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October 29, 2018, 10:45:09 PM |
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Regarding Brexit I voted LEAVE! It was for a couple of reasons really.
1.) My business won’t pay over inflated customs charges to import our stuff from China.
2.) I’m fed up of living in a cuckold country that allows mass immigration.
I dont understand how you hope that 3% GDP country (UK) will be able to negotiate better tariffs from a 20% GDP county (EU). Also if UK economy will want to at least slightly keep with the rest of the world, you will have to seriously start making babies or continue with immigration policy that UK had in last 50 years. I believe it was one the ones those that attracted a lot if not the most immigrants. The rest of EU did way less. About tariffs. You still have CEFTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Free_Trade_Agreement Not that much countries left there but if you unite you might get better deals with China and also everyone else on the world. India, Indonesia. USA. Brazil, Russia. Oh and dont forget African countries. |
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gentlemand
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October 29, 2018, 10:58:36 PM |
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He's the gift that just can't stop giving. What did Bitcoin do to deserve such an angel? |
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October 29, 2018, 10:59:39 PM
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It got hacked by some scammer. There were a whole bunch of accounts hacked around the same time then. I didn't use a very strong password as I felt a forum wasn't a particularly critical website, but still sucked.
Did you even attempt to convince theymos or other admins to recover your account? I agree with you and recall that there were quite a few accounts that were hacked during various periods, and it seems that that mine, Adam's and quite a few others were hacked in late 2016. Was yours hacked in 2017? I think that there were a large number of usernames and passwords that were stolen (a kind of data breach, if I recall? but it may have also been related to the Yahoo data breach or another one that caused access to info that was also used on the forum?) I got mine back within about two weeks, and various kinds of attempting to prove my account, which were a bit lame, but it seems that I provided a sufficient amount of info to recover my account. My second screw up was when I got locked out of my account from a screwy way of trying to recover my password.. I think that was November or December 2016, and I was unable to use my account for over a month.. with my continuous petitioning, but finally admin gave me back my account. Last legit post was August 3, 2017. Hacker started posting August 5th, 2017. I didn't have a private key of a staked bitcoin address, which they required for me to prove I owned the account. In any case, that account now also has negative trust and is marked as a 'scammer', not sure how I would go proving that that wasn't performed by me, so not sure how desirable it is to get the account back. They froze the account though, so it's not active anymore. My biggest regret looking back was not reporting the hack earlier. Had I not procrastinated, maybe some people would not have been scammed out of their money. |
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JayJuanGee
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October 29, 2018, 11:01:41 PM |
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OK, now we broke out from 6500 USD we had for weeks.
And - obviously - we moved down ...
You are so observant. Obviously, this BTC price move has a lot of significance.  |
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Last of the V8s
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October 29, 2018, 11:05:06 PM |
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He's the gift that just can't stop giving. What did Bitcoin do to deserve such an angel? think we fucked his mother or some such |
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doc12
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October 29, 2018, 11:06:05 PM |
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He's the gift that just can't stop giving. What did Bitcoin do to deserve such an angel? Seems like the btc.com block explorer is just showing the base blocksize, because there are Segwit transactions included in the blocks. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/000000000000000000026dc974e457b901a8671e17c4acfc955e6ec8e8563824Funny how this "information" is passed right now on all crypto channels, but nobody even bothered to look into the block data lol. |
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Last of the V8s
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October 29, 2018, 11:10:29 PM |
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doc12
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October 29, 2018, 11:13:10 PM |
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Ah ok these are antpool blocks which doesnt include Segwit tx. But BTC.com is also a Bitmain pool isn't it? |
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Last of the V8s
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October 29, 2018, 11:15:04 PM |
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Sure, but afaik (v little) btc.com has more of a free hand, while antpool is the belly of the beast.
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doc12
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October 29, 2018, 11:21:25 PM |
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Sure, but afaik (v little) btc.com has more of a free hand, while antpool is the belly of the beast.
Maybe it has something to do with the activation of overt asicboost in the newest antminer firmware ? Fucked up pool software ? |
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Last of the V8s
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October 29, 2018, 11:25:17 PM |
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Sure, but afaik (v little) btc.com has more of a free hand, while antpool is the belly of the beast.
Maybe it has something to do with the activation of overt asicboost in the newest antminer firmware ? Fucked up pool software ? No, segwit killed covert ascicboost https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3194122.msg33108003#msg33108003 |
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JayJuanGee
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October 29, 2018, 11:28:24 PM |
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Don't mind me. I just sit here, HODL Bitcorn, wear this hat, doing my part to stay strong until the next orbital cycle.
The pink suits you. Your avatar is much less intimidating that way. Almost alluring... Almost. Even if a cute lil pinkie, he will turn on you in a minute. Meow!!!   |
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doc12
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October 29, 2018, 11:32:40 PM |
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They recently released a firmware for the s9 which enables overt asicboost. |
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Last of the V8s
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October 29, 2018, 11:35:40 PM |
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They recently released a firmware for the s9 which enables overt asicboost. Sure, a crappy one (use braiins' one), but that can't have anything to do with segwit, and Jihan's not processing segwit tx's? |
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JayJuanGee
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October 29, 2018, 11:37:16 PM |
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Well there we have it folks. JJG succeeded where countless have failed.
All it takes to recover a hacked account is to wear Theymos down with 675 emails totaling 2.3 million words and he will recover your account just to be rid of you.
Yeah... I had account getting back system in which I sent a PM to theymos and all other admins every 5 minutes and I said something like: "it's me, it's me, it's me!!!!! Can I have access to my account back, now.. please, pretty please...?" I had figured out a great system because each time I sent my pm, I doubled the size of it (a copy and paste trick), and my system was especially a great because it worked. Go figure? I feel a bit ashamed to confess to such prior secrets, here.   |
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Last of the V8s
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October 29, 2018, 11:45:58 PM |
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JayJuanGee
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October 29, 2018, 11:56:47 PM |
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It got hacked by some scammer. There were a whole bunch of accounts hacked around the same time then. I didn't use a very strong password as I felt a forum wasn't a particularly critical website, but still sucked.
Did you even attempt to convince theymos or other admins to recover your account? I agree with you and recall that there were quite a few accounts that were hacked during various periods, and it seems that that mine, Adam's and quite a few others were hacked in late 2016. Was yours hacked in 2017? I think that there were a large number of usernames and passwords that were stolen (a kind of data breach, if I recall? but it may have also been related to the Yahoo data breach or another one that caused access to info that was also used on the forum?) I got mine back within about two weeks, and various kinds of attempting to prove my account, which were a bit lame, but it seems that I provided a sufficient amount of info to recover my account. My second screw up was when I got locked out of my account from a screwy way of trying to recover my password.. I think that was November or December 2016, and I was unable to use my account for over a month.. with my continuous petitioning, but finally admin gave me back my account. Last legit post was August 3, 2017. Hacker started posting August 5th, 2017. I didn't have a private key of a staked bitcoin address, which they required for me to prove I owned the account. In any case, that account now also has negative trust and is marked as a 'scammer', not sure how I would go proving that that wasn't performed by me, so not sure how desirable it is to get the account back. They froze the account though, so it's not active anymore. My biggest regret looking back was not reporting the hack earlier. Had I not procrastinated, maybe some people would not have been scammed out of their money. There may be a bit of luck involved, and surely, you are correct that there would be a need to take action quickly. I cannot recall exactly the sequence of events, but I am pretty sure that I had attempted to log into my account about 8-12 hours after it had been taken over, and I was not successful, which took me a couple hours more to figure out what to do, which was to create a temporary account to report my hacked account. I am pretty sure that by the time I reported my account Cyrus had already locked the account - yet I cannot recall what role my reporting played in getting my account reactivated, but it seems that higher ranked accounts have a certain value (my account already had Legendary rank at that time), and the hacker made a large number of communications to transact BTC value, and there were a few communications that showed that BTC transactions were about to take place - but my account was frozen before the BTC value was actually transacted. Perhaps there would have been more suspicion about me, if BTC had actually been transacted under my account. That loss of my account did cause me to understand a bit more that there remains a decently high degree of value to a BTC forum talk account that has quite a bit of time and good will - even if some forum member peeps might hate me a little bit on their insides... hahahahaha By the way, one of the first things that I did, after receiving access back to my account was to send a PM to each of the members who the hacker had communicated with through my account in order to attempt to explain the situation and to explain my regrets and to make sure that they did not harbor continued grudges towards me in regards to my telling them that there was not going to be a transaction - and the fact of the matter was that the kinds of transactions that were being conducted was the selling of forum accounts, so it was not exactly exemplary peeps on the other end of the in-progress hacker transaction that was cancelled by me, either. |
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October 30, 2018, 12:03:36 AM |
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trading bitcoin =⬇️  via Imgflip Meme GeneratorPffff good to just be a modest-patient-HODLER, that doesn’t need to worry about that shit to much Going into my hodling cave for a good hodlers rest 
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October 30, 2018, 12:08:12 AM |
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Well there we have it folks. JJG succeeded where countless have failed.
All it takes to recover a hacked account is to wear Theymos down with 675 emails totaling 2.3 million words and he will recover your account just to be rid of you.
Yeah... I had account getting back system in which I sent a PM to theymos and all other admins every 5 minutes and I said something like: "it's me, it's me, it's me!!!!! Can I have access to my account back, now.. please, pretty please...?" I had figured out a great system because each time I sent my pm, I doubled the size of it (a copy and paste trick), and my system was especially a great because it worked. Go figure? I feel a bit ashamed to confess to such prior secrets, here. Bullshit. It is well known you sent one single *HUGE* wall of text PM arguing over the (im)probabilities that a guy not being the real owner of the account would have put so much effort to write instead of just asking for him account back. Once the server storage was upgraded and the service restored you got your account immediately unlocked. Since then Theymos decided he wouldn't be dealing with that shit ever again. Something that it is less known is that Theymos decided to make you a merit source from the very beginning simply out of fear that you would sent him another PM arguing about your suitability for the "job" and the probabilities for the merit system to fail miserably were not that the case. FACTS. |
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