A Few Trick-or-Treaters in Canada Receive a Surprising Treat: Bitcoin (cointelegraph.com) 37
Cointelegraph reports:
While many children dressed as ghosts, goblins, and witches last night may have been disappointed to find an inedible thin piece of cardboard left out in a goodie bag, a lucky few recognized the treat as a Bitcoin prize.
According to an October 31 tweet from Brad Mills, the crypto user filled a Halloween candy box with more than just chocolates and sweets — he also added $200 in Bitcoin (BTC) cards. Mills posted a video of him adding the two gift cards, each worth roughly 0.007 BTC following the coin's rise to $14,000, and filmed the reactions of trick or treaters in his Canadian neighborhood.
One boy in a white costume was the first to meticulously dig through the box before saying to his group of friends, "I just got a $100 Bitcoin gift card!"
According to an October 31 tweet from Brad Mills, the crypto user filled a Halloween candy box with more than just chocolates and sweets — he also added $200 in Bitcoin (BTC) cards. Mills posted a video of him adding the two gift cards, each worth roughly 0.007 BTC following the coin's rise to $14,000, and filmed the reactions of trick or treaters in his Canadian neighborhood.
One boy in a white costume was the first to meticulously dig through the box before saying to his group of friends, "I just got a $100 Bitcoin gift card!"
"I just got Bitcoin!" (Score:3)
I saw the video of those kids digging through that box. Dude, you just got Coronavirus.
I did the PVC pipe out the window trick last night. The neighborhood parents appreciated it.
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And why would they get COVID-19 but the kids picking candy from your PVC pipe wouldn't?
Were you disinfecting every single piece of candy that went down your PVC pipe?
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Were you disinfecting every single piece of candy that went down your PVC pipe?
The candies aren't going to come pre-infected from the grocery store.
Just use a mitt to drop the candies into the top end of the pipe.
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What fun is that?
Angle the pipe slightly upward and use it as a blowgun.
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Were you disinfecting every single piece of candy that went down your PVC pipe?
Which came out of a sealed plastic bag. Probably produced and packed under sanitary conditions. And just sitting in that bag for a few weeks probably renders remaining viruses dead. So as long as I'm OK and I've washed my hands, the kids are only exposed to a low probability of catching something from me. The Nth kid digging through a box is exposed to N-1 possible sources.
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That's why I shouldn't post before my morning coffee.
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A good soaking in Lysol before sending down the chute will kill everything -- including those that eat the candy afterwards.
Child Abuse (Score:2)
I saw the video of those kids digging through that box. Dude, you just got Coronavirus.
If not here, then elsewhere on their neighborhood trip.
Were no trick-or-treaters at our house last night. IMHO any jurisdiction was derelict if it wasn't citing adults for child abuse if the took their kids, or let them go, trick-or-treating this year.
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IMHO any jurisdiction was derelict if it wasn't citing adults for child abuse if the took their kids, or let them go, trick-or-treating this year.
Also reckless endangerment - of any occupants (especially oldsters) of the houses visited. One count per occupant.
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Your short-sighted point of view is costing everyone their freedom. The longer you delay strict rules to eliminate COVID-19, the longer it's going to take.
Meanwhile, other countries with strict quarantine rules are now starting to re-open and live normally.
Re: Child Abuse (Score:2)
No worse than sending you kids to school.
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I used one of those t-shirt cannons that they have at NBA games to shoot candy at the kids. I vaporized a couple of them before figuring out how to turn down the force of the cannon. Who knew that Smarties fired from a t-shirt cannon were basically grapeshot? Next year, I'm adding a reflex sight and maybe a laser.
Live and learn.
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We did it too, except we used a cardboard tube.
It both maintained distance from the little vectors of disease running around, and also was kind of a game to see if they could catch the candy. Which for some of the kids involved, was actually a challenge, cute little tykes.
Bitcoin for candy? (Score:5, Interesting)
I guess these kids will have to buy their own candy.
You can buy very interesting candy online with Bitcoin... Or so I heard.
I guess... (Score:2)
Sounds like they're gonna have to update "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".
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Bitcoin is a money revolution! (Score:1)
The Gold Standard was suspended temporary with WWI. Later, in 1971, the suspension became definitive. Bitcoin fixes all possible money manipulations and corruptions: https://medium.com/@festina_le... [medium.com]
Re: I guess... (Score:2)
Bitcoin is just like tulips.
If tulips were indestructible and kept increasing in value for decades at a time.
Hmm... turns out Bitcoin isn't really anything like tulips...
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I now have this picture of Lucy's stand in my head - it still lists the 5-cent consulting fee, but she's added the address of her bitcoin wallet.
When the Russians encrypt his data, he can pay up (Score:1)
Sound money is useful (Score:2)
News for nerds or stuff that matters (Score:2)
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n = newsworthiness of a bitcoin story, and
k = bitcoin hype
nk is a figure of merit that determines whether a news story will appear in my feed.
Because k = infinity,
as long as n > 0 , no matter how small, then
nk = infinity.
Got it. I hate it, but I get it.
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Re: News for nerds or stuff that matters (Score:2)
Nerds like Bitcoin. I'd imagine many of here first heard about Bitcoin on Slashdot. Why wouldn't this be a story?
Cool! I got bitcoin (Score:2)
Good Wedding Gift (Score:2)
We gave a cousin some bitcoin a few years ago for a wedding gift. They were moving across the country into a small apartment and didn't need much in the physical realm. We suggested "open in 2023".
https://gift.bitcoin.com/ [bitcoin.com] has an easy helper script.
Re: Good Wedding Gift (Score:2)
That's not Bitcoin. That's Bitcoin Cash. You gave them basically a cash gift that's hard to redeem. If they wait till 2023, they might not have anything left.
Poor kids (Score:2, Funny)
recipients of a "trick" rather than a "treat".
"The Human Fund" from Seinfeld (Score:2)
You can act like you gave, but give nothing. "Genius!".