All this speculation has made it rubbish for actually buying stuff, got charged an 8% transaction fee yesterday! Monero is the way to goHad some marginal bitcoin in my coinbase from early last year, didn't really think about it till I read the recent articles. Close to £100 now! Pretty good
Going to open up TOR at the weekend and go shopping
This might speak to my social circles but I think most young people were introduced to it as a way to buy drugs, the speculation came after.Isn't speculation the main attraction for Bitcoin though? There's pages and pages of stuff on here about how everyone who put in £50 is going to be a bazillionaire so us schmucks need to get on the pyramid scheme now or we'll regret it.
Yes for sure. An honest pursuit which has now been corrupted.This might speak to my social circles but I think most young people were introduced to it as a way to buy drugs, the speculation came after.
Gasmasks on, guns at the ready... while the sun sets through the polluted haze.There must be a growing number of similar cases left un-reported. Forgotten passwords and lost hard drives holding mini-fortunes, it's will be the treasure hunt for the digital age people scouring through landfills and hackers banding together to try and unearth some lost password.
Monero is the new one everyone's pushing, some of the new markets only accept it now and have binned bitcoin. It's meant to be 100% anonymous, I don't pretend to know how.Yeah without silk road and it's derivatives then the uptake wouldn't have been as dramatic I don't think.
Interestingly a few of them are now ditching bitcoin altogether I believe? I haven't used them that much recently but I remember Empire trying to push ETH before they exit-scammed
Monero is the one being used instead of BTC now in some of the bigger markets, but it had a crash over Christmas and then loads of the big markets started getting DDOS'd and somehow it crashed almost the whole TOR network the past week, possibly there is some link but I don't really understand any of it to be honest.Yeah without silk road and it's derivatives then the uptake wouldn't have been as dramatic I don't think.
Interestingly a few of them are now ditching bitcoin altogether I believe? I haven't used them that much recently but I remember Empire trying to push ETH before they exit-scammed
Reminds me of my brother who got sucked into a pyramid scheme for a few months. Desperately trying to get all his friends and family to buy in and feeling hurt and betrayed when we wouldn't. He also ended up in hospital once after buying penis enlargement pills on the Internet. Same thing really.my brother is absolutely obsessed with cryptocurrencies, i can't have a normal conversation with him anymore, to me it feels like he's a jehova's witness trying to pull me in.
he put ALL his money in cryptocurrencies and when i asked him what he's gonna do when the price plummets or the bubble bursts he simply says that that scenario is unthinkable. it is not in the realm of possibilities for him.
Magickal thinking, very tricky.my brother is absolutely obsessed with cryptocurrencies, i can't have a normal conversation with him anymore, to me it feels like he's a jehova's witness trying to pull me in.
he put ALL his money in cryptocurrencies and when i asked him what he's gonna do when the price plummets or the bubble bursts he simply says that that scenario is unthinkable. it is not in the realm of possibilities for him.
Monero is the one being used instead of BTC now in some of the bigger markets, but it had a crash over Christmas and then loads of the big markets started getting DDOS'd and somehow it crashed almost the whole TOR network the past week, possibly there is some link but I don't really understand any of it to be honest.
Sometimes I think you must be the most normal member of your whole extended family, which is terrifying.Reminds me of my brother who got sucked into a pyramid scheme for a few months. Desperately trying to get all his friends and family to buy in and feeling hurt and betrayed when we wouldn't. He also ended up in hospital once after buying penis enlargement pills on the Internet. Same thing really.
If something sounds too good to be true, it's not true.
If it went to a landfill full of ordinary mixed wasted, then there might be a chance. But if it went to one specifically for electronics or metal waste, well, don't they tend to move the trash around using enormously powerful electromagnets?I have no sympathy for the missing password millions to be honest. The landfill lad depresses me though, wasn't it his brother that threw it out?
I remember when that story was first out and it was like 8m ha. I'd just break in and go digging me