• The ones with a use cases
• The ones with an established history
• The ones with unique features
• The ones with transparent development

Fact is, it requires ton of times and specific knowledge to check the previous poins.

As far as I'm concerned, I'd go with a portfolio of about 80% BTC, that I'd be reasonably sure to increase it's value with limited risk over a period of 5 years.

Maybe some unknown alt-coin may turn me rich in one night's time, but risks are huge; I'm not willing to invest my time, nor I have the knowledge, to look for the next crypto shooting star, and I'd advise anyone not to.

You can also use putty to SSH tunnel :)

I can fully confirm it was propkers22 as I have him on Instagram.

http://s01.geekpic.net/di-O8VLNI.jpeg http://s01.geekpic.net/di-L4LLQH.jpeg

In my experience the X's fans are a bit odd, they'll pay $6,000 for a minute and hald of him singing and majority of the time it's a demo so the quality isn't great but they're happy with that, they'll pay crazy amounts for a unreleased song that's actually listenable and clear.

Oh, those russians.

Crazy that some of this stuff is organized in the open on reddit, Instagram and Discord. Not really platforms you'd associate with respecting privacy or not cooperating with law enforcement.

But I guess that's where the fans are.

Propkers22 actually did an interview with VICE it's a pretty good read considering he's only 17 years old.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqwvx/meet-the-17-year-old-leaking-music-from-some-of-the-worlds-biggest-rappers

I've also private messaged you.

I don't think 4chan would have been involved.

Not enough pepe or racist satire music for them to be involved, haha.

I believe that if propkers22 had hacked his account he would have pulled all the archived music from X's SoundCloud to resell as that's what he does.

I don't think 4chan would have been involved.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_121

Well, the changes are too tame for it to be a 4chan organized hack or they would have had too much fun with the ability to upload songs.

Still crazy. Must have just been able to guess his password.

A couple months ago YouTube was down for an hour or two, that's the only time I've first hand experienced it. Sometimes you'd get the page to load, but not the video, sometimes you'd just get some Google error page.

The tin foil hat in me always assumes the worse, that it's a result of some unfriendly actors because that seems more likely than a company the size of Google having single points of failure and the ability for widespread outages like this as modern as they are.

My thought exactly, most probably now they'll have a dedicated server for everything.

Why do we always blame Russia? Sure, they're a likely suspect, but I would imagine any team working for a government will also be capable to make it appear as if the attack is coming from anywhere else.

Lots of attacks from China and even North Korea, which would have a lot to gain in the information and tools they'd be able to steal. Reading about Bureau 121 is always fun.

I guess I just don't understand how you could be 100% certain in this day and age but I'm sure they have methods of analyzing traffic that is way over my head to determine the true origin.

Makes sense. Though with a company as big as Google you'd think they'd have a separate server for anything.

I remember this, and they do see to have an outage every year at around the same time, the problem with them is they rely on one server to run multiple things, as seen on a post shared here a couple days ago.

To my knowledge it was made by Finnish residents, hopefully the market administration and moderation had good OPSEC, as I'm sure the authorities will be going through everything with a fine tooth comb.

I also agree, making a marketplace for a certain country is more reasonable as sending packages in your country is a lot easier than posting worldwide.

Ah, I see. Well it looks like they're probably better off than their American or European counterparts, especially if was for Finns by Finns: https://erowid.org/psychoactives/law/countries/law_finland.shtml

But then again I don't know to what extent the place operated but they seem to be more reasonable with it than most places at least.

I second this, Google haven't been reliable at all this year, I'm glad my mail provider is my own as I can sort issues myself (although I've never had any outages).

What's weird is how Google seems to consistently go down at least one time per year. Remember last year when YouTube was down for everyone for like 2~ hours? A week or two ago everyone's YouTube app crashed too.

Ha! Good call. I'll update it now.

I'd clarify that homosexualchan.i2p was spoofed by someone as a joke, and real domain of that board is 2ch.i2p.

To my knowledge they made the marketplace for Finnish residents and it wasn't a huge market like empire was my thought on them being busted will most likely be due to security vulnerabilities, they haven't released much information as of yet as they're still investigating the marketplace (staff and users) and by the looks of it they was using Ekmars Marketplace script, which of what I've heard isn't the best way to go about a matketplace.

Google has had a rocky year. Interestingly enough I think someone showed/proved that one of their status pages wasn't actually reporting anything, and was just a static page displaying no issues throughout. Pretty cocky, and funny. But they may need to re-engineer that if true.

Just hope Bitcoin doesn't turn from "the drug money" to "the porn money"...

I thought Monero was the drug money now, lol.