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nnnotime
Sep 30, 2001

Hesitate, and you will be lost.

LifeSunDeath posted:

LMAO you just got bamboozled.
Yeah, I did, but thankfully, I only lost my pride. But just shows how devious these scammers are, as it's got lots of other rubes watching it now, and who know how much money they will lose.

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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
you can't trust anyone these days.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

nnnotime posted:

Yeah, I did, but thankfully, I only lost my pride. But just shows how devious these scammers are, as it's got lots of other rubes watching it now, and who know how much money they will lose.

you don't have to guess thanks to the magic of the blockchain

no takers so far on their BTC address https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1PY5y459ErUiexiwhpWeCLRcBKfqtxagQk

one person sent about $200 to their ETH address https://etherscan.io/address/0x6daCDE98C5FB6F0A3eE4E71c8681216E0C17231B

the fake elon musk double-your-money streams have been doing the rounds for ages so they're probably not fooling as many people as they used to

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
Come to my presentation in Ft. Lauderdale, with guest speaker Eoln Musk.

notwithoutmyanus
Mar 17, 2009

repiv posted:

you don't have to guess thanks to the magic of the blockchain

no takers so far on their BTC address https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1PY5y459ErUiexiwhpWeCLRcBKfqtxagQk

one person sent about $200 to their ETH address https://etherscan.io/address/0x6daCDE98C5FB6F0A3eE4E71c8681216E0C17231B

the fake elon musk double-your-money streams have been doing the rounds for ages so they're probably not fooling as many people as they used to

They were obviously not even trying. I mean it was muskelon.com . Literally "please send me money so I can take it away". I'd bet they paid for a thousand people saying some poo poo like "thank you for sending double the btc back!" etc etc.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!


Wow this seems super legit. Where can I email my money?!


Edit: Holy poo poo all of these are just re-streams of the same thing. Incredible.

Gutcruncher fucked around with this message at 20:37 on May 15, 2022

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

lmao is that youtube recommending -another- fake elon musk livestream as the top sidebar suggestion

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

repiv posted:

lmao is that youtube recommending -another- fake elon musk livestream as the top sidebar suggestion

Not another. The same one.



Just with the borders around the side to make it look like "we have another one coming up, here watch this one in the meantime" restream but with a broken timer

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elon+musk+bitcoin&sp=EgJAAQ%253D%253D

:eyepoop:

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!


wow if so many different channels are restreaming it it must be something real!

HKR
Jan 13, 2006

there is no universe where duke nukem would not be a trans ally




you will not trick me into putting elon musk in my youtube search history

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

HKR posted:

you will not trick me into putting elon musk in my youtube search history

That's why porn mode exists.

Also so you can see what the default youtube channel suggestions are and laugh at that because jesus gently caress they're like a parody of dumb internet poo poo.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
weird they would be fabricating a bunch of pumpy type vids all the sudden after what's happened recently.

Dr. Video Games 0031
Jul 17, 2004

nnnotime posted:

Yeah, I did, but thankfully, I only lost my pride. But just shows how devious these scammers are, as it's got lots of other rubes watching it now, and who know how much money they will lose.

those are all bots inflating the viewer count

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
maybe this is the time line where Google Youtube is sued by rich white guys Musk and Jacks for fakenews/deepfake poo poo and they actually try to do something?

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

priznat posted:

Good new interview with Nicholas Weaver going over all the crypto latest and greatest misses and why it sucks, like we don't already know, but it's good to read an academic's perspective

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/why-this-computer-scientist-says-all-cryptocurrency-should-die-in-a-fire/

lmao:

quote:

WEAVER: If your cryptocurrency wallet is compromised, all your apes are fudged.

ROBINSON: All your what, sorry?

WEAVER: Your apes are fudged.

interviewer is obviously not up on the latest memes



LifeSunDeath posted:

weird they would be fabricating a bunch of pumpy type vids all the sudden after what's happened recently.

I pressed the flag button to report a few of them as scams and one has a timestamp of 460 hours, so they've been playing on loop for for weeks

probably it's getting surfaced more now because many people are searching for cryrpto news on google, including normal people who are just rubbernecking. the google algo sees interest and makes related content more visible.

Rust Martialis
May 8, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!

Futanari Damacy posted:

Trying to find the Majora's Mask moon to post but every result is deviantart :effort:

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
Dang it Blobby

ELTON JOHN
Feb 17, 2014

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013




Clearly, we need a Chick tract on crypto to determine the godliest way to use this new scam opportunity.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
and on the seventh day, god set the hash rate

Chef Boyardeez Nuts
Sep 9, 2011

The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.
Christcoin - automatically routes a 10% tithe to a randomly selected bible-believing church.*

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of crypto,’ but you are making it ‘a den of fiat.'"

Plan R
Oct 5, 2021

For Romeo

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Christcoin - automatically routes a 10% tithe to a randomly selected bible-believing church.*

That won't be many of them.

Mooseontheloose
May 13, 2003
Jesus going to the bankers in the church and said, listen I got this great way for you to do this and be anonymous. Let me tell you of blockchain and escape Cesar and Pharisees wrath.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
Thou wicked coiner, thou knewest that I mint where I reserve not: Thou oughtest therefore to have kept the coins at the exchange and then at my coming I should have paid thee thirty percent.

notwithoutmyanus
Mar 17, 2009

Mozi posted:

“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of crypto,’ but you are making it ‘a den of fiat.'"

Flee for your bitcoin! Do not look back at ye nocoiner, nor stop anywhere in the web3, flee to the Russia, lest your Vaccine Passport be hashed away into the next block.

Dick Jones
Jun 20, 2002

Number 2 Guy at OCP

Baller Time posted:

I think the pattern is pretty clear, and you'd be a fool to not go all in now



Simon Rex outlined this exact scenario months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opMqdCchW_0

Wall Balls
Jun 3, 2007

Spanish Castle Magic

for some reason Matthew 19:14 doesn't change for bitcoin jesus

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

I bought a quadrillion Luna when it was at $0.00000000000000000000000, so the second it goes up even the slightest I'll be the richest man in the galaxy.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
Bitcoin: I've never needed money, and now I never will

upsidedown
Dec 30, 2008

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Clearly, we need a Chick tract on crypto to determine the godliest way to use this new scam opportunity.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



I went on YouTube to check if there are those sleep music to get rich (yes that exists) but crypto based, and discovered this new weird poo poo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2x2bwX06IY

Hillary 2024
Nov 13, 2016

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/murderxbryan/status/1526031569856626688

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

The Saddest Rhino posted:

I went on YouTube to check if there are those sleep music to get rich (yes that exists) but crypto based, and discovered this new weird poo poo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2x2bwX06IY

Is this a Hypnospace tie in?

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

I'm lollin

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
I keep my buttcoin in my prisonwallet

tak
Jan 31, 2003

lol demowned
Grimey Drawer

Computer Serf
May 14, 2005
Buglord

notwithoutmyanus posted:

Huh, I have a contact who is a quant for Jump. I'll ask.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-14/whereabouts-of-terra-s-bitcoin-reserve-a-mystery-after-transfers

bloomberg posted:

The $3.5 billion in Bitcoin purchased as a reserve by the foundation set up by the creators of the failed Terra blockchain became untraceable after it was moved to two cryptocurrency platforms, according to blockchain forensics firm Elliptic.
What happened to the cryptocurrency held in reserve may become a key question if investors seek to recoup losses suffered in the wake of the collapse of the blockchain.
Between January and March, the Luna Foundation Guard, or LFG, bought $3.5 billion of Bitcoin, Elliptic said, according to its blockchain analytics tracking tools.
When the value of Terraform Lab’s TerraUSD, or UST, stablecoin began to fall on May 9, the foundation said it would use Bitcoin from the reserve to purchase UST in order to maintain its one-to-one peg with the dollar. Over the next day, the crypto wallets used to hold the reserves were emptied, Elliptic said.

About $1.7 billion was sent on May 9 from LFG wallets to a new address through two transactions after Terra co-founder Do Kwon said the funds would be used to support the peg. Within hours, the entire amount was moved to a single account on the Gemini crypto exchange through several transactions and it was not possible to trace the assets from that point, Elliptic wrote.
The remaining Bitcoin reserves were moved on May 10 in a single transaction to an account on the Binance exchange, Elliptic said. The blockchain analytics firm isn’t able to identify whether the assets were sold or moved to other wallets at that point.

Gemini is a really peculiar choice to go all in on supporting the peg for UST (Terra) or Luna. It’s one of the few exchanges that does not support Tether trading pairs, and it has a significantly lower trading volume than other exchanges.

I would guess this may have been a strategic choice with plausible deniability for insider trading, alongside massive arbitrage opportunity awaiting for GUSD across other rival exchanges.

If anyone cares thankfully it should be easy to subpoena Gemini for the accounts dealing in that $1,700,000,000 dump truck trade.

to the moooooooooooon!!!!

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Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Computer Serf posted:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-14/whereabouts-of-terra-s-bitcoin-reserve-a-mystery-after-transfers

Gemini is a really peculiar choice to go all in on supporting the peg for UST (Terra) or Luna. It’s one of the few exchanges that does not support Tether trading pairs, and it has a significantly lower trading volume than other exchanges.

I would guess this may have been a strategic choice with plausible deniability for insider trading, alongside massive arbitrage opportunity awaiting for GUSD across other rival exchanges.

If anyone cares thankfully it should be easy to subpoena Gemini for the accounts dealing in that $1,700,000,000 dump truck trade.

to the moooooooooooon!!!!

lmao if the brief rebound that terra had on day 2 wasn't the reserves being used to support the price, and instead just more suckers buying "low" because they thought the reserves would be deployed

crypto is an ouroboros of grift, it's amazing

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