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Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

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Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Soricidus posted:

reported for admiting to being permabanned poster seraph420

no that guy stole all my internet accounts and started a fraudulent patreon trying to make it rich off my internet fame and adoration

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



hobbesmaster posted:

do you happen to know what the fine is here in cyrodiil for necrophilia? just asking
i don't think that's even a crime. now if you'll excuse me citizen, i believe i heard an item leave a shop shelf.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Soricidus posted:

reported for admiting to being permabanned poster seraph420
ѕеrаph84 you noob

(guarding against his presence with magickal unicode)

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Sham bam bamina! posted:

ѕеrаph84 you noob

(guarding against his presence with magickal unicode)

he's had like 30 accounts, im sure that was the basis of at least one of them

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Boxturret posted:

he's had like 30 accounts, im sure that was the basis of at least one of them

you would know, wouldn't you, seraph :thunk:

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
Everyone here is a sock puppet except beeps and I, and I'm not so sure about myself.

Zopotantor
Feb 24, 2013

...und ist er drin dann lassen wir ihn niemals wieder raus...

Boxturret posted:

swords are at their best when firmly embedded in the bodies of your enemies imho

POINT
TOWARD ENEMY

ZeusCannon
Nov 5, 2009

BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH
Grimey Drawer

Schadenboner posted:

Everyone here is a sock puppet except beeps and I, and I'm not so sure about myself.

I can confirm I am sock.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

...! posted:

you would know, wouldn't you, seraph :thunk:

:wrong:

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
I can confirm I sit around most of the day with some dude's arm up my rear end.

Bulgakov
Mar 8, 2009


рукописи не горят

Schadenboner posted:

I can confirm I sit around most of the day with some dude's arm up my rear end.

hi

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
It came from BWM (the B stands for bitcoin)

TraderStav posted:

Lots going on here, clearly the writer doesn't understand Bitcoin either. I work for DTE and we have a lot of scams like this but usually they don't involve the blockchain, bold as hell. Usually they target seniors, surprised a 'business owner' wasn't savvy enough to realize that if a Fortune250 company is demanding bitcoin, it should raise a red flag.

http://www.thenewsherald.com/news/c...c4d2cb9862.html

quote:

Callers pose as DTE Energy employees in Bitcoin-fueled phone scam

In 2018, even caller ID can’t be trusted.

At approximately 11 a.m. Sept. 21, a local business owner received a phone call about his DTE Energy bill. The woman on the line said he needed to pay his bill or the electricity at his business was going to be shut off.

The business owner was then transferred to a man who allegedly worked in the payment center at DTE Energy. The man told him he had to pay his bill via Bitcoin by noon to prevent the power from being turned off.

At this point, the business owner contacted Bitcoin and immediately transferred $500 to the account provided. He later called Bitcoin back to confirm that the payment went through. A representative confirmed that the transaction had been completed, but advised him that it was likely fraudulent. The representative suggested the man file a police report.

That evening, the business owner went to the Southgate Police Department and told officers the phone call came from 1-800-477-4747, which is listed on the “Contact Us” page of DTE Energy’s website. He also said the woman on the phone knew his account information and address.

DTE Energy could not immediately be reached for comment.

The man said he attempted to call the phone number back multiple times, but it kept ringing. He also said he had not contacted DTE Energy about his billing.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
hello sir i would like to contact the bitcoin

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



hello you have reached the bitcoin. all our tellers are busy at the moment but if you would like to confirm a transaction please press 1 with the correct number of 0s in front of it

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
> press 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001:ins:

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



thank you for your call. goodbye.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
hello! this is an important message from Bitcoin. we are about to file a lawsuit against you.

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK
Hello!
I'm from bitcoin.

As you could probably have guessed, your account weedlord@bonerhitler.com was hacked, because I sent message you from your account.

Now I have access to all your accounts!
For example, your password for weedlord@bonerhitler.com: hunter2

Within a period from July 31, 2018 to October 3, 2018, you were infected by the virus we've created, through an adult website you've visited.
So far, we have access to your messages, social media accounts, and messengers.
Moreover, we've gotten full damps of these data.

We are aware of your little and big secrets...yeah, you do have them. We saw and recorded your doings on porn websites. Your tastes are so weird, you know..

But the key thing is that sometimes we recorded you with your webcam, syncing the recordings with what you watched!
I think you are not interested show this video to your friends, relatives, and your intimate one...

Transfer $800 to our Bitcoin wallet: 1HitlerDidNothingWrongggggh
If you don't know about Bitcoin please input in Google "buy BTC". It's really easy.

I guarantee that after that, we'll erase all your "data" :)

A timer will start once you read this message. You have 48 hours to pay the above-mentioned amount.

Your data will be erased once the money are transferred.
If they are not, all your messages and videos recorded will be automatically sent to all your contacts found on your devices at the moment of infection.

You should always think about your security.
We hope this case will teach you to keep secrets.
Take care of yourself.

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

Djeser posted:

everyone else itt is NPCs and i'm the player character now where am i and what are your opinions on swords

I don't know much about swords but I heard a legendary blacksmith lives in a cabin on The Snowy Mountain

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Weatherman posted:

Hello!
I'm from bitcoin.

As you could probably have guessed, your account weedlord@bonerhitler.com was hacked, because I sent message you from your account.

Now I have access to all your accounts!
For example, your password for weedlord@bonerhitler.com: hunter2

Within a period from July 31, 2018 to October 3, 2018, you were infected by the virus we've created, through an adult website you've visited.
So far, we have access to your messages, social media accounts, and messengers.
Moreover, we've gotten full damps of these data.

We are aware of your little and big secrets...yeah, you do have them. We saw and recorded your doings on porn websites. Your tastes are so weird, you know..

But the key thing is that sometimes we recorded you with your webcam, syncing the recordings with what you watched!
I think you are not interested show this video to your friends, relatives, and your intimate one...

Transfer $800 to our Bitcoin wallet: 1HitlerDidNothingWrongggggh
If you don't know about Bitcoin please input in Google "buy BTC". It's really easy.

I guarantee that after that, we'll erase all your "data" :)

A timer will start once you read this message. You have 48 hours to pay the above-mentioned amount.

Your data will be erased once the money are transferred.
If they are not, all your messages and videos recorded will be automatically sent to all your contacts found on your devices at the moment of infection.

You should always think about your security.
We hope this case will teach you to keep secrets.
Take care of yourself.

:wrong:

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
I have nothing to hide, apart from my enormous penis.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


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

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
Has anyone said cockblockchain

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Boxturret posted:

swords are at their best when firmly embedded in the bodies of your enemies imho

EFFORT
LESS
FENCE

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
tahts the exact opposite of fencing

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Sham bam bamina! posted:

tahts the exact opposite of fencing

look at this sabre lovre over here

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

anyone post this yet

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02466

quote:

In this paper, we explore how China threatens the security, stability, and viability of Bitcoin through its dominant position in the Bitcoin ecosystem, political and economic control over domestic activity, and control over its domestic Internet infrastructure. We explore the relationship between China and Bitcoin, document China's motivation to undermine Bitcoin, and present a case study to demonstrate the strong influence that China has over Bitcoin. Finally, we systematize the class of attacks that China can deploy against Bitcoin to better understand the threat China poses. We conclude that China has mature capabilities and strong motives for performing a variety of attacks against Bitcoin.

i'm the security, stability and viability of bitcoin

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Shame Boy posted:

i'm the security, stability and viability of bitcoin

Sorry for your loss.

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

Shame Boy posted:

anyone post this yet

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02466


i'm the security, stability and viability of bitcoin

oh sorry I didn't see you there

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Shame Boy posted:

anyone post this yet

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02466


i'm the security, stability and viability of bitcoin

:rip:

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Shame Boy posted:

anyone post this yet

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02466


i'm the security, stability and viability of bitcoin

namechange in the midst of avatar fuckery. thanks.
thate all the oreos

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
mods change my name to ate all the oreos

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

namechange in the midst of avatar fuckery. thanks.
thate all the oreos

i mentioned it very briefly in the tech bubel thread you all should have automatically known it and updated your spreadsheets accordingly :colbert:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Boxturret posted:

mods change my name to ate all the oreos

Oreos was capitalized, which always hosed me up when trying to log in

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Boxturret posted:

mods change my name to ate all the oreos

change it urself

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

akadajet posted:

change it urself

no

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?
:downs:

https://mobile.twitter.com/coinforensics/status/1049375369206419456

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?
lol currency of the future


My experience paying with bitcoin at Bic Camera in Tokyo: A cautionary tale. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 10 hours ago * by robzonpl

Whenever I travel I like to visit bitcoin-accepting places to see how things work and keep an eye on physical world adoption. Bic Camera is one of the biggest retailers to accept bitcoin, so obviously I had to check it out.

So I walked to the cashier and told the guy I wanted to pay with bitcoin. He said ok and then spoke Japanese on the phone for a few minutes. My Japanese sucks, so I can only guess what that was about, but it seemed like he had no clue how to do it and was getting trained over the phone on how to accept btc payments. He went through a bunch of paper manuals and after a few minutes of waiting he finally started tapping something on a phone near the register. About 5 minutes in and I finally see a familar QR code with a btc address below it. I whip out my phone, samourai-style and happily pay the amount. Something happened on the screen and the guy picked up the phone again and started talking.

A few more minutes pass, he looks at my phone's screen, then asks me to talk to someone on the phone in English. A woman asks if I have a transaction on my phone. At that point I was worried they're gonna wait for a block confirmation or something, but I got lucky anyways and had like 2 confirmations by that time, so all seemed ok. The woman asks if I have the transaction on my phone. I confirmed and handed the phone back to the guy.

He asks me to wait a little longer, and starts calling more people. Turns out BitFlyer (their payment processor) screwed up and the transaction doesn't show up as confirmed. About 20 minutes in the guy invites to me to sit while they figure it out. Another guy comes to help and then they proceed to spend another 20 minutes talking on the phone, handing the phone over to me every now and then to answer some lame questions. The woman on the phone had absolutely no clue what she was doing. She asked me twice if I had a BitFlyer account.

I'm at 5 confirmations already and it turns out BitFlyer cannot verify if my transaction went through, because their support wasn't available anymore on that day and they ask me if I want to pay again with credit card, which I obviously refused. I asked if I can come back the next day once they sort this out, but they somehow avoided a direct answer to that question and asked for my email address. They told me someone from BitFlyer would contact me and do a refund.

I wrote down my email address on a piece of paper, then they proceeded to spell it out to check if they got it right. I wrote my email all caps to make it more readable and avoid any mistakes. Then they called some woman again and started spelling out the address to her over the phone, twice, which took several more minutes. The woman on the phone asked me twice if my email address should be lower or uppercase, which I said makes no difference at all, but they could use lowercase if they wanted to. After a few more minutes they call again to ask the exact same question...

And then, after sitting there for about an hour, I get an email from BitFlyer support (!!!) via Zendesk asking if this is the correct email address....

There were many more disturbing little things going on there, but I don't want to get into too much details. The BitFlyer PoS was web-based, barely working and complete trash. They're support couldn't check a transaction, but was somehow able to instantly contact me via email. Now they're saying they need several days to verify and process my refund. BitFlyer has been around for a while, got $36m in funding and they still can't get the most basic on-chain transactions working.

So I've spent over an hour at Bic Camera dealing with this bullcrap, did not succeed in actually purchasing anything and my btc is locked at some lovely payment processor.

**TL;DR** Went to Bic Camera to buy stuff with bitcoin via BitFlyer; wasted over an hour of my life, failed to buy anything, my bitcoin is being held by BitFlyer; conclusion - avoid BitFlyer at all costs.

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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

...! posted:

They're support
this guy posts in yospos

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