Silk Road forums
Discussion => Security => Topic started by: amazing777 on August 05, 2012, 07:18 pm
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well basicallly im new to buying Bitcoins,
however Ive played Online Poker for years, and place like Pokerstars (Worth billions of Dollars) allows you to transfer money between players., (The reason they do this is stop people folding money across the poker tables)
the sender under no circumstances cannot get there money back once its sent. You can cashout very easily on Stars and you have many many deposit methods all instantly. Cashout usually takes 3 days.
It only requires you to trust the BITCOIN seller to send the bitcoins and your not doing anything illegal anyway...
Online poker is banned in the USA, and so this option is only for everyone else
Thoughts? Pokerstars has over 250,000 players on it sometimes. Often sponser TV programs. You could trust them with $100,000.
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well basicallly im new to buying Bitcoins,
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Thoughts? Pokerstars has over 250,000 players on it sometimes. Often sponser TV programs. You could trust them with $100,000.
Bitcoin is borderless, Pokerstars is not.
Bitcoin works on more than two operating systems, Pokerstars does not (it's Windows and Mac only).
Bitcoin does not require a central site or registering an account, Pokerstars is a centralised site which requires registration (and probably needs to be linked to a bank account to get the money).
Your chances of convincing major vendors on Silk Road to use Pokerstars or a site like it are about three fifths of fuck all.
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Yea, way too much registration for most people's comfort levels I would think. I suppose someone purely selling BTC and doing no other vending might do something like that, but I'd doubt it. It is already easy enough with localbitcoins and bit-instant, at least in most Western countries and near larger cities.
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This won't work. Why mess with a working system? Also, Pokerstars is not worth BILLIONS. No way.
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Why would people use it?...Point is its easy Easy to cashout on Pokerstars, without raising a eyebrow,
its not as easy to cashout with Bitcoins it would appear.
Pokerstars are "defintily" worth billions, gambling is a bad addiction "they Rake money on 20,000+ tables every second"....
They just purchased there Competitor Full Tilt and are paying full tilts debts off for $754 million.
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Better off going to a casino, cash in cash out then go buy btc anonymously or blow it all at a strip club
I imagine a day in the future when you can beam a stripper BTC to pay for a lapdance via NFC to her t-bar that has Android running on it. I might patent android w/ NFC on a thong right now tbh.
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Better off going to a casino, cash in cash out then go buy btc anonymously or blow it all at a strip club
I imagine a day in the future when you can beam a stripper BTC to pay for a lapdance via NFC to her t-bar that has Android running on it. I might patent android w/ NFC on a thong right now tbh.
Now *that*, unlike the OP's suggestion, really is a great idea. :)