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Lammasu posted:That is kind of weird. Crypto is one of the few scams that actually works worse on the elderly because they see it as exchanging real money for fake money. Which it is. True, but the elderly are still pretty eager to give their money away like it's going to rot.
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what I dont understand about these exchange SBF type scam dorks, is it just suicidal hubris? Like why does somebody fake it like that from the start? you would have to realize you are hosed in the end. Do they really think they could turn the tables and make money from the negative money lie? I guess that goes for all pyramid-ponzi type scammers though, and the world is so full of them its not a strange occurance.
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They probably lost p much all of it and only stole a little. Generally people with gambling addiction take your money and also end up broke
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Lammasu posted:That is kind of weird. Crypto is one of the few scams that actually works worse on the elderly because they see it as exchanging real money for fake money. Which it is. Messing about with crypto directly, yes. However, it’s existence and being some nigh-incomprehensible internet money thing leads to an awful lot of people falling for investment scams where someone says they’ll invest in crypto for them. They don’t understand it, but they’ve seen ads on facebook saying crypto can Make Big Money. The victim thinks stuff like “great, that’ll shore up my pension/pay off my mortgage/let me leave a nice inheritance for the grandkids” and off they go.
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Renreeja posted:what I dont understand about these exchange SBF type scam dorks, is it just suicidal hubris? Like why does somebody fake it like that from the start? you would have to realize you are hosed in the end. Do they really think they could turn the tables and make money from the negative money lie? Part of it was that due to a combination of incredible incompetence and malfeasance they thought they had $8bn more than they actually did. Also if your hedge fund desperately needs some money right now it's psychologically easy to "borrow" some from your exchange business because you'll totally be able to pay it back before anyone notices because of crypto going UP UP UP.
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MechaCrash posted:As I understand it, a "stablecoin" is a digital IOU that they claim is worth a specific amount of United States dollars, which they totally have, really they pinky promise swear, no you may not see the actual dollars these IOUs can be traded for. I wonder how many more times we're going to have to relearn the lessons of wildcat/shadow banking without the regulations. (who am I kidding, where there is greed these will always pop up)
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Dark_Adonis posted:I wonder how many more times we're going to have to relearn the lessons of wildcat/shadow banking without the regulations. (who am I kidding, where there is greed these will always pop up) On some level, there are two types of problems. 1: people who are easily addicted to anything vaguely addictive (such as gambling). 2: people who are scammed easily, or are borderline enthusiastic to literally hoist themselves by their own petard. I know that it sounds like it's the same, but unfortunately it's two distinct sorts of groups that circle back to the same problem every time. For 1: this means "I cannot stop touching the (poop/crypto/trading/drugs/whatever is explicitly bad for you)" - money perpetuates the problem. For 2: this means: loud noise = "holy poo poo we should give money to that guy he says the quiet part out loud!" or "I've never heard of this before and I bet nobody else has either and I'd like to put my life savings into it!" - money also perpetuates the problem. Both result in stupid people getting more money than they can handle and totally loving up, not unlike any other scam that gets atrocious amounts of money, had no hope from the start, and collapses with collateral damage. Both can be intelligent people, bankers, fraudsters, hucksters, there's no limit. In short but sadly, Bitcoin represents a common collateral damage of this same part of society itself via a bubble, all the way back to the old timey scams we know as snake oil salesmen.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Well I didn't expect this one, specifically on age. There are other types of bitcoin ATMs?
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Rad Russian posted:There are other types of bitcoin ATMs? Nah, there's legit ones. See, Ally bank even has them.  If you create an account one one, you can get a steep discount on a new pair of Abibas shoes.
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acidx posted:Nah, there's legit ones. See, Ally bank even has them. That tagline is missing the "choose two" part.
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acidx posted:Nah, there's legit ones. See, Ally bank even has them. It's not even bolted down. I bet two people wearing OFFICIAL CRYPTO ATM TECHNICIAN t-shirts can carry it away with no one batting an eye.
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Mad Dragon posted:It's not even bolted down. I bet two people wearing OFFICIAL CRYPTO ATM TECHNICIAN t-shirts can carry it away with no one batting an eye. But all the t-shirt printers I've called ask to be paid in fiat, up front...
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Dark_Adonis posted:I wonder how many more times we're going to have to relearn the lessons of wildcat/shadow banking without the regulations. (who am I kidding, where there is greed these will always pop up) have you considered that wildcats are cool? i saw a scottish wildcat the other day, it was good. maybe people are thinking about dope rear end pumas and jag-wires when they dump all their life savings into unregulated semi-anonymous organizations promising double digit interest with no clear source of same
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Oh well. Bit of a shame huh. Edit: This might actually be false. https://twitter.com/johnlray/status/1632597058732392448?t=AbliLAJrOeJIelO7PIRmfA&s=19
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Tsietisin posted:Oh well. Bit of a shame huh. It's a good joke, but BCash didn't even exist when he lost his hard drive.
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I also doubt he would have A. Been allowed to do all that even with permits, and B. Would have been approved for a loan.
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even if he did get a permit he'd never find it, it's buried under 10 years worth of trash at this point
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Spinning HDDs are amazingly fragile things that are miracles they work at all, never mind as well as they do. I worked in a small computer shop back in college and we always treated them as pieces of fine china that are liable to break if you looked at them funny, and they've only really gotten more fragile as the bit densities have been packed on. The idea that you're going to recover anything from a drive thrown away and subjected to the abuse that trash undergoes before being fully entombed, sitting in the elements for a decade, in English weather, is utterly laughable.
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kw0134 posted:Spinning HDDs are amazingly fragile things that are miracles they work at all, never mind as well as they do. I worked in a small computer shop back in college and we always treated them as pieces of fine china that are liable to break if you looked at them funny, and they've only really gotten more fragile as the bit densities have been packed on. I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. If you were dealing with this kind of potential money, advanced data recovery technics on spinning disks are actually pretty good. The chances of recovering the data you need is better than this post is painting. Disks are fragile for sure, but mostly what would be considered normal use. The chances the disk could be just plugged into a computer and just work is near zero. The chances of pulling data off the drive after sitting int he bottom of a landfill is probably in the 0-30% range. It being the data you need ... less so.
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Sickening posted:I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. If you were dealing with this kind of potential money, advanced data recovery technics on spinning disks are actually pretty good. The chances of recovering the data you need is better than this post is painting. A lot of data recovery works by trying to find byte patterns that look like *something*, a JPEG, a PDF, etc. A Bitcoin private key is a relatively small amount of data that should look random. You need to find a needle that looks exactly like a piece of hay. I guess maybe it's stored as base64, so that would be something to look for? But browser cache and cookies are going to look like that too.
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So what are the chances that this guy isn't throwing his life away in a mad Ahab-esque pursuit of a white whale? Because it sounds like we're splitting hairs on "being recoverable" and "we found half of hello.gif."
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kw0134 posted:So what are the chances that this guy isn't throwing his life away in a mad Ahab-esque pursuit of a white whale? Because it sounds like we're splitting hairs on "being recoverable" and "we found half of hello.gif." he wants to buy a pair of robot dogs to help search, we're well past ahab
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difference is, ahab found his whale and it was perfectly functional
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Just another example of desperate folks desperately trying to escape their circumstances. At least in an actual treasure hunt there would be some sense of adventure. This guys just digging though the trash. Sad.
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Don't most landfills run superhot from all that decomp as well?
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they run hot and wet, any thing with a void in it is going to have hot garbage juice in it. also there's a non zero chance the evolution lottery picks a winner and microbs finally unlock "eat e-waste"
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PhazonLink posted:they run hot and wet, any thing with a void in it is going to have hot garbage juice in it. A slime mold is now in control of dude’s bitcoin account
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it would be funny if the microbes that evolve to eat e-waste end up spreading everywhere and eating all electronics
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priznat posted:A slime mold is now in control of dude’s bitcoin account im not seeing the difference
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Fur20 posted:im not seeing the difference Sorry I should have specified an actual slime mold instead of a human slime mold 
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lmao i guess drdisrespect woke up out of his coma after getting banned from twitch https://twitter.com/9_volt_/status/1632747459687469059
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Strong Sauce posted:lmao i guess drdisrespect woke up out of his coma after getting banned from twitch Is this basically just Fortnite but with bitcoin
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I liked it when he demoed the game he is working on and everyone was like uhhhh looks like garbage. Granted it is really early state but why demo something that looks like crap
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I was in a corner store on the rough side of town a place where you could buy daiper baby food MD2020 meth pipes? And bitcoin. I asked the clerk about it and he asked if I did bitcoin and I was like 10 years ago I 100 of them but I sold them. He said same with him
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I could not recommend buying 100 of Bitcoin, 10 years ago or today
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orange juche posted:I could not recommend buying 100 of Bitcoin, 10 years ago or today definitely not from corner store mark karpeles
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I would really appreciate it if you guys would reupload the pictures from Twitter. It only takes a minute and I would hate you a little less
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twitter is a very reliable place for hosting images and hasnt had any major outages in nearly 8 hours
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Consummate Professional posted:Is this basically just Fortnite but with bitcoin no it's tarkov with bitcoin which is especially funny because there was just an expose on how rampant cheating is in tarkov, even without the absurd stakes he's proposing
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Lammasu posted:That is kind of weird. Crypto is one of the few scams that actually works worse on the elderly because they see it as exchanging real money for fake money. Which it is. The elderly weren't being scammed, they were doing the scamming.
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