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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Gutcruncher posted:

They spent them all

I mean how do you think they paid their cast and crew?

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PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
what are moons?

also did they really make a thing based on reddit gold? which itself is another website number that they shouldnt care about

Iron Chef Ramen
Sep 15, 2007

HA HA! YOU HAVE CHOSEN POORLY!
$60k of a reddit cryptocurrency?

Seems like the idea of a rational person.

Tevery Best
Oct 11, 2013

Hewlo Furriend

PhazonLink posted:

what are moons?

also did they really make a thing based on reddit gold? which itself is another website number that they shouldnt care about

It's a cryptocoin developed by the r/cryptocurrency moderating team, it has no relation to reddit gold as far as I know. But a couple of years ago reddit admins were going pretty hard into blockchain and crypto and agreed to integrate Moons into that subreddit and facilitate stuff like governance votes. Turns out this was a pointless endeavour and they don't want to do the extra work, which apparently requires them to manually do stuff rather than just maintain, so they're removing it.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Tevery Best posted:

It's a cryptocoin developed by the r/cryptocurrency moderating team, it has no relation to reddit gold as far as I know. But a couple of years ago reddit admins were going pretty hard into blockchain and crypto and agreed to integrate Moons into that subreddit and facilitate stuff like governance votes. Turns out this was a pointless endeavour and they don't want to do the extra work, which apparently requires them to manually do stuff rather than just maintain, so they're removing it.

Sounds like the moons have just as much value as they ever did.

Victory Lap
Feb 25, 2001
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-ftx-trial-day-nine-nishad-singh?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

quote:

The government’s attorneys noted that physicians at the Bureau of Prisons had evaluated Bankman-Fried and determined that a lower dosage was appropriate for him;4 they also noted testimony from various witnesses that Bankman-Fried’s original doctor in The Bahamas “was liberally prescribing Adderall to people who told us that they did not need Adderall at all or at that level.”

The judge, perhaps a bit exasperated, explained that he was not qualified to make medical decisions, nor was it within his power to authorize Marshals to provide Bankman-Fried’s attorneys with medications to dispense to their client at lunchtime, as they had requested. He dismissed the two teams, presumably to try to find some physicians to back up what they each had to say. And with that, the trial will continue on schedule.


tough times for our lil junkie, mean ol prison doctors cutting his dose

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!

Come on your honor, can't you just give us the contact information of your own addy hookup?

ashpanash
Apr 9, 2008

I can see when you are lying.

Seems kinda telling that the 'crypto boy genius' just can't get his thoughts together unless he's basically just snorted a rail

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

I didn't realise they were still giving him amphetamines, just at a more normally calculated dose.

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

The Lone Badger posted:

I didn't realise they were still giving him amphetamines, just at a more normally calculated dose.

he's still on the MAOI patches that metabolize into meth too. dude is spun

GenericOverusedName
Nov 24, 2009

KUVA TEAM EPIC
Dude has hosed up his brain chemistry hardcore for a while now, he's not having a good time.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
maybe they can try the Jorp method and get put into a coma for some time to reset.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Your Honor, my client can not possibly defend himself of all these spurious claims unless he is ripped to the tits.

MEIN RAVEN
Oct 7, 2008

Gutentag Mein Raven

Having worked in the medical ward of a few jails in the past, it blows my drat mind that he’s getting ANYTHING resembling adderall. Like, that’s truly unheard of. 1) because prison medical bays are cheap as gently caress, but 2) because that would make a tasty addition to some jail wine.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
He's a special boy who finished all his crimes, also its his birthday.

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

Tevery Best posted:

It's a cryptocoin developed by the r/cryptocurrency moderating team, it has no relation to reddit gold as far as I know. But a couple of years ago reddit admins were going pretty hard into blockchain and crypto and agreed to integrate Moons into that subreddit and facilitate stuff like governance votes. Turns out this was a pointless endeavour and they don't want to do the extra work, which apparently requires them to manually do stuff rather than just maintain, so they're removing it.

There was talk in some of the behind-the-scenes talks Admins give mods of high-population subs that they were thinking of turning karma into a cryptocoin. I think it was just one guy on the team who was super into them and trying to force it (IIRC there's still like, Reddit avatar NFTs or something in the code)

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

VitalSigns posted:

https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1714253930643820969

Seems like not a big deal since you should be buying and HODLing anyway. You don't want to exchange the currency of the future for worthless filthy fiat, right?

Also

Again not that this matters since you only need FDIC insurance if the exchange runs out of money, you're not believing FUD are you?

So you can't turn your Binance Funbux into real money you can spend, but you can turn it into some other bullshit funbux, and then you can turn that into real money you can spend, right? I assume that adding this extra step is some sort of legal distancing so Binance can claim to not fall under whatever regulations should obviously be crushing their windpipe?

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

It's to discourage withdrawals cus they're insolvent and an illegal money transfer agent in that order.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
basically you can turn your theoretical dollars in to IOUs and then go and have them converted in to real money at one of the many bitcoin sites that still has a bank account such as

spunkshui
Oct 5, 2011



MechaCrash posted:

So you can't turn your Binance Funbux into real money you can spend, but you can turn it into some other bullshit funbux, and then you can turn that into real money you can spend, right? I assume that adding this extra step is some sort of legal distancing so Binance can claim to not fall under whatever regulations should obviously be crushing their windpipe?

The casino is just announcing that your casino tokens can no longer can be converted to US currency because they dont have enough.

So you’re gonna have to take those casino chips to another casino. I’m sure they’ll have enough money though.

Rad Russian
Aug 15, 2007

Soviet Power Supreme!
Sounds like a hassle so I'll just keep all my money as casino chips and cash out a few years from now when I have millions.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

MEIN RAVEN posted:

Having worked in the medical ward of a few jails in the past, it blows my drat mind that he’s getting ANYTHING resembling adderall. Like, that’s truly unheard of. 1) because prison medical bays are cheap as gently caress, but 2) because that would make a tasty addition to some jail wine.

I think they believe they can trust him to take any and all medication given to him right away

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
How can someone be so suspicious of institutions like the SEC and Banks yet totally believe that a stable coin is backed up by real money?

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

Lammasu posted:

How can someone be so suspicious of institutions like the SEC and Banks yet totally believe that a stable coin is backed up by real money?

Every conflict has exactly one Good Guy and one Bad Guy. If the SEC doesn't like Tether, and the SEC is the Bad Guy, then Tether must by definition be the Good Guy.

titty_baby_
Nov 11, 2015

I imagine stimulants in prison would be horrible

notwithoutmyanus
Mar 17, 2009

Bip Roberts posted:

Sounds like the moons have just as much value as they ever did.

anything greater than 0 is the wrong price.

Literally they were given our based on Reddit up votes and people would constantly post bullshit trying to get up voted reddit posts.

It was stupid. I assumed the starting and ending value of them was 0.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Random Stranger posted:

I immediately searched for any prop Bison dollars for sale because they'd be a great Christmas gift and I figured they'd have to have made mountains of them to use in the movie. Couldn't find any, just replicas. :smith:

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1445551092041801731?s=20

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Salt Fish posted:

Every conflict has exactly one Good Guy and one Bad Guy. If the SEC doesn't like Tether, and the SEC is the Bad Guy, then Tether must by definition be the Good Guy.

and yet the FDIC is going to pay them 250 K$ when they get rugged?

spunkshui
Oct 5, 2011



PhazonLink posted:

and yet the FDIC is going to pay them 250 K$ when they get rugged?

U.S. dollar deposits in user wallets are no longer eligible for FDIC insurance protection, according to the updated Binance terms of use.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
when will people learn to be their own bank? that's the whole point of bitcoin. they just keep throwing their bitcoin in to any random guy with a websites' hands and then act all shocked when he takes it all

PiePanHandsMan
Oct 5, 2023

Boxturret posted:

when will people learn to be their own bank? that's the whole point of bitcoin. they just keep throwing their bitcoin in to any random guy with a websites' hands and then act all shocked when he takes it all

Somewhere along the line people saw the value of Bitcoin going up and decided that it isn't actually a currency but instead a stock, and started treating it as such.

Treating everything involved with a blockchain as a stock has certainly hurt the space, that's pretty much all NFTs were/are. Everything is expected to be some sort of get rich quick scheme and so many people have lost track of the point being that it's simply a different, and in many ways better, form of money.

drk
Jan 16, 2005
yes, a better form of money... for doing crimes

tango alpha delta
Sep 9, 2011

Ask me about my wealthy lifestyle and passive income! I love bragging about my wealth to my lessers! My opinions are more valid because I have more money than you! Stealing the fruits of the labor of the working class is okay, so long as you don't do it using crypto. More money = better than!

PiePanHandsMan posted:

Somewhere along the line people saw the value of Bitcoin going up and decided that it isn't actually a currency but instead a stock, and started treating it as such.

Treating everything involved with a blockchain as a stock has certainly hurt the space, that's pretty much all NFTs were/are. Everything is expected to be some sort of get rich quick scheme and so many people have lost track of the point being that it's simply a different, and in many ways better, form of money.

Bitcoin is not and never will be a form of money.

Blockchain is ancient 1970s technology that was replaced long ago by faster and much more reliable methods of storing information

Star Man
Jun 1, 2008

There's a star maaaaaan
Over the rainbow

Lammasu posted:

How can someone be so suspicious of institutions like the SEC and Banks yet totally believe that a stable coin is backed up by real money?

It's about getting as much cash as possible without having to follow any rules. The suspicion of the SEC and banks is getting caught.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
It's also similar to sovereign citizen, snake oil and qanon brainworms where out of sheer contrarianism, the more obviously untrustworthy a source is the more they believe them. Especially when said source validates their desires.

tango alpha delta
Sep 9, 2011

Ask me about my wealthy lifestyle and passive income! I love bragging about my wealth to my lessers! My opinions are more valid because I have more money than you! Stealing the fruits of the labor of the working class is okay, so long as you don't do it using crypto. More money = better than!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

It's also similar to sovereign citizen, snake oil and qanon brainworms where out of sheer contrarianism, the more obviously untrustworthy a source is the more they believe them. Especially when said source validates their desires.

Quite a few people who willingly follow these scams also seem to lack people skills or street smarts. They also seem to be really smart in one area and then make the mistake of believing that that makes them smarter than everyone else.

JammyB
May 23, 2001

I slept with Mary and Joseph never found out

Boxturret posted:

when will people learn to be their own bank? that's the whole point of bitcoin. they just keep throwing their bitcoin in to any random guy with a websites' hands and then act all shocked when he takes it all

Not your keys, not your bag

cruft
Oct 25, 2007

PiePanHandsMan posted:

Somewhere along the line people saw the value of Bitcoin going up and decided that it isn't actually a currency but instead a stock, and started treating it as such.

Yes, that's my take, too.

PiePanHandsMan posted:

... a different, and in many ways better, form of money.

Wow, that is not my take at all. Seems to me more like a bunch of people up and decided that proof of carbon emissions could be used as currency. Not exactly the same as, but also not dissimilar to, an origin story by Douglas Adams.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
100 % of the value proposition for all crypto is there's someone dumber than you who'll stay in longer

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tango alpha delta
Sep 9, 2011

Ask me about my wealthy lifestyle and passive income! I love bragging about my wealth to my lessers! My opinions are more valid because I have more money than you! Stealing the fruits of the labor of the working class is okay, so long as you don't do it using crypto. More money = better than!

cruft posted:

Wow, that is not my take at all. Seems to me more like a bunch of people up and decided that proof of carbon emissions could be used as currency. Not exactly the same as, but also not dissimilar to, an origin story by Douglas Adams.

lol, it's the Golgafrinchans all over again.

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