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the guy from Algeria

In Luxembourg I was trading bitcoins on the streets. Each customer was a super wacky character, and every trade was like a sitcom episode.

Once there was this guy from Algeria. We met at a restaurant and he said he wants to buy exactly 1 bitcoin. No problem, gimme your cash. The Bitcoin price was about 7600 euros, and he gave me a bag full of 10s and 20s. Imagine 7600 euros in 10s and 20s, mostly 10s. That was literally a bag of cash.

I counted that and told him it was not enough. He said "Just a sec!", jumped and ran away. I`m sitting there alone, with a bag of cash, the guy is gone. I`m thinking "WELL, THAT WENT WELL. NOW I CAN GO HOME", but I`m waiting.

10 minutes later he came back and gave me another 350 euro. Bitcoin price fluctuates a lot, so I checked with exchange and told him it was not enough again. He said "Just a sec!", jumped and ran away. I`m thinking "WELL THAT IS EVEN BETTER. HE LITERALLY KEEPS BRINGING ME MONEY."

10 minutes later he came back and sadly said "ATM doesn't give me more". I`m "Ok, how about 0.98 bitcoin?" He starts whining that he wants a full bitcoin, and I`m trying to reason with him. For some irrational reason it is very important for him to buy exactly one bitcoin. Actually there are only 21 million of bitcoins in the universe, so max 21 million op people can possibly afford having 1 bitcoin.

Finally I convinced him for 0.98 and asked for his wallet address. He gave me some sequence of letters and numbers. I`m about to send there his funds, but then I`m got cautious: - Is it your address? - Yes. - Where did you get it from? - Here. - Show me.

Because honestly all this is already fun enough. I don't want to send this guys bitcoins to some parking ticket serial number instead, so then we would find ourselves in a very particular situation, where I`m explaning him that all his bitcoins are gone, and I want to go home with my cash.

So I questioned him about every detail of the address, his bitcoin wallet, and even asked him for the master seed. When I asked for the master seed he got worried "But I should not show you my master seed, right?" I thought "OH WOW. WOW. LOOK AT HIM. HE JUST GAVE ME ALL HIS MONEY AND LEFT TWICE, BUT HE IS WORRIED ABOUT ME STEALING HIS MASTER SEED. TURNS OUT HE IS NOT A COMPLETE IDIOT!"

So I: - Look at the seed. Do you remember yourself writing it down on a paper? - Yes. - Are you sure? - Yes! - Are you absolutely sure? - YES. I WROTE IT DOWN, PLACED IN A CAPSULE WITH MY S-NANO, AND BURIED THE CAPSULE IN THE SAHARA DESERT IN ALGERIA.

I'm WOW. How can this be more awesome than that?

I sent him his funds. Turns out he is a taxi driver, and his clients pay him in 10s and 20s, and he decided to buy bitcoin because Trump is the president, the world economy is about to collapse and banks cannot be trusted.

He left, I got out on the street with a bag of cash, fed it all to the nearest ATM and went home.

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The Bicycle Chain

This weekend I replaced the back wheel on my bicycle. After that I covered the back gears and chain with machine oil. But I didn't quite make it right, so the whole thing is covered with a lot of black dirty oil and looks ugly. I thought maybe I should do it properly, like people do in the Netherlands - to make it clean and shiny. But then I decided to stick back to what it looked like in my childhood - dirty and disgusting, because this way I feel some connection with my ancestors. And I can fix it later.

So the next day I decided to ride to the beach. On the way my chain went off. So I have stopped, put my bicycle upside down and there I`m working on it and trying to put the chain back with my key. I need the key because the chain is dirty and I don't want to touch it. I can totally do it by myself, but suddenly I`m got surrounded by a lot of dutch people and the most professional bicycle racer on the most fancy bike approached me and asked if I needed help.

I told him I may need a screwdriver (because my key is not long enough to catch the chain). But the guy puts me away and says something like "let me do it". And then to my horror he starts digging in the chain and chain gears with his bare hands. Immediately he gets very dirty. I`m watching it unable to stop the developing disaster.

I see he has already realized his mistake. Obviously he didn't expect such a situation to be even possible. And I`m still hoping he will stop, but he can`t, because I guess he is already committed to it. I said "I`m so sorry. You didn`t know what you are getting yourself into." He continues digging into this covering hands with black oil up to his elbows and obviously getting angry at himself. "ARE YOU A TOURIST?" - "No, but this is my first year in the Netherlands."

Also his friend arrived and asked about the issue. They exchanged a few phrases in dutch about me being an imbecile, and then his friend decided to help me too. This time I tried to stop it by telling him "WAIT, THIS THING IS VERY DIRTY", but he insists too and covers himself with black oil. This is so bad, I can`t watch. I lost all the hope to stop this from happening. I`m just desperately following the story developing. Also there is a crowd of people watching the whole thing with interest. This situation is embarrassing for everyone.

Finally to everyone's relief the chain is fixed. I gave them all my paper napkins, trying to mitigate the damage. They told me - "CLEAN THE CHAIN, USE WAX, NOT OIL." - "I`m so sorry. I swear I will. Thank you so much for your help. I`m so sorry." - "IS IT YOUR FIRST BICYCLE TRIP?"- "No, but this is my first bicycle."  - "MAYBE NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BUY A SPORT BIKE AND RIDE WITH US. - "That sounds good." - "WE WILL LET YOU TO BE OUR FORWARD, HAHAHA" - "Yeah right." - "OK, HAVE FUN"

Everyone left and I was staying there for some time trying to overcome what just happened, silently watching a group of little funny cows and two horses happily playing in the sunset.

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Usually every evening, when it is getting dark, my cat asks me to go outside and walk with her around the area. I taught her to do it by herself but she insists on me joining. So I make myself a huge cup of tea, put on a warm hoodie and take some music with me.

The walk usually takes an hour. Other cats are curious about us. Normally they all are alone and have to build local cat social hierarchy by themselves. But my cat brings a powerful friend with her (Me). So the other cats show her their respects about that and also join the walk.

You can imagine what the whole thing looks like. People secretly peeping out of their windows, hoards of cats, huge cup of tea, and me dancing while walking. Yesterday one old man with a dog came to me and said: "So you are the catman?"

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Fundamentally all this concepts like banks, capitalism, UN and governments are just games people playing. In 2008 Bitcoin introduced a new type of games. Giving unexpected perspective on governments and economies it basically opened a new era in our history.

I got interested in cryptocurrencies it in 2017. Last two years I was trying to build my own coin, and this month I released it. It is called PicFight coin.

It is a fully-functional crypto. Also more powerful than Bitcoin from the technical point of view. ;) PicFight coin supports two ways of mining: 1) PoW - like Bitcoin, when miners are rewarded for finding new blocks and constructing blockchain. 2) PoS - when miners a rewarded for verifying blocks found by the PoW miners. You are welcome to try it. Ask me if you have any troubles. All the code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/picfight/ including a GUI wallet: https://github.com/picfight/pfcredit

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Hi folks,

How are you?

I was away for a long time.

Are you still here on Tumblr? Is it still the place to share indie game dev ideas? Or did you move somewhere else?

Please let me know if you see this message.

Cheers,

J.

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Arizona

https://vk.com/ryzhov_art + https://github.com/RedTriplane/RedParallax

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Hello developers

Yesterday I built a tool to help a fellow artist to test a parallax effect.

The tool is called RedParallax Viewer and you can download it as a ZIP file: https://github.com/RedTriplane/RedParallax/releases

Basically, it takes a specially formatted Photoshop file and renders it. You can find a self-explanatory example inside the archive.

Usage: 1) Download. Unpack. 2) Run. 4) Edit the PSD file, wait for the tool to rebuild the scene. 3) See the result. Use mouse to parallax. If you have any questions or comments you can drop them directly to the tracker: https://github.com/RedTriplane/RedParallax/issues Have a nice day. (The example art belongs to the Sergei Ryzhov https://vk.com/ryzhov_art)

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music: https://vk.com/wall-45335258_602  Floex – Forgot Me Not

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