Cyrano4747 posted:

Nah, I can use weird steam emotes to bother my friends and once in a while they'll have a background that will actually look pretty cool.

Now, if I could pay to make some gently caress ugly ape someone's digital avatar? gently caress yeah, I'd pay for that.

edit: talking about places that aren't SA, naturally.

Random Stranger posted:

I'm genuinely amazed that there was still $200 million in crypto to steal. Or is this a case where it's "$200 million".

Strong Sauce posted:

I do feel a sense of pity for this guy. I mean he seems like a piece of poo poo but also wonder how much that had to do with the pandemic. I had issues with my parents during the pandemic and while it's subsided a little due to some money coming their way, I don't know if my relationship will ever be the same due to what happened. One of the things most people don't talk about is how the pandemic completely hosed with people's mental well being. Like beyond the physical illness that was COVID, being stuck inside and not being able to go out, all the financial uncertainty, and everyone with way too much time was just a huge catalyst for this crazy conspiratorial thinking where people think random stocks will make them rich. I'm not sure that aspect has really been covered well at all.

red19fire posted:

Worked out well for Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson.

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Salt Fish posted:

The odds are very good that a sha-256 collision has never happened, and unless there's a major bug, that it will never happen. The number of possible sha-256 hashes is larger than the number of atoms in the universe cubed.

LifeSunDeath posted:

the people who created nfts: 10/10 scammers, cracker jack job being a con artist

the people who bought nfts: didn't even know you could freely copy any digital image



apes are the perfect marks.

Collateral Damage posted:

I don't think you can even buy drugs with bitcoin any more since it's laughably easy for law enforcement to trace every transaction.

quote:

The KyberSwap decentralized exchange was hacked by an attacker who stole large sums of ETH, wETH, and the USDC stablecoin. Altogether, the assets are valued at around $54.7 million. The attacker was able to exploit a complex bug in a feature for liquidity pool providers. Prior to the hack, KyberSwap had approximately $80 million in TVL.

Shortly after the attack, the thief sent a message: "Negotiations will start in a few hours when I am fully rested." The KyberSwap team later responded to offer a 10% bounty, also seeming to praise the attacker: "You have done one of the most sophisticated hacks ser. That was high EV and everyone missed it."

The thief had other plans, though, ultimately issuing a list of "demands" which included "complete executive control" over the company and "surrender of all ... assets" to the hacker. They wrote that they had big plans for the network, and although they planned to dismiss all executives, they wrote that employees would be offered double salaries to continue their work. The hacker signed the message "Kyber Director".

Meanwhile, KyberSwap regained around $4.7 million after negotiations with the operators of front-running bots, who agreed to return 90% of the funds they obtained through frontrunning the hacker's transactions.

Foxfire_ posted:

The root stock buying argument is "Even though they aren't going to pay me anything right now, they will eventually run out of new areas to exploit and start paying a dividend (even if that's 30 years from now).

quote:

In 1994, Jeff Bezos, a then 30-year-old hedge fund manager, was seeking funding for a revolutionary idea: an online bookshop. To realize this vision, Bezos embarked on a quest to secure investments of approximately $50,000 each from potential investors, primarily targeting family members, friends and others who might be willing to take a risk on his concept.

Out of the 60 people he approached, only 22 were convinced to invest in his idea, contributing to the $1 million he needed to start Amazon.com Inc. In total, he gave up 20% to early investors, according to a 2013 article on Geekwire.

A 2016 Business Insider article highlighted that a $50,000 investment in Amazon at the early stages for a 1% stake in the company would have been worth approximately $3.5 billion that year, provided those stakes had never been diluted by later investors.

ranbo das posted:

Amazon has been pretty much up and to the right (minus that business around 2001)

BrewingTea posted:

Is there a thing that will force Amazon (for example) to start paying dividends at some point?

Like, I understand they want to reinvest profits to expand into <whatever> but even if they stop doing that, why would they suddenly start giving their stockholders money?

Is there a rule that forces a company to pay X% dividends under certain circumstances that I've never heard anyone mention when they were explaining how stocks work?

BrewingTea posted:

Ok, but *why* would you buy back shares? It might make the price go up, but that doesn't make *you* money. In fact, it costs you money.

divabot posted:

we wrote up the number going up for a couple of minutes

tl;dr of course it's loving tether, and now FDUSD

Juul-Whip posted:

what's the problem? they'll be made whole in kind, and 1 btc == 1 btc