Tag: Sucker Filter
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Bitcoin reprint from 2015
Some of us recognized quickly that bitcoin was a fraud. = = = = = START 2015 REPRINT: It’s nice to see attempts to impose facts on the bitslave types. It won’t work, but it leaves the bitiots without ANY excuse for their criminal activity. We already know from simple logic that the entire purpose…
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Good work but won’t help
Via Spokesman-Review, the suburb of Spokane Valley has banned bitcoin ATMs after a romance scam via bitcoin led to a suicide. Good work, Valley. BUT THIS BAN SHOULD BE NATIONAL, not just a few scattered cities. The whole realm of bitcoin in all of its ramifications should be permanently banned. Of course bitcoin WOULD be…
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Not disappointed, disappointed
Keeping up with developments in the world of bitcoin fraud. = = = = = = (1) Not disappointed in Judge Kaplan: Via Arstechnica, Sammy Bankman filed an appeal for a new trial, and Judge Kaplan sternly refused. Before he was busted, Sammy was feeding both political pigs, following the standard billionaire script at the…
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What’s the real diff?
Via NiemanLab, this is a good piece of reporting on a sneaky and obscure part of the tech world. A company called Clickout Media is acquiring many of the sites that write about videogaming. After it acquires a site, Clickout turns it into a front for bitcoin and gambling. Clickout’s specialty has a revealing name:…
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Great phrase, why isn’t it used?
This show from Canadian TV features a carousel scheme designed to evade taxes by passing purchases around a circle of temporary fake companies. The purchases in this case were packets of “telecom minutes”. Carousel scheme is a wonderfully descriptive phrase but for some reason it hasn’t spread. Google leads only to this specific scheme, not…
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What did you expect?
Via Protos: Binance, one of the leading counterfeiters, did something in October that changed the fake value of its fake “money”. Now the people who bought large amounts of this particular counterfeit brand are suing Binance for …. For what? For being more counterfeit than you expected? Fakery is the OPENLY DECLARED ADVANTAGE of bitcoin.…
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China is helping more
Via Protos, China is rooting out and executing fraudsters and mafia leaders. They’ve closed down several ‘pig-butchering’ factories operating in China and nearby countries, especially Burma. Before Mao the Chinese government was sometimes operated BY the tongs and mafias, but the post-1980 version is hardass. The US government has mostly been operated BY the gamblers,…
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Swindlers vs salesmen
First input, unquestionably true: Social media is THE OPPOSITE OF AN ECHO CHAMBER. Algorithms are designed with GREAT PRECISION to give you what you hate, not what you want. After you’ve seen an item, sometimes you think about it and want to go back and look again. YOU CAN’T GET THERE. The algorithm knows that…
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Said it before, not quite the same
I’ve said this before in a somewhat different context. It’s doubly true now. Cybersecurity is simply a continuation of pre-computer Deepstate evil. Immediately after FDR died, Deepstate overthrew the government and took over again. It immediately started prosecuting everyone who had helped FDR save the country from Wall Street, and everyone who didn’t want to…
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That’s exactly the problem
Columbia Journalism Review takes an inside look at Kirn’s ‘County Highway’ publication. They focus on the close connection with RFK, which happened after I stopped reading it. I subscribed at first, hoping it would have the qualities of a real newspaper. After reading the first two editions, I decided it fails the test in every…
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Supersuckers as fucking usual
Via Protos: = = = = = Crypto exchanges Kraken, Crypto.com, and BitMEX, alongside a raft of DECENTRALIZED crypto industry websites, have been impacted by Tuesday’s widespread Cloudflare outage that caused swathes of the internet to grind to a halt. = = = = = DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU’RE SAYING? A money-handling business…
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Good for Delaware!
Via RealClear: The major bitcoin fraudster Coinbase played the usual corporate trick of incorporating in Delaware because Delaware has rigged its laws to favor tax evaders and fraudsters. Amazingly, Delaware has finally lost its patience with the worst criminals. WSJ has an “editorial” written by Coinbase’s head criminal. His words in bold followed by interlinear…
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Could have been a good idea
Via RealClear: The Methodists are trying a new way to maintain a central managing body while allowing more modularity. Instead of a universal orthodoxy, regions will be allowed to set their own standards for SOME hot-button stuff like homosexuality and women pastors. In any system, living or mechanical or social, modularity is crucial. = =…
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Go with the flow
Nobody seems to be reading what I’m writing now, but for some reason this older item is getting a few reads. Might as well go with the flow and REwrite what AI bots are “reading.” The item was posted in 2022, but most of it was originally written in 2016 before the Bush/Trump “virus” torture…
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