

Regardless of whether you want to kick that nerd's face or not, OP has a great point. This is a great moment for Bitcoin.

If I were MtGox, Bitcoin-central, or any other SEPA-zone exchange, I'd be considering making some advertising on Cypriot television. Perhaps these exchanges could group together to pay for a collective ad. Something briefly explaining why Bitcoin is not affected by such confiscation ("decentralized network not controlled by any single authority, be it bankers or governments").

I'm not into marketing so I'm probably not the best person to come up with such ad. But I'm sure there are talented people around here that could create a great one.

This is the moment to start hitting some "mainstream" folks, at least in Cyprus!

A bit late for that I'd guess. If they have partially locked accounts for transfers and withdrawals, why would it be different for SEPA transfers?

caveden

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Regardless of whether you want to kick that nerd's face or not, OP has a great point. This is a great moment for Bitcoin.

If I were MtGox, Bitcoin-central, or any other SEPA-zone exchange, I'd be considering making some advertising on Cypriot television. Perhaps these exchanges could group together to pay for a collective ad. Something briefly explaining why Bitcoin is not affected by such confiscation ("decentralized network not controlled by any single authority, be it bankers or governments").

I'm not into marketing so I'm probably not the best person to come up with such ad. But I'm sure there are talented people around here that could create a great one.

This is the moment to start hitting some "mainstream" folks, at least in Cyprus!

Timo Y

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bitcoin - the aerogel of money

Dear Saver:

The Euro is an experimental currency. Use at your own risk. Don't invest more into the Euro than you can afford to lose.

cypherdoc

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Hey, you geeks can speak for yourselves:

Bitcoin user not affected.

Kluge

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Turkey invades Cyprus because Greece is LOL.

Bitcoin user still affected.

joecooin

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Quote from: whitenight639 on March 17, 2013, 09:32:24 PM

Fucking geil, as we would say here, I was actually really LOL!

Joe

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cbeast

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

That Guy (as in Don't Be That Guy) is the Alfred E. Newman of the Bitcoin milieu. "What, me worry?"

jubalix

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Brilliant Idea

Maybe the tag line can be

Govt cannot Haz my Bit coins

BITCOIN =1
CYPRUS = 0
GREECE =?
..list of other countries
or flags

herzmeister

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Quote from: FreeMoney on March 17, 2013, 03:15:25 PM

Also, being "unaffected" isn't really anyone's goal. My dead great grandmother was not affected by the Cyprus robbery either.

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WalletScrutiny.com

Quote from: Gabi on March 17, 2013, 06:14:38 PM

I like that bitcoin meme, the face is epic, because it is so true. It express what a bitcoin user think. A government steal money from people saving? Ahahah, i have bitcoin, they can't steal them.

Ok, so the face looks like ignorant nerd? Is that the message you want to transport?

I actually just shared this meme as it is to be taken with a grain of salt but my facebook friends will have that grain of salt.

Gabi

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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat

I like that bitcoin meme, the face is epic, because it is so true. It express what a bitcoin user think. A government steal money from people saving? Ahahah, i have bitcoin, they can't steal them.

joecooin

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Please: that was the pic that was around and that's why I used it.

It does not matter if you use that pic or another or none at all, this is about

THE FACT THAT NO GOVERNMENT CAN SEIZE BITCOINS IF PROPERLY SECURED.

The advantage of a currency not being confiscatable has so far been an abstract and theoretical issue to most people in the western world. They would usually see that as spreading FUD by paranoid conspiracy folks.

THIS HAS CHANGED NOW, as it is happening in front of the world for everybody to see, thus the actual possibility of this to happen enters the reality of populations in so called democratic countries.

We (the Bitcoin community) are not a corporation with a Chief Corporate Identity Officer who decides what pic or claim to use, use anything that suites you and that you feel comfortable with.

The community has communicated this property of Bitcoin as one of it's major advantages over other kinds of money for years now but to actually make people understand what that means in real life and for their own lifes:

now's the fuckin' time.

That's at least my 5 Satoshis.

Joe

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Quote from: markm on March 17, 2013, 04:02:14 PM

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3teq6a/

-MarkM-

There, fixed that for you:

ShadowOfHarbringer

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Quote from: joecooin on March 17, 2013, 12:09:37 PM

So carpe diem and spread the word!
Joe

Let me check it in the books...

Yep, already done.

This meme spreads like wildfire.

markm

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http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3teq6a/

-MarkM-

Herodes

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Diversifying could be a good thing, not putting everything in bitcoin.

dserrano5

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Yeah to be honest it looks like "Ha ha! Those idiots just got robbed!". I guess we could go on with this "Bitcoin user not affected" meme but using different images depending on the event.

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this meme sucks, forcing it just makes it worse

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