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Cash Crops: Dutch Use Bitcoin Mining To Grow Tulips
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Dec 12, 2022 00:28
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people who believe in bitcoin are stupid people who believe that NFTs have resale value are real stupid
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Dec 12, 2022 00:34
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If you have enough solar power available to run the miners wouldn't it be more efficient to run heaters with that power? I feel like they're glossing over a lot of the important minor details here.
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Dec 12, 2022 00:39
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koshmar posted:If you have enough solar power available to run the miners wouldn't it be more efficient to run heaters with that power? I feel like they're glossing over a lot of the important minor details here.
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Dec 12, 2022 00:40
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koshmar posted:If you have enough solar power available to run the miners wouldn't it be more efficient to run heaters with that power? I feel like they're glossing over a lot of the important minor details here. the mining rigs are heaters
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Dec 12, 2022 00:48
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Expensive ones that are less efficient than heat pumps
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Dec 12, 2022 01:13
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Is tether ever gonna die or is that gonna stay around for as long as crypto is?
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Dec 12, 2022 01:52
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buglord posted:Is tether ever gonna die or is that gonna stay around for as long as crypto is? Yes. Crypto can't survive without Tether at this point so when it goes everything goes with it.
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Dec 12, 2022 01:56
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OneEightHundred posted:"Your defense attorney will be extremely unhappy if you give an interview about something that you're under investigation for" has been a recurring theme of his for a while. That guy was not a good attorney. And now Sandusky is behind bars.
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Dec 12, 2022 02:14
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buglord posted:Is tether ever gonna die or is that gonna stay around for as long as crypto is? Tether is a good measurement of exactly how much money has been permanently stolen.
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Dec 12, 2022 02:18
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https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1602104903576555523?s=20&t=WdkVr8gfOdnIXGzSOUEgMw
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Dec 12, 2022 05:08
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drk posted:hmm, tell me more about 'i did crimes' I've seen this on a porn set. Oh and with those two actors.
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Dec 12, 2022 05:24
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kw0134 posted:Wow, no way, you mean to tell me the "smart contract" was coded by idiots on a platform that fundamentally cannot do what was promised??? I'll be honest I actually thought this part was real. Like wasn't that the entire sales pitch of smart contracts, you sell a thing but every time it's sold you automatically get a cut? Wouldn't that be possible with the ethereum virtual machine?
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Dec 12, 2022 05:30
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more falafel please posted:I'll be honest I actually thought this part was real. Like wasn't that the entire sales pitch of smart contracts, you sell a thing but every time it's sold you automatically get a cut? Wouldn't that be possible with the ethereum virtual machine? well, that excerpt seems to be saying that they were doing that, but having to give a percent to the person who made the thing was eating in on the trader's profits, so the sites that facilitate trading are removing the royalties part because nothing ever actually uses the blockchain
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Dec 12, 2022 05:45
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so not really a smart contract. just some smart general guidelines.
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Dec 12, 2022 05:57
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1602104903576555523?s=20&t=WdkVr8gfOdnIXGzSOUEgMw And once again, that's literally a thing Second Life has been doing for well over a decade
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Dec 12, 2022 06:05
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LifeSunDeath posted:people who believe in bitcoin are stupid Most hostility I ever got was from an NFT believer. Dude hates me forever after that, which makes good entertainment.
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Dec 12, 2022 06:15
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I got this message request on Discord and all day long I've been glancing at it and chuckling
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Dec 12, 2022 08:07
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imagine paying someone else to do your homework for you when chatgpt exists now
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Dec 12, 2022 09:00
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I think it's more like quote:imagine paying someone else to get chatgpt to do your homework for you
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Dec 12, 2022 10:13
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Bitcoin is cool because you can buy drugs on the internet with it, which makes sense as a seller because you don't have to risk using a payment processor that could hold your funds for doing illegal poo poo, and allows you to sell more product by being faster than say, Western Union. Makes sense as a buyer because there's less risk in getting scammed in a way that's worse than just getting burned (not receiving product), like your credit card info being stolen or your identity or banking info. You can even use bitcoin to buy postage labels for flat rate or weighted first class USPS packages. This is a cool and good way of buying drugs on the internet and I hope in the end there is at least one crypto exchange left where honest dealers can sell their bitcoin for fiat and honest users can buy bitcoin with fiat. This is basically the only cool and practical thing that Bitcoin has ever done. Why would anyone use it to buy anything else let alone buy it to have it sit in a wallet? Why do bitcoin bros say there's only ever going to be 21 million bitcoin as if it means anything, when you can have bitcoin down to something like 8 decimal places? How does anyone fall for these crypto company ponzis?
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Dec 12, 2022 10:46
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Trollipop posted:Bitcoin is cool because you can buy drugs on the internet with it, which makes sense as a seller because you don't have to risk using a payment processor that could hold your funds for doing illegal poo poo, and allows you to sell more product by being faster than say, Western Union. Makes sense as a buyer because there's less risk in getting scammed in a way that's worse than just getting burned (not receiving product), like your credit card info being stolen or your identity or banking info. You can even use bitcoin to buy postage labels for flat rate or weighted first class USPS packages. This is a cool and good way of buying drugs on the internet and I hope in the end there is at least one crypto exchange left where honest dealers can sell their bitcoin for fiat and honest users can buy bitcoin with fiat. dont drug dealers use cash app and venmo now?
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Dec 12, 2022 12:08
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:imagine paying someone else to do your homework for you when chatgpt exists now As long as ChatGPT is unable to produce a reference list the cheating possibilities are pretty limited. Unless you ask it to generate some nonsense list and hope no one actually checks it. Also it sucks at math.
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Dec 12, 2022 12:31
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Ups_rail posted:dont drug dealers use cash app and venmo now? Maybe for IRL stuff but AFAIK buying drugs on the internet is a bitcoin thing
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Dec 12, 2022 13:49
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Double Bill posted:Unless you ask it to generate some nonsense list and hope no one actually checks it. I used to do that when I was in high school to fulfill that “have at least X references” requirement. No one ever checked, but this was way before the internet
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Dec 12, 2022 13:52
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Scratch Monkey posted:I used to do that when I was in high school to fulfill that “have at least X references” requirement. No one ever checked, but this was way before the internet In my immediately post-undergrad days I used to put real people as references (professors, mostly, because again right out of undergrad) but break the phone numbers by switching two digits enough. Googleable if they wanted to make sure they were real people, but like gently caress I wanted some dipshit post-graduation retail/food/coffee job bothering people I actually might want for a real rec some day.
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Dec 12, 2022 14:27
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Trollipop posted:Bitcoin is cool because you can buy drugs on the internet with it, which makes sense as a seller because you don't have to risk using a payment processor that could hold your funds for doing illegal poo poo, and allows you to sell more product by being faster than say, Western Union. Makes sense as a buyer because there's less risk in getting scammed in a way that's worse than just getting burned (not receiving product), like your credit card info being stolen or your identity or banking info. You can even use bitcoin to buy postage labels for flat rate or weighted first class USPS packages. This is a cool and good way of buying drugs on the internet and I hope in the end there is at least one crypto exchange left where honest dealers can sell their bitcoin for fiat and honest users can buy bitcoin with fiat.
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Dec 12, 2022 15:42
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The only reason Bitcoin was useful for drugs is that nobody understood it and/or gave a poo poo about it. Who in their right mind would ever consider a system with unprecedented guarantees of records preservation and accuracy a good candidate for this?
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Dec 12, 2022 16:00
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You still have to turn the coins of butts into money you can spend as 13+ years there are few places where you can actually spend it like a currency. And since all the exchanges basically are either narcing on you or going to get "hacked" and make your drug money away from you, it's poo poo for that purpose too.
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Dec 12, 2022 16:05
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Aramis posted:The only reason Bitcoin was useful for drugs is that nobody understood it and/or gave a poo poo about it. Who in their right mind would ever consider a system with unprecedented guarantees of records preservation and accuracy a good candidate for this? as i understand it the darknets have mostly moved away from bitcoin long ago for exactly that reason, and now prefer crimecoins like monero which are much harder to audit monero is fundamentally incompatible with KYC/AML so unlike bitcoin/ethereum it can't even pretend to have legitimate use cases
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Dec 12, 2022 16:12
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Cyrano4747 posted:In my immediately post-undergrad days I used to put real people as references (professors, mostly, because again right out of undergrad) but break the phone numbers by switching two digits enough. Googleable if they wanted to make sure they were real people, but like gently caress I wanted some dipshit post-graduation retail/food/coffee job bothering people I actually might want for a real rec some day. references in the sense of the sources for your paper, the idea being if chatGPT wrote your essay for you you'll at a minimum need to bullshit some references/sources for it
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Dec 12, 2022 16:18
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repiv posted:as i understand it the darknets have mostly moved away from bitcoin long ago for exactly that reason, and now prefer crimecoins like monero which are much harder to audit To be fair, Bitcoin was also meant to eschew any and all political interference, including regulations. It just failed to do so. The only reason it's compatible with the system is that it's a rough proof of concept that should have evolved substantially before gaining too much traction. Oops. Aramis fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Dec 12, 2022 |
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Dec 12, 2022 16:24
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buttcoin is a technological answer to a sociological problem, namely what if i can't trust anyone at all. this is a "problem" that is usually solved by either jailing everyone involved because they're sociopathic criminals or curing the underlying psychological problems the individual has with trust.
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Dec 12, 2022 16:31
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Aramis posted:The only reason Bitcoin was useful for drugs is that nobody understood it and/or gave a poo poo about it. Who in their right mind would ever consider a system with unprecedented guarantees of records preservation and accuracy a good candidate for this?
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Dec 12, 2022 16:37
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Aramis posted:To be fair, Bitcoin was also meant to eschew any and all political interference, including regulations. It just failed to do so. The only reason it's compatible with the system is that it's a rough proof of concept that should have evolved substantially before gaining too much traction. Oops.
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Dec 12, 2022 16:57
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zedprime posted:Was Bitcoin meant to do anything? The whitepapers trying to find a point to it and the hunt for Satoshi all seemed kind of post hoc. It otherwise feels like a nerd toy out of the 'check out my Linux war station' boom of the 2000s. It does have value in the sense that it's a counterexample to the idea that distributed trustless consensus is axiomatically impossible. Not sure if that's what it was meant to be, but that's the most charitable interpretation I can come up with.
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Dec 12, 2022 17:02
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zedprime posted:Was Bitcoin meant to do anything? The whitepapers trying to find a point to it and the hunt for Satoshi all seemed kind of post hoc. It otherwise feels like a nerd toy out of the 'check out my Linux war station' boom of the 2000s. I believe they were trying to replace banks and all types of 3rd party transaction companies (Visa, Mastercard, Western Union, etc...).
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Dec 12, 2022 18:15
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a modest goal
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Dec 12, 2022 18:23
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Collateral Damage posted:I was reading about the big CSA bust a few years ago, it might have been linked in this thread even. There was a consierable amount of cathartic schadenfreude when the author said they were able to catch and prosecute a considerable amount of abusers specifically because the darknet sites used bitcoin to buy access. A lot of them just used their personal credit card to buy bitcoin then immediately spent it on the sites, making it dead easy to trace each transaction. Here's one from this year: https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-video-crypto-anonymity-myth/ Wired - Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site - Andy Greenberg
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Dec 12, 2022 18:24
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Bitcoin went from a thing to buy very illegal poo poo to be a thing you still buy illegal poo poo with but also get scammed out of your real money with "investments". Bitcoin is actually pretty cool.
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Dec 12, 2022 18:32
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