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njsykora: Jan 23, 2012; Robots confuse squirrels.

we didn't know how good we had it with second life although I wouldn't be surprised if linden had made their own crypto for it by now

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drk: Jan 16, 2005

https://twitter.com/CoinersTakingLs/status/1444625991947538436

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Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

https://twitter.com/LucasTheDrgn/status/1444372599002341385

# ? Oct 3, 2021 17:47

ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

My spam folder gets all the most interesting things:

quote:

Your Linkedin is very impressive and I wanted to reach out because I believe you may have what it takes to contribute to a project our company is interested in pursuing.

We are looking for hungry, smart, passionate Developers/Engineers/Data Scientists to collaborate with one another to create a model/algorithm for a crypto trading bot. One would need to look at various data/charts/indicators/correlations/etc. to create a model for when to buy a crypto and when to sell, which the primary goal of maximizing profit/returns and minimizing losses. The model would have to be back-tested to make sure it works and then the model could even be patented as well. You must have a good understanding of financial markets / charts / etc....having a passion also goes a long way too!

Similar apps/companies/websites are xxx or xxx or xxx

Another website that shows "correlations" is xxx ... All the data is out there....it's just a matter of digesting it and making sense of it and then creating this model. I'm sure you can agree with that!

In complete transparency, this would be a sweat equity side-project. We're looking for a team of around 10 people (too many chefs spoil the broth) of data scientists, data analysts, ML engineers, software engineers, etc. from various backgrounds (all age ranges, ethnicities, education levels, etc.) who are interested in collaborating to create this model. I also heavily believe that street smarts > book smart and love people who think outside the box. The plan is to develop this model, patent it, and then approach outside investors for funding (this would be easy since I know dozens of investors that have so much cash on hand right now...the market is ripe for another startup boom like the .com era). The goal is to have this model completed by the end of the year at the latest.

Patented trading models :laffo:

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qirex: Feb 15, 2001

wow if only someone had thought of getting a shitload of market data and putting it into a giant database

in 1985

# ? Oct 3, 2021 21:11

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

I'm the deep understanding of "charts"

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refleks: Nov 21, 2006

i can assure you that traders loving love heatmaps

# ? Oct 3, 2021 21:25

Main Paineframe: Oct 27, 2010

ultrafilter posted:

My spam folder gets all the most interesting things:

Patented trading models

is "sweat equity side-project" code for "we're not going to pay you"

# ? Oct 3, 2021 21:34

ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

Main Paineframe posted:

is "sweat equity side-project" code for "we're not going to pay you"

You fuckin' know it is.

# ? Oct 3, 2021 21:39

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

"hungry, smart, passionate Developers/Engineers/Data Scientists"

they're looking for an unemployed guy loving a bottle of soylent

# ? Oct 3, 2021 21:46

Zamujasa: Oct 27, 2010; Bread Liar

have they tried looking in a mirror

# ? Oct 3, 2021 21:51

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

My deep understanding of charts tells me that you buy low and then sell high.

# ? Oct 3, 2021 21:58

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

buy high sell low!

# ? Oct 3, 2021 21:59

EorayMel: May 30, 2015; WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Fran�ais.

drat the only thing that can make that offer better is if you had to sleep on a bug-infested mattress in a warehouse in between 18 hour workshifts

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Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

remember when pleasure kevin accepted one of those offers and died :smith:

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Antlerhill: Nov 6, 2012; Smellrose

remembering that brings me no pleasure, kevin.

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DerekSmartymans: Feb 14, 2005; The
Copacetic
Ascetic

Paladinus posted:

My deep understanding of charts tells me that you buy low and then sell high.

Isn�t this the opposite of cryptocurrency trading?

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Pigbuster: Sep 12, 2010; Fun Shoe

DerekSmartymans posted:

Isn�t this the opposite of cryptocurrency trading?

Buy anytime, sell never

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KnifeWrench: May 25, 2007; Practical and safe.; Bleak Gremlin

Pigbuster posted:

Buy immediately, sell never

ftfy

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The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1444798616971907080

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Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

Mine high, sell low!

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NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

ugh more FUD as long as they HODL their coins until bitcoin rises another 17.5X they will have pure profit.

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Shumagorath: Jun 6, 2001

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ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

Widely Used Bitcoin ATMs Have Major Security Flaws, Researchers Warn

You don't say.

# ? Oct 4, 2021 18:40

LongDarkNight: Oct 25, 2010; It's like watching the collapse of Western civilization in fast forward.; Oven Wrangler

It's got bitcoin right in the name.

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Presto: Nov 22, 2002; Keep calm and Harry on.

My local Exxon station has a bitcoin ATM. For some reason.

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an AOL chatroom: Oct 3, 2002

Presto posted:

My local Exxon station has a bitcoin ATM. For some reason.

There's one at a local bar here, too. I've seen more than one guy try to make the conversation about cryptocurrency after pointing to the icon. I've never seen it work out well.

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drk: Jan 16, 2005

"hello miss have you heard about :yosbutt:

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Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

https://twitter.com/milo_edwards/status/1445434577120604169

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Beelzebufo: Mar 5, 2015; Frog puns are toadally awesome

Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed

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Cryptocurrencies are riddled with a dazzling array of scams. Rug pulls, a term for when developers take the money and run, are common. And NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, aren�t immune to that old trick, as thousands of investors of a project called Evolved Apes found out on Friday.

Evolved Apes is described on NFT marketplace OpenSea as �a collection of 10,000 unique NFTs trapped inside a lawless land.� They are �fighting for survival, only the strongest ape will prevail,� it says, referring to the project�s much-hyped fighting game, which has not materialized.

A week after the project launch, the anonymous developer known as Evil Ape who promised that game vanished along with the project�s official Twitter account and website. But they left traces behind on the blockchain that shows they siphoned 798 ether ($2.7 million) out of the project�s funds in multiple transfers. The funds, derived from the initial public sale of NFTs and commissions on the secondary market, were meant for project-related expenses like marketing.

Evolved Ape investors noticed several red flags leading up to Evil Ape�s rug pull. After the public sale on September 24, the announcements seemed suspiciously unprofessional and several of the leaders were not around anymore, one investor who requested anonymity due to the ongoing fallout from the scam told Motherboard. But they chalked it down to lack of experience at the time. �I don't think this giant storm was ever what was expected,� the investor said.

According to Mike_Cryptobull, who did not share their real name due to their standing in the community, the Evolved Apes community discovered that the social-media competition winners (a marketing activity to create buzz) hadn�t received their NFT prizes from the project, and the artist hadn�t been paid either. To figure out what was going on, investors active on the project�s Discord server jumped on a voice chat last week. In that call, they appointed Mike_Cryptobull, who spent 3 ether (around $10,200) on 20 Evolved Apes, as their de facto fact-finding mission leader.

�And through piecing the bits together I could find out and the parts that all aligned, I put together my opinion in the pdf for the community,� Mike_Cryptobull, who requested to remain pseudonymous due to their standing in the community, told Motherboard. His report contained some bad news about Evil Ape, the admin who controlled the project�s blockchain wallet.

�What has happened is that Evil Ape has washed his hands of the project taking away the wallet with all the ETH from minting that was to be used for everything, from paying the artist, paying out cash giveaways, paying for marketing, paying for rarity tools, developing the game and everything else in between,� he wrote in the report shared with his fellow investors.

Even though the money is gone, the Evolved Apes community plans to carry on. Unlike with cryptocurrencies, NFT rug pulls leave behind JPEGs and a narrative surrounding them. Mike_Cryptobull explained in the report that he and others would build a new project called Fight Back Apes out of the ashes of Evolved Apes. Evolved Apes holders would be automatically approved for a Fight Back Apes token linked with the art from the old project.

�We will become the Fight Back Apes, fighting as a community against our nemesis Evil Ape,� he said. NFT investors who were promised a fighting game did find themselves in a fight after all.

None of this has put a serious damper on the Evolved Apes trade on OpenSea, where the project is still verified. There have been over 574 NFT sales with a total volume of 13.9 ether ($47,230) since Friday, when the rug-pull became public.

�Although we have tried many avenues to contact OpenSea, we are still awaiting a response,� said Josh_CryptoBull, another pseudonymous Fight Back Apes co-founder.

�Evil Ape is still receiving the 4% royalties [from each sale], and that is why we are here to make a new NFT [project] to bring the royalties back to the community.� OpenSea didn�t immediately respond to Motherboard�s request for comment.

Unlike Evolved Apes, which entrusted Evil Ape with sole access to the project wallet, Fight Back Apes will operate a multi-sig wallet, which requires multiple people to sign before anything can be done to funds. That doesn�t mean multiple people can�t collude and scam, of course.

There are more lessons from this bitter experience.

�Trust your gut if something doesn�t feel right,� Josh_CryptoBull said. �If there is a mistake, which happens, how it is dealt with will tell you a lot.� He added that �there were multiple red flags� in Evolved Apes early on, �but 99% of us were just blinded by the art and the promises and the potential profits we assumed would come.�

Two golden rules of crypto also apply here, said Mike_Cryptobull: do your own research, and don�t invest anything more than you can afford to lose.

I like how they can doublethink themselves into being ok with just taking the art for new NFTs. Just layers and layers of scam.

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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

i noticed a youtube rec for some EASY NO CODING MAKE 10,000 NFT'S WITH ONE WEIRD TRICK earlier, so i figured punching "nft" into youtube would give some good results and was not disappointed:

that's just in the first like, 20 results. the ones that aren't just trying to one weird trick you are invariably reporting on getting ripped off or trying to repeat "we're still very early, this is still the ground floor, please hold my bag" over and over until it becomes true

other good ones:

:allears:

i really hope this "blue chip nft" is the one that promised him it wasn't a pump and dump above:

nft archaeologist lmao:

and this one, which is a perfect example of the exact kind of person who would give a bytescoin to eloing mask real verified twittperson to get double back:

# ? Oct 5, 2021 19:54

KnifeWrench: May 25, 2007; Practical and safe.; Bleak Gremlin

Beelzebufo posted:

After the public sale on September 24, the announcements seemed suspiciously unprofessional and several of the leaders were not around anymore, one investor who requested anonymity due to the ongoing fallout from the scam told Motherboard. But they chalked it down to lack of experience at the time.

giving tens of thousands of dollars to disorganized amateurs is something they're totally comfortable admitting, to the point that it reads as an excuse for their naivety lmao

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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

i traded my car for an nft of some magic beans, now all i have to do is plant the-... wait... hm

# ? Oct 5, 2021 19:58

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

WHAT'S INSIDE? FAMILY's pinned video is from 3 years ago and it's a video of him ultra-excited to drive a tesla roadster for the first time (AND MEET ELON IN PERSON OMIGASH OMIGASH), and now he's traded it for a virtual pog like it was nothing, really makes u think

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EorayMel: May 30, 2015; WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Fran�ais.

So how much of this money is actually mafia money needing to be laundered and/or grandparent inheritance

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Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Beelzebufo posted:

Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. ~~Then~~ They Got Scammed

fixed title

at least they still have their .jpgs.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 20:18

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

i love that after the guy vanished and took all the money they had to elect someone to write a report about what happened

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Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

PUNCHED myself in the DICK and set my HOUSE on FIRE my wife hates ME NFT

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gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Boxturret posted:

fixed title

at least they still have their .jpgs.

Are you sure they do?

# ? Oct 5, 2021 20:35

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Ron Paul Atreides: Apr 19, 2012; Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

Beelzebufo posted:

Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed

I like how they can doublethink themselves into being ok with just taking the art for new NFTs. Just layers and layers of scam.

shot

https://twitter.com/JucheMane/status/1445461351480971266?t=Gu7y0yeY7FK0eueNB0Ixug&s=19

chaser

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