TL Store: Now accepting Bitcoin! - Page 6

On December 04 2013 10:00 gold_ wrote:
Cool, just randomly selected someone on the first page for a gift TL+ to try it out. See how it goes.

So easy to gift people with Bitcoins. Should really add a gift multiple users though.

On December 03 2013 21:41 boxerfred wrote:



some guy lost his hard drive with the key to a hell of a lot bitcoins. that equaled a loss of more than a million dollars if I remember correctly. you should've kept them

On December 04 2013 10:00 gold_ wrote:
Cool, just randomly selected someone on the first page for a gift TL+ to try it out. See how it goes.

So easy to gift people with Bitcoins. Should really add a gift multiple users though.

On December 04 2013 09:45 Pittski wrote:
BitCoins are cool and all, but They still have a lot of work ahead of them to equal out the amount of stress it puts on your PC. Also there was a scam going on either this year, or last year where someone in a major company included the bitcoin script into a program where anyone who got the program on their computer it was being used for his profit. The person was obviously caught and the the program was fixed, but A lot of people computers were reported damaged from the stress.

Also, if you come to think of it. Bitcoins can ultimately really hurt the World Economy if it picks up. Since its basing its currency off thin air. It will increase national debt since it is not being produced off a Gold amount.

On December 04 2013 05:39 Oakenshield wrote:



Bitcoin supporters only talk about the profit a few of them made, and never talk about the thousands of hours and dollars wasted and lost. Or the times it's been hacked. Or the fact that almost no one accepts it except for a now defunct illegal drug trade website. I'm really shocked that Team Liquid would even want bitcoins, I imagine they got some kind of a special deal from the company. This isn't a criticism, just genuine shock.

On December 04 2013 05:42 FabledIntegral wrote:
Would it be possible to invest in bitcoins by simply buying one now and sitting on it, and hoping it appreciates in value? Similar to gold?

On December 04 2013 22:18 Izanagii wrote:
If you were one of the people I gave $1 to 9 months ago here:

www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/19utdu/hey_rstarcraft_its_my_7th_cake_day_and_youre_my/

you should now be able to buy a t-shirt @ TL.net. By design, this is how a deflationary, open-source, decentralized currency is supposed to work.

I won't ever give investment advice, but remember the old chinese proverb: "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is today".

Enjoy!

On December 04 2013 05:39 Oakenshield wrote:



Bitcoin supporters only talk about the profit a few of them made, and never talk about the thousands of hours and dollars wasted and lost. Or the times it's been hacked. Or the fact that almost no one accepts it except for a now defunct illegal drug trade website. I'm really shocked that Team Liquid would even want bitcoins, I imagine they got some kind of a special deal from the company. This isn't a criticism, just genuine shock.

On December 04 2013 09:45 Pittski wrote:
BitCoins are cool and all, but They still have a lot of work ahead of them to equal out the amount of stress it puts on your PC. Also there was a scam going on either this year, or last year where someone in a major company included the bitcoin script into a program where anyone who got the program on their computer it was being used for his profit. The person was obviously caught and the the program was fixed, but A lot of people computers were reported damaged from the stress.

Also, if you come to think of it. Bitcoins can ultimately really hurt the World Economy if it picks up. Since its basing its currency off thin air. It will increase national debt since it is not being produced off a Gold amount.

On December 03 2013 22:37 Marcus420 wrote:

we will be laughing when bitcoin doubles in price again

On December 03 2013 21:34 ROOTSasquatch wrote:
I once did some free coaching and the guy insisted on paying me 15 bitcoins, I had no idea what they were at the time so when I reformatted my computer I didn't bother saving the wallet .

Seems like so many places are starting to use bitcoins though so It's nice that TL is too!

On December 05 2013 19:04 Bogeyman wrote:
Could someone explain to me the idea behind generating bitcoins by letting computers "mine" them? This is exactly the kind of economical... well, bullshit to put it bluntly, that makes me lose faith in... humanity? Making money out of nothing just makes me think of blowing balloons. How can it possibly be that with a super computer, perhaps designed for this single purpose, one can create huge amounts of money? Why would we pay "real money" (let's face it, money is just an agreement of worth) for these mined bitcoins? Why would we support such a crazy system?

Quite frankly though I'm the kind of person who in some ways also hate the stock market for similar reasons.

Anyway... seeing as there's really no risk from TL's side (as has been mentioned earlier in this post) I can completely understand this move. I'm just not liking some aspects of the system. That said, I'm not so sure it's much worse than how other currencies are handled. I guess I'm just a bitter man.

edit: also, it feels extremely unsafe to "store the money" on your harddrive. Sure, you can drop your wallet and lose money, and sure your bank could burn up in flames (figuratively speaking), but having a harddrive die doesn't feel like a way I'd be willing to lose all my money.