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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/1526228511018598401?s=20&t=ATeVLB2SDx5JxkEpZDV8JQ so was it like tether, where they claimed to have a vault full of mayors?
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Boxturret posted:also the email was something like frossty@hotmail.com, frossty being a nickname he had frossty is short for "free ross thank you"
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:Never forget that the feds staged an argument between a couple of people to distract Ross and an agent swiped his laptop when he left it unlocked while going to see what was going on. this was the sickest move and i will never not love it
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# ? May 16, 2022 17:20 |
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international drug empire kingpin managing his empire at the local library, undone by a pair of fbi agents pretending to be an arguing couple can't make this stuff up
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The illustrations in the article were also primo material.
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https://i.imgur.com/xLo7fAr.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/6raW5fI.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/m4MzV1p.mp4
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Boxturret posted:https://i.imgur.com/xLo7fAr.mp4 lmao
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Yes! Specifically this one
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HappyHippo posted:I had to move out of my city,
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Wasn't the entire thing improvised? Like they had the sting set up somewhere else but his laptop was dying so he went to the library and they just winged it?
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Soylent Pudding posted:Wasn't the entire thing improvised? Like they had the sting set up somewhere else but his laptop was dying so he went to the library and they just winged it? iirc he ran the entire thing from a library so he wouldn't use his actual network connection
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/1526228511018598401?s=20&t=ATeVLB2SDx5JxkEpZDV8JQ what happened to all the other cities eager to mirror the success of miamicoin that i read about literally days ago!!!!
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lmaoquote:Forth Worth, Texas, for example, will soon be running bitcoin mining rigs in city hall. help the entire city council died of heat stroke
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quote:No models currently exist for how US cities can incorporate cryptocurrencies into their economies and government operations. But Stanley argues that MiamiCoin will be used for local business transactions, facilitate software development, and even one day furnish a source of a universal basic income for residents. Stacks is also running an accelerator program for CityCoins, and recently accepted 11 new companies to build gaming, educational, and financial apps for its cities. soon! there's gonna be a miami metaverse or something i bet! just you wait and see!! quote:In an interview, he acknowledged legitimate criticisms of cryptocurrencies, a space rife with scams, deceit, and puffery, but insisted CityCoins is an exception, a rare crypto product with transformative potential. “One type of person thinks that everything in crypto is a scam,” Stanley told Quartz. “Another type of person thinks ninety-nine percent of crypto is a scam but one percent is insanely important. I’m in that latter group. Bitcoin, Stacks, Ethereum, CityCoins. That all falls in that one percent of projects that are not only not scams, but incredibly important.” there are two types of people in the world: those that think everything in crypto is a scam, and people about to be ripped off
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Beeftweeter posted:iirc he ran the entire thing from a library so he wouldn't use his actual network connection It was usually a coffee shop, but there were no seats that day so he used the library, leading to the cops who were cosplaying as hobos to improv an argument
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Shame Boy posted:lmao Fort Worthless
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Shame Boy posted:lmao the fourth worthless texas
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:Never forget that the feds staged an argument between a couple of people to distract Ross and an agent swiped his laptop when he left it unlocked while going to see what was going on. make me think of how many paranoid crypto bros use one of these now but have accidently wiped all their data: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/buskill-usb-cable-now-available-a-pc-kill-switch-for-data-protection
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Adolf Glitter posted:It was usually a coffee shop, but there were no seats that day so he used the library, leading to the cops who were cosplaying as hobos to improv an argument lol i figured i forgot more details. were they arguing about how busy the coffee shop is?
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Shame Boy posted:soon! there's gonna be a miami metaverse or something i bet! just you wait and see!! i love citycoins, they're a real untapped mine of humor and i'm kinda disappointed the crypto crash came before mayors started really digging deep
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I been baked all my councilors gone
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nice aliaces
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Beeftweeter posted:lol i figured i forgot more details. were they arguing about how busy the coffee shop is? IIRC a key aspect was not just obtaining the PC but ensuring he didn't have a moment to log out or shut down the laptop, so the ruse had to be both low-key enough to not spook him and raise his guard while also being noteworthy enough to draw his attention for at least 5-10 seconds. And so they went full improv with an odd couple routine
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Was it Ross that got poison ivy getting a plastic bag out of a tree or something
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sharknado slashfic posted:Was it Ross that got poison ivy getting a plastic bag out of a tree or something yeah, he documented that in his journal somewhere among his receipts for research chemicals and contract killings
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Oh right They nabbed a site admin and Ross found out, and in turn he wanted to hire an assassin Naturally the guy he reached out to was another undercover agent quote:authorities say Dread Pirate Roberts asked the undercover agent posing as a drug dealer to murder "chronicpain". (The initial deal was for torture, but he later decided to up the ante.) DPR agreed to pay $80,000 for the admin's death -- $40,000 up front and $40,000 when the deed was done. Investigators staged the torture and killing -- which included mock waterboarding according to officials -- and sent Dread Pirate Roberts about half a dozen pictures, including photos depicting what they said was his corpse.
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DaTroof posted:yeah, he documented that in his journal somewhere among his receipts for research chemicals and contract killings i thought that was brought up by his family as one of the many examples of him being a living saint, along with him running through the rain to fetch the car, which proved that he couldn't possibly be a bad drug site man and it was really MARK KARPELES hacking his computer through compromised torrents of the dailyshow
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Lmao, every article covering the saga is packed with gems like this (Context: how to ensure that Ross was logged into as DPR on Silk Road when they scooped the laptop) https://www.wired.com/2015/01/silk-road-trial-undercover-dhs-fbi-trap-ross-ulbricht/ posted:Later that month, Deryeghiayan flew to San Francisco, and on October 1st met up with the New York-based FBI team led by agent Christopher Tarbell. The FBI agents had watched Ulbricht as he worked the day before at a coffee shop near his home called Bello Coffee. So Deryeghiayan says he set up near the cafe with a laptop connected to the Internet via a mobile hotspot, and then went into the cafe to charge his laptop's battery. All the while, he was closely watching the "dread" name on Staff Chat, which remained online.
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Boxturret posted:it was really MARK KARPELES the moment Ross was guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt in the minds of the jury
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kalensc posted:Lmao, every article covering the saga is packed with gems like this lmao on occasion the feds can be pretty sharp
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the explanations for all the incriminating evidence on his computer were so good, the mycrimes.txt was created at random from ram when the computer shut down, mark karpeles found the exact torrent fross was downloading and hijacked it to plant spreadsheets and photos and diary entries all over his file system, just magical
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LanceHunter posted:Guys, I think you've bee missing something really important. The Lightning Network means bitcoin can now process 40 million transactions per second*! lol what a joke lightning seems to be the main thing bitcoiners hand wave at when people bring up transaction throughput
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Boxturret posted:the explanations for all the incriminating evidence on his computer were so good, the mycrimes.txt was created at random from ram when the computer shut down, mark karpeles found the exact torrent fross was downloading and hijacked it to plant spreadsheets and photos and diary entries all over his file system, just magical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKmqdgXuiAI
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Boxturret posted:i thought that was brought up by his family as one of the many examples of him being a living saint, along with him running through the rain to fetch the car, which proved that he couldn't possibly be a bad drug site man and it was really MARK KARPELES hacking his computer through compromised torrents of the dailyshow as absurd as all of that sounds, i think it's accurate, but iirc the original source for the poison ivy story was one of his journal entries just looked it up, and yep: https://www.scribd.com/embeds/253551316/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-bduXS1o79f9xzqGJmTnf&show_recommendations=true quote:03/27/2013 set up servers DaTroof fucked around with this message at 20:07 on May 16, 2022 |
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LanceHunter posted:Guys, I think you've bee missing something really important. The Lightning Network means bitcoin can now process 40 million transactions per second*! I thought that the Lightning Network made a graph of channels in order to route to your destination. If thats true, treating those 80,000 channels as independent seems to be a really big mistake. Anyone know whether thats correct?
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ryde posted:I thought that the Lightning Network made a graph of channels in order to route to your destination. If thats true, treating those 80,000 channels as independent seems to be a really big mistake. Anyone know whether thats correct? yes, every lightning network connection is between two people and they have to commit upfront to every bitcoin that they ever want to spend over it (which will get locked into the lightning channel). if it runs out you have to spend enormous bitcoin transaction fees creating a new channel. then if you want to send bits coin to someone you don't have a direct connection with you have to solve an NP-hard problem to traverse the graph and pay nofees at each leg of the journey. if you send $100 it also consumes $100 worth of the up-front liquidity from each connection it passes through, so if someone doesn't send a similar transaction backwards through those same nodes they will eventually get exhausted and have to be recreated
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:yes, every lightning network connection is between two people and they have to commit upfront to every bitcoin that they ever want to spend over it (which will get locked into the lightning channel). if it runs out you have to spend enormous bitcoin transaction fees creating a new channel. that's too stupid. i need to get up from my computer and take a break
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Mapmakers will be on standby https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1526029996787216387 quote:Banco Central de São Tomé e Príncipe
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gschmidl posted:Mapmakers will be on standby ...what benefits, afaik it's been a massive waste with super low uptake and is forcing them to default?
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