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The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Antlerhill posted:

tesla branching into every corner of the scamosphere

they have to do something, real car makers are taking electric vehicles mainstream and talking yearly volumes that exceed tesla's lifetime volume

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The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

gschmidl posted:

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1359519541219500033

:thermidor:

looks like musky figured out that he can manipulate crypto funny-money as much as he wants without repercussions

that one weird trick the sec hates!!!

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

ultrafilter posted:

There's a paywall but it's easily defeated by an incognito window.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

lol coinbase is plummeting after the very brief opening spike

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


what the hell is 'backmasking' and what's wrong with trilateralism (encouraging friendly relations between three nations)?

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/jmalsin/status/1383012039396896770?s=20

:sickos:

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1383829227988873223

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

at what point does the exponential kilowatt per coin/transaction curve start to become vertical? i'm guessing we are getting close when closed power plants are reopening just to mine make believe money

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


this is just the regular economy in 21st century america

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1394402827477282818?s=20

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/CryptoWhale/status/1396100822245777408?s=20

beautiful

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

SYSV Fanfic posted:

Coinbase responds to the mean things being said about them and their friends by starting their own blog.

https://blog.coinbase.com/factcheck/home

"well, see, in terms of total % of everything else destroying the environment, bitcoin isn't that bad. also elon musk said something about being green, and he's the electric car guy, so..."

some putin-grade propaganda here

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1398277021923414018?s=20

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Shame Boy posted:

i like that they started trying to do it half-way decently with the distribution box and then just gave up and ran extension cords everywhere

the uk in general has a smug sense of superiority about wiring practices that are correctly seen as dangerous and thus illegal everywhere else

the best part is that the british pork patrol clearly raided the building while not having any actual proof that it was a weed growing facility and just got lucky that some buttcoiners were pirating electricity so they could claim the moral high ground

The_Franz fucked around with this message at 00:58 on May 29, 2021

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Not a Children posted:

Is that the dude who got his laptop full of mycrimes.txt snatched at a library

and legit thought he was hiring internet assassins who turned out to be feds

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


if elon doesn't already walk around with a full-time security team he might have to start as some very unhinged people are getting very mad at him

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Sagebrush posted:

it came from the reddit relationships thread:

this has everything

without even looking at the reddit replies i'm guessing there are a slew of "LADY YOUR DAUGHTER IS RUNNING A PONZI SCHEME PEOPLE GO TO JAIL FOR THIS". the club not being in line with the church's "values" is the minister getting worried that people will lose their money to this kid instead of giving it to him

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

probably good for elon that all of the bitcoin assassins on the darkweb are actually cops

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

xtal posted:

Love to cheer on the USA government torturing people

Shumagorath posted:

on one hand the US prison system is extremely hosed up but on the other hand lol @ Ross

he's not some poor soul who wound up in prison for a small bag of weed that was .0001g over some legal limit. ross wanted to play gangster, replete with having people whacked, and now he gets to live with it

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

qirex posted:

probably the richest white person to get a federal life sentence in a long time

because most of them are smart enough to take the plea deal

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Shame Boy posted:

https://twitter.com/Dan_Vasc/status/1407912489573027840

y'know i think the law did a reasonably good job protecting me from john mcafee, actually, but thanks anyway ayn

unfortunately, the same wasn't true for his neighbor

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

he never got to use his longboard to make a dramatic escape from the cops

this whole list sounds like an even more pathetic version of a 6 year old "running away" with a suitcase full of toys

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

  • step 1: buy crypto
  • step 2: put phone in tire
  • step 3: ???
  • step 4: return of trump & presidential pardon

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


robinhood proves again and again that it's a clownshow broker and i don't know why anyone uses them when every real broker now offers free trades and low cost options contracts

this is the broker with the infamous "infinite money trick" that basically let people run up huge margin buying power by laundering robinhood's own money through their options desk

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Alan Smithee posted:

"i like their UI" seems to be the only thing I hear

i think getting approved for things like margin and naked options trading is just a matter of pushing a button too, while the "old man" brokers want you to demonstrate that you actually have some idea of what you are doing first

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Luigi Thirty posted:

yeah fidelity won’t let me do anything stupid with options while robinhood is like HERE’S THE LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY AND OWE US A SHITLOAD BUTTON

i had to spend a decent chunk of time taking an options course + pass a test to get approval on td ameritrade, and even then the approval was for defined risk strategies only

The_Franz fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Jul 1, 2021

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

ADINSX posted:

One of the worst people I ever worked with transferred to our team from AWS Blockchain (which is a thing) so I have to imagine the entire industry is made up of people like him

still true

https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1385198380310278144?s=20

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

FrozenVent posted:

insurance companies have no such scruples


no seriously if you send a ship through the piracy area you have to get “kidnap and ransom” insurance, basically if your crew gets jacked they negotiate with the pirates and pay them

nowadays you also get armed guards, so like three dudes with SKS rifles

it's been a thing for people traveling to parts of central/south america, africa and middle east for a long time. basically anywhere unstable, corrupt and/or with active guerilla groups who can make good money from kidnapping foreigners

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1412177485895245825?s=20

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

me trying to get money out of binance: well this loving sucks what the gently caress

you're just not asking the right way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzAS53gcDg

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

https://twitter.com/LostWeapons/status/1416639008478617601

ukrainian authorities raid a warehouse thinking it was a crypto mine, find a bunch of ps4s grinding accounts for a soccer game instead

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

I assume that universities have to devote actual time and resources to hunting down bitcoin miners in student housing and around campus. crypto miners hidden in the ceiling have probably replaced warez servers

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Boxturret posted:

love how that guy considered leaving a bunch of computers on and stealing electricity a business

bitcoin is condensed, modern capitalism: it senselessly destroys resources to fuel an imaginary number, the value of which is completely made up, and relies heavily on socializing losses while privatizing profits (stealing electricity to mine coins worth a fraction of the value)

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


"monetary energy stored"

in other words, bitcoins are the mushroom covered jizz-sock of the financial world

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

EorayMel posted:

Might be interesting looking at migration statistics/rates for El Salvador in the next few months

electicity prices in el salvador are about 20˘ usd per kwh. you're not going to profitably mine butts with that and i doubt they will tolerate a bunch of power pirates setting up shop

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

qirex posted:

giving figurative [and maybe literal given the look of that vegas party] handjobs to meme investors is amc's core business right now

amc stock is sitting way above where it was, but pretty :flaccid: right now. they're probably looking at other companies that basically turned their stock into synthetic crypto plays by somehow hitching themselves to bitcoin and want to get in on that action

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

the most hilarious outcome here would be the thieves posting a video of themselves deleting the files or smashing a thumb drive with the only copies

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

watching people plummet to their deaths in fear as they cling to the sides of C17s and bitcoiners still try to spin this as a use case is making me very angry

crypto people are basically a sampling of the worst people humanity has to offer, so it's not surprising

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Plank Walker posted:

strange how literally everyone loves bank heist stories but when they invent a new currency that makes them easier than ever to happen in real life, all of a sudden they're bad

people romanticize the idea of the dillinger gang shooting it out with the fbi on an old timey street, not a morose russian staring at a terminal in a dingy khrushchyovka

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The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


robinhood is basically another synthetic crypto stock since crypto is the only thing they charge commission on. doge being the primary crypto is not surprising seeing as how most of their client base can't legally drink in the us

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