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Pistol_Pete posted:All this feuding and plotting and backstabbing makes cryptocurrency mining sound like Eve Online, if the players had somehow all remortgaged their houses in order to invest in the game. Ask the eve thread about the hats guy getting divorced.
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Stat for the thread: bitcoin tops out at 7 transactions/second, right? Barclays UK payment acceptance peaked at 1087/second on black Friday and that's just a single country, not worldwide like bitcoin.
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Have they removed the ability to spam Eth with undeleteable adverts yet?
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xtal posted:Many, maybe you would like https://openbazaar.org/.  artwork
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Most people with that much money would have an accountant who'd tell you it someone hosed with your stuff?
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Hammerite posted:You should have treated the technology with a little respect IMO. 
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So, McAfee's been arrested. So much for his whale-shagging ambitions. Odds of him being forced to eat (a) dick have gone up, though.
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kuddles posted:You should know better by now. The number never goes down. It either goes up or it is readjusting itself to be in line with the current global market. Chinese mining pools shut down, difficulty drops, GPU market gets hosed again?
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Fleetwood Crack posted:It's honestly amusing to me that people still think coinbase is some kind of scam in 2020. Yes I sold $5 of btc and I'll let you know how long it takes to hit my bank. JFYI, well-kept companies don’t perpetually sit on the edge of being booted out by their bank for being a shitshow.
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Hey Crack, where’s this vault, because the business accounts I’ve seen are registered at a loving WeWork shared space 
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Fleetwood Crack posted:Why would a crypto-based charity deliberately build-in support to allow banks to seize people's funds? Because it would be picked up as off-grid financial fuckery and destroyed by the government because there would be no way to prove its not terrorist funding or money laundering?
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Fleetwood Crack posted:-I bought at 4,800 Have you set aside the tax you’re going to need to pay on that?
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Block reward just halved, does that mean a whole slew of hardware just became uneconomical to mine with?
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Tired: getting raided by the Police for having a cannabis grow-op in your roofspace Wired: getting raided by the Police for having buttcoin miners in your roofspace
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So, I’ve just learnt Filecoin is a thing. Who the hell would trust coiners to act as cloud storage for them in return for ~tokens~?!
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Silly Newbie posted:Your debit card fraud experience is also outside the norm - typically with a debit card, once money is gone, it's gone, and it's up to you to prove you didn't make the transaction. If you didn’t get pre-credited for a card dispute, that’s because you personally are dodgy as gently caress.
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nomad2020 posted:You'll be able to appreciate the irony here more than most then. Bitrex, like the stuff they put in household chemicals so people can’t “accidentally” swallow them? E: lol, my employer has blocked payments to binance since the FCA dumped them. The public are Very Mad we won’t let them send their life savings to investment scammers. Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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So, speaking of dumb bubbles, turns out the guy who caused a bubble in coin collection in the 80s and got smacked hard by the FTC is at it again with video games
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Ad by Khad posted:Kinda wondering what would happen if someone made a webcomic where all the characters are just cryptopunks and cryptokitties and cryptowhatevers and they are just copied and re-used and modified wholesale for whatever the gently caress the artists wants to do with them They couldn’t do anything. What you ‘buy’ with an NFT is a sign that points at a thumbnail on a specific web server. Unless the artist specifically assigns you ownership of the original image you don’t actually own it.
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Zil posted:Not 100% bitcoin (gently caress you phone I will not capitalize that) related but I'm sure elon will find a way to work butts into it. Just casually asking the racism-powered platonic ideal of an Ideas Guy to make something that needs to survive a hurricane. Bets on how many things you need to unscrew to get to a parachute?
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Hobologist posted:I saw a post online that said in some Scottish election, a voter had written "wankers" over every party except the Green party, where he had written "not wankers." That counted as a vote. And there’s also been official discussion of whether drawing a cock on one single candidate is indicating they’re a, well, cock, or it’s the voter “making their mark”. E: if you want to spoil your ballot, be clear about it. Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Looks like Coinbase took the hint and dropped Lend.
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So, someone figured out how to get techbros into Deviantart ‘Adoptables’?
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A-hahahaha. Dig up your landfill and make me rich! gently caress off. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/half-a-billion-in-bitcoin-lost-in-the-dump
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If anyone needs a decent explainer for both how crypto and NFTs work and also how they’re dumb to send to relatives and other non-tech folks, this is pretty decent and not too technical.
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Yeah, we get it, you SETI@home.
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MechaCrash posted:Old baseball cards and old comic books are worth shitloads of money because nobody thought they'd be worth a drat thing, so nobody bothered holding on to them, so if you did then you've got one of the few copies floating around. There are people who got slapped by the law for creating artificial bubbles in various things actively doing it right now.
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fullroundaction posted:“Nugen Coin Compensation Plan Oh hey, now we know what’s going on with that guys neighbour.
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priznat posted:The whole concept of metaverse "land" being worth something is so insanely stupid. It's all virtual. It doesn't matter where it is. You could presumably just blip anywhere instantly. There is no real shortage of potential space you could occupy. It makes no loving sense aaaaaaa The last time someone tried this - in Second Life - it literally rained dicks. Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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MarcusSA posted:I’d kinda like to read the court ruling behind this. It’s going to depend a lot on the legal environment. In the UK there’s specific wording in the Theft Act about whether a similar payment was expected by the recipient which it could have been legitimately confused with and a good-faith effort must be made to return them.
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MechaCrash posted:And this is a belief they fervently and unshakably hold until five seconds after someone fucks them over. You would not believe how hard UK crypto people kick off about the regulator, ombudsman etc when they get told a scam case is shared blame or fully liable. Complain if we stop them stepping in a cowpat, complain if we warn them and they do it anyway. DeFi will end the banks my arse
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Spuckuk posted:Thing is nowadays most miners underclock cards because of the price/performance of electricity. So a second hand mining card is likely to be perfectly fine Nah, the GDDR runs hot as gently caress, the underclock is just an attempt to stop the things from outright cooking themselves to death.
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Soapy_Bumslap posted:I've always been a fan of "crypto will break the power of the evil major financial institutuons! Aah, major financial institutions are getting into crypto, nothing to worry about there!" For years, I and others in my department have been having various wingnuts tell us: -DeFi will destroy us. Better odds of us accidentally writing off all our credit card balances. -The suspicious crypto cashout into a suspicious bank account by a suspicious person is totally legit, guys. Weirdly, they have major issues being able to able to satisfy AML proof to get it back. They all tell you it’s just pocket-money, though. They could absolutely have a guy send them 10 large of bitcoin right now
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Ups_rail posted:I remember online poker being big 10 plus years ago. I always wondered why bitcoin didnt help bring it back. Gambling regulators noticed.
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StoryTime posted:Wait some of these cards are designed to run their memory at above water boiling point temperatures? Yep, and that’s why buying recent-gen mining gpus is a bad idea. You’ve got no idea how hard the poor little bastard’s been run and no easy way to tell.
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I've overclocked my cards since the 90's since it's just a fun thing for me to do, and I don't think I've ever had anything that survived 90°C before showing clear signs of distress or just shutting down.
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Ups_rail posted:is there anywhere i can learn how etheriums pow is/was different than bitcoin and why gpu s were the back bone Primarily, the bit of maths they based the POW on took a ton of memory, which GPUs have and would make an ASIC prohibitively expensive.
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PITY BONER posted:I am a laptop gamer. My last notebook had a 1050 and played Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p on high with a few things set to ultra. I got a new notebook this year with a 12GB RX6800 and I can barely tell the difference in performance. I think I spent the first week wondering if something went wrong or if my GPU wasn't connected. That must have been resolution-scaling like a fucker.
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lynch_69 posted:These executives aren't dumb, they know none of this poo poo has any actual use but they play along. Yes they are, they’re just personally rich enough to be insulated from the vast majority of the effects of their failures. There’s basically no selective pressure unless you touch a handful of things that will drat you instantly (Theranos). Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Sep 28, 2022 |
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