A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@LaoC have you tried claiming that Git constitutes a blockchain? Should have decent legs and a moderate power to cloud minds.
It does have all the properties of a blockchain that are expressed in the word blockchain, unfortunately the thing that differentiates a blockchain from other things technically blockchain but not blockchain is the consensus function.
In the case of Linux, you could perhaps say Linus is the consensus function
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We propose you negotiate directly with us before taking any further action. The exploit and loss of funds have a profound effect on thousands of real people.
Particularly on the shareholders of our insurance. Oh, wait …
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Do you ever wonder if Pikachu becomes jaded to the whole crypto world?
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Do you ever wonder if Pikachu becomes jaded to the whole crypto world?
I heard he started drinking real bad...
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@izzion A shocked Pikachu face is not enough for this. We need Pikachu doing the sarcastically surprised Kirk 2-panel instead.
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Sorry, screenshotting the tweet doesn't do it, you have to go and follow the links. It's already the cryptobro troll of the year.
I'm not good with the twatters, what are we looking at here?
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@Tsaukpaetra some derp pushed a commit claiming to be Linus claiming to be Satoshi, and it got on the ceiling.
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@Medinoc is this... surprise?
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@Gribnit A dangerous weapon.
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@PleegWat I like to be known as an utter idiot who does stupidly dangerous things, and I think I succeed in this. And yeah, per the saying that every culture that has blades has about blades, I am certainly already dead.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm not good with the twatters, what are we looking at here?
You can set any email as a committer in git, and Garrett trolled all the cryptobros by committing "I am Satoshi" into a fork of the Linux kernel in Linus' name. You can make it look like that commit was in Linus' repository, too, although github warns you about that if you look even a little bit closely.
Of course the crypto idiots swallowed the bait without even asking for some cryptographic validation.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is a Color NFT?A Color NFT represents a new category of NFT: a Meta NFT. Essentially, a Meta NFT is usable as a building block to spawn new NFTs, or derivative NFTs—and other products and experiences limited only by the imagination of creators, and in the case of Color NFTs, what they can do with color.
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is a Color NFT?A Color NFT represents a new category of NFT: a Meta NFT. Essentially, a Meta NFT is usable as a building block to spawn new NFTs, or derivative NFTs—and other products and experiences limited only by the imagination of creators, and in the case of Color NFTs, what they can do with color.
Note to self: never think stupidity has hit rock bottom. You'll always be proven wrong.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Do you ever wonder if Pikachu becomes jaded to the whole crypto world?
On Thursday, a Twitter user who goes by zachxbt.eth “with a track record of unmasking crypto scams and nefarious behavior,” according to CoinDesk, accused “Sifu,” a core member of the founding team behind the popular Avalanche-based Wonderland DeFi (or decentralized finance) protocol and its TIME token, of actually being
Michael PatrynMike Patton.I've been spending too much on WTDWTF...
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Tsaukpaetra said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm not good with the twatters, what are we looking at here?
You can set any email as a committer in git, and Garrett trolled all the cryptobros by committing "I am Satoshi" into a fork of the Linux kernel in Linus' name. You can make it look like that commit was in Linus' repository, too, although github warns you about that if you look even a little bit closely.
Of course the crypto idiots swallowed the bait without even asking for some cryptographic validation.He should probably take credit. It would be the third time he's ruined everything for everyone.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Do you ever wonder if Pikachu becomes jaded to the whole crypto world?
On Thursday, a Twitter user who goes by zachxbt.eth “with a track record of unmasking crypto scams and nefarious behavior,” according to CoinDesk, accused “Sifu,” a core member of the founding team behind the popular Avalanche-based Wonderland DeFi (or decentralized finance) protocol and its TIME token, of actually being
Michael PatrynMike Patton.I've been spending too much on WTDWTF...
Sorry, no refunds.
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
He should probably take credit. It would be the third time he's ruined everything for everyone.
The first time being when he invented Linux, and the second time when he invented Git?
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
He should probably take credit. It would be the third time he's ruined everything for everyone.
The first time being when he invented Linux, and the second time when he invented Git?
#Maybe
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@Zerosquare so here’s the question. Are they NFTs in the classical RGB colour space? Is there room for expansion into other colour spaces (e.g. owning a colour both in RGB and CYMK)? What about HDR? Or what about non-visible colours, e.g. infra-red or ultra-violet shades?
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@Arantor And for a mere $ I'll only ever refer to that speck of light in the sky by any name you choose.
No, not that speck. That speck.
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Are they NFTs in the classical RGB colour space?
Such considerations seem like a lot of effort for a dipshit money grab.
I’d wager my entire collection of zero NFTs that they intend to look only at a set of three/four encoded bytes, and consider that a meaningful specification of colour.
Embedding arbitrary colour profiles specifically designed to avoid ““royalties”” is left as an exercise for the reader…
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zerosquare so here’s the question. Are they NFTs in the classical RGB colour space? Is there room for expansion into other colour spaces (e.g. owning a colour both in RGB and CYMK)? What about HDR? Or what about non-visible colours, e.g. infra-red or ultra-violet shades?
That'll be done by a competing scam:
Out of 16.7 million available in the sRGB color space, only 10,000 colors will become a Color NFT. Just so you know, the human eye can see about 2.3 million colors*.
I've submitted my (boomzilla) email to get on their presale waitlist. If you guys sign up, too, I'll move up from my current position of 2054!
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LOL:
Earn royalties from your colors.
We are building an OpenSea competitor in which
transaction fees are shared with Color NFT owners based on the proportional use of their colors in traded NFTs.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
If you guys sign up, too, I'll move up from my current position of 2054!
Hey, the Initiative Q thread is
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Perhaps they'll need a
lettercolor CDN to distribute these at webscale...
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is a Color NFT?A Color NFT represents a new category of NFT: a Meta NFT. Essentially, a Meta NFT is usable as a building block to spawn new NFTs, or derivative NFTs—and other products and experiences limited only by the imagination of creators, and in the case of Color NFTs, what they can do with color.
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@kazitor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Are they NFTs in the classical RGB colour space?
Such considerations seem like a lot of effort for a dipshit money grab.
I’d wager my entire collection of zero NFTs that they intend to look only at a set of three/four encoded bytes, and consider that a meaningful specification of colour.
Embedding arbitrary colour profiles specifically designed to avoid ““royalties”” is left as an exercise for the reader…
These colours will of course not be copyrightable in most jurisdictions. However that does not matter since ownership claims based on NFTs are not recognized outside the relevant blockchain anyway.
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@HannibalRex said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
they'll need a color CDN to distribute these at webscale...
For sure, but not before TPM support at the edge, otherwise color-commoners could leech off of the hard work of verified color stampers.
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is a Color NFT?A Color NFT represents a new category of NFT: a Meta NFT. Essentially, a Meta NFT is usable as a building block to spawn new NFTs, or derivative NFTs—and other products and experiences limited only by the imagination of creators, and in the case of Color NFTs, what they can do with color.
What happens when someone mints an NFT in this scam system to the PANTONE Color Of The Year?
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@dkf nothing at all.
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@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
What happens when someone mints an NFT in this scam system to the PANTONE Color Of The Year?
Another polar bear melts
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@boomzilla And that’s considered a feature too!
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As the sector evolves toward supporting this kind of play, the optimum strategy for these games is not "playing to earn" and does not even involve playing the games at all. Rather, investors in rich countries will speculate on in-game currencies and assets while outsourcing the actual playing of the game to workers in the developing world who are paid less than $1 per hour to grind for currency until massive inflation caused by oversupply renders the currency worthless, at which point everybody migrates to another game to repeat the cycle and people who are overinvested in the old game's NFT assets lose a lot of money.
Anyways, it's all a ponzi scheme:
Further, play-to-earn models require constant user growth. The real money economy of a game like Axie Infinity is zero sum—no money is produced inside the game, so the only money anyone can take out of the game is money somebody else has put into it.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
no money is produced inside the game
What do they think the user's graphics card is for, graphics?
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One of the most distinguishing features of "web3" is the sheer level of handwaviness surrounding it. While you can find no end of press releases, Twitter crypto bros, and venture capitalists extolling the virtues of web3, you will have a much harder time finding any definition that's not so full of buzzwords that it becomes meaningless.
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@boomzilla that’s, what, 2 and a half badly drawn apes?
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@topspin well at least it makes me look cool here then.
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@Gribnit nothing could make you look cooler than you already do.
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@boomzilla Have you tried throwing him in a container of liquid helium?
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@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
a container of liquid helium?
what phase?
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Highlights:
- not a very cubical cube
- hollow
- much smaller than indicated in photo
Reason for reading:
- why it needed security
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
What happens when someone mints an NFT in this scam system to the PANTONE Color Of The Year?
Another polar bear melts
Eh, they just get browned mostly. Well, or die. U. Maritimus and U. Horribilis are showing to in fact be U. Arctos M. and U. Arctos H..
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@Gribnit so having a lot of money is "art" now?
Also, that wall thickness is surprisingly thin. But the density of gold is pretty damn high after all.