I was never much sympathetic to the people who got Goxed, because it was their damnfool fault for storing coins on a centralized exchange. Even though "not your keys, not your coins" was not yet a meme being stapled to the forehead of every n00b, it was damn obvious from 3-Jan-2009. Storing money in the custody of a trusted party, who may turn out to be incompetent or malicious - wasn't Bitcoin invented so we could stop doing that?
as i recall peeps at that time when it was obvious they were having problems some folks were deliberately buying coins on mtgox at a discount (they were cheap due to loss on confidence of them being able to withdraw) to try and move to another exchange or their own wallets because of the arbitrage opportunity. i believe some managed it and got a bit of profit however we all know what happened to the unlucky ones. It's been so long, but wasn't there a website where you could even trade coins trapped in GOX after they started to shut down? dunno bout that but peeps were offering to buy peoples mtgox accounts after it was shut down for like 10% (or whatever) of the accounts btc value. |
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I was never much sympathetic to the people who got Goxed, because it was their damnfool fault for storing coins on a centralized exchange. Even though "not your keys, not your coins" was not yet a meme being stapled to the forehead of every n00b, it was damn obvious from 3-Jan-2009. Storing money in the custody of a trusted party, who may turn out to be incompetent or malicious - wasn't Bitcoin invented so we could stop doing that?
as i recall peeps at that time when it was obvious they were having problems some folks were deliberately buying coins on mtgox at a discount (they were cheap due to loss on confidence of them being able to withdraw) to try and move to another exchange or their own wallets because of the arbitrage opportunity. i believe some managed it and got a bit of profit however we all know what happened to the unlucky ones. |
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Connecting your device to a standard electricity wall socket via your own cable and adapter plug is fine. Connecting your device directly to USB socket on the wall via your own cable is not (unless the cable is power only) - you have absolutely no idea what could be hiding on the other side of that USB socket. The risk of doing this is akin to the risk of picking up a random USB drive you find lying in the street and plugging it in to your device.
another thing i worry about in hotels that have those usb sockets mounted in multipurpose wall sockets (ie 2 x 120/240v outlets and 2+ usb sockets) and found in stuff like nightstand etc with built in usb plugs is you have no idea how good the power supply in them is. while some may be fine as far as voltage regulation etc im sure there is some absolute trash electronics in some of them that supplying lord knows what as far as the powers purity. sure in theory there may be some protection (?) on the device but why chance it. much prefer to plug my $1k plus phones etc into a known good usb supply that i bring. so a couple good reason to never trust strange usb sockets in the wild. |
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nice. thanks for the links. will check into them. |
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You can also buy small adapters which connect to regular USB cables and only attach to the power pins, leaving the data pins disconnected - search for USB defender or USB blocker.
sweet. gonna grab me some pronto. Why not strip the wire instead and cut the two lines the data+(green wire) and the data-(White wire) then two negative(Black) and positive(Red) should remain then use heat shrink to cover it back. If you need the cable for other things to transfer data make sure it's not related to your wallet or any important data then you can strip it again and connect those two cut lines. Or buy an adapter like this below then put a tape on the two pins in the middle  this is another very good way. except. im lazy af  once i took a dremel with a diamond bit and ground out the two data traces in the plug on a couple cables i had. works but messy.. i just sprayed the crap out with contact cleaner after. @dkbit98 at this point in this timeline i have a baseball cap with silver foil liner. that way i get the sunviser too. |
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You can also buy small adapters which connect to regular USB cables and only attach to the power pins, leaving the data pins disconnected - search for USB defender or USB blocker.
sweet. gonna grab me some pronto. |
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USB attacks in the wild also happen in airports or other public places where there are free phone charging spots. You connect the phone to a bad USB socket or cable and get infected with some malware / virus / tracker. Speaking of airports: border security of some nations intentionally infects devices of visitors to spy on them.
thats why when i travel i never use usb charge sockets in airports and hotel rooms. i bring several usb battery banks for my phones and ebook reader for on the go recharging. in hotel rooms i always bring my own powered hubs.. like the ones that plug into conventional wall power and can charge 10+ usb items and such. plus spare hubs and cables so when one craps out i have spares. no need to by crap stuff cuz youre out. |
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Did you guys notice that USDT has lost 10 billion on Market Cap Since the LUNA Incident (11-05-2022)?
What Next?
who cares? this is the bitcoin WO thread. |
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Who are those 124% that said NO? This is dope! bots |
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Could be a pain point imo, long way off for now, and anything could happen, the pendulum of sanity could have started to swing back by then.....but, then it could not.
Depending on what happens around then, and with inflation, 2024-2025 post halvening could be very interesting for hodlers.
im surprised to say this as i generally like excitement, but i have had enough of these particular "interesting" times of late. i could use a ride on the boring timeline for a bit. |
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Human beings arrogance, truly is, one of biggest threats to human life.
- I do not pretend to know, I am just asking questions, in truth, you do not know either friend.
I hope for you, and all of my friends and loved ones, and all that have been vaccinated , that all is ok.
But realise that as a human race we have indeed made colossal mistakes on almost this sort of scale in the past
on the human race screwing things up on truly awesome scales i agree 100% and we are damn good at it too. on this subject its still to be determined.. and trust me, i pray we did ok too. |
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It's been theorized that this whole "Monkeypox Outbreak" is simply a cover for emerging side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Yuh man, for sure, I gotta say the thought had occurred to me, and I was thinking about it , then I heard mention of it, and just now I did a search for Chimpanzee + vaccine to check it out, and thats when I found the article.... apparently its not just Astrazeneza but several of the others too......
I did not get jabbed..... but most people I know did.
lolz no worries 4 shots here ill shed enough spike proteins and 5g nanothings things to give all you unvaccinated suckers the new improved pox anyway. no masks for me now! and you thought you could escape... mwahahahahaha the mental gymnastics is impressive. |
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Problem is how to know, if the bottom is really in...
meh i have buys sprinkled every 2K or so down to (currently) 24k or so. i never try to catch the bottom exactly i just slurp sats here and there on the downslide until the price moves up decently (say 4 or 5k maybe) then i figure that was the local bottom for that period and buy with whatever dry powder i have left for this period. reset every few months or as cashflow allows. its not based in any ta or anything its just my lazy ass way of doing it. sometimes works sometimes not lol |
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OT: The next "plandemic" is likely underway. Complete with social distancing, lockdowns, and masks...again.
good thing we had the current test pandemic 1st then. it allowed be to tweak my preparedness. |
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I've seen electric cars referred to as "power banks on wheels", but this is taking it a bit too literally.
Why not power your house from the free supercharging instead?
you probably could in theory. except the odometer and black box data would rat you out if checked. when i go ev, i will absolutely get something that can do the backfeed-and-power-your-house thing. having an ev as backup power for my house would be nice. |
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But I still think we have some interesting times ahead.
like sheer terror and despair? im on it. |
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No one would realistically send their hardware wallets or anything to Ledger or the hardware wallet manufacturer. I don't find a point in them giving out warranty if you realize that it is virtually impossible to check if the data is cleanly wiped from your device before sending it to them.
agreed. just buy a spare hardware wallet and be ready for failure. iow, backups of seeds on non digital media. for example i've had a few harddrives/SSDs that failed over the years and i would not send in for warranty replacement simply because of the personal info thats on them. i just ate the cost. and its my fault if losing anything anyway if i didnt have the data backed up. same principle applies to hardware wallets. do not send anything out that has potentially valuable data that can be recovered. destroy it instead and roll with the backup. |
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