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Hackers have changed bitcoin's description to read: Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks bu
by jordhy 12y ago
Hackers have changed bitcoin's description to read:
Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks butts. These tasks are managed collectively by the network. It’s like a bitcoin, but with butts instead.
- 80ProofPudding 12y agoStarting to wish these guys would hire writers. So much more exposure for saying something clever or funny... but no. Butts.
- snorrah 12y agoButts are always funny
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoButtcoin.org is also a satirical blog that mocks the extremely vested segments of the Bitcoin community: http://buttcoin.org/ http://buttcoin.org/ I used to read it at one time, and it was actually often the voice of reason in a sea of anarcho-capitalist pipe dreams, but I don't know about its present state.
- patio11 12y agoIt was bought by a straw purchaser on behalf of BFL, a Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer with an aversion to shipping in a timely fashion, as a reputation management ploy. They edited some pointed posts about BFL and left the rest of the blog up. Just another day in the Bitcoin economy.
- AlexMax 12y agoThe original buttcoiners seem to have moved on to http://reddit.com/r/buttcoin http://reddit.com/r/buttcoin The buttcoiners seem to make light of the BFL purchase, since in their mind, the former owner has done something that many Bitcoin investors have not - made a profit off of Bitcoin.