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Thread: Bitcoin....who's gotten into it?
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07-02-2021, 02:08 PM #5351Registered User
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Huh. Hadn't really thought about it before, but it seems ironic that backing deposits with stablecoins like Tether and USDC have a lot in common with the fiat printing Fed.
And I can see why scaling any kind of centralized exchange, be it our legacy banking system, Bitfinex, or Coinbase, is hard. Thus the original BTC whitepaper.
But there are some serious parallels there.
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07-02-2021, 02:31 PM #5352
I feel like I can hang my hat on bitcoin, it feels solid under my feet. But I am trying to learn about the larger picture, including defi. This sort of thing helps me respect the future of the space:
We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto. We are radically optimistic about crypto’s potential to restore trust and enable new kinds of governance where communities collectively make important decisions about how networks evolve, what behaviors are permitted, and how economic benefits are distributed. That’s why today we’re pleased to announce a new $2.2 billion fund to continue investing in crypto networks and the founders and teams building in this space.
https://a16z.com/2021/06/24/crypto-fund-iii/Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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07-02-2021, 02:38 PM #5353
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07-02-2021, 04:32 PM #5354OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-02-2021, 04:41 PM #5355
Last edited by pureantigravity; 07-02-2021 at 05:39 PM.
OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-02-2021, 05:30 PM #5356
This is a very good moment to move whatever crypto you hold on Binance off to a wallet you control or to another more reputable exchange. Pronto. Go directly; do not pass go, do not collect $200. Get it done. Do it for your sanity and to protect what you still have. Even the Cayman Islands (the Cayman_fucking_Islands) is warning in a press release. Listen to Nike. Just do it. Do it now.
"Binance Holdings Limited, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange conceived of an elaborate corporate structure designed to intentionally deceive regulators and surreptitiously profit from crypto investors in the United States, according to a document thought to be created by a senior executive and obtained by Forbes."
Leaked ‘Tai Chi’ Document Reveals Binance’s Elaborate Scheme To Evade Bitcoin Regulators
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael...h=55b84cd02a92
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edit: also a little bit of Binance.US happenstance from May's mania period.
‘So Many Locked Out’: Binance Users Say Their Accounts Have Been Frozen for Months
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/many-...200452740.htmlLast edited by pureantigravity; 07-02-2021 at 06:12 PM.
OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-02-2021, 08:58 PM #5357
Psycho.
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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07-02-2021, 09:10 PM #5358
Say what you want about crypto haters, skeptics, adopters, and the blindly devout - one thing that unites us all is our agreement that puregravity is batshit crazy.
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07-02-2021, 09:20 PM #5359
I'm not calling you dumb or anything here, but I'm curious how you set your BS meter when someone describes a philosophical position that you find attractive. The above seems to have a lot of parallels these days for people looking to find like minds in politics, religion, epidemiology and crypto. If it's harder to avoid the scam that starts off defending your favorite presidential candidate or the like, that might be the easiest scam to run, so maybe the most important one to watch for. Which doesn't mean everyone we agree with is wrong, of course. So how do you filter that?
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07-03-2021, 03:00 AM #5360
Welcome to my freak show, come meet my monsters Oh, such a fine collection of stranger things. We will start with Tether. No ... wait! How about a stablecoin that isn't like Tethers or USDC?
Presenting Fidelity SPAXX. You can read about all the FUD-proof features it has here from the Rt. Hon. Bitfinex’ed:
The Fidelity Stablecoin that does what so-called ‘Stablecoin’ issuers claim is impossible!
https://bitfinexed.medium.com/the-fi...e-58148252a689
You will know what is fake from knowing what is real. Praise . This is the real deal. Now you can spot the fake garbage real easy. But most importantly, now you can spot the real deal. #Such wow. #Many thanks.OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-03-2021, 04:03 PM #5361
Good news. They can't sell. Price goes up!
"The dust hasn’t even settled on the collapse of the IRON stable coin —$262 million in USDC collateral is still locked in a smart contract due to an embarrassing programming bug"
https://irony-97882.medium.com/the-m...n-89469b01e083OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-03-2021, 04:43 PM #5362
^ thanks for that Medium article. Thanks to this thread & the reading directions it’s taken me, I’m almost inadvertently getting pretty familiar with the field.
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07-04-2021, 03:31 AM #5363OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-05-2021, 05:26 AM #5364
Go GIRLS! Bitcoin incentivizes the further development of the Wolfram language. This hottie just busted the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers via statistical and network analysis and enabled the FBI to thwart the ransom payment.
https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/06/09/...s-the-hackers/
"In my May 25, 2021, blog post “Sleuthing DarkSide Crypto-Ransom Payments with the Wolfram Language,” I detailed how I used the Wolfram Language, public knowledge and some guesswork to track crypto-ransom payments made by Colonial Pipeline on May 8 and Brenntag on May 11 to the Russian hacker group DarkSide. These payments, which totaled millions of dollars, were subsequently distributed to different accounts, and on May 13, DarkSide announced it was disbanding.
But the story didn’t end when DarkSide announced its dissolution.
On June 7, the FBI seized 63.7 bitcoin (BTC), approximately $2.3 million USD, from one of the addresses to which DarkSide’s cluster, described in my earlier post, sent their ransom funds. Normally, this should have been inaccessible to anyone without a private key for that address. The FBI apparently managed, however, to obtain one."
"Did the FBI run a brute-force attack on a billion-dollar supercomputer to find the private key? For the elliptic curve secp256k1, which Bitcoin is based on, the number of possible private keys for a particular public key is approximately:
IntegerName[2^128, "Approximate"]
Out = 340 billion billion billion ....
Looking at that number, an exhaustive search does not appear plausible. But the FBI surely has its own ways around such obstacles."OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-05-2021, 06:29 AM #5365
Fuck this.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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07-06-2021, 07:01 AM #5366
Brazil’s ‘Bitcoin King’ arrested for 'unbanking the banked' with over 7,000 missing BTC. LOL. Only $245 million. Amateurs!
OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-06-2021, 07:56 AM #5367
"In July, a significant amount of BTC will be unlocked from the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Some analysts have already pegged this event as bearish. However, our team will explain why this may end up being a non-event, or even a bullish catalyst."
~Kraken Intelligence
Are a lot of BTC about to be sold? Isn't that always a bullish catalyst? LOL.OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-06-2021, 08:16 AM #5368Banned
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I’m a stupid spammer and I just got pwned by the moderators.
Thanks to all of the maggots for reporting these posts!Last edited by ill-advised strategy; 07-06-2021 at 08:57 AM.
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07-06-2021, 11:25 AM #5369
A special tgr crossover of two endless topics, bitcoin and upstate.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bitc...hot-tub-2021-7
A controversial bitcoin mining operation has made a New York lake 'so warm you feel like you're in a hot tub'
Local residents have blamed bitcoin mining for heating up the largest of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York, with one saying it's "so warm you feel like you're in a hot tub," according to a report by NBC News.
Their complaints centre on a gas-fired power plant that's being used to power at least 8,000 bitcoin mining computers. The plant draws water from Seneca Lake for cooling, then discharges the warmed water back into the lake.
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The power plant, Greenidge, which is being closely monitored by the Department of Environmental Conservation, is allowed to suck in 139 million gallons of water and discharge 135 million gallons daily. The discharged water can be as hot as 108 degrees in the summer and 86 degrees in winter, per permit documents viewed by NBC News.
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07-06-2021, 01:03 PM #5370
alert: https://ethgasstation.info/ is showing very high ETH fees. Something is happening. 46 gwei for standard transaction is very high. Something is afoot.
OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-07-2021, 06:26 PM #5371
I paid like 4-5 bucks for an eth transaction yesterday. Lowest I can remember in a very long time unclefud.
Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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07-07-2021, 10:01 PM #5372
You are right. It is a lot less -on the 7 day moving average- than it has been the last few months. That's why I was surprised to see gas price pump up, and the ETH price also had some action too. Going from 8-12 gwei to 46 gwei for a standard transaction is notable. It just wouldn't be caught by the casual observer. So what is happening? Are people swapping ETH chain tokens for ETH and trying to move them to safety? Or something else? Just a hunch. Something is happening. Incidentally the fees on ETH also indicate how bearish the market is.
OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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07-07-2021, 10:14 PM #5373
Just shut up.
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07-07-2021, 10:36 PM #5374
It's like watching a shade tree mechanic rebuild an engine with a crescent wrench.
Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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07-07-2021, 11:06 PM #5375
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