The only winning move is not to play.

[Kane]

This bad-ass browser based hardcore RPG is one of the best I have played recently. No other game offers choices & consequences on this level. The choices are gritty and the consequences very emotional.

http://www.beepboopbitcoin.com/

 

[Exar Kun]

I kind of wish this was a real game though....

 

[Name]

This needs romance options.

 

[Kane]

Your bite is a consumation. You scream a series of ones and zeros into the wound in the fatcat's flesh. You are the digital future made flesh. You go to encounter for the twenty-one millionth time the reality of cryptocurrency and to mine in the ASIC of your soul the uncreated market forces of the blockchain. You...you have no transaction fees. None. You howl at the sky, defying anyone, anything to reverse this transaction.

You are suddenly surrounded by activity. You can't follow it all. You feel as if you're floating. You feel as if you're tumbling down. You feel the world shifting around you. This must be one of your powers.

After a time you realise you're alone. You feel as though the world has telescoped down to a warm, soft circle around you. In time you come to realise that this means you've liberated the whole world. Everyone must now be part of the bitcoin network. Everyone is connected. Fiat is dead. Digital cryptocurrencies, whatever they are, have triumphed. As you come to this realisation you lean your forehead against one warm soft wall and laugh until tears flow down your face. You've won. You've won. You've won.

Beat it.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

All the talk is about the closure of tacoX. Some people seem really mad. A lot of people seem to have lost money or bitcoins. Some are saying they're sure tacoX will come back and everyone will get their money back. A few people are saying the closure is good for bitcoin. Their reasoning is that an exchange that shuts down without warning is bad. Since that's what tacoX did that means it was a bad exchange. Since tacoX is now closed, it means that the free market got rid of a bad business. This means the free market works and that's good for bitcoin.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

On bitbuddychat there's a discussion about a book by Ayn Rand. It is about the problems of society. It involves super metals, perpetual motion machines, and cloaking devices. It says that all the smart people should stop working, because this would cause society to collapse and millions of people to die. The book says this is okay, because they have it coming. The book is a work of fiction but some people regard it as a major work of philosophy. Ayn Rand seems to be popular with people who are involved in bitcoin.

 

[Job Creator]

You wait in line and eventually are given some unregulated, free-market pork(?) product. The lack of regulations and health inspections make this pork product much less expensive than "conventional", government-regulated foods. Since the meals here are subsidised by bitcoin donations, this helps every little bit go a long way. That was a joke. Every little bit. Get it? That is a bitcoin joke.

 

[Abelian]

On bitbuddychat there's news that a bitcoin exchange failed. It was apparently the fourth largest exchange in some eastern European country, but you've never heard of it.

I wonder whether the bold text refers to the exchange or the country...

On bitbuddychat it has been reported that the founders of a large bitcoin business have been arrested for money laundering. Some people are saying that the police being involved shows that bitcoin is being taken more seriously, which is good for bitcoin.

The old "there is no such thing as bad publicity mantra"

Edit: this just turned into a text adventure. Mind: blown.