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ymgve posted:and how do you pay back that loan? with money from the money tree? Easy. When the crypto goes up again you take out another loan using the new equity you've earned as the next collateral. Then pay off the first load with that. Repeat until you are a billionaire.
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May 4, 2021 18:35
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Galewolf posted:The world makes absolutely no sense anymore, jfc. the world makes sense you're just looking at a random number generator that's being influenced by large amounts of fake money that a certain number of people think, or possibly pretend to think, exists
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May 4, 2021 18:42
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I mean, yeah, the stock exchange is equally make-believe money that ruins the lives of everyone in the world in like 20 year intervals but at least there is like an iota of "cause and effect" is there such as oil prices, political stability and whatever. This is pure nonsense and it hurts my caveman brain.
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May 4, 2021 18:46
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repiv posted:hell there's already specialized chia mining hardware in production, like this motherboard with a 32-way SATA backplane built in lol I want this motherboard for my NAS / torrent box presuming it isn't complete trash anyway
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May 4, 2021 18:56
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InternetJunky posted:Are banks actually willing to issue loans using crypto as collateral? I don't see any way that could go badly. This came up about a month ago while chatting with my co-workers who have crypto brain worms. Right now, the only places that will give you loans backed by crypto are based around crypto. And they are currently charging something like 8% interest. Plus, you want to put in significantly more coins than the loans you are taking out, in case there is a “slight” downturn in price. If the value of your coins goes below your loan (or maybe some set ratio of your loan), they sell your coins to close out your loan. Also, they pay the loan in some sort of crypto, not cash money. So you still have to cash out your crypto in some form. So of course all these people that espouse the do as rich people, and get a .5% loan on your investment to avoid taxes miss some of the key points. And are going to be in for a rude awakening when their loan closes out on them and they ultimately owe the taxes they were hoping to avoid.
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May 4, 2021 18:57
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May 4, 2021 19:01
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Winged Orpheus posted:You have a degree in economics but don't know how taxes work and are too dumb to parse your electric bill properly? Because you're claiming that a 32% undervolt on a single electrical component in your home somehow reduced your electric bill by 39%. That's not very nice. If you want a closer number it's probably 250 watts / hour / 24 hours / 30 days at 25 cents per kwh, so like $40/month. $180/month is because it was cold and it's warming up. Having an economics degree doesn't mean I study taxes. That's what tax advisors are for. If I can get a faster answer here then I will before I start going down the rabbit hole for something I'm merely considering as an option.
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May 4, 2021 19:02
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Knot My President! posted:That's not very nice. If you want a closer number it's probably 250 watts / hour / 24 hours / 30 days at 25 cents per kwh, so like $40/month. $180/month is because it was cold and it's warming up. Having an economics degree doesn't mean I study taxes. That's what tax advisors are for. If I can get a faster answer here then I will before I start going down the rabbit hole for something I'm merely considering as an option. Try to factor in the externalities of contributing to ETH as well. You're supporting a system with a huge energy consumption rate and carbon footprint. It's not as bad as BTC, but it still uses more energy than most countries. You're burning energy to help be the record keeper for money laundering and sex trafficking in exchange for a little bit of money.
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May 4, 2021 19:25
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Jose Valasquez posted:Try to factor in the externalities of contributing to ETH as well. You're supporting a system with a huge energy consumption rate and carbon footprint. It's not as bad as BTC, but it still uses more energy than most countries. You're burning energy to help be the record keeper for money laundering and sex trafficking in exchange for a little bit of money. While true, is there anything we can do about it given the worldwide support behind crypto? I don’t want to bring in privation fallacies but it seems like there’s much more impactful tangential activism we could focus on, like restricting ship usage of bunker fuel, no?
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May 4, 2021 19:41
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InternetJunky posted:Are banks actually willing to issue loans using crypto as collateral? I don't see any way that could go badly. Just use your house as collateral. It's not like those buttcoins are going to lose value or anything!
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May 4, 2021 19:45
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xtal posted:https://www.globaltrends.us/2021/05/at-age-of-27-creator-of-ethereum-became.html Pro click: 
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Prurient Squid posted:Just use your house as collateral. It's not like those buttcoins are going to lose value or anything! If you do that and bitcoin tanks then the bank owns your house. If you use bitcoin as collateral and bitcoin tanks then the banks also tank. That's a lot of tanks.
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May 4, 2021 19:52
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Knot My President! posted:Shrug, I left Horizon Zero Dawn idling. Last month I was $180 and this month $110. Nothing else changed in my habits -Rent -Pay for power but not heat, but you covered this -Manually wash dishes or use disposables for every meal -Hang dry all clothes, assuming an excellent washing machine, or use a laundromat -Don't have an electric vehicle Even in our current WFH Hell you would have to be an 8hr/day Twitch streamer for 68% 24/7 load on a cutting-edge GPU to be a significant drop in your power bill. It's probably your heating costs like you said earlier, in which case: Did your economics degree tell you what a negative externality is?
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May 4, 2021 20:06
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Knot My President! posted:While true, is there anything we can do about it given the worldwide support behind crypto? I don’t want to bring in privation fallacies but it seems like there’s much more impactful tangential activism we could focus on, like restricting ship usage of bunker fuel, no? why do so many crypto fans do this "something else is bad, therefore it's fine for me to do things that are bad" thing
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May 4, 2021 20:13
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Hammerite posted:why do so many crypto fans do this "something else is bad, therefore it's fine for me to do things that are bad" thing because gambling winnings are a hell of a drug, and junkies ain't exactly logical when it comes to justifying their habits
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May 4, 2021 20:27
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Look I’m sure all of the women sold into sex slavery wanted to be sold for bitcoins.
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May 4, 2021 20:29
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Blotto_Otter posted:because gambling winnings are a hell of a drug, and junkies ain't exactly logical when it comes to justifying their habits RH putting a penny stock on a crypto list with 6 others and one being at over 50k is hosed up. It looks like a cookie clicker game
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May 4, 2021 20:35
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Knot My President! posted:While true, is there anything we can do about it given the worldwide support behind crypto? I don’t want to bring in privation fallacies but it seems like there’s much more impactful tangential activism we could focus on, like restricting ship usage of bunker fuel, no? Yes there is something we can do about it, we can not support it. You literally don't have to do anything at all to not support cryptocurrency, just don't buy it and don't mine it. With all the time you spend not doing anything with cryptocurrency you can focus on reducing usage of bunker fuel. Two birds with one stone.
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May 4, 2021 20:40
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Knot My President! posted:I'm unironically considering moving like 10g into stablecoins on Celsius because wealthfront is 0.1% APY rn to Celsius's 10% but i have no idea how crypto taxes work Do nexo and get their tokens, and get 10% yearly (compounded daily). It's a better way to go. Nexo is indeed regulated, and insured. People be ignorant if they don't realize a lot of these companies *want* to gain SEC approval and are actively working towards it. It's where I slow roll profits out as price goes up. Also, their loan rates (which do mean you get an ACH straight to your bank) are like 5%. notwithoutmyanus fucked around with this message at 20:48 on May 4, 2021 |
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May 4, 2021 20:45
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Shumagorath posted:I thought about this some more (God help me) and this rationale for gaming vs coining dropping your power usage only works if you: I rent, I have gas heating, I don't have a dishwasher, I use a laundromat, I don't own a car and take public transit, etc. Hammerite posted:why do so many crypto fans do this "something else is bad, therefore it's fine for me to do things that are bad" thing Because my overall power consumption is not very high and my lifestyle doesn't create much pollution to begin with. I caveated with a relative privation nonetheless. The point is that you have to pick your battles, and I focus on other forms of activism because that's where I prefer to put my bandwidth. It's the same reason I'm not vegan while fully being aware of the unethical practices in and environmental impact of factory farming. I'm well aware of negative externalities, and what I'm saying is that my overall footprint is so low that I just simply don't see it swaying me. If I swap out idling my graphics card for gaming and only run it at night, my net incremental savings on electricity consumption, given my lifestyle, is still incredibly low.
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So just to clarify, since you have gas heating you are in fact claiming the $70 reduction in your power bill is due solely to your graphics card and had nothing to do with warmer outside temperatures? And also, there are options other than "support the crimecoin network and waste energy while doing so" and "Leave a game running unpaused on my computer for a month to the tune of $70 of electricity". You could, you know, just turn the computer off when you're not using it. Also, between you and the log cabin heater guy it's a little weird how it seems crypto fans have a hyperawareness of their own carbon footprint but just don't seem to give a gently caress when it comes to crypto environmental destruction Winged Orpheus fucked around with this message at 21:21 on May 4, 2021 |
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May 4, 2021 21:16
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Knot My President! posted:I rent, I have gas heating, I don't have a dishwasher, I use a laundromat, I don't own a car and take public transit, etc. Once again, "it's fine for me to make things worse on purpose because I'm otherwise doing good things" like the vegan who thought not eating beef made mining Bitcoin carbon neutral Goddamn utilitarian brain worms
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InternetJunky posted:Hey guys, will you please spread word about the new crypto I have created. I'm calling it geddoncoin. It's based on people buying up bags of coal and elephant ivory. Is it ARM based?
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May 4, 2021 21:24
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I get it, I recycle and ride my bike which is why I feel ok tripping old people on the street
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I recycle my cans and in return directly dump toxic waste into the mouths of humpback whales, choose your battles guys!
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Bitcoiners multiplying like a hydra, goddamn.
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I didn't realize I'd be pedantically scrutinized for late night exaggerated tongue and cheek napkin math and video game idling but whatever. Gas makes up a significant portion of my utilites bill because I have a 20 year old 10 foot single pane window in my living room that doesn't seal all the way and the property manager said since it's not broken they won't do anything about it for the time being. This tripled my gas bill for the winter. I have 80 hours logged on HZD. My utilites statistics show me at about 350-400kwh per month, which is half the national monthly average and 20-30% less than the average for my state. But goons are gonna goon I guess
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If you want people to pat you on the head and tell you good job for mining ethereum the "making fun of cryptocurrency" thread is probably the wrong place
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Knot My President! posted:I didn't realize I'd be pedantically scrutinized for late night exaggerated tongue and cheek napkin math and video game idling but whatever. Gas makes up a significant portion of my utilites bill because I have a 20 year old 10 foot single pane window in my living room that doesn't seal all the way and the property manager said since it's not broken they won't do anything about it for the time being. This tripled my gas bill for the winter. I have 80 hours logged on HZD. My utilites statistics show me at about 350-400kwh per month, which is half the national monthly average and 20-30% less than the average for my state. But goons are gonna goon I guess lol at posting in a clearly anti crypto thread. for an encore, why don't you post as a mormon on some southern baptist forum. crypto is nothing more than gambling. e:hey guys, i volunteer with Habitat for Humanity so that probably gives me a free pass to knock over a bunch of mom and pop grocery stores, right? tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 22:15 on May 4, 2021 |
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Knot My President! posted:Because my overall power consumption is not very high and my lifestyle doesn't create much pollution to begin with.
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Knot My President! posted:My utilites statistics show me at about 350-400kwh per month, which is half the national monthly average and 20-30% less than the average for my state. But goons are gonna goon I guess Your individual utilities bill is not what people find troubling. Your unnecessary, voluntary participation in a scheme that rewards the wasting of energy for absolutely no other purpose than personal financial reward is what people find troubling. Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies incentivize increasing amounts of environmental destruction with increasing amounts of personal financial reward, while offering no actual utility whatsoever to society at large. It is a fundamentally immoral system, and unlike many other immoral systems that permeate our lives, this one is trivially easy not to engage with.
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One of my co-workers (an older woman) was telling me about how her 90-something father was thinking about getting into bitcoin. Even she knows how ridiculous this poo poo is. Hopefully he doesn't drain the grandkids' trust funds.
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Shumagorath posted:So you want a little pollution and criminal enablement, as a treat? Sure tango alpha delta posted:
Yes because idling a gpu is the same as robbing mom and pop grocery stores. Come on dude. Blotto_Otter posted:Your individual utilities bill is not what people find troubling. Your unnecessary, voluntary participation in a scheme that rewards the wasting of energy for absolutely no other purpose than personal financial reward is what people find troubling. Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies incentivize increasing amounts of environmental destruction with increasing amounts of personal financial reward, while offering no actual utility whatsoever to society at large. It is a fundamentally immoral system, and unlike many other immoral systems that permeate our lives, this one is trivially easy not to engage with. As you pointed out, you just described capitalism. I can't fault people in the age of the $5/hour gig economy opting to make passive income with heroin sex trafficking sudokus. Believe me, I make fun of crypto. A lot. I'm in the heart of it and I hate it. I've consulted for it and I despise it. Tech bros talking about crypto in public is noise pollution. I have at length ranted about how square peg and round hole blockchain is for business solutions. The entire space is about keeping one step ahead of the SEC protecting people from these dumb gambling pump and dump pyramid scams and for something that will "disrupt government money" they sure do quantify its value relative to government fiat a lot. Knowledge is knowing both crypto and hamfisting crypto tech into startup ideas is the dumbest poo poo on the planet meant to appeal to the dumbest people on the planet. Wisdom is recognizing that an extra few hundred a month that can be turned to fiat in this pokemon card shitshow is pretty appetizing to a lot of people
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My get rich quick scheme might be destroying the planet... BUT! It's also used to fund child porn so its cool.
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Knot My President! posted:Yes because idling a gpu is the same as robbing mom and pop grocery stores. Come on dude. yeah, dude, i find hyperbole confusing too. you are part of the problem. 'oh, but i'm just one guy', you say. while that is true, there are millions of other guys just like you. e:"the titanic is sinking, but i can make a few bucks selling baseball cards to the people getting into lifeboats" - Knot My President crypto is gambling. tango alpha delta fucked around with this message at 22:30 on May 4, 2021 |
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Knot My President! posted:As you pointed out, you just described capitalism. I can't fault people in the age of the $5/hour gig economy opting to make passive income with heroin sex trafficking sudokus. We're not faulting someone stuck making $5/hour driving an Uber for making passive income from heroin sex trafficking sudokus, we're faulting you for opting to make passive income with heroin sex trafficking sudokus. If your rationalization for making money unethically in a way that is entirely optional to you is "well everyone else does it", don't get upset when posters tell you that you're a selfish rear end in a top hat.
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tango alpha delta posted:yeah, dude, i find hyperbole confusing too. You'd have more of an impact reducing overall kwh consumption by proselytizing to people you can sway rather than to me who has already established that my net footprint is so low that I don't see it being a problem. This is actually the path I take when people ask me about it. I could burn garbage and keep my lights on 24/7 and it would still be less pollution than what most people generate. Donating $5 to RAINN has more of an impact on sexual abuse than avoiding mining. Conceptually I agree that it's bad, but you're kidding yourself if you don't think a few hundred dollars a month is a substantial amount of money for doing basically nothing for a lot of people. Crypto is dumb but so is tossing aside pragmatism for ideology. Pick your battles; you don't have to win over everyone Blotto_Otter posted:We're not faulting someone stuck making $5/hour driving an Uber for making passive income from heroin sex trafficking sudokus, we're faulting you for opting to make passive income with heroin sex trafficking sudokus. If your rationalization for making money unethically in a way that is entirely optional to you is "well everyone else does it", don't get upset when posters tell you that you're a selfish rear end in a top hat. Yeah I don't care if people call me an rear end in a top hat for it honestly. Everyone has their vices and I make up for it in other ways regardless of whether people think it's a dumb way to do it. I still think crypto is dumb either way. Knot My President! fucked around with this message at 22:54 on May 4, 2021 |
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Knot My President! posted:Believe me, I make fun of crypto. A lot. I'm in the heart of it and I hate it. I've consulted for it and I despise it. Tech bros talking about crypto in public is noise pollution. I have at length ranted about how square peg and round hole blockchain is for business solutions. The entire space is about keeping one step ahead of the SEC protecting people from these dumb gambling pump and dump pyramid scams and for something that will "disrupt government money" they sure do quantify its value relative to government fiat a lot. Knowledge is knowing both crypto and hamfisting crypto tech into startup ideas is the dumbest poo poo on the planet meant to appeal to the dumbest people on the planet. Wisdom is recognizing that an extra few hundred a month that can be turned to fiat in this pokemon card shitshow is pretty appetizing to a lot of people Is wisdom being this familiar with crypto and how stupid the whole sphere is, yet unironically considering throwing 10 grand into it for an impossibly high promised rate of return in the hopes of getting out before they run out of greater fools?
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Knot My President! posted:Yeah I don't care if people call me an rear end in a top hat for it honestly. It sort of seemed like you did during the time you tried to rationalize it for the past couple hours. This might be personal growth.
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