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Buttcoin.org is also a satirical blog that mocks the extremely vested segments of the Bitcoin community: 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.

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It 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.

The original buttcoiners seem to have moved on to 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.

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