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Boxturret posted:what if the so called "real" ellen mack was also a scam bot, but like human shaped?
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cybrmsk
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 05:10 |
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oh I did my debate with Jimmy Song on the exciting question of whether BITCOIN WILL BE A GLOBAL STORE OF VALUE BY 2040. you can listen if you like there's also a poll, which you should vote in according to careful listening for an hour and thinking deeply on the ideas therein
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 12:55 |
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Voted Goku.
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 13:32 |
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hey questions how prolific was ransomware actually? is it still a problem? was the end result of an infection actually a pay up or lose your poo poo dichotomy?
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CampingCarl posted:well that is dumber than i possibly thought
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 16:45 |
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cool biRd pics posted:hey questions It's back. In Most ransomware viruses do literally nothing, and as with Melon Husk giveaways the idea is to get the dumbest person who is willing to part with their money.
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 17:01 |
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idea: a bitcoin miner virus that pops up a window saying that this is a program from el musk himself and he's using your processing power to look for aliens
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 20:07 |
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Boxturret posted:idea: a virus that pops up a window saying that this is a program from el musk himself and he's using your creeit card to look for aliens
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 21:01 |
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Paladinus posted:It's back. In Plenty of ransomware encrypts your files on the drive, as tons of companies (and hospitals!) have learned recently. And many of them decrypt for Bitcoin, but many of them also don't.
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 21:47 |
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what about both?
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# ? Dec 22, 2019 22:39 |
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cool biRd pics posted:hey questions There's ransomware that actually works as well as ransomware of the lowest-bidder variety with decryptors publicly available. Who knows what you'll get
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 02:57 |
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it seems like every other week some entire city or a hospital gets hit with ransomware and they don't have any backups
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sleepy gary posted:it seems like every other week some entire city or a hospital gets hit with ransomware and they don't have any backups if only they used the block-chain
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Butt-chain
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 04:30 |
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orange juche posted:Butt-chain
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sleepy gary posted:it seems like every other week some entire city or a hospital gets hit with ransomware and they don't have any backups
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 04:50 |
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Always store a cold backup under your bird bath. It’s just common sense.
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 09:22 |
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Boxturret posted:if only they used the block-chain
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 17:16 |
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I have over 24 million worth of crypto but I can’t access it! (self.legaladvice) submitted 4 hours ago * by johnporter22 So a wile back I invested in a crypto currency, I started off small investing only $50 which turned out to be an incredibly smart decision considering I made $7,000 two days after investing the $50. So after that I made another transaction and invested $200 which also grow to about $13,400 over a week. It’s been nearly 7 months now and I have invested $2,000 altogether which is now worth more than $24 million. But I’m having trouble accessing it the money, I’ve been doing the these transactions through my personal email address, the person I’m making the transactions with keeps making me pay transaction fees(I’m in America but the person I’m making the transactions with is in India) and I’m starting to get concerned that I’m not going to be able to access this money. What can I do to access the $24m or at least get back the $2k that I originally invested?
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 21:36 |
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...! posted:I have over 24 million worth of crypto but I can’t access it!
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 21:42 |
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hello sir I am a bit-coin arbiter and I can retrieve your $24M but to clear the taxes and government fees I will need ten thousand dollars of google play gift card codes
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 21:48 |
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look it can't be a scam, i made small deposits to check and they worked!!
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 21:53 |
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I sent a stranger $50 and two days later he emailed me to say it was worth $7000. obviously I'm a genius
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 23:12 |
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a heartwarming twitter thread, and very buttcoin - do click through https://twitter.com/KyleSGibson/status/1209167950827012096
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YOSPOS > buttcoin: an incredibly smart decision!
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Paladinus posted:Most ransomware viruses do literally nothing, and as with Melon Husk giveaways the idea is to get the dumbest person who is willing to part with their money. Bitcoin ones especially. Remember the first major ransomware campaign involving bitcoin? IIRC it was a big time Russian mob-backed effort, the kind with funding behind it that really will release the data if paid in time. It seems 3 days is not nearly long enough to figure out how to use bitcoin, and this was tarnishing the ransomware scene's reputation for honesty and trustworthiness as such, meaning people were less likely to bother trying to pay ransom. It was such a disaster that they had to create a customer support department with lines that victims could call to try and guide them safely through the bitcoin process, and give them a free decrypt key if it was genuinely impossible to do within the malware's 72 hour time limit, so they switched to Monero etc pretty quick. When criminals use bitcoin it makes the criminal look worse by association, not bitcoins Syd Midnight fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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I remember way back in the early days, some porn site tried accepting bitcoin and found that it hurt their conversion rate to simply offer it along side the normal methods of payment.
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 18:54 |
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Azathoth posted:I remember way back in the early days, some porn site tried accepting bitcoin and found that it hurt their conversion rate to simply offer it along side the normal methods of payment. that was wikipedia
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Azathoth posted:I remember way back in the early days, some porn site tried accepting bitcoin and found that it hurt their conversion rate to simply offer it along side the normal methods of payment. ...! posted:that was wikipedia lol
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 19:10 |
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no there was also definitely a porn site that came to the same conclusions too
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 19:17 |
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Azathoth posted:I remember way back in the early days, some porn site tried accepting bitcoin and found that it hurt their conversion rate to simply offer it along side the normal methods of payment.
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 19:18 |
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i love that hemp soap guy that accepted bitcoins for a while but after getting absolutely no sales with it removed it which caused the bitcoiners to go crazy and phone his house and threaten him
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 19:21 |
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Whatever happened to that food truck that (exclusively) took bitcoin
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 19:27 |
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EorayMel posted:Whatever happened to that food truck that (exclusively) took bitcoin it died op literally 3 days ago i don't know if this is the same one you're thinking of but i do remember this one coming up before
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 19:35 |
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maybe they went out of business because of the insufferable branding rather than the bitcoins, it's impossible to tell
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 19:38 |
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Boxturret posted:it died op rip in piss cheese dudes
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Boxturret posted:no there was also definitely a porn site that came to the same conclusions too featured performer jimmy wails spread on the banner is still a mixed blessing for those pay sites
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 20:16 |
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nah wasn't wikipedia, it was mozilla - from the second-best book ever written about bitcoin (because the first is still "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" from 1841):I posted:The Mozilla Foundation, the charity that develops the Firefox web browser, began accepting Bitcoin donations for their end of 2014 campaign. This wasn’t good enough for the advocates: they demanded Mozilla include Bitcoin prominently on the primary donation page! With millions of page views, it was quite easy to run an A/B test, where you serve a different version of the page to a fraction of the viewers and can directly compare the effects of the two versions. The A/B test showed that the text “Donate with Bitcoin” dropped revenue per visitor by 7.5%; adding the text would have lost them $140,000 over the campaign, for the sake of a few thousand dollars in Bitcoin. The Bitcoin community, of course, claimed that this literal direct measurement was somehow statistically bogus, listing objections that showed they didn’t understand what an A/B test was.
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oh right i forgot mozilla existed the wikipedia thing was them saying that if they accepted bitcoin they'd hit their donation goals in minutes which is pretty bitcoin
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