A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@Vixen said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
the forms needed to be submitted in triplicate.
But were they sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters?
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@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Vixen said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
the forms needed to be submitted in triplicate.
But were they sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters?
not yet. but that's only because we're only a month into the buried in soft peat step.
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@El_Heffe When you assume, you make a fool out of 49% of the people.
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@El_Heffe
Of course, the real winner of a fact for cryptoscammencies is that despite total control of the blockchain, they could only steal $72K. Yup, that sounds like something widely adopted with enough capacity to become the Payment Processing Method Of The Twenty-First Century(tm)
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Article @boomzilla linked to in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted said:
When I hear people talking about a bitcoin “correction” I’m thinking USD 100k, maybe USD 1m. That’s what’s correct.
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@boomzilla I sure hope so, otherwise I may eventually run out of my fraction of a bitcoin that I use to pay for Usenet access and indexing
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
most people are looking forward to the expected Bitcoin Halving
Most people have never heard of it and couldn't care less.
I'm looking forward to mining becoming so unprofitable that lots of used high-end graphics cards hit the market for cheap.
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@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm looking forward to mining becoming so unprofitable that lots of used high-end graphics cards hit the market for cheap.
I thought this had already happened, but "luckily", just like with smartphones, we now have a new understanding of what qualifies as "cheap"
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@levicki
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@Vixen said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@levicki
One of these days I'll play that show.
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@levicki Then you should have referenced it right. You forgot the word "direct".
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@levicki said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Vixen Well done, that's what I was referencing.
Funny how whenever Harbinger assumed direct control via the Collector General he got blown to bits by Shepard and her squad....
Honestly i always found it easier to take down Harbinger than the grunts he took over because they floated over the cover their non controlled versions ducked behind.
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@Vixen Same. Though I have to say, the reveal at the end that Harbinger was not the Collector general but was actually a Reaper was handled rather poorly.
If they really wanted to do it right, it would have been very simple: When the final battle is about halfway through... ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL. And then you realize there's something a lot bigger going on with Harbinger!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Vixen Same. Though I have to say, the reveal at the end that Harbinger was not the Collector general but was actually a Reaper was handled rather poorly.
If they really wanted to do it right, it would have been very simple: When the final battle is about halfway through... ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL. And then you realize there's something a lot bigger going on with Harbinger!
yeah. that reveal was...... not as good as it could be.
i think they were trying to go for a "you can figure it out murder mystery style if you want" with a side of "we don't know if you played the DLC yet so we don't know if you already meet harbinger"
but honestly i think a simple "I AM ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL" and then the collector general powering up in the same way it powered up the grunts would have been the best way to handle it even if you had done the DLC before.
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@hungrier That whole story sounds fishy to me. More fishy puns in the comments.
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@hungrier The previous article said it was $59M. Bloody reporters can't get the numbers right.
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@hungrier The previous article said it was $59M. Bloody reporters can't get the numbers right.
You mean the real news here is that BTC has only fluctuated by $1M between Feb. 21st and Feb. 23rd.
That's as good as stable!
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I really do have to wonder how lost keys are handled. Eventually a significant amount of Bitcoin is going to end up locked behind a lost key, so what happens to it then? It's not like you can just print more Bitcoin...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I really do have to wonder how lost keys are handled. Eventually a significant amount of Bitcoin is going to end up locked behind a lost key, so what happens to it then? It's not like you can just print more Bitcoin...
That's what we call...
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...stable bitcoins.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I really do have to wonder how lost keys are handled. Eventually a significant amount of Bitcoin is going to end up locked behind a lost key, so what happens to it then? It's not like you can just print more Bitcoin...
That might sound like a very serious problem, but compared to everything else that’s wrong with bitcoin, it’s just a blip on the radar.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I really do have to wonder how lost keys are handled. Eventually a significant amount of Bitcoin is going to end up locked behind a lost key, so what happens to it then? It's not like you can just print more Bitcoin...
Bitcoin is already deflationary (by design!), so future BTC will always be worth more than current BTC. Lost BTC just makes that happen faster. I think it doesn't become a problem until the smallest possible BTC fraction (a satoshi, 10-8 BTC) becomes worth more than, say, $1. Then you'd need to fork BTC (hopefully with everyone cooperating) to create a new BTC that permits smaller fractions.
Forking Bitcoin is always a complete fustercluck, so at least we'll get some entertainment out of it.
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@PotatoEngineer said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Forking Bitcoin
That has been said already a number of times, I think…
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@lolwhat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
D-list cinematic eye-gouger
funbucks bung
My brain keeps trying to transpose letters in that.
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@levicki IANAD but I believe currently known symptoms of a corona virus infection do not include cynicism.
I wouldn't worry, unless it continues for several more years, in which case it might be a sign of angry old man syndrome. Cross-checks are then done to see how much you obsess about lawn care.
Filed under: Go see a health practitioner in case of doubt, Or check with :@boomzilla:
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@levicki said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Damn. Over two slices gone from the about one pizza worth of the stuff I have lying around.
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@levicki said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
That's not even that newsworthy, considering that real stocks have been losing massively the past days. The stupid Monopoly money has had higher losses before.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
real stocks have been losing massively the past days.
Let me know when it's a good time to buy...
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@Tsaukpaetra At the bottom, of course!
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@JBert said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Earlier in 2018:
Then it was time again for Warren Buffet's yearly 'pay for lunch with me' charity auction.
Seems a crypto dude wants to proselytize for a serious amount of cash:
Apparently the lunch got postponed to last January, because in June the crypto dude allegedly had a rather sudden case of kidney stones.
As no surprise whatsoever, mister Buffet is still skeptical of cryptocoin, and crypto sites remain skeptical of mr. Buffet's point of view:
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Cryptolords are worried that "giveaway" scams reduce trust in
cryptocoinstheir scams, so they sue YouTube because they're too slow in removing fake accounts and scam presentations:
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@JBert said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Cryptolords are worried that "giveaway" scams reduce trust in
cryptocoinstheir scams, so they sue YouTube because they're too slow in removing fake accounts and scam presentations:
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Thredcromancy activate!
https://fortune.com/2020/07/09/tiktok-dogecoin-challenge/
At least this is less likely to outright kill people than Tide Pods?
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@izzion
"TikTok traders"
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The price of Dogecoin has nearly doubled since July 6, rising 95% to $0.00448 from $0.0023
The price of Dogecoin peaked in January 2018 at $0.013 before promptly crashing.
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Proponents of “value investing,” a philosophy espoused by Warren Buffett, its foremost practitioner, might offer this bit of advice to anyone considering Dogecoin as an investment: Better get the hell outta Doge.
[emphasis added]
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@El_Heffe said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The price of Dogecoin has nearly doubled since July 6, rising 95% to $0.00448 from $0.0023
The price of Dogecoin peaked in January 2018 at $0.013 before promptly crashing.
Good Idea: music streaming royalties should be paid in Dogecoin.
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Cross-posting this here:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Oooooooooohhhh!
One has to wonder:
Some people are falling for the scam and sending money to the associated BTC addresses, as records of the transactions are public due to the nature of the blockchain-based cryptocurrency. So far, the scammer appears to have earned nearly $110,000, although it seems as if the account owner is indeed sending money back out as the daily final balance appears to be fluctuating up and down.
Who is still valuing that as $110 000?
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@JBert said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
it seems as if the account owner is indeed sending money back out as the daily final balance appears to be fluctuating up and down.
If you're smarter than a sea slug or Verge journalist, you may realize that rather than sending the money back out, they're probably transferring it to other accounts under their control, and/or putting the bitcoins through a bitcoin tumbler to disassociate them from this event
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@hungrier said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
If you're smarter than a sea slug or Verge journalist
Doesn't one imply the other?