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Post by drhickman1983 on Jan 4, 2022 12:50:56 GMT
he built his second rig recently, which is how it all came to light. Unsure when he built his first. He has them in his office at work so he's basically stealing power from his employers to run them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2022 12:54:04 GMT
The internet peaked with Yahoo pool. It's been all downhill since then.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 4, 2022 12:56:33 GMT
Haha, what a cheeky fucker! Well I guess that solves the noise, heat and energy usage issues for him.
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Post by DJCopa on Jan 4, 2022 12:58:13 GMT
Thats exactly what it is. A handful of speculators have spunked a fortune to corner the market and now their job is to convince everyone else what they bought is worth something. I see John Terry and Reece James have jumped in - No way they've bought them, been handed out to the rich + famous to hook in the plebs. The world really has lost it's mind (again). |
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Post by cubby on Jan 4, 2022 13:12:33 GMT
The thing that seems to have stopped happening is that all these MLM's have stopped crashing, people seem to just keep pumping money into them.
It's what banks thought computers would do in the early 90s, but didn't back then. I'm wondering if it's just so many people are now on the internet that a lot more people are able to sustain them for much longer than they used to.
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Jan 4, 2022 13:15:33 GMT
My youngest wanted to buy a pet in s Roblox game for some of his Christmas money. It was sold by a username on eBay, and I thought that worst case scenario he learns about scammers.
Things worked out really smooth though. Ten minutes from me opening eBay in my browser til my son walked off in the"Metaverse" with his new pet, after meeting a username on there.
I used my boring old credit card to pay, using eBays regular payment system. Communications were done via the eBay chat.
Now, this could all be done in game using smart contracts and tokens, but the only added functionality for me as an end user would be that I could skip the VAT.
Literally everything else but the lawbreaking can be, and is, done using perfectly normal databases.
This is one of my main criticism of anything Blockchain. It sets out to solve non technical problems using a cumbersome technology.
The reason my son couldn't buy the pet for real money in the Roblox game had nothing to do with tech. It's all policy.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 4, 2022 13:17:56 GMT
Its the first thing I thought of when I heard someone bought Bowies back catalogue. Prepare for BFTs.
Also, I read a stat the other day that said crypto mining in the last year alone has single handedly negated all of the environmental gains made by the electric car industry to date. So thats nice.
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Jan 4, 2022 13:20:13 GMT
The thing that seems to have stopped happening is that all these MLM's have stopped crashing, I'm wondering if it's just so many people are now on the internet that a lot more people are able to sustain them for much longer than they used to. Yeah, I think it's the global reach for basically no money that does it. That and the fact that a lot of the pumping is done with fake money. They create billions of Teethers, then use them to buy Bitcoin or NFTs. Then they use those bitcoins and NFTs to back their Teethers they just created. "Look, we hold assets worth billions of dollars" Alas, sooner or later Steins law will kick in, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2022 13:20:47 GMT
Yeah I saw that. Used as much power in a year as Argentina. Great going.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jan 4, 2022 13:21:27 GMT
I genuinely bought some expensive tulip bulbs last week.
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Post by cubby on Jan 4, 2022 13:22:27 GMT
Wait, are tulip bulbs going out of stock?
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jan 4, 2022 13:23:49 GMT
Did you just say tulip bulbs are going out of stock?!?!
Etc.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jan 4, 2022 13:31:59 GMT
Non-Fungible Tulip
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 4, 2022 13:32:45 GMT
If nothing else, it might speed us along to star treks currency free utopia because the concept of money was already pretty stupid without people inventing currency based on a joke and trading terrible pictures of monkeys.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jan 4, 2022 13:35:34 GMT
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Post by khanivor on Jan 4, 2022 14:30:24 GMT
I reckon a lot of the money keeping these scans going come from marks who have kept their stimulus money and been spunking it away on NFTs and crypto, paying themselves on the back of their investment chops.
I’m no financial wiz but the entire global economy has never looked more like a house of cards then it does now. The pandemic has shown just how fucking rickety the entire structure is. Yet rather than make systemic improvements it’s just stonks stonks stonks and crypto.
A good quality shovel and a variety of seeds are a wise investment, imo
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Post by khanivor on Jan 4, 2022 14:33:59 GMT
Jesus titty fucking Christ, they couldn’t be more obvious without actually stating ‘we are rippin you off’ “ According to Opensea, the collection paid homage to the 16th century investors who risked it all to make a fortune on tulip bulbs upon soaring demand. “Each Tulip is named after a famous Dutch figure. Tulips 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, and 41-50 contain tenths of a secret unlockable message.” The platform had a special offer: “Piece 10 of these messages togethereum and send us a picture of you or a friend in the unlocked location for a special edition SHINY TULIP! Only 5 SHINY TULIPS will be minted.”” The narrator - everyone who had bought into the historical tulip craze lost everything. |
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Post by gamingdave on Jan 4, 2022 14:39:57 GMT
Those low res jpgs are going to look great on a 4K TV |
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Post by nazo on Jan 4, 2022 14:43:39 GMT
I went down a crypto rabbit hole over the Christmas hols in an attempt to understand it all a bit better. Lots of YouTube videos of people getting excited about IDOs for new Bluezilla launchpads, launching on existing Bluezilla launchpads that were presumably launched on other Bluezilla launchpads, all with their own tokens you need to buy £10s of thousands for to get a guaranteed allocation. But their marketing is so great, buy, buy, buy! It's such an obvious pyramid scheme but people seem to love it.
I took a short course on smart contract development too, and for a so-called 'trustless' system the whole thing relies on an absolute fuck-ton of trust because any bugs, vulnerabilities, malicious backdoors etc in the contract can easily see your tokens disappear, locked or rendered worthless and there are a lot of non-obvious attack vectors. But hey everyone using this stuff is going to know how to read a contract and spot these things, right? DYOR.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 4, 2022 14:45:32 GMT
“ According to Opensea, the collection paid homage to the 16th century investors who risked it all to make a fortune on tulip bulbs upon soaring demand. This is the funny thing about NFTs. For a decentralised, open technology, a whole lot of it seems to revolve around a single company. Someone gets their apes stolen, opensea blacklists them, someone releases a line of clone NFTs, opensea blacklists them. Doesnt seem very egalitarian to me. |
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Post by spacein_vader on Jan 4, 2022 14:45:45 GMT
Those low res jpgs are going to look great on a 4K TV It's nonsense like this that means my TV is pi-holed and isn't allowed to access any of its manufacturers own domains. |
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Post by sport✅ on Jan 4, 2022 16:03:28 GMT
This is all happening because you bastards wouldn't stop downloading cars!
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Post by suicida on Jan 5, 2022 0:59:46 GMT
Good old Norton, WTAF
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Post by khanivor on Jan 5, 2022 2:51:25 GMT
Match made in heaven, seeing as Norton have been running a grift for over twenty years now
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Post by dfunked on Jan 5, 2022 8:15:27 GMT
Good old Norton IsAVirus... Doesn't surprise me in the least tbh.
I'd always recommend a clean install of Windows on anything that shit has touched.
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Post by patrick on Jan 5, 2022 8:24:03 GMT
Fart in a jar NFTs was a thing I didn't want to learn about today.
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Post by robthehermit on Jan 5, 2022 10:09:31 GMT
Fart in a jar NFTs was a thing I didn't want to learn about today. I was just coming here to post that very thing. Not sure what's worse, paying $1000 for an actual fart in a jar or coughing up for a picture of one. |
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Post by cubby on Jan 5, 2022 10:35:54 GMT
Reality is breaking isn't it
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 5, 2022 11:29:02 GMT
Yes
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 5, 2022 11:42:10 GMT
Christ, it's really hard to determine if this is real or satire.
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