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Rambler wrote

Everytime I read these headlines I cry inside a little knowing that when it was $40/BTC I wanted to spend $100USD on Bitcoin but wanted to wait 'until the price went down'.

Then over the next few months it didn't go down, it went over $1,000 and people freaked out.

Live and learn. :)

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Rambler wrote

Hey! Glad to see you here, first of all.

I just hadn't gotten to it yet, ha. I was asked about it on reddit earlier and wasn't for sure what it is, so I'm going to come back to the documentation after some rest so I can understand it better.

Diggin' the network so far and the Cafe.Loki is really something else. Great work guys, hope to see the network take off.

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jack_walking wrote

  • 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.

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hideyourlies OP wrote

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.

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Rambler wrote

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.

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Rambler wrote

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.

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Rambler wrote

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.

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hideyourlies OP moderator wrote

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.

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Rambler wrote

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.

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