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:
In a message sent this morning to Artnet News, Castello called the work “a conceptual work of art in all its facets.” He said the idea was to “create something that is beyond our world—that is intangible.”
Yep. Few things less tangible than hundreds of pounds of gold!
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@boomzilla 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:
In a message sent this morning to Artnet News, Castello called the work “a conceptual work of art in all its facets.” He said the idea was to “create something that is beyond our world—that is intangible.”
Yep. Few things less tangible than
hundreds of pounds of gold!whatever gets placed next to a bunch of gorillas with lead squirters.
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@LaoC 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:
@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
In a message sent this morning to Artnet News, Castello called the work “a conceptual work of art in all its facets.” He said the idea was to “create something that is beyond our world—that is intangible.”
Yep. Few things less tangible than
hundreds of pounds of gold!whatever gets placed next to a bunch of gorillas with lead squirters.
True. I wouldn't want to try to tangere that with those guys saying "no".
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@LaoC 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:
@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
In a message sent this morning to Artnet News, Castello called the work “a conceptual work of art in all its facets.” He said the idea was to “create something that is beyond our world—that is intangible.”
Yep. Few things less tangible than
hundreds of pounds of gold!whatever gets placed next to a bunch of gorillas with lead squirters.
If that thing were solid it would not need guards, just bollards.
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@PleegWat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@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
irrelevant blockchain anyway.Ftfy.
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@Arantor so... 2 wrongs make a right.
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
the check was
==
instead of&&
Good lord.
How do these people manage to breathe?
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@topspin 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:
the check was
==
instead of&&
Good lord.
How do these people manage to breathe?Thankfully for them, God wrote their code as immutable.
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@topspin 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:
the check was
==
instead of&&
Good lord.
How do these people manage to breathe?Don't take the ELI5 talk too literal.
It looks like it is more involved than that, but it still shows how everybody fails to understand this crap (well, apart from attackers it seems).
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@JBert WHY do all these fuckers use twatter?
It’s impossibly hard to read their fucking stories in 6000 parts with random images / links in between. This seriously has to be the worst medium of communication ever invented.
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@JBert I didn’t take it as literally “some genius used == instead of &&” but more “there is something fundamentally off about this on some basic level” because in context I couldn’t see how it why you’d ever use == instead of && in that specific context.
All it demonstrates though is that the content of the mythical front page never was more true, and that the vast majority of people who produce code appear to do so by luck rather than skill - as in, it works by luck.
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@JBert I didn’t take it as literally “some genius used == instead of &&” but more “there is something fundamentally off about this on some basic level” because in context I couldn’t see how it why you’d ever use == instead of && in that specific context.
It doesn’t have to mean the code literally uses that, just that effectively this is the difference between was should and what does happen with the verification logic.
Why would you ever do that? Valid question. I assume because you have NFC what you’re doing.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I assume because you have NFC what you’re doing.
I'm very certain that a scary percentage of those writing code have NFC what they're doing, though that's true across all industries. See my comment the other day about rock-banging.
My general view on the whole shebang is 'most people writing code can use a library if given to them, but only the people who can actually string shit together meaningfully are in the category where they could write said libraries (subject to field specialisms)'. I like to believe I'm in the latter category in my field, but I have absolutely worked with people who are not.
Would I screw up a smart contract if I were ever to be so possessed to write one? Probably - because in that arena I have NFC what I'd be doing, and I'd understand and accept that I have NFC what I'm doing and generally therefore no fucking business attempting it.
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
people who can actually string shit together meaningfully are in the category where they could write said libraries
Objection,
leftpad
. Please note that I have already ignored the parenthetical.
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@Gribnit Objection, leftpad is not a meaningful library when a) it literally takes more code to make it a library than it does to inllne and b) iscoming up for 5 years' time since becoming a core feature in all major browsers (Edge 15 was the desktop laggard to implement this in April 2017)
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@Arantor objection objected, no constraint of meaningfulness had been stated prior, and, if noting the parenthetical it may be that none could possibly be applicable.
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@Gribnit overruled, my original quote explicitly features the word 'meaningfully' as quoted by your good self.
viz. "people who can actually string shit together meaningfully"
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm very certain that a scary percentage of those writing code have NFC what they're doing
Scary high or scary low?
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@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Scary high or scary low?
Let's say for the sake of argument, 'high'.
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@Arantor 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:
Scary high or scary low?
Let's say for the sake of argument, 'high'.
High as in" on drugs" of as in "in number"?
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@Tsaukpaetra 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:
@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Scary high or scary low?
Let's say for the sake of argument, 'high'.
High as in" on drugs" of as in "in number"?
If it takes that many, you need better drugs.
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@Tsaukpaetra 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:
@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Scary high or scary low?
Let's say for the sake of argument, 'high'.
High as in" on drugs" of as in "in number"?
Yes.
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Well, hey, I suppose that's a step up from funding drug dealing.
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How did that saying go? Fool them once, shame on you, fool them twice, you really fell for this again when a simple check would have revealed it to be a scam.
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Why pursue a digital currency?
Reducing or eliminating fees is one clear benefit.
Yep, I'm sure the government and banks have this goal in mind.
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Why pursue a digital currency?
Reducing or eliminating fees is one clear benefit.
Yep, I'm sure the government and banks have this goal in mind.
I think I'll just put all my money in the yuan at this stage. Are any currencies back by anything or is it all web of trust now?
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Why pursue a digital currency?
Reducing or eliminating fees is one clear benefit.
Yep, I'm sure the government and banks have this goal in mind.
I think I'll just put all my money in the yuan at this stage. Are any currencies back by anything or is it all web of trust now?
There’s always Bitcon, backed by dead dinosaurs, climate change, and pixie dust
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You know it’s a slow analysis day when…
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@izzion 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:
@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Why pursue a digital currency?
Reducing or eliminating fees is one clear benefit.
Yep, I'm sure the government and banks have this goal in mind.
I think I'll just put all my money in the yuan at this stage. Are any currencies back by anything or is it all web of trust now?
There’s always Bitcon, backed by dead dinosaurs, climate change, and pixie dust
I thought that was the Venezuelan petro.
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@Atazhaia Amusing detail I wasn't aware of:
https://web3isgoinggreat.com?id=2022-02-06-2 said:
project called "Balloonsville", this time netting 5,000 SOL
(emphasis mine)
At least that Solana thing has a topical abbreviation for their currency
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Samsung once again leads the way:
sustainability-themed
runs on the Etherum blockchain
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Interesting. BlockFi called in the loan because the bitcoins had been through a mixer. It's good to see that there's at least someone in the crypto space who's responsible enough to state that you can't just hide your ill-gotten gains by mixing them. So if enough major players in crypto use that logic, it'll shrink the Bitcoin supply even more, causing even more inflation. Or, possibly, an admission that an untenably-large fraction of Bitcoin is suspect.
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@izzion
they also sold a lot of meth for the stake most likely. Not that I would have any direct knowledge of this. I certainly don't facilitate their affairs. Stop looking at me. But their labs are government funded, albeit (probably) of poor quality, especially (speculatively) depending on which shift supervisors are on duty.
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Color Museum! It's happening!
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@boomzilla I can feel the relevance.
Sadly, on inspection, I am unable to attest to it in any other way.
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@boomzilla no-one's minted "mint" yet. Disappointing.
edit: Or more disappointing than the rest of the scam, at least.
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
the rest of the scam
I imagine that a big part of that scam would be this:
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@Placeholder wow, it's guaranteed and guranteed. That's faith in your product right there.
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@Gribnit insured against missing A’s, I approve.
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Dogecoin is slowly rising. I might be back in Tesco value tubs of ice cream territory by June.
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The Baby Musk Coin launched in January, promising to "revolutionize the meme industry". The coin enjoyed a $2 million ICO the previous month, despite warnings from observers who noticed the coin couldn't be sold
the project developers suddenly transferred 1571 BNB out of the project and quickly it using Tornado Cash, earning a tidy profit of around $653,300. The sudden sell-off crashed the coin value to 0, leaving remaining holders with a worthless coin they were unable to sell
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Protecting your intellectual property is discriminating against web3
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@loopback0 you couldn't even make it up at this point.
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@topspin What does "funge" mean?