It seems to be back up, at least for now, and that link that you provided Apocollapse did not work for me.. here is a working link to Cobra's pointing out the matter (and the various twitter responses).
https://twitter.com/CobraBitcoin/status/144090589254383206445K in one hour
You think so?
When are you going to start the timer?
Ready, set, go......
I would like $45k in one hour
tm... that would be nice.. otherwise if one hour does not work then soon
tm would be a good back up plan.
On the other hand, $45k does kind of seem like a price for ants, so not sure how long any of us really want to be hanging out in these here price territories anyhow, right?
hopefully the scammers didn't get away with too much $$$
From what I've read, it's at least 0.4
BTC...
It's OK, all is fine. Darwin at work. Whoever owns BTC and can fall for this scam is not worthy of owning (keys of) BTC.
That's why I agree with cAPSLOCK's stance on banks. Whether we like it or not, banks are necessary, to take care of those incapable of being their own bank. I do hope this changes in the future, but somehow I don't think it ever will...
I overall agree that there seems to be a need for some kinds of banks, and I would speculate that many of us longer term bitcoiners are considering that bitcoin is going to likely create incentives to cause banks to become more user-friendly in a variety of ways.
The way bitcoin is right now, it is very scary being your own bank.. at least from my perspective, and many of you can appreciate that I spend a considerable amount of time thinking about bitcoin (at least to the extent that my various rambling posts are not automatically typed - and I do happen to be a sentient being.. or whatever the proper label is supposed to be).
Maybe my point is that it would be pie in the sky to speculate that banks are going to just disappear all of a sudden. Yeah, there are gradually and then suddenly ideas, but even in those kinds of scenarios, there has to be some kind of user-friendliness to the matter - including that many dumbasses are going to get their lil selfies into pickles in regards to various ways to protect their keys.
Even taking my own lil selfie... it can be quite ridiculous. I went through a pretty damned elaborate system of creating back up recoveries to my various keys, and then I put the systems in place, and the next thing you know (less than one year later), I am scratching my lil computer of a head about what the fuck my little puzzle of recovery meant, exactly. You, AlcoHoDL, have described very similar scenarios, and I would proclaim that neither you nor I are dummies.. we seem to kind of have our wits about us, but just think about a wee bit of lesser education and various systems that end up being employed by many normies, and the next thing you know, they got their lil selfies in a pickle of both having lost access to their keys and not having a way to recover their keys either through the creation of a bad system or NOT creating any backup at all (proclaiming: "I will do that later.")
Actually, I had another situation too, within about the past 6-8 months in which I was in a situation in which I felt that I had to create a wallet to interact with a certain kind of system that was set up, and that system ONLY dealt with certain kinds of BTC wallets, of which I did not have any of those acceptable systems... So, I decided to create another wallet, which then required the creation of a back up and then figuring out how to keep track of that because I was in a kind of travel status.. so I had a temporary system that I was going to transfer into a more permanent system once I got out of my traveling status situation. My point is that even though I did a bit of due diligence in the creation of a temporary back up system, about 5 months later when I went to transfer my temporary back up system into my permanent system, I was spending a considerable amount of time scratching my electro-noggen in regards to remembering what the symbols that I had created meant, exactly. Surely, I was able to figure it out, and yeah you might ask why it took me 5 months to get to the process of transferring from temporary to permanent.. and that's just a "shit happens" kind of excuse that is likely common for a lot of normies, including yours truly.
I am not even going to say that there was also an additional matter of when I had the 24 words written down in their kind of special way that ONLY I would be able to figure out, when I counted the words, there were only 23 words.. so that was kind of screwed up, too.. even though there may well have been a way to figure out the 24th word (which was somewhere in the middle of the list - even at a place that I was not exactly sure about either), I am glad that I did not have to employ some kind of specialist to help me out of an additional issue that was truly of my own making.. how the fuck did I not write down all 24 words? Why did I skip a word and not notice.. what a distracted twat that I was at that time... and the whole situation was even likely reflective what other normies might experience in trying to manage their key backups.
Back then, it was almost embarrassing explaining Bitcoin to people because they would think you were a lunatic half the time..
Lunatic would be quite ok actually. Most of the time they'd think you were a scammer trying to lure more people into their dirty pyramid scheme...
Actually, that seems to be correct serveria. Frequently, I try to dispel what I consider to be the thoughts of my audience, and I have tended to say something like:
"I could give hardly any shits about whether you buy into BTC or not. My investment into BTC is likely to go up, either way, so I have been telling you (and sharing this information with you) in order to attempt to help you to help yourself, and it is up to you regarding whether you take any actions based on information that I am sharing with you."
Seems to me that it hardly even matters what I say, but I feel good saying something like that anyhow... so later when I come back, and I say "I told you so," I feel even more justified in being able to say "I told you so." even though of course, none of this is guaranteed.. but what is guaranteed in life when it comes to the future, and in essence there are not likely too many investments that remain as solid as bitcoin in terms of the degree of guaranteedness that exists within its ultimate non guaranteed status. hahahahaha Go figure.. newbies!!!!
(not referring to you, serveria)
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