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McGiggins posted:That's actually an amazing idea, to use mall power to mine. I had free electricity in an apartment I was renting for six months, about five years ago. I really should have exploited that to mine bitcoin in retrospect. It was because some idiot electrician wired the landlord's power supply for the apartment complex through my meter and it took the incompetent company running the place half a year to pay somebody to come and fix it. Actually the first apartment I moved into had no electricity at all and rather than have that fixed they moved me into another, nicer apartment along with giving me a month and a half rent back ($2,500 I think or something like that?). They were so desperately incompetent.
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Patrat posted:I had free electricity in an apartment I was renting for six months, about five years ago. I really should have exploited that to mine bitcoin in retrospect. Nah, you shouldn’t have mined in any case.
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Pebergehund posted:Makes me wonder how much mining is done on basically stolen power. “Hey Dad, can I set up my “backup server” at your house? My apartment doesn’t have the room” There was a (bit)coin mine in a generic light industry building that was raided by the police here in the Netherlands because they bypassed the power meter. Police thought they were running a grow op, were really suprised to see a bunch of computer hardware instead of plants (dude was still arrested for stealing electricity and money laundering though). NihilismNow fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Dec 30, 2018 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkBn4AIj3l8&t=770s
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I knew a guy that mined from his PC at the school he worked for
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borat coin (vary nice) (lmbo)
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It’s like a scratch and sniff picture, except I didn’t scratch it and I can still smell it.
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 I clicked a banner of asses making GBS threads out coins and got this image. Good job Bitcoin, maybe your dumb idea for a currency will work out in 2019 it won't.
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Going back to what I was saying a few days ago about Labour members:The independent posted:Brexit news: Pressure mounts on Jeremy Corbyn as Labour members overwhelmingly back fresh referendum https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-second-referendum-labour-peoples-vote-final-say-jeremy-corbyn-eu-a8706586.html If 16% are considering quitting, it’s likely that a significant proportion may sit an election out rather than voting Labour. As the article says, many of these members still support Corbyn, but are upset and/or angry on his Brexit positioning. It could get expensive in the event of a general election, particularly if Corbyn can’t make it up by courting Brexit-supporters as he appears to want to.
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Pesmerga posted:Going back to what I was saying a few days ago about Labour members: quoting for wrong thread posterity
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Pesmerga posted:Going back to what I was saying a few days ago about Labour members: lol haha get back to DnD nerd!!
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JFairfax posted:lol haha get back to DnD nerd!! Hahahaha gently caress. Sorry everyone.
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Pesmerga posted:Going back to what I was saying a few days ago about Labour members: This sounds like a job for blockchain technology!
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just to be gratuitously on topic, Diane Abbott on what Labour will do about cryptos:The next Home Secretary posted:One of the problems with Bitcoin is the extent to which it is just a gigantic Ponzi scheme. If everyone took their Bitcoin money and tried to buy a new car all at once the whole thing would collapse. So, we are worried about the extent to which Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme but we are certainly worried about how in the here and now it is being used to fund terrorist activity and that is something we are looking at … It was poor regulation of financial services which led to the 2008 crash and obviously regulating Bitcoin would be part of that. take that satoshi
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McGiggins posted:Wait they're saying regulating bitcoin would cause a collapse? no, sort your reading comprehension out mate
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I’ve always been sceptical of the «used to fund terror» angle - normal people have enough trouble finding places to spend their coins and/or convert it into fiat, I assume trying to buy bomb materials in some middle east country with butts is 100x harder.
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ymgve posted:I’ve always been sceptical of the «used to fund terror» angle - normal people have enough trouble finding places to spend their coins and/or convert it into fiat, I assume trying to buy bomb materials in some middle east country with butts is 100x harder. I imagine finding out your dad liquidated everything that was going to be willed to you and converted it to shitcoin would be pretty terrifying
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JFairfax posted:no, sort your reading comprehension out mate Well, what’s the antecedent of “that” in the final sentence?
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ymgve posted:I’ve always been sceptical of the «used to fund terror» angle - normal people have enough trouble finding places to spend their coins and/or convert it into fiat, I assume trying to buy bomb materials in some middle east country with butts is 100x harder. I bet there was least one time somebody tried to coordinate a massive arms transaction with bitcoin, fat fingered the address and sent it to a black hole 2012 wallet, and then got executed the next day.
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no go on Quiznos posted:Me. I just sold a butt for $4000. Now to see if I can get it into my bank account. Hey did that goon ever get his money?
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Hey did that goon ever get his money? narrator voice he did not
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orange juche posted:narrator voice he did not Lmao
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EorayMel posted:I bet there was least one time somebody tried to coordinate a massive arms transaction with bitcoin, fat fingered the address and sent it to a black hole 2012 wallet, and then got executed the next day. definitely let the boss type in the wallet address
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ymgve posted:I’ve always been sceptical of the «used to fund terror» angle - normal people have enough trouble finding places to spend their coins and/or convert it into fiat, I assume trying to buy bomb materials in some middle east country with butts is 100x harder. They don't use it to buy things. They use it to transfer money to operatives in target countries. One of the big reasons there's a new international agreement between banks and governments is disclosure of suspicious transfers. They didn't do it before when only wealthy tax dodgers benefited from this. But nowadays terrorist groups could also use it. So they are clamping it down. Now, if governments are willing to displease the wealthy for this, they wouldn't care at all at doing it to coiners.
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Terrorism chat is just the PR campaign, it's mostly about finding mundane crime money to seize and enforcing sanctions
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Subjunctive posted:Well, what’s the antecedent of “that” in the final sentence? the poster selectively quoted the original interview, as indicated by the ' ...' following the third sentence indicating that they have cut and pasted quotes that do not follow each other directly. The next Home Secretary posted: One of the problems with Bitcoin is the extent to which it is just a gigantic Ponzi scheme. If everyone took their Bitcoin money and tried to buy a new car all at once the whole thing would collapse. So, we are worried about the extent to which Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme but we are certainly worried about how in the here and now it is being used to fund terrorist activity and that is something we are looking at … It was poor regulation of financial services which led to the 2008 crash and obviously regulating Bitcoin would be part of that. the 'that' is clearly referring to regulation of financial services to avoid a repeat of a crash like the one seen in 2008, here's the full quote: “Labour overall thinks it’s important to have proper regulation of financial services,” she says. “It was poor regulation of financial services which led to the 2008 crash and obviously regulating Bitcoin would be part of that.” https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/home-affairs/immigration/house/house-magazine/93246/diane-abbott-%93sometimes-immigration
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ymgve posted:I’ve always been sceptical of the «used to fund terror» angle - normal people have enough trouble finding places to spend their coins and/or convert it into fiat, I assume trying to buy bomb materials in some middle east country with butts is 100x harder.
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Nessus posted:Didn't ISIS actually do some of that, even if it isn't their current priority? I know NK does and they usually get classified as terries too. do people buy oil with bitcoins?
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JFairfax posted:the poster selectively quoted the original interview, as indicated by the ' ...' ah, quite so! I totally skimmed over that
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So was I right or dumb? Help I don't possess the reading comprehension to determine word shape meanings! 
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Motronic posted:It's definitely not on the sly - again, if this is a real datacenter. The logical assumption is that it's an employee. Working in tech is fun because I constantly hear about someone getting fired at another company for trying to mine bitcoins using company resources. Last one I know about was a dude who ran up $50K bill by running secret miners inside of his company's AWS tenant. Did it for 30 days before next month's bill came through and people asked questions. Bitcoiners are that stupid that they will risk a high income engineering job to make a few satoshis. As a precaution I do my duty and make sure every single resume that the recruiters here even try to sniff that has cryptocurrency mentioned anywhere on it is rejected outright for any type of position. Crypto morons are not a protected class thankfully. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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Happy 10-year anniversary of the mining of the Genesis block!  I'm sure Bitcoin will take over the world any day now. Aaaaaaaaaaany day now.
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Rad Russian posted:As a precaution I do my duty and make sure every single resume that the recruiters here even try to sniff that has cryptocurrency mentioned anywhere on it is rejected outright for any type of position. Crypto morons are not a protected class thankfully.
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Nessus posted:I probably got my job due to Bitcoin... because I was asked if I could think of any technical trends that I had specific thoughts I could articulate about, and I said "Well all this bitcoin stuff is really a waste of power, I guess in principle you could eventually do something but what's going on now is just wasting electrical power to accomplish nothing but selling some drugs." This cracked up the interviewer. Bitcoin... did a good thing? Oh no my worldview.
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Mimesweeper posted:Bitcoin... did a good thing?
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Trump's legacy will be "finally released that piss tape" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mimesweeper posted:Bitcoin... did a good thing? Bitcoin has brought us plenty of laughs.
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