• Are Bitcoins and Unusual Hats the Future of Currency?
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Thought this video was interesting. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_9R45RLNR0[/media]
Probably.
Leaks into real life. Paycheck in Unusual hats.
IIRC a guy that sold all his unusuals bought a 2006 Corvette, so yes, they do have value
heh good luck selling a blizzard steel toe for $30
He keeps labeling the Reclaimed Metal as Refined.
He also said that the only way to get these metals is to scrap bought weapons, which is untrue, you find weapons and scrap them as well. But we all know scrapping weapons for metal is not the thing to do!
Sigh when will team-fortress 2 just die already please.
[QUOTE=Uglehs;39684438]He also said that the only way to get these metals is to scrap bought weapons, which is untrue, you find weapons and scrap them as well. But we all know scrapping weapons for metal is not the thing to do![/QUOTE] I think the point there though is that metal is completely worthless. Except now that you've spent $2 on a key and all you got was items for scrap, metal begins to gain value.
Bitcoins would be if more people started to use them. [QUOTE=Jagur;39684559]Sigh when will team-fortress 2 just die already please.[/QUOTE] I say that about Call of Duty all the time and it never happens.
[QUOTE=Jagur;39684559]Sigh when will team-fortress 2 just die already please.[/QUOTE] never
After i just watched this video, i decided to go into tf2 because why not and somehow managed to unbox a unusual beret. [url]http://i.imgur.com/hLtrdjk.jpg[/url] guys i think PBS has unusual magic powers.
You can't unbox the Essentials silly, they were a promo item from MNC
[QUOTE=Jagur;39684559]Sigh when will team-fortress 2 just die already please.[/QUOTE] What a baby. Seriously. How does TF2 effect you when you aren't playing it (I assume you aren't because you want it to "just die already")
Everything about his video style screams "typical youtube vlogger" He tries to seem all smart and stuff but he didn't actually provide any useful info. What's the hurry, why does he talk as fast as sonic running?
[QUOTE=itisjuly;39684756]Everything about his video style screams "typical youtube vlogger" He tries to seem all smart and stuff but he didn't actually provide any useful info. What's the hurry, why does he talk as fast as sonic running?[/QUOTE] The average person on youtube has the attention span of a gnat. Short fast paced will go over better than long and slower.
[QUOTE=legolover122;39684777]The average person on youtube has the attention span of a gnat. Short fast paced will go over better than long and slower.[/QUOTE] It's, sad, really. It's our own fault that a lot of channels on YouTube are "vloggy." If this guy talked slowly with a powerpoint presentation and spent time citing all of his sources, I'd tune out in a fuckin' instant.
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;39684959]It's, sad, really. It's our own fault that a lot of channels on YouTube are "vloggy." If this guy talked slowly with a powerpoint presentation and spent time citing all of his sources, I'd tune out in a fuckin' instant.[/QUOTE] Don't forget without any of those visuals we might have gotten bored right away.
[QUOTE=legolover122;39684777]The average person on youtube has the attention span of a gnat. Short fast paced will go over better than long and slower.[/QUOTE] Case in point: Zero Punctuation
I remember selling my Unusual Attendent for £180 ahhhh
I gave away all my hats i'm a terrible person
maybe a fucking year ago
Haha, I just gave away my backpack worth about 600 dollars to my brothers' son. I wonder if it will become higher valued when he's like 20 or so.
[QUOTE=Black;39688723]Haha, I just gave away my backpack worth about 600 dollars to my brothers' son. I wonder if it will become higher valued when he's like 20 or so.[/QUOTE] I bet he will end up trading them off without knowing their true value.
[QUOTE=Uglehs;39684438]He also said that the only way to get these metals is to scrap bought weapons, which is untrue, you find weapons and scrap them as well. But we all know scrapping weapons for metal is not the thing to do![/QUOTE] he pointed out later that both bitcoins and metal can be acquired by spending time doing something (playing TF2, mining for coin), though
[QUOTE=Black;39688723]Haha, I just gave away my backpack worth about 600 dollars to my brothers' son. I wonder if it will become higher valued when he's like 20 or so.[/QUOTE] If you're/he's lucky. I remember Christmas 2011 I bought a Strange Festive Rocket Launcher for like $10, then I traded it for Far Cry 3 Deluxe around Christmas 2012 :eng101: If any of you guys have some spare cash, I actually recommend you invest in TF2 stuff, especially rare shit that won't be re-released like strange festives. Plus, you can buy TF2 keys on sourceop for ~$1.35 each (probably $1.40 or so after PayPal fees), then sell them on the steam market for like, what, upwards of $2 each? Sure you can't put that money back in PayPal, but you can get a nice discount on a game if you're willing to wait a bit.
This guy's like a mix between RWJ and Vsauce.
Unusuals are pretty hard to sell. Earbuds are the currency of tf2.
I've been holding onto an unusual caulsron bubbles flamenco for this exact reason. One day I'm gonna be broke as hell, that's when I'll sell it
[QUOTE=buro;39689777]Unusuals are pretty hard to sell. Earbuds are the currency of tf2.[/QUOTE] Not too hard if you know where to go, the SourceOP forums have pretty common real-money trading for unusuals with a middleman system and everything in place. The only "hard" part is that the price of unusuals more often depends on what specific people would be willing to pay for whereas earbuds are all the same and usually have an average value agreed upon. I can't stand trading anymore though and often times end up deleting the items that I find rather than taking the time to craft metal, but back when trading first came out I figured then was the time to exploit it for what it was worth. Went through part of the list of 11,111 people that had soldier medals, throwing lowballs of a hat for each soldier medal to which some people agreed. Soldier medals were basically the first relatively stable currency in TF2, each worth around $30 or so when trading first came about. Then people started getting unusuals but often didn't know what they'd be worth either, and would end up trading their unusuals for standard hats.
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