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mircea_popescu: i can't quite pin it for certain it's so small, but with reasonable confidence we're talking < 100 btc lifetime.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, he has some breakin which he "refunds". well... there were never that many btc on his exchange thingee. as in, ever.
mircea_popescu: he invested about the same in something pretty much similar (bitfury).
mircea_popescu: then, impredictably, basic popped. the person with a ~1.x million dollar loss was unfazed
mircea_popescu: this was never confirmed by the basic scammer. he used this to back some sort of mining asset on his pretend-exchange.
mircea_popescu: just review the history. first he had ~1.x million dollar's worth of bASIC chips on order.
mircea_popescu: he's going to continue losing large imaginary sums for as long as anyone's paying any attention
mircea_popescu: he had however many chips supposedly on order with basic when that popped.
mircea_popescu: <Neil> Guy seems unfazed by it << that guy is just making shit up basically.
mircea_popescu: The Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojna ceremony is paid for by the government and helps women from poor families to marry. It provides brides with household items to the value of 9,000Rs (£100).
mircea_popescu: Neil anyway, i imagine 1dice addies would be more interesting if indeed that;s vulnerable
mircea_popescu: dub rabies is an area sort of thing. if the local doctor says no concern he's likely right.
mircea_popescu: well this is where the untested/prototype/new stuff comes in
mircea_popescu: the ecdsa needs to have a good seed or else it doesn't work
mircea_popescu: tbh i think it's convincing proof as it is. most agencies wouldn't sneer at a few mn extra budget.
mircea_popescu: Neil i remember someone showing an easy exploit for addresses which made two spends on the same seed for ecdsa
mircea_popescu: well, if you figure out how to do it i got some btc too :D
mircea_popescu: The intruder was able to overwrite the passwords of other users
mircea_popescu: PicoStocks.com, High-tech startup fundraising, evaluation and profit sharing
mircea_popescu: then a few months later... o hai guise, we were wide open lolkthx
mircea_popescu: the girl bitchslaps them all to hell, she's the villain
mircea_popescu: more like a well done anthropology term paper than a comedy routine
mircea_popescu: you mean crack as in snatch or crack as in teh white lady ?
mircea_popescu: "So, I start mining only to realise that there's a minimum withdrawal of 0.05 BTC which took me about a week to mine."
mircea_popescu: da fuck does the guy imagine offices are, space stations on mars ?
mircea_popescu: ;;google scammer tag theymoos others known and unknown
mircea_popescu: jborkl yes, because mpex fee went to 30 that same day.
mircea_popescu: <jborkl> unloading shares of a company that went belly up 2 days later << was more like 3 weeks iirc
mircea_popescu: jurov hey, how goes in mpex' first amphibious brokerage house ?