Collateral Damage posted:

And before anyone jumps down his throat, @mr_ian there is being sarcastic.

coolusername posted:

No, that's me

Ongoing reactions to the Tornado arrest are extremely reasonable.







Bonus, "this is why blockchain is good but also why we need a mixer to hide all blockchain receipts":

HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:

I will tell you my blockchain story. Yes, I touched the poop.

I've been using HoneyGain, which basically rewards you for participating in their content-delivery network. HoneyGain is not a crypto company in itself, but they do partner with one called JumpTask. Until recently, getting paid in JumpTask tokens gave you a +50% bonus (down to +10% now), so I figured it'd be worth the extra hoops I'd have to jump through to cash out.

Well, I recently reached $20 earnings, so I decided to cash out. If I had done like my friend and simply used PayPal, that would've involved requesting a withdrawal, getting it, and... done. But no, lured by the bonuses, I'd be entering crypto-land! So, instead of landing in my Paypal account, the withdrawal came to my JumpTask account, instead. From there, I transferred it into the Metamask wallet, then went to "PancakeSwap" to trade the $JMPT tokens to something I could transfer to a crypto off-ramp. I chose the Chainlink token, or $LINK. But, there was a problem: I needed to pay gas nofees in $BNB. Could I swap my $JMPT for the needed $BNB? No, it's not possible to say "convert my $JMPT to $BNB and deduce the gas fees in $BNB from the resulting amount before giving the rest to me". I needed $BNB for gas if I wanted to convert my tokens to anything, including $BNB. So, I made a thread on a cryptocurrency forum about my situation (I was not about to spend $actualmoney on this experiment), and someone graciously offered to send me a bit of $BNB for the gas fees. I got the $BNB, and converted my $JMPT tokens to $LINK. I then went to my wallet and sent the $LINK to my exchange. I had just sent a small amount of $LINK to this exchange address, and it had worked, so I was triple platinum sure that I had the correct address, and confidently confirmed the transfer in my wallet.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, with no email from the exchange (they email you once when there is a pending transfer, and another time when it has been confirmed), and with the BscScan blockchain explorer showing hundreds of confirmations, already, I wrote to my thread on the crypto forum about the situation, asking what was going on. I got a few thorough explanations of "BEP-20" and "ERC-20" chains, and it became clear that I had sent the $LINK on a "BEP-20 chain", whereas the earlier, successful transfer had been on an "ERC-20 chain". I was also told that "in crypto, it's good to think about what you're doing for more than 3 seconds", and several posts suggesting I "should've googled" and exclaiming "it's not rocket science!". The funds, of course, were irrecoverably lost due to me not knowing that the same address that had worked before would not work now because it's "on a different chain". Yeah, not rocket science - rocket science actually makes sense.

Well, it was only a experiment, but if this is the future of money, I'd rather live in the past.

Ups_rail posted:

So where did the tokens go?

drk posted:

When you send something to the wrong address, its like dropping it into a locked box that no one has the key for. As far as the code is concerned, its a perfectly valid transaction - the fact no one can access it isnt relevant.

Ups_rail posted:

So where did the tokens go?

MarcusSA posted:

Ups_rail posted:

So there isnt a crypto network or chain that has a "must be a real address thing"

Ups_rail posted:

So there isnt a crypto network or chain that has a "must be a real address thing"

Victory Lap posted:

Sometimes a man has to stand up and say "No, Mr Brandon, this job is too easy and I get too much time off and it pays too much, it's time for me to return to the private sector where I can be treated badly and paid less, because that is what a MAN does"

more falafel please posted:

Oh, so now I can be arrested for walking up to a bank teller and saying "I have a gun, put $500,000 in unmarked nonconsecutive 20s in a bag?" So much for free speech

PhazonLink posted:

Also is being called honeygain trying to ape one another common browser extension called honey?

shame on an IGA posted:

NYT pitchbot operates on the same tier of greatness as dril and getfiscal, you should study their corpus

HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:

I will tell you my blockchain story. Yes, I touched the poop.

I've been using HoneyGain, which basically rewards you for participating in their content-delivery network. HoneyGain is not a crypto company in itself, but they do partner with one called JumpTask. Until recently, getting paid in JumpTask tokens gave you a +50% bonus (down to +10% now), so I figured it'd be worth the extra hoops I'd have to jump through to cash out.

Well, I recently reached $20 earnings, so I decided to cash out. If I had done like my friend and simply used PayPal, that would've involved requesting a withdrawal, getting it, and... done. But no, lured by the bonuses, I'd be entering crypto-land! So, instead of landing in my Paypal account, the withdrawal came to my JumpTask account, instead. From there, I transferred it into the Metamask wallet, then went to "PancakeSwap" to trade the $JMPT tokens to something I could transfer to a crypto off-ramp. I chose the Chainlink token, or $LINK. But, there was a problem: I needed to pay gas nofees in $BNB. Could I swap my $JMPT for the needed $BNB? No, it's not possible to say "convert my $JMPT to $BNB and deduce the gas fees in $BNB from the resulting amount before giving the rest to me". I needed $BNB for gas if I wanted to convert my tokens to anything, including $BNB. So, I made a thread on a cryptocurrency forum about my situation (I was not about to spend $actualmoney on this experiment), and someone graciously offered to send me a bit of $BNB for the gas fees. I got the $BNB, and converted my $JMPT tokens to $LINK. I then went to my wallet and sent the $LINK to my exchange. I had just sent a small amount of $LINK to this exchange address, and it had worked, so I was triple platinum sure that I had the correct address, and confidently confirmed the transfer in my wallet.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, with no email from the exchange (they email you once when there is a pending transfer, and another time when it has been confirmed), and with the BscScan blockchain explorer showing hundreds of confirmations, already, I wrote to my thread on the crypto forum about the situation, asking what was going on. I got a few thorough explanations of "BEP-20" and "ERC-20" chains, and it became clear that I had sent the $LINK on a "BEP-20 chain", whereas the earlier, successful transfer had been on an "ERC-20 chain". I was also told that "in crypto, it's good to think about what you're doing for more than 3 seconds", and several posts suggesting I "should've googled" and exclaiming "it's not rocket science!". The funds, of course, were irrecoverably lost due to me not knowing that the same address that had worked before would not work now because it's "on a different chain". Yeah, not rocket science - rocket science actually makes sense.

Well, it was only a experiment, but if this is the future of money, I'd rather live in the past.

Paladinus posted:

The last two tweets are parody, just FYI.

PITY BONER posted:

My dude/ette, you can get points for using Bing to search for stuff and then buy real-world items like Starbucks coffee or get coupons (and more). Microsoft Rewards are real, and crypto rewards aren't. You played yourself.

Collateral Damage posted:

And before anyone jumps down his throat, @mr_ian there is being sarcastic.

gbut posted:

I never before thought about the inability to reject a transaction to your wallet.

The true future of money.

Bobstar posted:

Someone on another forum was defending crypto along the lines of "once all the banks are on the blockchain", which reminded me of this evergreen tweet

https://twitter.com/financialprotip/status/1486248150906150912?lang=en

Then when searching for that tweet, google auto-suggested "crypto becoming a millionaire"