soyrunner's comments

No. It's denial of free speech for monetary gain. Branding a comment as a shitpost is akin to controlling the narrative. Controlling the narrative was a corporate tactic from 10 or 15 years ago. If a product was heading for a tough times, e.g. a threat regarding climate change, they'd get out front with a spin that evoking an emotional defense such that duped followers would find it very difficult to reposition. For instance Mt. Gox stolen bitcoin that was worth about $700,000 when btc was around $60k, was pegged as having a value of about $5.3k by the Japanese bankruptcy court rather than accepting that its value would be changing over time. The result was the trustee in this one instance was obligated to pay $5,300. But Coinlab, continuing to accumulate billable hours even after being effectively warned off by the SEC fraud division, sued for $75,000,000, then up'ed it to $16,000.000,000 ($75 million to $16 billion). Then they teamed up with Fortress (you know those guys, they buy up starter homes or used starter homes in good locations, offering well more than a typical young couple can pay, 20% or more over asking). The Fortress/Coinlab team had the trustee put a choice before the Mt.Gox depositors who by now had been waiting years for some recompense. The depositors voted to take the offer that was something like getting 2 btc it your Mt.Gox loss was 10btc. Of course 2 BTC is better than 0.013 btc (btc around $40k atm) but is sure as heck isn't 10 btc. I would post comments on reddit about not liking how long the process was being drawn out, how there was almost no communication, how the bankruptcy court created conditions where the trustee was only required to shell out a small fraction of the stolen btc's worth. Case in point, the Fortress/Coinlab lawyers were drawing out the process. Trustee sold btc at what is not a low price and gave that to Fortress/Coinlab. That money into btc would have accumulated well to finance more law suits. Drawing the process out allowed Fortress to offer a price around $10k/btc to depositors for their btc claims. And that's still going on. So, my complaining posts were okay but then the sub forum on reddit got a new moderator who quickly branded my posts shitposts and shadowbanned me. I suspect the moderator change went to a shill for Fortress, Coinlab or both. One point tho is that Fortress made offers for claims, they added a level of credibility to bitcoin. If Fortress wants the bitcoin then it has a value which will increase. Still if someone gets 2 btc from the deal when they had 10 btc on deposit, there's still 8 btc out there that the depositor won't have. There is a fix for this. Marc Karpeles hasn't left Japan to respond to an indictment in Chicago. Vinnik, the Russian who washed the stolen bitcoin, has much of it in wallets he controls, or did until the US seized his wallets. He's in jail in France. Suppose the US cracked Vinnik's wallets and made US Mt. Gox depositors whole and gave the remainder to the Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee to work out what non-US depositors or Coinlab/Fortress will get. Then ban Marc Karpeles from ever traveling the US.

If any image of Trump on TV or the internet, got immediately muted the instant he opens his mouth, and a balloon imposed on the screen having the words SHITPOST, I could live with it.

A moderator tagging a post as a shitpost leads to shadowbanning. Even if the post is non threatening or libelous.

Perhaps a UN audit of where the money for proper dredging went? It's not like the UN doesn't have any say. The first time the British and French fought on the same side since the 100 years war was under the UN and Dag Hammarskjöld when Egyptian zealots felt the ships were as legitimate targets for plunder as desert caravans.

Egypt failed to keep the canal dredged. Desert sands are blown into the canal and it's the canal authority's duty to remove the sand and keep the canal bottom clear. The Ever Given was blown out of shape in a desert dust storm and hung up on mounds of sand. If kept properly dredged, after the storm was over the ship should have been able to move back into the center of the channel on its own but failed due to accumulated sand along the sides. The fees that would have paid for sufficient canal dredging went elsewhere.

Back in the 1970's Page Burr at Photocircuits developed Multiwire.

Perhaps that section stunk and someone drilled a hole to relieve the stink to space.

Future Shock

I agree. The bitcoin number limit is fundamental. It's what shows up fiat for what that is. It's also what makes it threatened. I believe the growth of altcoins was in part to placate the financial system. Maybe not increase the total number of bitcoin that will ever exist but the creation of altcoins gives the idea that the alternative to fiat is expanding as fiat multiplies.

A Sears ½" reversible 600 RPM 3 amp drill.

Will MtGox victims get anything from the thieves? Will FinCEN take its $110M before victims get bitcoins back? Did any of the stolen bitcoins go to that federal investigator convicted of stealing bitcoins?

soyrunner

I agree, New York. Years ago, having engineering lap experience, I looked at engineering positions offered in Newsday compared to elsewhere. I decided that at that time there was probably nowhere in the world with as many engineering jobs listed in any paper within commuting distance as there was in a typical weekday Newsday want ad section. If you work in engineering, live on LI, and travel, bring the day's Newsday and compare.

Strange, for two days now I've been trying to login to bitcointalk.org and get an invalid login. When I do the Ask a question for invalid logins I get invalid login again.

By dip I assume you don't mean dual inline package which is an IC form where one can add or remove the IC from a socket, typically 8, 14, or 16 but larger sockets were used too.

If one puts one's btc onto a hardware wallet, e.g. HW.1, then the coins have been moved from the wallet on the computer or are they a copy of that which is on the computer?

I don't trade much. Pretty much just holding onto my btc parking it on Coinbase. I hear that slow transactions are part of the problem that led to the pending possible fork. That transaction fees have gone up. How much higher has it gotten, e.g. how much would it cost to move 1 btc from Coinbase to my Bitcoin-QT Core Wallet.dat and then how much to move it from Bitcoin-QT wallet.dat to a HW.1 hardware wallet? Thanks. Could the whole scare be to generate fees and sell hardware wallets? (Wish MtGox had made good while btc was lower.)

If I move my coins from Coinbase to a Bitcoin-QT wallet, is there a chance that the blockchain the Bitcoin-QT maintains will lose if a fork happens? In that case would keeping the coins on Coinbase mean a higher probability they're remain good?

Worked in a great engineering lab. CEO out of Hell's kitchen had a top notch chief engineer. Chief engineer vetted all hires in the department. Then the CEO's health started to fail. Human resources seemed to get more clout and placed less talented in the lab.

Agreed. But don't do the comparison anytime in those weeks the US Open is on at Forest Hills, LI, NY. Those weeks the entire country, world (?), suffers insomnia. It's the attorneys in the tennis clubs packing in to watch the tournament, packing that white powder up their snouts to be sharp and quick on the retorts to other attorneys. Not to mention the well heeled fans at the events proper. That's my opinion. Sleepless during the US Open. I don't play tennis and certainly don't watch it. Who knows, maybe the 9/11 terrorist attack was about the two towers representing two tennis players at the nearby USOpen, then ongoing as it does same time every year. Terrorists fed up with the yearly insomnia period.