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Catalyst-proof
May 11, 2011

better waste some time with you
In Craig Wright sorry I mean SATSOHTI news, he's going back and editing blog posts, which is not something he's ever done before to do sly incriminating things



I have backups of the originals, I just need to sort through them to see what's changed.

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Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


So wait, are these facebucks actually gonna be FACEBUTTS? Or is it not actually crypto and more like apple pay?

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Drone_Fragger posted:

So wait, are these facebucks actually gonna be FACEBUTTS? Or is it not actually crypto and more like apple pay?

yes and yes

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
facebutts can be whatever investors and tech journalists want them to be, friend. a centralised database and trustless distributed blockchain. a replacement for cash that is absolutely not cash for the purposes of anti-money-laundering or financial regs. the only limit is your imagination

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

facebutts can be whatever investors and tech journalists want them to be, friend. a centralised database and trustless distributed blockchain. a replacement for cash that is absolutely not cash for the purposes of anti-money-laundering or financial regs. the only limit is your imagination

zombocash

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out
a floorwax and a dessert topping

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Beelzebufo
Mar 5, 2015

Frog puns are toadally awesome


Doccykins posted:

I posted in the grey thread yesterday but thought the pos would be ahead of the curve

paywalled

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
you can get in through google's search results

quote:

Unlike previous blockchains, which view the blockchain as a collection of blocks of transactions, the Libra Blockchain is a single data structure that records the history of transactions and states over time.

some zuckdrones were told to "build a blockchain" so they delivered a replicated database with decentralization as a future goal

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

Gazpacho posted:

you can get in through google's search results


some zuckdrones were told to "build a blockchain" so they delivered a replicated database with decentralization as a future goal

they've finally figure out how to build a unified base for this data. what progress!

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Can't wait for Facebook to target me with ads based on my purchases and financial situation even more directly!

I assume, since I don't use Facebook.

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

gschmidl posted:

I don't use Facebook.

:wrong:

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
i booked some faces for a brief period of time around the end of 2012

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
Quadriga: Latest report from EY is out. When you read this, you'll be going HOLY poo poo every few seconds. Read Amy Castor's summary, and then the entire thing in its full splendour.

Quadriga was literally just one guy barely pretending to be an exchange, running a chop shop for money laundering. Customers were just a decorative excuse.

Oh, and Gerry blew the $200m margin trading on shitcoins. Nyuk nyuk.

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
Wow, I guess you CAN Be Your Own Bank™ with bitcoin after all!

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
be your own (fraudulent, incompetently-run) bank!

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


Gazpacho posted:

you can get in through google's search results


some zuckdrones were told to "build a blockchain" so they delivered a replicated database with decentralization as a future goal

Laffo, it's almost like anyone technically savvy looks at a blockchain and goes "this would be so much more effecient if it was just run on a single PC, and we simply monitored and controlled access to ensure that the records it keeps are accurate!!"

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006

Try the t.co link
https://t.co/SpjV8392cG

BMan
Oct 31, 2015

KNIIIIIIFE
EEEEEYYYYE
ATTAAAACK


Alphaville is free-account-walled, not paywalled, FYI

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

BMan posted:

Alphaville is free-account-walled, not paywalled, FYI

even worse

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Boxturret posted:

even worse

:agreed:

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?
GF (19) buys an incredible number of giftcards for her dad's Bitcoin business, Police are now looking for her.
(self.legaladvice)
submitted 14 hours ago * by throwaway712439763

I live in Washington state I doubt any more locality is necessary. This is my first post here, if I can do anything to help clarify anything here I'll be up for awhile.

So as simply put as I can be my GF works for her father as a summer job, he pays well and the work is easy enough. She essentially checks and processes Bitcoin transactions (her dad has a quite sizable portfolio of Bitcoin he is offloading). Another job he has her do is buy gift cards (The pre loaded master cards) with the money they earn from Bitcoin. Sounds simple enough right?

This is where things get a bit more complicated, the currency she gets to buy these cards is in Walmart gift cards. It is pretty well known you can't buy a gift card with gift card, and normally if you go to do it you will be stopped and forced to pay another way. Well her father figured out a way to buy the cards with gift cards.

So what, she was buying gift cards right? You would think if she were to have bought only a few not much would be worth the trouble. Unfortunately she was buying somewhere between 4-6 thousand dollars worth a day. Obviously this is highly suspicious. And today I find the police are looking for my GF. She is asleep and I want to have somethings prepared, since I can't sleep.

What should I/she do now? What are the steps from here? Legality of what was happening? I think in the morning She will call the police no matter what, everything else idk what to do.

Tldr: GF bought ALOT of money in giftcards police are now looking for her. Where should we go from here?

Update:post some questions I asked my GF. Her father isn't sacmming people for the coins,He has Mined a portfolio well into the 7 digits. The money does go through bank accounts and has tax payed for it.

Update: the reason her father uses Walmart cards in particular is some deal they run where he can make around 4-6% on each dollar. That is to my knowledge the only reason the money goes through Walmart gift cards.

I also was wondering if any of you may know the legality of buy giftcards with giftcards, it is possible, although against store policy.

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




...! posted:

Well her father figured out a way to buy the cards with gift cards.
one weird trick discovered by a dad, banks hate him

wide stance
Jan 28, 2011

If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way.

...! posted:

GF (19) buys an incredible number of giftcards for her dad's Bitcoin business, Police are now looking for her.
(self.legaladvice)


Totally not money laundering, he just wanted to risk everything for a 4-6% gain as any rational person would do.

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

wide stance posted:

Totally not money laundering, he just wanted to risk everything for a 4-6% gain as any rational person would do.

nothing illegitimate, just massive amounts of mining income from (unintelligible) that he for some reason hasn't been cashing out as he goes to pay for operating costs.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
everything on the level here, nothing to see. these coins were definitely mined by her dad and not the proceeds from drug sales

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
look, receiving large amounts of walmart gift cards in a sock as payment is common in bitcoin land please don't persecute their culture

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

be your own (fraudulent, incompetently-run) bank!
we were talking all about triple-entry accounting when it turns out the real game was no-entry

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
"Margin trading is akin to gambling" says the cryptocraps reporter. IIRC nobody can lose more at a casino than what they put on the table

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

The Management posted:

everything on the level here, nothing to see. these coins were definitely mined by her dad and not the proceeds from drug sales

girl needs to get a lawyer and a new dad

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

AlbieQuirky posted:

girl needs to get a lawyer and a new dad

i think mr theo chino esq could fill both roles perfectly

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Boxturret posted:

i think mr theo chino esq could fill both roles perfectly

:hmmyes:

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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The Monitor’s investigation also identified many “cash” transactions where certain Users
repeatedly funded their Accounts with large cash deposits. The Monitor has been advised
that this involved the User physically handing cash in the form of legal tender to a
representative of Quadriga. As an example, the Platform recorded $12.1 million of “In
person Payments” received from one User through a series of nineteen (19) cash
transactions over a 5-month period.



i'm hoping this means that some crooks got crooked

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
Honestly I'd suspect most of those "cash" transactions are just the owner hooking a buddy up with some free money.

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.

Jabor posted:

Honestly I'd suspect most of those "cash" transactions are just the owner hooking a buddy up with some free money.
it says payments. twelve million in 19 transactions. that's over a half a million a pop. some motherfucker was showing up with a duffel bag full of a half a million dollars cash money, paid in person, once a week for five months.

that's either a drug dealer laundering his money or one very, very, very popular stripper

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

SubG posted:

it says payments. twelve million in 19 transactions. that's over a half a million a pop. some motherfucker was showing up with a duffel bag full of a half a million dollars cash money, paid in person, once a week for five months.

that's either a drug dealer laundering his money or one very, very, very popular stripper

boxturret's mom is very popular :thunk:

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
maybe he didn't fake his death :ohdear:

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
be safe :gerard:

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006
secure! trustless! be your own bank!

https://twitter.com/cryptocurmarket/status/1136980632033062914

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Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

free £ cash withdrawals indeed

oh wait that’s the real atm next to the butt one

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