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https://twitter.com/stephendpalley/status/1311694266389929986BREAKING: CFTC sues Bitmex, Arthur Hayes "to enjoin their ongoing illegal offering of commodity derivatives to U.S. persons, their acceptance of funds to margin derivatives transactions from individuals and entities in the U.S., & their operation of a derivatives trading platform yay the drama we need Who is this Hayes character?? He has teeth like JJG has words... Big collection, no particular order?  You're right ... Arthurs teeth make way more sense than JJG.  |
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So, currently, Bitmex is processing withdrawals in a way that is more regular than regularly? In other words, we (royal?) do not need to worry about the earlier fear expressed by WhalePanda that was reflected in your earlier post (depicted below)? My speculation is that direction. They are some of the most honest pirates on the high seas. I bet they are not even fractional. We just don't want the gvmt getting a hold of enough of the keys. Wonder if Hayes uses the insurance fund for lawyers... could make sense. |
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October 01, 2020, 06:58:46 PM |
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BitMEX has got a large stash : the insurance fund of 21k btc...
them feds are hungry for bitcoin. I did read that the silkroad btc the us Marshall service had auctioned off would be worth $1 billion today.
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So, currently, Bitmex is processing withdrawals in a way that is more regular than regularly? In other words, we (royal?) do not need to worry about the earlier fear expressed by WhalePanda that was reflected in your earlier post (depicted below)? Bitmex always do withdraws once a day at 13.00 UTC. There are two theories why they are doing withdrawals right now: 1) ease the panic 2) they dont know if they can proceed withdraws tommorow I hope its 1 lol
Btw i checked again regarding the multisig - their FAQ states it is a 2 of 3 multisig. So that means as long as they only jail one more guy its fine
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October 01, 2020, 07:09:13 PM |
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October 01, 2020, 07:09:34 PM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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Security and availability is another one of those issues that I intended to write about, on the subject of using seed phrases with ostensibly strong passphrases. Re AlcoHoDL, et al. Have not yet gotten to it. In a nutshell: If you care about your heirs, don’t use passphrases! Use Shamir’s Secret Sharing to back up secret pieces in some way that mitigates risk of compromise while you are alive, but also has a high probability of surviving your death or otherwise incapacitation.
Well, whenever you are writing further on this particular topic (perhaps in the form of a tome or treatise? - #nohomo), hopefully you keep in mind practicality of regular joes - reminds me a bit of how trace mayer used to recommend people hold their keys.. ... Yeah, right, works for technical geniuses, but not necessarily for regular joes. In other words, not everyone is ready, willing and able to learn, even if they might meet part of that formula.. they need all of it... including the action and even time components. Not everyone is as technical as you, and the fact of the matter remains that the vast majority of regular joes (and the jane or two that is in this space) need to have simple as fuck.. and prefer to have simple as fuck. As a practical matter, the hardest part isn’t technical. As usual, the biggest problem is human. A very rough sketch: How astute are you at judging character? Could you choose N people in your life, such that it is very unlikely that M of them would conspire against you? —And also very unlikely that (N - M) + 1 of them would inopportunely die, disappear, lose stuff, or just flake out? (Remember that with M/N Secret Sharing, M - 1 shares together reveal zero information about the secret; on a technical level, it is information-theoretically secure.)Any potential traitors face the problem that to betray, they need to risk potentially suggesting betrayal to somebody who may be loyal—somebody who would promptly inform you. (Though if your threat model may include a risk of coercion of your fiduciaries, this calculation could be turned upside-down.)Just for a contrived off-the-cuff example: Maybe you don’t (and shouldn’t) trust your lawyer. But how likely is it that he, a member of your family, and your best friend would all form a conspiratorial meeting of the minds for the purpose of stabbing you in the back and ripping you off? —Especially if none of them is aware of what he has? Whom do you know who would safeguard for you a sealed envelope, with instructions to open it if and only if you are dead or permanently incapacitated? (Or return it to you if you ask for it in person—as your last-resort catastrophe-plan backup.)If you can figure out the human problem, then the technical part is easy! Of course, all that human stuff is what is usually forgotten by technology people. |
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October 01, 2020, 07:09:40 PM |
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bitcoins invention had such a deep impact on everything a proper IT guy was holding as true that it confused the shit out of everyone that went down the rabbit hole in the first place. how to wrap one's head around this beast?
the easiest structural thing to identify of this new kid on the block was its database structure. man, what mess could have been saved if they would have just called it TIMECHAIN and not fkn stupid BLOCKCHAIN. bitcoin was such a weird and unknown beast that the best strategy seemed to be to start with understanding why it uses a timechain.
somehow this approach started to become so dominant that people started to refer to the timechain being "the tech that enables bitcoin". this was a lazy and stupid approach, but it helped explaining how in an "append-only" database, if you do wrap the data in "blocks" and connect them via a hash consecutively in a time wise order, that this data is now unpenetrateably sealed into the database.
so plausible, so catchy - and not wrong at all. but for fuck sake not THAT relevant either. the consensus algorithm with validating nodes, the difficulty adjustment, the game theory of competing miners getting a reward (block reward), the torrent-like distribution of the database, the collective git-process of open source software development, the ten minute global sync time (block time), the hard cap, the fee structure, the emission schedule (halving)
all them are important delicately enginereed details of the bitcoin tech that make that boat float.
to say that blockchain is the tech that enables bitcoin is like saying it is the order of the tires that is the tech behind a car. sure placing the 4 tires in a correct manner is important if you want to build a car. but you still need a fkn motor, steering, a brake, and a body.
that a misunderstood buzzword could create this biggest shitpile of lies and deception and fraud and scam in tech history is a phenomenon on its own. and boy it did become alive and is a beast of its own now.
bitcoin dominance at 55% percent shines a light on the amount of sheer stupidity. IT and marketing "blockchain-not-bitcoin" farts glorifying "blockchain" as the new global next big thing in tech (check out the blockchain strategic papers of the BIG FOUR global accounting firms Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers - them managing 85% of global companies, they hail the blockchain the same way lunatic hardcore Christians hail the last coming of the messiah) is a joke unfortunately only maximalists seem getting.
this one little misunderstanding of timechain has created two separate multi billion grave nuthouses that have their own life now.
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6999 shitcoins (aka "products") with no use case other than scamming (or like in ETH case, the use case is enabling scamming in different layers (ERC20, DEFI, NFT) on one side. people get scammed to buy tokens that should have never been sold for money. in bitcoins case a market had to be established to facilitate price finding and distribution. how on earth did that emerge as a model to straightforwardly sell vaporware to "investors"? looking at you coinmarketcap and at you - exchanges. why would you sell digital gold on one side and 6999 fake gold shit on the other?
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5 years of billions invested of global consortiums of the biggest global players (looking at you, CORDA) in all kinds of "blockchain" products that never saw the light. hundreds of conferences, thousands of marketing suits, spitting out the same "blockchain is the future" sheit year after year after year - and to this day NOTHING, NADA, NULL, ZERO use cases.
how doesn't anybody see the strange asymmetry between two industries both working on "blockchain" - one side has 6999 products with no use case and the other is the plethora of existing companies desperately searching for products. why don't they just team up?
because their concept is laughably incorrect, they can't merge since blockchain is no tech. both sides derailed from real IT to a mere buzzword. trying to build industries on it.
what a shitshow.
Bitcoin drops to $11.1K as USD cash record disappoints BTC cost . An uptick in the USD cash record creates a moment plunge for BTC/USD, with the biggest cryptographic money sinking 5% on the day. Computerized money markets began dropping on Saturday after BTC contacted a March high of $9,125 per coin. BTC is down over 10% on Monday and costs are floating around $7,600-7,750 at press time. BTC actually has around 63% market predominance among the 5,000+ cryptos in presence with the cryptoconomy esteemed at $350 billion today. The volume of all steady coins is currently $39.58 B. As per Messari.io, BTC has around $2 billion in "genuine" worldwide exchange volume yet detailed volume is around $97 billion.  Funny video |
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October 01, 2020, 07:13:08 PM
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https://twitter.com/stephendpalley/status/1311694266389929986BREAKING: CFTC sues Bitmex, Arthur Hayes "to enjoin their ongoing illegal offering of commodity derivatives to U.S. persons, their acceptance of funds to margin derivatives transactions from individuals and entities in the U.S., & their operation of a derivatives trading platform yay the drama we need Who is this Hayes character?? He has teeth like JJG nullius has words... Whoaza!!!!!! That mustn't be yours truly...  Surely, you mustv'e been referrening to some udder peep. See proposed change above. https://twitter.com/stephendpalley/status/1311694266389929986BREAKING: CFTC sues Bitmex, Arthur Hayes "to enjoin their ongoing illegal offering of commodity derivatives to U.S. persons, their acceptance of funds to margin derivatives transactions from individuals and entities in the U.S., & their operation of a derivatives trading platform yay the drama we need Who is this Hayes character?? He has teeth like JJG has words... Big collection, no particular order? You're right ... Arthurs teeth make way more sense than JJG. That assertion might have some truths to it.  Pics of those teeths tend to present admireably as: BIG, scary and organized. [edited out]
My speculation is that direction. They are some of the most honest pirates on the high seas. I bet they are not even fractional. We just don't want the gvmt getting a hold of enough of the keys. Wonder if Hayes uses the insurance fund for lawyers... could make sense. The other three Bitmex representatives who were charged gotta be feeling some kinds of pressures, currently. I would imagine that they have decent amounts of moneys that they can spend on attorneys, and they may even be able to garner some sympathy donations, too (from the bitcoin community, and perhaps even some shitcoiners might be willing to send value in such legal defense direction, too). BitMEX has got a large stash : the insurance fund of 21k btc...
them feds are hungry for bitcoin. I did read that the silkroad btc the us Marshall service had auctioned off would be worth $1 billion today.
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October 01, 2020, 07:18:27 PM |
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October 01, 2020, 07:22:41 PM |
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Will there still be a $100k party?
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October 01, 2020, 07:28:32 PM |
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Will there still be a $100k party?
Just curious
Yes, curious one. There will be. Hopefully, you are still pee paring ur lil selfie for such party, including pee paring ur lil selfie for UPpity. Such party has been delayed by approximately two weeks. tm You heard it here, first. |
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October 01, 2020, 07:29:42 PM |
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(Fake) Arthur thinks he is untouchable, spouts a snide comeback, but then...  Owned. |
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October 01, 2020, 07:34:29 PM |
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maybe they can be bothered to black helicopter Arthur in from the cold  wtf is Brandt on about there. too many dinosaurs having opinions all over the place  |
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October 01, 2020, 07:42:57 PM |
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sry for off topic but I just had a neuron pop in my brain and the idea is to create an ERC20 shitcoin and get it listed on cmc. we gonna name the coin theDIP. and holy fuck we will get all this free advertisement from bitcoiners all over the world! BUY THE DIP! |
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October 01, 2020, 07:45:21 PM |
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Official statement from Bitmex: [Forwarded from BitMEX Announcements] United States CFTC & DOJ filing In response to reports of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Department of Justice's decision to file charges against HDR Global Trading Limited and related parties, we have the following statement: “We strongly disagree with the U.S. government’s heavy-handed decision to bring these charges, and intend to defend the allegations vigorously. From our early days as a start-up, we have always sought to comply with applicable U.S. laws, as those laws were understood at the time and based on available guidance.” In the meantime, the BitMEX platform is operating entirely as normal and all funds are safe. To allay any potential customer concerns, pending withdrawal requests were processed at 17:45 UTC, in line with our standard procedures. We will process another off-cycle withdrawal at 08:00 UTC, 02 Oct 2020, and then 13:00 UTC, as usual. If you have any further enquiries, please contact Support: https://www.bitmex.com/app/support/contact |
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October 01, 2020, 07:56:22 PM |
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Yeah when I saw that I though, wait a fuc.... oh nevermind. Hayes is a LOT of things, and bold is one of them... even a bit of an asshole from time to time on social media. But he is NOT a fool. |
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October 01, 2020, 07:57:49 PM |
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maybe they can be bothered to black helicopter Arthur in from the cold wtf is Brandt on about there. too many dinosaurs having opinions all over the place Brandt is astutely pointing out why this matters, and why it is good for Bitcoin. (not that much of a fan of his... but he's right here) |
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