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Topic: Why so many transactions in the Gulf of Guinea? (Read 3285 times)

legendary
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September 09, 2012, 06:10:17 AM
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Its where pirate's ship is anchored

+1000 LOOOOOOOOL

pirate in the Gulf of Guinea, surfin'    Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy


God, I can't get enough of that GIF.

This blood stained bill on his chest...

In the real picture of Pirateat40, he will be lit up like a candle after few happy frames?
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All that transactions are from 127.0.0.1, localhost, right?  I think that these transactions are from blockchain.info/wallet.
legendary
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RUM AND CARROTS: A PIRATE LIFE FOR ME
Its where pirate's ship is anchored

+1000 LOOOOOOOOL

pirate in the Gulf of Guinea, surfin'    Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy


God, I can't get enough of that GIF.
legendary
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It's a subliminal message for the rest of the world showing that out of nothing, something of great magnitude has emerged. That, and it keeps the the old-world pirates--those without internet access--hunting for Bitcoin's Holy Gail: The Genesis Block. In the US, we've dubbed such a quasi-sport snipe hunting.

legendary
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Democracy is the original 51% attack
Its where pirate's ship is anchored

LOL
legendary
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Its where pirate's ship is anchored

+1000 LOOOOOOOOL

pirate in the Gulf of Guinea, surfin'    Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

legendary
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Its where pirate's ship is anchored
hero member
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this is just an empty data entry. they should finally catch that and don't display this silly map in that case.

i can even sell them a spare if(...) { ... } clause for their java backend, just 0.99 BTC today.

p
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127.0.0.1 (localhost) shows there. Default location i guess.
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Lat 0 Lon 0. Probably just means they don't have location data.
legendary
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Democracy is the original 51% attack

Whenever I'm looking up transactions, a large percentage show their location as being off the coast of west Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea. I know that it just means the server which first relayed this was located there... but is there some special operation or server there which is becoming some sort of centralized node?

Any ideas?

Example:
http://blockchain.info/tx/bb0035f8b02f7e716d14a90505ffdf00e4b71a3e6030c41abebf7129915bd42a/bb0035f8b02f7e716d14a90505ffdf00e4b71a3e6030c41abebf7129915bd42a
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