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1181  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: July 22, 2022, 03:05:44 AM
dang back-to-back johnfoss posts don't know if he is cranking them out or shitcointalk really ded lol

1182  Economy / Speculation / Three Charged In First Ever Coinbase Cryptocurrency Insider Trading Scheme on: July 22, 2022, 03:02:27 AM
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NIKHIL WAHI, and SAMEER RAMANI, with wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading in cryptocurrency assets by using confidential Coinbase information about which crypto assets were scheduled to be listed on Coinbase’s exchanges.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-ever-cryptocurrency-insider-trading-tipping-scheme
1183  Economy / Speculation / Re: Russia Says It’s Losing Because Ukraine Has Experimental Mutant Troops Created i on: July 20, 2022, 01:53:34 PM
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Nearly five months into its senseless war against Ukraine, Russia has concocted a wild new explanation for why the Kremlin’s plans for a quick takeover fell apart so spectacularly—because Ukrainian troops were turned into superhuman killing machines during “secret experiments” in American-run biolabs, of course.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-says-losing-because-ukraine-104546288.html

If you read the full article with the sources and quotes, the headline sounds like pure out of context propaganda to me, but then it's "The Daily Beast" after all.

It amused me so I shared, since when does one vet a news article here?

And now for your and the walls amusement in these dark times, check this shit out.

https://i.imgur.com/xV16dhQ.mp4
1184  Economy / Speculation / Russia Says It’s Losing Because Ukraine Has Experimental Mutant Troops Created i on: July 20, 2022, 06:22:12 AM
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Nearly five months into its senseless war against Ukraine, Russia has concocted a wild new explanation for why the Kremlin’s plans for a quick takeover fell apart so spectacularly—because Ukrainian troops were turned into superhuman killing machines during “secret experiments” in American-run biolabs, of course.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-says-losing-because-ukraine-104546288.html
1185  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 20, 2022, 01:28:59 AM
Fun little game.

https://prismad.psi.uni-bamberg.de
1186  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 20, 2022, 01:26:13 AM
Dam(n)

Boulder City FD responding to Hoover Dam after explosion reported
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/07/19/boulder-city-fire-responding-hoover-dam-after-explosion-reported/

 Hope they have a spare transformer.  Those things have a huge lead time and they really need the power right now.


Any power plant that doesn't needs to be investigated.
1187  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 19, 2022, 08:51:02 PM
We'll be back under $20k before the end of the month.

Welp better get your final buys in before the Bull returns Boys. Cheesy
1188  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 19, 2022, 02:20:56 AM
...

Dabs has raised a great point re OPSEC while out and about on private business.

A mask, hat, sunglasses (try to partly cover ears, distinctive for every person) and a burner (with your main phone Faraday'ed or back home).

Other simple ideas very welcome...


Edit:  Maybe learning some of those old spy tricks re OPSEC may make a comeback.


They now also have gait analysis in the works so sticking a stone in your shoe per the spy book I had as a kid may make a comeback.

Yeah the masochistic books say to use a tack. Smiley


I still haven't got the Raspberry PI I wanted to get started with lightning.
Backordered.
I suspect there simply aren't any to be had right now.

I believe there are better hardware choices these days than a PI.
1189  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 18, 2022, 06:12:58 PM
The whole point is not to completely cover your face, I mean, no one goes out wearing a Mandalorian (Boba Fett?) helmet you bought from toys-r-us, unless you have the whole costume.



The PomPom really pulls it all together. Smiley
1190  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 17, 2022, 12:39:40 AM
Can we call them Bitcoin antagonists or just forget about them?
I love my Bitcoin and I would make more money from it while they keep to their ignorance 😂

They attack what they Fear, if they didn't think it endangered them they would just ignore it. Wink
1191  Economy / Speculation / Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors on: July 16, 2022, 10:56:06 PM
Gotta keep up the pretence that nuclear power is extremely dangerous.

God forbid a country would build enough safe nuclear power plants in the 21st century and be completely energy independent. The whole WEF globalist house of cards would come tumbling down.

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The GEH zero-emission reactors – each with enough power to fuel more than 200,000 homes - could be deployed by 2030s

https://www.westerninvestor.com/british-columbia/saskatchewan-ontario-to-roll-out-mini-nuclear-reactors-5568249
1192  Economy / Speculation / Re: Amazon finally admits giving cops Ring doorbell data without user consent on: July 15, 2022, 05:11:58 PM
and the ring door camera records audio.. wonder how sensitive it is.. like can it record conversations inside the house near the wall its mounted on? and, if so, how near is near..

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Can the Ring hear conversations inside the house?
Melissa Clarke, a county court judge in Oxford, pointed out that Woodward's Ring camera could reliably record audio at conversational volume from 68 feet away, based on an experiment carried out by one of the witnesses in the case.

68 feet from the externally camera it can record sound that far into the house? outside i can see, but inside? lol my house isnt that big in any direction. btw i saw the figure of 30 feet (outside the house) in the article, where did you see 68 feet. apologies if its right there somewhere still working on coffee atm.

i have cams setup all over my place but without going into details on types, capabilities and setup, none of them are ring cams.


That was a blurb from a quick google that traces back to this article.

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Amazon’s Ring Camera Has an Eavesdropping Problem
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/amazons-ring-camera-has-an-eavesdroppingproblem/2021/10/15/8d854f8a-2dd4-11ec-b17d-985c186de338_story.html
1193  Economy / Speculation / Re: Amazon finally admits giving cops Ring doorbell data without user consent on: July 15, 2022, 01:32:06 AM
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In each case, Ring handed over private recordings, including video and audio, without letting users know that police had access to—and potentially downloaded—their data. This raises many concerns about increased police reliance on private surveillance, a practice that's long gone unregulated.


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/amazon-finally-admits-giving-cops-ring-doorbell-data-without-user-consent/

and the ring door camera records audio.. wonder how sensitive it is.. like can it record conversations inside the house near the wall its mounted on? and, if so, how near is near..



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Can the Ring hear conversations inside the house?
Melissa Clarke, a county court judge in Oxford, pointed out that Woodward's Ring camera could reliably record audio at conversational volume from 68 feet away, based on an experiment carried out by one of the witnesses in the case.







preev.com is back online!  So happy.   Cheesy

edit:


I checked now, they're up but their tip address below disappear? Or it's just me remembering things that don't exist.



 I don't remember seeing a tip address displayed.


I think there was one for a short time when it first launched IIRC.
1194  Economy / Speculation / Amazon finally admits giving cops Ring doorbell data without user consent on: July 15, 2022, 12:08:32 AM
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In each case, Ring handed over private recordings, including video and audio, without letting users know that police had access to—and potentially downloaded—their data. This raises many concerns about increased police reliance on private surveillance, a practice that's long gone unregulated.


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/amazon-finally-admits-giving-cops-ring-doorbell-data-without-user-consent/
1195  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 14, 2022, 03:51:32 PM
K
first
second grades.

We did weekly A-bomb drills.

yup, me2...

everything old is new again. Cheesy
1196  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 14, 2022, 04:53:55 AM
Chamath tries to explain things. Sounds a bit douche-baggy, but maybe it's just my view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u5q7nDPbJY
Reminder: he is the dude who pushed the SPAC s-t onfolks.
Yet, some of his points are, perhaps, valid, as far as the mechanics is concerned.

Still, I don't get why he puts it on bitcoin when most (or at least a large part) of those dealings were in eth.
People did not read the contracts they were signing (while going ga-ga for "yield").

IMHO, insolvencies here are just the start. Wait until all those highly leveraged financial companies start to "pop" when IR approach 5%.

Retard explaining to bigger retards.
1197  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: SCAM: Bitcoin SV (BSV) - fake team member and plagiarized white paper on: July 13, 2022, 09:56:01 PM
I am currently making a research paper. Through linguistic analysis, I am trying to see who is likely to be the autor of all the Satoshi posts on this forum. And funnily enough, CSW just happens to be the farthest from Satoshi out of all of my control samples Cheesy

Absolutely zero surprise here, do you have a link to the paper?


I haven't finished it yet, it'll be my diploma thesis next year. But I'll be sure to share it here then Cheesy just not sure how much of it will be available in English, I might have to translate it then. If I get any interesting findings, it might be worth it to do that.

On that note I have a question for all of you who've been following this thread. Does anyone here have access to the Discord server where the screenshots of CSW's messages come from? I will need a pretty big sample of texts written by him -- I've been using his website's blog for now but more sources would be a great help.


So, I don't know if anyone still cares, but my paper is finished. I haven't defended yet so I don't want o post it until it's approved by my supervisor and oponent, but it was a really interesting rabbit hole to go down. The people I uncluded in this research were: Satoshi, CSW, Nick Szabo, Mike Hearn, Hal Finney, and Gavin Andresen.

Couple thoughts:
  • First, it's a real shame that Wright only started his Twitter account after I started working, since that would be a much better source of writings. In style, tweets are more similar to forum posts than website blog posts, which is what I ended up using. Same was the case with Nick Szabo, and both of these authors clustered quite far away from the others in 2 out of 3 of my analyses. The sentences are longer, the language more academic, it's just not quite the same. That being said, we still would have seen some kind of clustering or similarities if Wright were Nakamoto. One of the analysis methods I used was not affected by these stylistic differences and Wright still appeared really far away from Nakamoto.
  • Second, only after last month's release of that 'Finding Satoshi Nakamoto' book (which is also the tytle of my paper, ugh) did I hear about Bilal Khalid for the first time. Quite a shame, might have been interesting to include him in this. Any thoughts on Khalid's claims?


Conclusion:
I will be defending my thesis in August and was invited to give a speech at a conference in Budapest in September, so it will be out there soon. You will be able to see all the data, methods, graphs, and a list of links to all the forum posts / blog posts I used as material. Aside from Satoshi and the six candidates, we also had two control authors, both users of this forum.
Now, the results are not the most groundbreaking, we mostly just ruled out a couple of people with relative confidence (CSW lol). We also more or less ruled out the possibility of Satoshi being multiple people (or, more accurately, that the 'satoshi' account on here was most likely managed by one person.) His samples would simply not cluster so consistently across all 44 analyses, 40 of which utilized 5,000 randomly selected tokens out of each author's texts.
There was no match I can say with confidence as being 'most likely Nakamoto' and I would hesitate to even say someone is 'likely' to be Nakamoto, but I will mention that the closest to him out of everyone was Hal Finney. Neither Andresen nor Hearn particularly stood out.

Link to the paper?


I will link it here at the end of August once it's reviewed  Smiley

Looking forward to it.

You should probably start a new thread when you do.
1198  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: SCAM: Bitcoin SV (BSV) - fake team member and plagiarized white paper on: July 13, 2022, 04:01:02 PM
I am currently making a research paper. Through linguistic analysis, I am trying to see who is likely to be the autor of all the Satoshi posts on this forum. And funnily enough, CSW just happens to be the farthest from Satoshi out of all of my control samples Cheesy

Absolutely zero surprise here, do you have a link to the paper?


I haven't finished it yet, it'll be my diploma thesis next year. But I'll be sure to share it here then Cheesy just not sure how much of it will be available in English, I might have to translate it then. If I get any interesting findings, it might be worth it to do that.

On that note I have a question for all of you who've been following this thread. Does anyone here have access to the Discord server where the screenshots of CSW's messages come from? I will need a pretty big sample of texts written by him -- I've been using his website's blog for now but more sources would be a great help.


So, I don't know if anyone still cares, but my paper is finished. I haven't defended yet so I don't want o post it until it's approved by my supervisor and oponent, but it was a really interesting rabbit hole to go down. The people I uncluded in this research were: Satoshi, CSW, Nick Szabo, Mike Hearn, Hal Finney, and Gavin Andresen.

Couple thoughts:
  • First, it's a real shame that Wright only started his Twitter account after I started working, since that would be a much better source of writings. In style, tweets are more similar to forum posts than website blog posts, which is what I ended up using. Same was the case with Nick Szabo, and both of these authors clustered quite far away from the others in 2 out of 3 of my analyses. The sentences are longer, the language more academic, it's just not quite the same. That being said, we still would have seen some kind of clustering or similarities if Wright were Nakamoto. One of the analysis methods I used was not affected by these stylistic differences and Wright still appeared really far away from Nakamoto.
  • Second, only after last month's release of that 'Finding Satoshi Nakamoto' book (which is also the tytle of my paper, ugh) did I hear about Bilal Khalid for the first time. Quite a shame, might have been interesting to include him in this. Any thoughts on Khalid's claims?


Conclusion:
I will be defending my thesis in August and was invited to give a speech at a conference in Budapest in September, so it will be out there soon. You will be able to see all the data, methods, graphs, and a list of links to all the forum posts / blog posts I used as material. Aside from Satoshi and the six candidates, we also had two control authors, both users of this forum.
Now, the results are not the most groundbreaking, we mostly just ruled out a couple of people with relative confidence (CSW lol). We also more or less ruled out the possibility of Satoshi being multiple people (or, more accurately, that the 'satoshi' account on here was most likely managed by one person.) His samples would simply not cluster so consistently across all 44 analyses, 40 of which utilized 5,000 randomly selected tokens out of each author's texts.
There was no match I can say with confidence as being 'most likely Nakamoto' and I would hesitate to even say someone is 'likely' to be Nakamoto, but I will mention that the closest to him out of everyone was Hal Finney. Neither Andresen nor Hearn particularly stood out.

Link to the paper?
1199  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: July 12, 2022, 04:29:48 PM
Don't fall into the whale traps. Its under the boat and can sink it if he wants.



Had one swim under me like that once and I almost shit myself!

Dick shriveled up to a peanut!

At least I hope it was a Whale. Smiley
1200  Economy / Speculation / A $3 Billion Silk Road Seizure Will Erase Ross Ulbricht’s Debt on: July 12, 2022, 04:44:31 AM
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Ross Ulbricht, the convicted creator of the legendary Silk Road dark web market for drugs, has never gotten much mercy from the US legal system. In 2015, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. His appeal was denied, as was the pardon he sought from President Trump. But a little over a year ago, it appears Ulbricht finally got a break of a different kind: The nine-figure debt he owed to the US government as part of his sentence will be erased—all thanks to the fortuitous hoarding of a hacker who'd stolen a massive trove of bitcoins from his market.


https://www.wired.com/story/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-debt-bitcoin-siezure/
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