Topic: @RogerVer lets make a deal. At least 60k, my BTU for your BTC. - page 21. (Read 64924 times)

I don't think any sane person will take such deal even at the ratio of 1 to 2, the development team working on BU will really have to work very smart because it will be honey pot for hackers even the so call miners can work against BU

I don't think that Roger is that silly to take the deal he knows that he is at disadvantage if ever he is going to take the deal. He knows what he is doing and he won't waste millions of bucks just for his silly creation. When it comes to money, he will never put it at risk. Let's wait for some more hours if he is a real guy.

This is an attempt to show his confidence in btc.I think if that challenge is excepted by Ver (and he should if he believes in BU),the person getting btc will be the winner because btc is already an established coin.It will take time fot btc to die while BU could either die or grow slowly.

Yep he is a JOKE... including BTCU...
people now should keep remembering him about it.
because rhetoric does not help him , time to explain to the non press.
its a realativly simple ting , kind of like the fake nakamoto stuff...

Nope he is still super busy. Doing podcasts and stuff. No time to spare to make a 130 million USD deal.

I believe its been more than the 48hrs, did Ver take the deal?

the truth till now is he did not respond accept for rhetoric.
but that wont help him this time..

Roger is a clown now, he knows nothing but only plays some tricks, fortunately we see some rich guys have shown against him. He will lose his precious BTC for worthless BTU.

They need to get 75% or so hashpower.  You can keep track of it on node counter.

Quite pointless for people to say 'fork off already' because they won't until they reach that level.

Even that's a more realistic story. Maybe BTU is the next step in the story. What if the only way the Island of Nevis Consortium/Group Satoshi can maintain their control is by supporting BU. They plan on taking over every node and mining farm to secure their evil plan. muahahaha

I really wish BTU would just split already if they're going to do it. This is absolutely exhausting. At least then we wouldn't have to hear about it every day and each side could work on their projects in peace.

Or maybe they super early adopters had a real plan from the beginning. What if Group Satoshi knew exactly what they were doing in creating the censorship resistant currency, this forum, the darknet market and the acquisition of the first BTC exchange from Jed McCaleb. It all started from there and the rise and rise of Bitcoin might be no fluke.

We don't want to pay the price of losing censorship-resistance and privacy. That's why we don't have 8GB blocks. It's pretty simple indeed, no free lunch indeed. No lunch we don't want to pay.

When you are small enough then you can afford it for the demand you have (early Bitcoin, Monero).

that dollar vigilante guy is just super cool.
i'd love to smoke a joint with him one day  

And yes he can talk and talk and talk , but that does not help him this time...
the only thing that will help him is when he signs a message on a wallet containing 40.000 BTC , to double down...
That's the beauty  of bitcoin ,,,, you have to put the money were yourt mouth is and everybody can see if you do.
because everybody having commandline btc client.
can verify the loaded's 40.000 BTC bet by typing

./bitcoin-cli verifymessage 19Mz2o9RDABT74SA9njZqMtJXKEzj2qUoH H9ed6z5RgdThRxXXqePmtJbaK1pGvoy6e+aiwUPD6pkrJ6d6TBchOu5OQLEbgq/15YRjcOUC+kMrGVfszUXV5Wc= '@RogerVer lets make a deal, 1 for 1 trade. At least 60k, possibly up to 130k, my BTU for your BTC.'

the answer after some waiting will be "true"
and that's all roger needs to do ,,, setting up a wallet containing 40.000 btc , singing it in the same way as Loaded did , so everybody can check this for them self.
Until this I can not take joke coin unlimited very serious.

I don't think they were stupid. I think they really didn't believe the price would skyrocket so fast. That amounts to not really believing in bitcoin. Someone mentioned just buying more to replace what you spent. If you believed it would grow so fast you should buy as much as you can and as much as you can afford with every penny you have and hold, hold, hold.

Ok, maybe the pizza had this great magical effect. I just believe it was more likely that the slashdot and gawker articles that happened at the same time were the real reason for the meteoric rise. You do know the largest holder of btc was the US government because they took Ross Ulbrich's coin away from him, right. Drug addicts and pushers (with the help of a few online articles) really put bitcoin on the map, not a pizza purchase. I doubt you can find anyone outside the members of this forum that even know the pizza story but everyone at the time heard of Silk Road.

Yeah, that's what I think too. That's has more to do with dumb luck than mad trading skillz. Ver was an angel investor. I would expect him to have a bunch hanging around. This guy named James Howells bought something like 7,500 btc in 2009 and threw away a hard drive. He remembered he had some after the price went up and looked for the hard drive only to remember that he threw it away. That's like buying Apple stock at the beginning and throwing away the certificates. That's got to sting a little.

Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. That's not true for everyone, and even laszlo possibly had an inkling of an ulterior motive with his purchase. Did you ever read laszlo's account of Satoshi's response to him having started GPU mining? Here's a link.

Basically, laszlo had mined far more than the 10k coin using a GPU. Satoshi encouraged him that a more widespread adoption would help grow the network and adoption rates. Here's what he said (we don't really have proof this was Satoshi, but laszlo didn't really have reason to make it up)


He claims he's sold out all of this coins, but he very well may have stashed some away that he holds onto and just tells people its all gone. That's what I would have done had I been lucky enough to be one of the first GPU miners. I mean, imagine all the people that had at least 100 bitcoin when it hit $1000 in 2013. Were they stupid for having sold at least some of it? If you'd asked that question in 2014 or early 2015, the answer would have been a definite "no". But by today's standards was it stupid? Maybe? It's hard to say with the price where it is. Five years from now? Probably, but we're still not sure, network dominance in the cryptocurrency space might be a fleeting prospect.

I get what you're saying, though, it's unlikely that Laszlo repurchased or started GPU farming coin at the $2 bottom in 2011, or at the $160 bottom in early 2015, but how many people are really that good at timing anyway? He had a family and wasn't going to keep GPU mining or FPGA mining and his time was probably better invested elsewhere than paying attention to Bitcoin. Not everyone can spend every waking minute on Bitcoin, after all. I guess my contention is with calling him "stupid", he got what he wanted out of it, can't fault him for that.

I donated 10 BTC to help out the forum in 2012, so I'm an idiot as well, right? Now I don't own a single coin to my name because I spent all $10k worth of that coin I ever owned on the forum... I promise! 

Who cares if he didn't sign it.  Obviously its him unless you believe someone hacked his youtube and bitcointalk account. 

Still no signed proposal from Roger Ver 
For every hour that passes this guy becomes more of a Joke.
Because math is so much stronger then rhetoric.
Still waiting.....