Last night I went to Strange Brew Tavern in Manchester for their 200th bitcoin meetup. It is the longest running consecutive bitcoin meet up in the world — going for almost 4 years now.
People talked about mining ethereum and being dash masternodes — they talked about successful strategies for encouraging businesses and individuals to take cryptocurrencies as payment — and they talked about achieving more personal freedom in New Hampshire. I was impressed by the turnout. About 2 dozen or so people. A range of all types: gay and straight, techies, real estate people, media people, old, middle aged, and young mothers and their children. The group gets the whole back room in the tavern and received excellent service the whole night.
I asked if I could tip my waiter in bitcoin, but he said that he doesn’t have a wallet anymore. He got a new phone and lost all the bitcoin the patrons had given him over the past years. After that, he was really sour on bitcoin and was unwilling to accept it, even as a tip on top of the cash tip I left him. After about 2 hours of chatter, people started to clear out. I was disappointed that there wasn’t a big photo op moment where everyone crowded in and memorialized this event. I supposed I could have tried organizing that, but I didn’t.
I should mention also that there’s another bar in Manchester, Murphy’s Taproom, that not only accepts bitcoin but they also have one of the best bitcoin vending machines for hundreds of miles around. I don’t understand why this bitcoin meetup group doesn’t support Murphy’s and instead goes to a place that doesn’t accept bitcoin, but I see it as an opportunity. There can be a meetup for the crowd that likes cheap beer and a meetup for a crowd that likes to spread bitcoin.
For now, I’ll continue spreading the word about bitcoin in my hometown of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where my Bikram Yoga Studio started accepting bitcoin this week. Namaste.
I should add:
Weekly meetups like the one in Manchester give the bitcoin community a pulse. It says to the world, “We’re alive and growing — bitcoin hasn’t gone anywhere.” In fact, the people at this meetup would be just as happy to help a n00b set up their first bitcoin wallet as they would to discuss Ethereum mining or their Dash Masternode. Manchester’s monumental 200th meetup also shows outsiders that crypto is mainstream — not a bunch of geeks in forums. Bitcoiners are your neighbors, your waitress, and the guys playing pool at the bar.
Five years of victimless crime spree and where has it got yah? You are not able to have a license to carry concealed. Good job asshat!
BB SIZZLE Michael dear, why do you advance the notion that a consitutional right may only be exercised as long as the government provides a license for it? You don’t hold this opinion because you read it at Daily Kos, did you kitten?
Go back to Romania, dear.
BB SIZZLE Are you evicting me, Michael dear, or are you implying that I have an obligation to leave? Either way, your argument is faulty, kitten. By your reasoning, if I had bought a car with a bad transmission, instead of fixing it I should just make do and push it wherever I need to go.
Her goes drac again here trolling, and not talking about the topics on these blogs. He can’t stand to have his friends get pulled apart here or exposed for what they are, idiots. Keep it up Derrick J, keep being a dumbass. Your proving my point.
I went to Walmart the other day and I never saw this video for sale. It sounds like you are trying to sell your most ridiculous moments to the idiot freekeeners and copblockers. Running out of money? Totally idiotic
BB SIZZLE Michael dear, Jacks has been exposed as a liar in multiple threads. Since you’re so enamored with the notion that one should always take the action to withdraw support for statements or opinions made by those who you’ve concluded lack moral principles, shouldn’t you be doing the same to Jacks? While the real answer to this is of course no, you’ve made it clear, Michael, that you believe otherwise. So why aren’t you standing up for these principles of yours in this one case, kitten? Is it because it doesn’t suit your needs?
Jumping Jacks The video can be viewed for free on YouTube, Jacks. Or would you prefer that I address you as runningwolfkenpo?
Drac Vermell Jumping Jacks You must have missed the memo. He was trying to sell this ridiculous “movie” on amazon and Walmart. It must be tough to find out your not Derrick’s top butt-buddy.
Jumping Jacks Drac Vermell Didn’t you hear, Jacks? You most certainly can find copies of it for purchase on Amazon!
Now don’t let this latest failure discourage you, Jacks. You should use this for motivation, instead. You know, to check the veracity of your statements before you post them!https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/154-8976744-8040232?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=derrick+j%27s+victimless+crime+spree
Grasping at straws, eh drac?
Jacks is saying that you cannot go to a regular chain store and get these videos yah dumbass. Next time why don’t you try to not hurt yourself by over thinking things drac.
BB SIZZLE My, my, dear, talk about grasping at straws! You’re not seriously contending that Amazon isn’t a popular store for purchasing DVDs now are you Michael? I mean really, aren’t books and DVDs what they’re known for? Honestly, Michael, perhaps you should consider recruiting a few more trolls to help you dig Jacks out of this hole that he’s dug for himself! You’re certainly not going to be of much use to him all by your lonesome! Oh, by the way, Michael, seeing as how you’re referring to yourself as “Mr. Grammar” again, I thought that it would be nice if I gave you a short lesson on such. Did you… Read more »
Drac that was a waste of time, and I don’t give a fuck how I type. It’s the message. The more you defend yourself here, the more you expose of your deviant thoughts and thinking, and how you approve of Free Keene and their friends.
Your a fraud, and a failure.
BB SIZZLE Michael dear, I think you’re confused again. If you’re using speech-to-text, then you’re talking, not typing. It’s really very simple. Perhaps if you actually paid more attention to what you were talking about, you wouldn’t make so many errors. By the way, Michael, you made another grammar mistake in your second sentence. You don’t really talk that badly in person, now do you kitten?
Drac Vermell Jumping Jacks I’m sure the video has hardly been checked out. I’m glad he put himself into a video that clearly shows him breaking the law. The evidence will keep him from getting a carriers permit and shows his criminal record for years to come. Maybe you can make a video of your crime sprees and see how you stack up against your butt-buddy
Jumping Jacks Drac Vermell Jacks, Jacks, Jacks, you’re steadfastly determined to dispute anything that hampers your calumny of Derrick J, aren’t you? Still, I think it’s safe to say you’ve finally figured out that your argument has no credibility. You wouldn’t be resorting to sexual slurs otherwise. So let’s summarize what we know, shall we Jacks? Derrick J’s video has an audience. How do I know this? Because YouTube has recorded over 175,000 views for it. Amazon sells the video and also offers it as a rental. How do I know this? Because I searched Amazon’s website for it. I know that you wish these facts weren’t true, Jacks, but preoccupying yourself with wishes to the… Read more »
Drac Vermell Jumping Jacks Looking at youtube, the video has more thumbs down then thumbs up. There are a lot more negative remarks then positive. So, how many copies of this video has Amazon sold? Amazon will sell anything. The rest is freekeene failed history.
Jumping Jacks Drac Vermell Wonderful!, Jacks I see in your third point that we are in complete agreement! You’re quite correct, Amazon will sell most anything, including Derrick J’s video. It seems then that people are buying it. Now if you’re curious about the number sales receipts being generated for it, Jacks, I would suggest that you ask Derrick J directly. Leave out the sexual slurs, though. Insults tend to scupper a person’s willingness to cooperate. As for your other points, a little arithmetic is in order. Out of over 475,000 viewers, Jacks, 2.7% of them voted. Assuming that the act of voting on a YouTube video was a random act, one… Read more »
BB SIZZLE Now Michael dear, while I’m singularly impressed that you’ve managed to keep up with the trendy terms that are of all the rage with leftist trolls these days, this meme of yours could pretty much describe any sort of argument, now couldn’t it? Understanding this, don’t you think this malignment loses much of it’s power when anyone could be deemed are narcissist by it? After all, many of your own posts have similar characteristics to them. That doesn’t mean you’re a narcissist, now does it Michael? Michael, perhaps you’d be better served sticking with matters that better fit your area expertise, like hanging drywall, and leave the psychiatric jargon to… Read more »
“He has me figured me out you know”?
Try to slow down when your typing feverishly so, to prove nothing. It sounds kind of “you Jane, me Tarzan”. Drac you really are a narcissistic knucklehead.
Sincerely, Mr. Grammar
BB SIZZLE Michael dear, I wonder if you realize what an unwise strategy it was to be critiquing grammar using a paragraph replete with sentence fragments? Doesn’t this make it easier for me to point out that you rely upon speech-to-text transcription to articulate your own ideas? I surely hope that this isn’t an accurate representation of the way you normally speak, Michael. You might want to consider taking some communication courses at your local community college if it is.
Drac, you fucked up not me, in life and grammatically in your last post. You can thank me never.
BB SIZZLE No Matthew darling, it’s the other way around. Since you clearly don’t understand simple sentence structure, I guess I’ll have to explain it to you. A complete sentence is one which expresses a complete thought through use of a subject and a verb predicate. The subject and verb must also agree in number. In addition, the sentence must start with a capital letter and end with a period, exclamation point, or question mark. Since the sentence you’re criticizing meets all of those criteria, kitten, I have to ask why you’re seeking praise for an error that isn’t there? You’re not fishing for compliments, are you Matthew? Because if you are, I can’t… Read more »
A complete sentence blah, blah, blah. How’s that for complete? I did not name myself Boston strong, that name was given to me so adoringly by you friends here. Rich Paul, Garret Ian, and Ian Bernard came up with that little gem of a nickname. They were too stoned to realize I lived right down the street from them, and could easily figure out my name. All they knew is that I was from the Boston area, so the name stuck. Wake up drac, they are a virus in this community. Sincerely, Mr. Anti-activist P.S that’s another nickname that was… Read more »
BB SIZZLE Your first sentence wasn’t complete, Matthew. It didn’t contain a verb nor did it express a complete thought. However, it does convey the idea that you’re an extremely immature man. Those videos I’ve come across of you on YouTube indicate the same. I can see why others make fun of you, kitten.
Wake up, drac, wake up!
BB SIZZLE Matthew dear, perhaps you should stop to consider that I would be much more amenable to persuasion were you capable of advancing a valid argument.