Decentralised is heading towards as debased a term as 'genius' 'depression' or 'mental health'.

If somewhere was touting itself as such I'm going to naturally assume that it isn't unless proven otherwise. It's a pisspoor marketing term glued to anything people can get their hands on. And even if it is it might be so incompetently put together it'll either eat your info, disappear without warning or never have gotten going in the first place.

Many people here have expressed the preference to merit lower ranks. They're saying most of the lower ranks don't create good enough posts. If they did then they'd be flying up the charts.

The small amount of shit hot posters who arrive out of nowhere reach ludicrous heights in no time at all. That had nothing to do with privilege or nepotism. What they had was recognised by others and awarded.

I'd love to merit only those who need to rank up but boy do the juniors make it hard.

There aren't many posts made by them that move me enough and I'm not going to merit anything for the sake of it.

I'm awful at handing it out in general but the legendaries tend to make the points and posts that hit the spot.

I should think my local bus driver knows I'm a BTC owner so my need for anonymity was shredded long ago.

Your service could be superb but it's an undeniably precarious string of circumstances. Anyone having a go should go into it with their eyes open.

Thanks for the offer but I'll leave it be. It may well be fine but it feels a little like a dodgy Netflix account that could evaporate any second, but you may have a whole lot more money tied up in it.

I can imagine this is the only viable way to do something like this but it's a kludge with a lot of potential pressure points.

Does the escrow involve the initial cost too?

The last time a card of this nature popped up the person offering it charged 200 Euros upfront. When they were satisfied with their haul they told everyone in the thread they were morons and disappeared.

I think I'd rather find the nearest wino and funnel everything through their ID. At least I'd know where to find them to kick them until they were dead if they annoyed me.

It's possible the provider won't care but the payment processor will. Giftoff used to use Bitpay, not sure if they do now as they seem to have various providers, but I remember people talking about linking ID to Bitpay payments for larger amounts. Not sure if they actually implemented it.

Is anyone out there compiling a list of achievements and revelations he actually HAS had a hand in? Are there any?

It's looking like he's spent so much time stealing from others that had he devoted the same amount to something original he would've solved world hunger and baldness by now.

The same amount in SSDs, the cheapest and worst type, would be 7-8x more and getting them to run in the form I need would probably cost another $1-2000 on top for a rig to operate them. It's all backed up so it don't matter if it croaks but I've only ever had one mechanical HDD fail and that was after 12 years. I'll take them odds.

Of course he won't tell you. He'll get more attention by pretending he knows. This is a man who didn't know Bitcoin had halved already before extemporising on it so my bum has more crypto credibility.

As for this Earth shaking revelation, I guess we all go senile eventually so maybe it is Gavin after a downfall. Let's get him back on the Adderall.

Yes. And they pop straight out and they're official reds. Shucking the Elements disks often comes in a little cheaper but they're relabelled reds so might be ones that didn't quite cut it. I read that WD have been sneaking SMR into their smaller capacity reds but left the big 'uns alone. Luckily I'm a size queen.

It blows my mind that anyone would dream of using an escrow they couldn't verify several years of successful history. I quite often see people pop up on here pointing to some rando website wondering whether they should take the plunge. You need a little bit more than just... being a website.

I would only go through someone on here or a place endorsed or run by a bulletproof crypto operation like Gemini or Grayscale. If some nobody on Telegram pointed me towards somewhere I'd never heard of I'd tell them it would be the escrow of my choice or no deal.

Nothing too exciting. It was a WD My Book Duo with two 14 TB reds. They were immediately whipped out and rammed into me NAS. It's now being refilled with my real time rail journey videos. I tend to point the camera towards the carpet as the changing light and the sound of the train, plus passenger coughing, lulls me to sleep.

Watch your mouth. My family can trace its unbroken Intel usage back to 1745. My grandparents and parents met at a chip foundry. I was born in a clean room and I shat thermal paste for my first 18 months.

I wanted to get RICH of course.

If I'd gotten started at the beginning of 2013 then that would've happened rather rapidly. Because I arrived towards the end of 2013 it gave me rather more time to learn/suffer/wish I hadn't been such a twat.

I took delivery of 28 TB of spinning hardness today. Nothing gets my watery sap rising more than quality storage these days.

In Europe many people have moved their banking to app based companies. As far as I can tell they are strong downgrade from your normal bank. The amount of people who get cut off from their money for no reason with no way of contacting any humans seems huge.

Since a normal bank still has a handful of physical locations left at least you can go there and blow them up.

If it became clear that China was going all out to install themselves as the world number one I wonder how far other countries would go to put a lid on that even if it hurt themselves financially. My guess is - not very.

So everyone in this thread is basically a full time Battlefield Earth cosplayer?



Would never have thought it.

He's just one guy, albeit a powerful one. You can dig the concept but loathe the culture that it creates.

Their system as a whole must deal with so much strife created by crypto Twitter accounts that I'm surprised there isn't an overt policy against it, or at least stricter conditions than other areas. It must be more trouble than it's worth.