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Tsietisin
Jul 2, 2004

Time passes quickly on the weekend.

I'm starting to think that guy who sold an iPhone app for $999 that simply displayed the words "I am Rich" on your screen was just way ahead of his time.

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Ad by Khad
Jul 25, 2007

Human Garbage
Watch me try to laugh this title off like the dickbag I am.

I also hang out with racists.

salt shakeup posted:

Once again the biggest corporations in the world are waking up to crypto. When will you?

I need it to become a little more poggers first

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin

CaptainSarcastic posted:

I have an idea for a new innovative company that will disrupt the NFT market by issuing NFTs for every existing NFT there is elsewhere. Who's with me?
I have made an NFT of your idea and to use it you will have to buy the NFT of your NFT NFTs

kw0134 posted:

Let's tune into all the companies that very publicly announced ~*blockchain technologies*~ back in 2019 and see how they're making out...oh, not a single one of them mention it any more? What a surprise.

A guy in my apartment claimed to work for a company using blockchain to sign contracts.
To this day I still don't understand how or why it could work.

Jose Valasquez
Apr 8, 2005

salt shakeup posted:

Once again the biggest corporations in the world are waking up to crypto. When will you?

What's it like being a mediocre xtal imposter?

Gomez Chamberlain
Mar 22, 2005

Subakh ul kuhar!
Any company on any part of the spectrum from startup to indexed whatever who ever mentioned anything about blockchain did it to check a box to: a.) get more funding or b.) bump share price a little.

No one serious about their business with any shred of success took it any further than PR.

I look forward to being proven wrong about this :hmbol:

Mimesweeper
Mar 11, 2009

Smellrose

Jose Valasquez posted:

What's it like being a mediocre xtal imposter?

shh, its like half the content this thread has to offer anymore. let it happen

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"

D-Pad posted:

This isn't actually the case. There is some money laundering taking place but it's driven by a small group of people profiting off a speculative bubble. Watch this documentary about the game collecting bubble it's really great:

https://youtu.be/rvLFEh7V18A

Basically the founders of Heritage Auctions, WETA, and a few rich guys are behind everything and seeded the bubble by making some outrageous purchases then going on a hardcore stealth marketing campaign.

I am pretty sure NFTs are the same and I remember that first Beeple nft was very similar in that Beeple and this other rich dude with a shady group of backers were the buyers.

You're right, sorry I meant "fraud" not "money laundering" lol

Mimesweeper
Mar 11, 2009

Smellrose
i wish we were still vibrating bruce's phone off his chair on stream. back when all this was just funny

Gomez Chamberlain
Mar 22, 2005

Subakh ul kuhar!
Oh yeah, I left one out: c.) it was fraud.

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"

Mimesweeper posted:

i wish we were still vibrating bruce's phone off his chair on stream. back when all this was just funny

Back when that was going on and they all got their laptops stolen was peak Bitcoin humor imo

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Looks like OnlyFans isn't going to ditch sex workers after all. Apparently the backlash was severe enough that somebody blinked.

The religious fundies, and Epstein-connected billionaire backer, apparently got cold feet when they realised everyone immediately saw through them.

Said elsewhere; much like the opposition to gay marriage, anti-porn religious crusaders have to try to dilute their messaging because they know how hated they are, and the companies they try to pressure are no longer fooled into thinking they have popular support.

Viscous Soda
Apr 24, 2004

Kerbtree posted:

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

Considering that there's a clip of some the guys driving the video game bubble in front of a screen with "NFT" and Cryptopunks I'm guessing they're pretty relevant to this thread as well.

Bleusilences
Jun 23, 2004

Be careful for what you wish for.

Hello Sailor posted:

Rat poison doesn't stop being rat poison because a rat eats it.

Oh god don't give me hope it would kill Visa.

waydownLo
Oct 1, 2016

Silly Newbie posted:

After you buy a baseball card or a stamp, you still have that card or stamp forever. You have an nft until some rear end in a top hat lets a domain lapse.

New grift - 24 hour NFTs. The ultimate status symbol. I sell you a url, put that in the Blockchain, then delete it after 24 hours.

Ignoring the fact that doing so would be a criminal act in the United States, couldn’t someone crash the value of any NFT by DDOS’ing the NFT’s host? my understanding is that if you completely restrict market access to something (even something really stupid) then its value is 0, but I’m a huge idiot too

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005
I FUCKING HATE POOR PEOPLE BUT I LOVE BEING FUCKED IN THE ASS and having two dishwashers in my CONDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zil posted:

$150,000.

What the hell

I don't even really follow crypto and I have seen a half a dozen stories about Visa getting into Crypto. Considering that Visa advertising budget is in the many 10s of millions of dollars this was probably quite the deal for the exposure it brought them.

Hello Sailor
May 3, 2006

we're all mad here

Bleusilences posted:

Oh god don't give me hope it would kill Visa.

I'm sure plenty of venture capital firms will be glad to step in and offer innovative financial solutions for both commercial and consumer customers.

salt shakeup
Jun 27, 2004

'orrible fucking nights
Yep it's great advertising for VISA's actual Crypto services - https://usa.visa.com/solutions/crypto.html

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



salt shakeup posted:

Yep it's great advertising for VISA's actual Crypto services - https://usa.visa.com/solutions/crypto.html

This is a good visual representation of your posts:

salt shakeup
Jun 27, 2004

'orrible fucking nights
Turn your monitor on.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



salt shakeup posted:

Turn your monitor on.

Ad by Khad
Jul 25, 2007

Human Garbage
Watch me try to laugh this title off like the dickbag I am.

I also hang out with racists.
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

edit: just a completely regular rear end webcomic, that does not mention cryptosporidium or its brain problems in any way

Sort of like what happened with pepe the frog except instead of a cool artist getting their work hijacked it's Visa

Ad by Khad fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Aug 26, 2021

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Jose Valasquez posted:

What's it like being a mediocre xtal imposter?

Please, their name's xlol.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

in all seriousness how can anyone look at the trajectory of mask resistance, antivaxxing and the current wave of people ODing on apple flavored cattle deworming drugs and still believe systems that are dependent on everything being stupider than we can imagine aren't guaranteed to succeed

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Jose Valasquez posted:

What's it like being a mediocre xtal imposter?

He still has to claim he works as a cryptographer

Kerbtree
Sep 8, 2008

BAD FALCON!
LAZY!

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

edit: just a completely regular rear end webcomic, that does not mention cryptosporidium or its brain problems in any way

Sort of like what happened with pepe the frog except instead of a cool artist getting their work hijacked it's Visa

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.

Prurient Squid
Jul 21, 2008

Tiddy cat Buddha improving your day.
$150,000 for loving nothing lol.

Party Boat
Nov 1, 2007

where did that other dog come from

who is he


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

edit: just a completely regular rear end webcomic, that does not mention cryptosporidium or its brain problems in any way

Sort of like what happened with pepe the frog except instead of a cool artist getting their work hijacked it's Visa

They already look like one of those old pixel art webcomics. Diesel Sweeties?

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

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

edit: just a completely regular rear end webcomic, that does not mention cryptosporidium or its brain problems in any way

Sort of like what happened with pepe the frog except instead of a cool artist getting their work hijacked it's Visa
Sounds good, I'll create the NFT for each strip.

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005
I FUCKING HATE POOR PEOPLE BUT I LOVE BEING FUCKED IN THE ASS and having two dishwashers in my CONDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prurient Squid posted:

$150,000 for loving nothing lol.

$150,000 for a bunch of news stories about how Visa is on top of emerging technologies. Most people fundamentally do not understand how NFTs work and assume it's not as complete idiotic as it is because their favorite shark on Shark Tank is really into it, not knowing that Mark Cuban is a huge idiot managed to luck into there being even bigger idiots with more money at Yahoo! at just the right time.

Plant MONSTER.
Mar 16, 2018



I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop




these babies don't look like much, but my Cryptogoats are a steal at only 500k a pop! Do NOT miss out. Limited test batch.

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



:eyepop:

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

Plant MONSTER. posted:





these babies don't look like much, but my Cryptogoats are a steal at only 500k a pop! Do NOT miss out. Limited test batch.

DerekSmartymans
Feb 14, 2005

The
Copacetic
Ascetic

Plant MONSTER. posted:

Limited test bitch.

ftfy

Ad by Khad
Jul 25, 2007

Human Garbage
Watch me try to laugh this title off like the dickbag I am.

I also hang out with racists.

Kerbtree posted:

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.

I'm aware they couldn't do anything, that's why it's funny

Especially if they think they CAN do something and try, and fail brutally

Visa trying to send zedprime a Cease and Desist over the use of their intellectual property punk # whatever the gently caress would be some old school bitcoin thread style gold

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free




Who wants to buy my original one of a kind CryptoGoats? Secure your EXCLUSIVE ownership of a CryptoGoat now for only 499k

I am the only official retailer of CryptoGoats, all others are scammers

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Code Jockey posted:





Who wants to buy my original one of a kind CryptoGoats? Secure your EXCLUSIVE ownership of a CryptoGoat now for only 499k

I am the only official retailer of CryptoGoats, all others are scammers

I have to admit that my first thought was colorful uterine diagrams as opposed to this.

OzyMandrill
Aug 12, 2013

Look upon my words
and despair


I'm the only official NFT provider for these.. err.. Pixel Goat Uteruses!

yeah. NFT your PGUs now!
Only $498,000 each!

MrUnderbridge
Jun 25, 2011


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PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


Shrimp or Shrimps posted:

I use Bitwarden but sometimes wonder how dumb it is having a master password I can easily remember.

from a few pages back but the solution to this is to generate medium-complexity passwords until you get one that you can 'pronounce' in your head. like if you said it out loud to anyone else it'd be complete gibberish that would take them days to work out but it's enough for you to remember it. that's how i do it, at least

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Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Try diceware instead. If you are feeling really paranoid, roll actual dice.

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