A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@dcon They're saving the planet
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@hungrier might as well standardize it for the benefit of the wallet thieves.
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@hungrier said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Samsung Galaxy images show off a new blockchain keystore
Gives a new meaning to "my blockchain money went up in smoke"
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@hungrier said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Samsung Galaxy images show off a new blockchain keystore page found within the security menu of the settings app.
Uhh-- we've got nearly 100 pages of posts right here that disagree with that placement.
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@hungrier said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Samsung Galaxy images show off a new blockchain keystore page found within the security menu of the settings app.
Uhh-- we've got nearly 100 pages of posts right here that disagree with that placement.
@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
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@TimeBandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
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I think it's some Firefox v3 thing
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@TimeBandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
That's smart, going to Australia until this weather improves.
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@hungrier said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
That's smart, going to Australia until this weather improves.
When’s that scheduled for?
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
When’s that scheduled for?
Just before the world ends, I guess
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According to a report (PDF) from CipherTrace, "bad actors" stole or scammed about $1.7 billion US dollars worth of cryptocurrency in 2018.
$950 million was stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges and infrastructure while ICO exit scams, phony exchanges and Ponzi schemes resulted in losses of about $750 million, and that only represents the incidents the firm could verify.
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
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@TimeBandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
When’s that scheduled for?
Just before the world ends, I guess
You're more right than you think.
If the global temperature rises a bit-- enough to make the climate of Canada "nicer"-- it also means that almost every food-growing area of USA to go into a permanent drought. All basic foodstuffs (mainly wheat, corn, grains) will have to move north. That pushes it into Canada. But the problem is that all of Northern Canada is on top of the Great Canadian Shield; a gigantic fuck-off slab of granite rock. You aren't growing anything up in that soil.
So North America's entire breadbox will be well and totally fucked. Pretty much the only viable farming land left will be in China.
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So North America's entire breadbox will be well and totally fucked. Pretty much the only viable farming land left will be in China.
Or Siberia, which is like a bigger version of Canada but without quite so much granite underneath.
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@El_Heffe said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
According to a report (PDF) from CipherTrace, "bad actors" stole or scammed about $1.7 billion US dollars worth of cryptocurrency in 2018.
I didn't know Keanu Reeves was into cryptocurrency.
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@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So North America's entire breadbox will be well and totally fucked. Pretty much the only viable farming land left will be in China.
Or Siberia, which is like a bigger version of Canada but without quite so much granite underneath.
They'll have to drain a lot of water first, though. From what I recall, the area rather resembles a swamp if thawed.
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@El_Heffe said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
According to a report (PDF) from CipherTrace, "bad actors" stole or scammed about $1.7 billion US dollars worth of cryptocurrency in 2018.
I didn't know Keanu Reeves was into cryptocurrency.
I think you misspelled Nicolas Cage, there.
Also, can't wait to see Uwe Boll direct this one.
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@El_Heffe said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
According to a report (PDF) from CipherTrace, "bad actors" stole or scammed about $1.7 billion US dollars worth of cryptocurrency in 2018.
It looks like that's probably based on the value at the time of theft? Wonder how much it would be worth now.
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@Rhywden said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
They'll have to drain a lot of water first, though. From what I recall, the area rather resembles a swamp if thawed.
That's really not that different from (northern) Canada. It's exactly the same sort of fuckloads of fuck all up there on both continents.
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
If the global temperature rises a bit-- enough to make the climate of Canada "nicer"-- it also means that almost every food-growing area of USA to go into a permanent drought...So North America's entire breadbox will be well and totally fucked. Pretty much the only viable farming land left will be in China.
Yeah, kind of like how it never rains and nothing grows in Mexico. More seriously, even the climate models disagree on regional precipitation changes.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Yeah, kind of like how it never rains and nothing grows in Mexico. More seriously, even the climate models disagree on regional precipitation changes.
"All of North America" is more than just a region.
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Yeah, kind of like how it never rains and nothing grows in Mexico. More seriously, even the climate models disagree on regional precipitation changes.
"All of North America" is more than just a region.
Yes? FTFA:
As first figure, but with areas where 90% of the models agree on the sign of the change highlighted with dots. Data from KNMI Climate Explorer; map by Carbon Brief.Note. The dots are where 90% of the models agree on the sign of the change, even without considering magnitude. Which begs the question that any of the models have any clue about precipitation to begin with.
But that's like asking crypto billionaires what the price of bitcoin will be in a year.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@El_Heffe said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
According to a report (PDF) from CipherTrace, "bad actors" stole or scammed about $1.7 billion US dollars worth of cryptocurrency in 2018.
It looks like that's probably based on the value at the time of theft? Wonder how much it would be worth now.
I don't know, but the report mentions that the dollar value of theft in 2018 was lower than 2017, due mainly to the drop in price of cryptocurrency.
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@Lorne-Kates Just give it up. He's pontificating again (without a real clue, mind).
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@Rhywden said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates Just give it up. He's pontificating again (without a real clue, mind).
Aka: every post?
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
But that's like asking crypto billionaires what the price of bitcoin will be in a year.
It'll be worth A LAMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
But that's like asking crypto billionaires what the price of bitcoin will be in a year.
It'll be worth A LAMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will it be worth a kitten? What kind of kitten?
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@Rhywden said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates Just give it up. He's pontificating again (without a real clue, mind).
It's true. I know better than to think that @Lorne-Kates or you will pay attention and learn anything but I keep on posting.
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So, I propose that cryptocurrency values be estimated in kittens, and I'm going to complain whenever a value is not converted into kittens.
So, what would be a good standard reference kitten, either an actual kitten or a value USD?
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So, I propose that cryptocurrency values be estimated in kittens, and I'm going to complain whenever a value is not converted into kittens.
So, what would be a good standard reference kitten, either an actual kitten or a value USD?
Don’t you already have a crypto kitten thread for that?
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So, what would be a good standard reference kitten, either an actual kitten or a value USD?
Bonsai kitten, of course.
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So, I propose that cryptocurrency values be estimated in kittens, and I'm going to complain whenever a value is not converted into kittens.
So, what would be a good standard reference kitten, either an actual kitten or a value USD?
1 kitten = US$65.00
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So, I propose that cryptocurrency values be estimated in kittens, and I'm going to complain whenever a value is not converted into kittens.
So, what would be a good standard reference kitten, either an actual kitten or a value USD?
Don’t you already have a crypto kitten thread for that?
Yeah, but it wasn't literally at my fingertips.
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@El_Heffe said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
1 kitten = US$65.00
That's a pricey meal.
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@El_Heffe said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
1 kitten = US$65.00
That's a pricey meal.
Not even a whole meal, if I'm to be honest. I know, I know, I'm a butt-ugly obese American...
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So, I propose that cryptocurrency values be estimated in kittens, and I'm going to complain whenever a value is not converted into kittens.
So, what would be a good standard reference kitten, either an actual kitten or a value USD?
Source: Postal 2
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And now back to the A plot, unfortunately spiced with American politics:
"There is some suspicion that blockchain does not actually work. That's why I'm going all in!"
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@DCoder
I <3 the promoted comment:Can you guys take this article down and republish it four hours later? I don't want to start playing the "blockchain" drinking game until I'm out of the office.
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From the "big banks surely wish they had capabilities like this" department:
Troubled Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX owes its customers $190 million and cannot access most of the funds, according to a court filing obtained by CoinDesk.
In a sworn affidavit filed Jan. 31 with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Jennifer Robertson, identified as the widow of QuadrigaCX founder Gerald Cotten, said the exchange owes its customers roughly $250 million CAD ($190 million) in both cryptocurrency and fiat. The company previously announced it had filed for creditor protection on its website, but the filing itself provides greater details about its predicament.
Did you say "no, no, surely they're not that stupid" after reading that highlighted part?
Cotten reportedly died of Crohn’s disease in Jaipur, India in early December 2018. The exchange announced his death earlier this month. A death certificate was included in the list of exhibits.
The founder seemingly had sole control or knowledge of Quadriga’s cold storage solution. Robertson wrote that after his death, “Quadriga’s inventory of cryptocurrency has become unavailable and some of it may be lost.”
She later added that she has no business records whatsoever for QuadrigaCX or its affiliated companies. While she does have Cotten’s laptop, the device is encrypted and she does not have its password or recovery key. While a consultant has been retained to try and recover the laptop’s contents, he has had limited success to date.
Under an “additional issues” section, Robertson noted that users have also continued to deposit funds after Cotten’s death, which the exchange accepted. Some of these came from automatic deposits, though CoinDesk has confirmed that manual deposits were also accepted from at least one user.
Robertson noted that the exchange’s new directors voted to “temporarily pause” the platform on Jan. 26. Though she did not explicitly say the website went down as a result, the portal only became inaccessible sometime in the morning on Jan. 28.
To help pay users back, the exchange is considering selling off its operating platform. “Multiple parties” have already approached the exchange to inquire about acquiring the operating platform, though none are named in the filing.
Robertson added that she believes the “trading platform may have significant value,” but this value may be reduced if the exchange is sued.
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@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
considering selling off its operating platform
I'm probably misreading this, but, who would buy a product that's locked out and unusable?
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@Tsaukpaetra I think they're talking about the website and the payment processing behind it all, which would still work with new funds.
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@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Did you say "no, no, surely they're not that stupid" after reading that highlighted part?
No, I assume they actually are not that stupid. While the old adage says otherwise, just like all the “oh sorry we got hacked, your moneyz iz gone” this is more likely malice than incompetence.