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Lazy-Substance-5161

Hello I'm a CS student. It's not like there will be quantum computing out of nowhere breaking all encryption, because while quantum computing is in development, there are also already quantum encryption techniques that can be used in the future. So quantum cryptography is already a thing, just waiting to get used.

b0x3r_

lol no problem, I’m not an expert myself, I just pretend to be because I have a degree in CS and read one book on encryption haha

KomorebiParticle

While this is currently true for existing electronics, there have been advancements in using metal alloys that perform the same as Gold regarding conductivity and resistance to corrosion and as the price of gold increases, switching to these more than capable metal alloys becomes the logical choice: https://connectorsupplier.com/012213-CS-gold-plating-replacement/ Even if you really needed to use Gold, new advancements just last week allowed researchers to create what they are calling ‘goldene’ which is a layer of gold 1 atom thick, which greatly reduces the amount of gold needed for plating and other usess https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240416115933.htm While this could introduce new use cases, it does reduce the total amount needed: “Thanks to this, future applications could include carbon dioxide conversion, hydrogen-generating catalysis, selective production of value-added chemicals, hydrogen production, water purification, communication, and much more. Moreover, the amount of gold used in applications today can be much reduced.”

Kokufuu

That is true. And I can see you understand CS as well. Then why bought up this present amount in binary as well stuff?😅

Chakra_Scientist

Happy Halving 2024 to the Bitcoin community, and also the /r/Bitcoin administrators!! -CS

banaca4

Your questions are CS problems that are solved with encryption verification and such. But nobody can convince some non dev about it I guess so what can I do..

Leading-Problem9360

This chick said she’d do anything for some btc. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/s/TBpZS9CS07

wgcole01

Ok ... Where to start? Market cap does not determine price, price determines market cap. Period. What are the implications? Shib does not "need" a $589 trillion market cap in order to reach $1. Rather, if Shib reaches $1, it will *have* a $589 trillion market cap. See the difference? Let me try to short circuit the discussion and point out the source of the confusion. The equation for market cap is: Price X Circulating Supply = Market Cap Clever people take that equation and invert it to solve for price. And why not? Price is what we're all thinking about, isn't it? When you do, the equation becomes: Price = Market Cap/Circulating Supply There problem here is that market cap is completely indeterminate (undeterminable?) without price. So the equation *should* look this: Price = (Price X Circulating Supply)/Circulating Supply Using algebra, you can reduce the equation like this: P = (P X CS)/CS P = P X 1 P = P Price = Price Seems recursive. But it shows why you can't solve for price by inverting the equation for market cap. The tail does not, in fact, wag the dog. But that doesn't mean that market cap is completely useless. The highest and best use of market cap is to compare the price potential of coins with a similar circulating supply. And it also doesn't mean that market cap doesn't have *some* psychological impact on price. Stock analysts look at and compare company market caps all the time. But when they conclude and say that a company's market cap is too high relative to another company's, all they're really saying is that they think the stock is overpriced. (It all comes down to price.) But that's just perception. It's not reality. The price isn't *literally* too high. It can go higher the next trading day, and market cap won't hold it back. Because it can't. So, is Shib going to $1 or not? I don't know. All I know is that if it doesn't, it won't be because market cap held it back. It can't.

robis87

Anyone know their way about Koinly tax reports? Having a nightmare with importing OKX CSV files correctly there. Besides having manually change OKX's column's names and lower caps, their file seems to not interact with with most other imported wallets - eth MM and other CEXes. It completely distorts my whole tax report. Anyone encountered this and got a solution? I seem to have tried everything - re-imported all the files 10x, tried different formats etc. but it just sends tokens into nowhere even tho those wallets are imported too. Then all the next trades transfers show the error of missing purchases for these tokens... And CS is ofc hopeless with their one week response times. Have a Pro plan and it's like the 5th issue I have and had to figure them all out myself.

RemyVonLion

I actually took shrooms the same week that I moved this January lol, felt like I was tripping for over a week even though I didn't take anything for 3 days after that. Felt super motivated to change, but then reality hit hard that doing everything on your own is easier said than done. You can't just become a super-hyper-focused tech bro who regularly works out and makes a decent living while also studying computer science, especially after years of being an aimless drug-addicted hedonist not using my brain. Life is miserably boring when you're sober, I can never stop thinking about the big picture, so although I recently got prescribed Adderall to help me focus, it's not the magic pill I was hoping for, I still take too much weed, kratom, and Xanax to relax when I can't handle the overwhelming pressure of life, leading to my brain becoming easily distracted, both from the stressors of life, but also the things I need to learn to deal with them. This results in maintaining the same bad habits and being unable to improve. I'm not sure how to improve because I have pretty much no interests anymore besides seeing the future, so without drugs, I simply can't handle existing, because I should be optimizing every moment of my life to contribute to the chance of optimized singularity occurring in our lifetime as it's the most important goal/accomplishment of humanity as far as we can tell, since it will decide our fate. But my to-do list never stops growing and it's never clear which should be prioritized or done in what order, so I just do what is needed to survive the day and tell myself to try harder tomorrow, in an endless cycle. I don't like therapists or counselors because I find them to be more of a waste of time than anything with methods I'm not fond of. I feel like I can't spend a dime of my investments because with how long it will take my dumbass to get good enough at CS to afford living on my own, the field might have developed beyond my capabilities to contribute, at which point the future becomes totally unclear, but I’m relying on my meager savings in smart investments to be able to afford me the important things in 10-60 years.

RevolutionaryPhoto24

Ah, ok. Good scam, bc people get desperate. I will brave the hours of CS wait time in the morning. It’s not much, but worth it to try to get back.

redoubt515

> I don't see why people would \[use\] this method when there are so many other "proven" phishing scams (go to some CS2 forums and you'll see people losing hundreds of dollars in skins every week to the same things). I agree, for hundreds of dollars, I'm sure nobody would got through that much trouble to target an individual specifically. I think it all comes down to scale and proportionality. What is a reasonable risk to consider will change based on whether you are holding $200 vs 2k, 20k, 200k, 2 million. And how much time and effort people would be willing to devote towards targeted an individual specifically would also be proportional to the amount they stand to gain. At 200, 2k, or even 20k, I wouldn't be so concerned. At 200k+ I would certainly be starting to take the risk more seriously, and at 2 Million I'd embrace being somewhat paranoid > Why not head to a relationship subreddit where you know people are vulnerable and seeking companionship? Why not target people who have wealth but don't have bitcoin? The very young or old I think all of these things are already happening, and will continue to happen. I don't think these things are mutually exclusive.

thcptn

I appreciate your well thought out reply. I don't see why people would start attempting this method when there are so many other "proven" phishing scams (go to some CS2 forums and you'll see people losing hundreds of dollars in skins every week to the same things). Possible? Anything is possible, but I just don't think I or the average user have given away enough on reddit to begin compromising accounts or building a relationship. Why not head to a relationship subreddit where you know people are vulnerable and seeking companionship? Why not target people who have wealth but don't have bitcoin? The very young or old would also make better targets than someone who displays a history of familiarity with technology and scams in their profile. This sub is full of people talking about how ~$70k is going to solve all the problems in their life or how they are living at home still. If you are referring to my location in your 3rd paragraph you found old information I never bothered to change and is out of date to the point. I think all my gaming accounts still have that as the location which is perfect. It's a big college town with 40k students plus all the locals where I had 10+ addresses. I also make almost no effort to hide who I am online or where I live as companies will sell that info anyways. I don't think total anonymity is necessary for this situation and if I had a desire to obfuscate my identity you can create reddit accounts without even needing to verify the email. The gaming is a tried and true route for phishing at a large scale but I'm on guard to the point some people probably think I'm unfriendly because we've played games together for a decade and I still don't let them on my friends lists lol. It's mostly beginners you see falling for these scams rather than people who have been dealing with this stuff their entire life. I'd be going for kids who think you can put login credentials into random sites for free V-Bucks rather than someone who took the time to set up a Bitcoin wallet. > Chances are still somewhat low, but a lot higher I'd say both are still astronomically low to the point it's not worth worrying about as long as you have basic knowledge when it comes online scams and simple protections in place. I'd be more worried someone would try to get into my stuff just to prove a point because of this comment than I would be about someone doing it with financial gain as their motivation. You'd have to link the post you are referring to as you could be describing a few women I went to high school with. I'd guess I probably didn't if it was 10 years ago and it was Ashley or Sara (neither are security questions or relevant in my life anymore so again, this seems like harmless information to share).

thcptn

This just seems way too Ocean's Eleven for me. A dumb criminal isn't figuring all this out and pulling it off. A smarter criminal is doing a smarter crime. Again, not impossible for this to happen but I think time would be better spent guarding yourself against more realistic crimes. For example, if I were to attend a funeral of a loved one I would pay someone to stay at my house for a few hours because there is evidence of that crime actually happening on a regular basis. I'll use randomly generated, unique passwords because data breaches happen too frequently now. I'd be more worried about someone vandalizing my home or Swatting me than going after my Bitcoin. It seems reasonable to think if I leave a laptop in my car someone might be tempted. It just doesn't seem like a reasonable concern that someone is going to go through years of my reddit history in the hopes of acquiring my BTC when they could see I play games and try a phishing scam through steam. (My CS:GO inventory is regularly targeted by scammers and you can see people who fall for those scams daily.) I'm sorry. You do a great job highlighting how it would be possible, but I'm just not convinced this is something I need to take seriously. If you make everything seem like a serious issue than eventually nothing seems like a serious issue. There's real threats out there that people should be focused on instead of silly stuff like this.

EmpiricalRutabaga

> I honestly think computer science types are at a significant disadvantage. Not all of course. That's real retarded, sir. As a patent attorney with CS degrees for my tech background, I found that all of my education prompted me to say "holy shit, this is the real deal!"

bi0hazard6

Lego, MTG, CS skins 😂

zer0nerd

10 years ago everyone wrote C++, like today everyone in CS writes JavaScript.

Creme-Waste

The CS has been lagging, which has been acknowledged by the CEO. They recently hired almost 500 new CS reps, and are working to cut down the lag by mid-April (it has been already reduced by 60 percent in the first quarter of 2024).

VonThing

I was a CS undergrad, a classmate emailed me.

WannaFIREinBE

Student from my class told me about it (CS degree) when it was dual digit (in EUR). Back then I wanted to GPU mine after reading an article about it. But it was already impossible against more efficient FPGA rigs. Purchasing it seemed shady as fuck so didn’t got to buy some. Afterwards I heard about it a few time when it got to triple digit, then got to 200€, then got to 600€. Each time I felt like I missed the train and didn’t bother getting into it. Only when in 2017 everyone talked about it again and not anymore just CS nerds, I got into it. Still got it relatively early after all (low 4 digit).

Willing_Ad2715

Hey, something else happened to me some while ago. I wanted to top up via fast SEPA. Biggest mistake ever, my money was never received and I contacted my bank, police, etc.. Binance never gave my money back and in the end the CS was even getting rude towards me. They just have weird policy’s and that’s why they will go down. Trust me

Lance_Farmstrong

Damn thought this was like the CS:GO exploit

-mjneat

It depends. Learning about bitcoin requires some computer science knowledge mostly cryptography. Requires an understanding of history of money and the financial system and economics just to get the basics really. Gotta understand the problem and the possible solutions. There’s also different schools of thought within economics since it’s not really a science. A lot of early bitcoin proponents where heavily into Austrian economics. You can spend hundreds of hours just on mathematics and cryptography and not fully understand it. Then you have game theory and how it applies to btc. Then you have the code itself and all the BIPs. Then there’s the history of btc itself and reading what Satoshi actually posted and then trying to figure out where he was spot on and where maybe he wasn’t quite right(mainly in the way btc would scale). How the block wars showed how bitcoin can’t simply be co-opted by people with special interests and is truly decentralised. How is money created and distributed according to the FED or whatever your equivalent is. You can get a good overview in about 10 hours by reading Lyn Aldens broken money. She was a skeptic but worked in the tech industry with a background in economics and puts forth a pretty decent case for bitcoin. I spent thousands of hours back in the day most likely. Haven’t done much in the last 10 years and lots of the specifics I learnt I couldn’t recite but I’m pretty cemented in the idea that btc is a good thing after many hours of study. The more you spend the higher degree of certainty You have it seems. There’s a lot to look into which is why large swathes of people prefer to fall back on the scam/ponzi/greater fool type comments. You won’t convince people to spend a hundred hours investigating something they’re sure is a scam just so they can MAYBE see that it isn’t. Bitcoins a paradigm shift and those are rarely clear from a POV that isn’t immersed in the subject for long periods of time. Once people see this though it becomes a bit of an obsession which is why it can seem like a bit of a cult from the outside. You’ll find arguments against deflationary currency which is rooted in conventional financial understanding which seem to make sense but really economics is far from a science and the main reason this is always brought up is because that’s just the way it’s always been so you need some amount of imagination and be able to think “does it have to be that way”. Bitcoins not even a once in a generation type of opportunity. It’s a once in history type of opportunity. We now have money that cannot be debased no matter what, providing the network stays decentralised which according to the game theory it should. It’s worth spending the time to DYOR and not listen to anyone else on Reddit or anywhere else. Read, watch YT and come to your own conclusions but don’t think you can fully understand it in a short amount of time unless you have a CS, maths, history and economics degrees. Not saying you need that level of understanding to believe but the topics cover those areas and probably more. You’ll spend hours trying to debunk everything to come to the truth. It’s quite a rabbit hole…

thcptn

Why change a good thing? I know people who worked for 30-40 years, invested, and are set for life. They don't need to 10x their value. I hear people frequently say they should've retired sooner as they have more money than they'll need but not enough time to spend it. They gift away the minimum yearly ~$18k that's tax free and offer to cover medical bills. They earn more than people who work 40 hours a week while spending all day pursing hobbies and traveling. Also I recently read a book that said having a superior product isn't enough to cause people to use it. They suggested the product needed to be 9x better or have other features that would promote widespread adoption. (How to Build Habit Forming Products by Nir Eyal if interested in the book) Assuming everyone considers Bitcoin to be "better", how much better is it? Also, correct me if I'm wrong but would they not be paying large amounts of taxes to liquidate all their current investments all at once to dump into BTC? Many of the people who actually are able might not for reasons like this. Additionally most places offer bonuses and retirement accounts that likely don't offer BTC. > And then I look up the people who call it a scam and I’m like…the best arguments they offer are that it’s a Ponzi scheme? I think this is due to confusion with pump & dump cryptos like the ones Logan Paul did. My parents also lived through a time when ponzi schemes weren't uncommon and they knew people who got hit so they are overly cautious. Why trade the known for the unknown if the known is working for you? (Note most here are unhappy with the current state of things and hoping for change, but people with money to speculate are probably much less invested in the idea of change.) > If Bitcoin has “no intrinsic value”; what exactly is the “intrinsic value” of gold. This false dichotomy is often pushed on this sub but most people I know aren't investing in either. Index funds where people pay an insignificant fee for someone to do the thinking for them and generate consistent returns is where I see people putting their money. Others are looking for stocks that pay out regular dividends or more recently HYSA around 5%. I know many people who think gold is for boomers and people who lived through the great depression (RIP Grandpa) but still won't invest in BTC. > I’ve come to the conclusion it is a scarce, discrete, public yet anonymous, diplomatic, easily transferable asset. Finally, I think the people pushing it aren't good at it. Many don't know the basics of finance and have no track record of successful investing. My rich friend make $50-60k on NVIDIA this year but they don't think I'm an idiot because I didn't buy any when we discussed investments 6 months ago. I shared that some CS:GO items I bought had grown 10x and more and we were both happy for each other (and those have no value, entire games have dried up and skins have gone to $0). Bitcoiners often seem resentful, baffled, and frustrated with people who don't invest and don't make the best points. I'll look at a few of yours... How do you see it as discrete? All transactions are public and recorded in the blockchain. If it were why would most people care anyway? (They don't. Most people state they have nothing to hide.) If actual criminals making millions are getting tracked by the government I'm sure I am going to be tracked. Cash is still king when it comes to not being tracked and even laundering through gift cards or other digital items can obfuscate the trail more than BTC if people have something to hide. How many crypto pump and dumps (not all BTC) were exposed because people tracked the blockchain transactions? How is a Bitcoin diplomatic? Is there another word you mean to use? I'd guess you are suggesting it's free from government intervention. It's not that easily transferrable nor is that easy to spend in my experience. I can tap my credit card against something and pay meanwhile halfway through the checkout process BTC will tell me the price has changed and now I have to send more. In 2019 I bought my home with cash and left it invested for 2 months (owners wanted to stay until their kid graduated which I was happy to do for a discount lol) until the week before with no concerns of significant fluctuation. BTC fluctuates too much for that and thus I can only truly see it as a very long term investment. There's 5-10k fluctuations by the day this month. (I probably would've cashed it out to USD to be safe then missed the peak, oof.) The only payment method I like less than Btc is Zelle as there's no way to dispute. Credit cards and other payment/transfer methods often offer no fees or even give rewards. I have a few thousand in BTC and have had BTC for over a decade now, but I don't get why it's so hard for people to understand why it doesn't appeal to everyone. Gold never appealed to everyone nor did index funds. I have friends who have retired on their land speculations but they understand why I like simple index funds that are managed from me and don't get hit with yearly property taxes. Neither is the wrong choice, but they hold different appeals. I think investments are much like vehicles where people each have their own needs and what works for one might not work for another. (Sorry if this is a bit scattered/disorganized, my cats kept interrupting me.)

HelicopterOther8700

I think CRC has done amazing over the last few years, especially after all the sht they went through. I can’t say that about many exchanges. Their customer service would be my only negative but they listen to the community and have hired 20 more CS reps

Financial_Design_801

Saylor academy too https://learn.saylor.org/course/CS101

excelite_x

Have you asked the not to send you over to a representative? Usually you either have to type “representative” once or if the company has bad CS you have to ask multiple times… at some point the bots give up and connect you to a real person

C-Dull

I’m a CS degree holder who can’t find a career job, and also a guitarist, so it’s both 🤣

dragonheart000

Asked myself this question recently, ended up deciding to spend a majority of my BTC on CS2 skins. Got a Medusa and a dlore. Seems worth it

_TheWolfOfWalmart_

Now feeling really going about having converted my BOME into a Mustang GT/CS on Saturday morning. Gotta be careful with these memecoins. When you're screenshotting your portfolio, it's time to sell.

Creamysense

This token had no selling point from the get go.. VC scam coin. Not even gas token so 0 utility. 10% CS, No max supply.. this is as bad as it gets.

Iucr

I have $20k credit limit. $40k in staking and it’s far from all time highs. + a stable job. Almost 800 CS and zero debt. And other personal supports. I didn't see how $5-10,000 was worth ruining my banking reputation. Their overreaction ruined it.

towelheadass

Think about what you are saying. It makes no sense outside of you wanting LRC number to go up. Take CS GO skins or Diablo 2 items for example. Unless gaming companies take a Saylor-esque view of fiat is for poor people, its just another layer of separation for them to get paid. What do they need LRC for when the system they have works fine? Even integrating skins or items across games wouldn't require blockchain, they could probably do that too. How many games use Unreal engine? Not talking shit about you or LRC or anything, genuinely curious what people's thoughts are on this.

OpenRole

Because they don't teach monetary policy in CS classes

xenionx5

I already contacted the support. The CS asked me to report to the law enforcement and then he sent me a link with the incident details that the law enforcement can use. He said that the compliance team would work together with the law enforcement.

Pantzzzzless

I quit my warehouse job of 13 years back in 2021 to finish my CS learning. I told everyone that I had bought 30 BTC back when it was under $100, and that was the reason I was quitting. I only had ~0.7 BTC at the time lol. But it was fun seeing how everyone reacted when they thought I was loaded.

Simke11

Majority of new coins have low CS. Unlock schedules usually take years. You can look at unlock schedules on [cryptorank.io](https://cryptorank.io). MYRIA's unlock schedule goes all the way to 2027.

Advanced-Guard-4468

Yea, they could improve the CS. It's hit or miss with them. I had an issue. One CS didn't care. The next one said they would pass it up the chain the 3rd got everything taken care of. It was my issue to begin with. Everything recovered and is working fine now.

frumpydrangus

I had a Chinese roommate in college and all he did was play CS:GO while watching Harry Potter movies on his phone at the same time

beyondtherapy

Line of credit is the easiest one. Any bank will give you one, most people with a CS of 700+ would be pre approved for a certain amount. With that said, as long as you can reliably service the debt and it wont bankrupt you if it goes south, then debt is not inherently a bad thing. But still a very risky thing to do. 

Creme-Waste

The CEO addressed this on his Twitter. They are aware that the CS is lagging and trying to eliminate delays, but it takes time to scale (hiring new staff, etc). CDC is working/hopes to eliminate most of the delays by the end of March. The bull run came a bit early and did not surprise only us but also CEXes.

MaximumStudent1839

What, ETH can time travel? BTC existed before ETH. When BTC started scaling via L2s, ETH was still pursuing sharding. Your claim makes no sense. No chain can claim over data compression or ZK. Both CS ideas existed before BTC even came alive.

XL_Jockstrap

And also as long as they successfully compete against others for limited internship spots, land a prestigious internship and successfully compete against others in landing a scarce number of jobs with the useful degree. Engineering, CS, etc aren't guarantees of return on investment anymore. Nothing is, aside from some health fields, like nursing, PT, OT, etc. But most of those (except nursing), you have to leverage a useful/relevant degree + internships + good GPA + decent GRE + other extracurriculars to compete with others for a limited number of spots at whatever graduate program. The trades are where it's at now.

SlowMotionPanic

That's what happens when the market gets flooded in some career FOMO pushed heavily by influencers. CS and Tech are going to continue growing, at a slower pace, until eventually we return to it being mostly people *in it for the tech* (as the sub likes to say) because they love technology. Especially with all the fairy-tale-like stories about unicorn employers ending. ​ Look at the market for seniors and above. That's the real tech industry. Right now there is an on-ramp problem, like too many people trying to get on the highway at the same time. There is only a certain capacity to onboard new hires who generally are graduating *without knowing even the basics of coding* (in my experience). ​ Anyone reading this, about to graduate with a CS degree, and who wants to get themselves ahead of the line: don't be a troglodyte. Upskill your social skills. That will help immensely. Walk away from abusive prospective employers giving you huge projects and code olympics to complete. Your job will come from networking and random luck. ​ And upskill your code not by following tutorials, but by building small projects for yourself. Learn through mistakes. Try to understand things on a fundamental level so you can make educated guesses as to why things work the way they work, and how they would react if changes were forced into it. ​ ​ All this shit happening with CS new grads? It is going to happen in other fields as the trend moves on to the next big thing. A lot of people are being sold a lie about cyber security and pivoting to that. With no experience. Cyber, which is perhaps one of the most domain-dependent jobs people are eyeing right now. New grads don't typically go into cybersecurity right away; they transfer to it after gaining domain knowledge in "IT" for a while. But it is being peddled by the liars on social media all too willing to sell you their secrets to cracking the industry. ​ It is also going to happen with the trades, which are now starting to get pushed heavily. But can the entrenched wall of nepotism that keeps most people out end up protecting the wages there? Time will tell. There are a couple reasons people avoided the trades, and nepotism barriers are a huge part of it.

Iceshard

Tech and CS are experiencing what engineering graduates experienced in 07/08, demand will slowly come back

ptrnyc

Except there’s no real way to know what’s useful and what’s not. Tech and CS used to be safe, yet new graduates are now struggling to get hired.

BrickSufficient6938

Yes (To all 3 questions) JK. Cursing myself for being too CS to add more after 41k also sold some alt today just before it did another 5% Stop looking at charts, look in the fridge and the mirror. If you need it, take profit and don't look back next few months ig

YellowstoneJohn

This is the spot where I'm in the dark. Can you explain how you move it from your cold storage wallet, the fastest and least expensive way? Once I understand this better, I'll them move mine to CS. Does it matter if I put 10 BIT in CS all at once vs 1 BIT at a time? Meanie g are there additional costs later or any restrictions on how much I can/should take out?

StayReadyAllDay

So he did invent the internet then you little CS. He also is Satoshi.

ElToroMuyLoco

Lol I just laughed at you not having any reason for hating on CS. If i'm not a daytrader en plan to hold my shares for a couple of years, why not put them in my own name? What is so moronic about the idea of owning something yourself instead of letting someone else hold it for you?? You can try to keep discrediting DRS all you want but it just shows you clearly can't think for yourself or you're just willfully disingenuous.

DiversifyMN

You must have Stanford CS PhD

muncuss

But it did made me worry. Fortunately one of those case is cleared. I hope it just CS problem

regenobids

Not me, I went to their telegram for help. Got 8 scammers spamming me about that verification.... and actual CS pointed me back to their site. Beyond useless lol. The verification tool must've also been made to piss you off

BoRN_W1th_U

This will allow game items to become NFTs thus creating an accessible marketplace for gamers to trade buy and sell unique skins for their in game characters, imagine if a League of Legends player or CS:GO player or even an NBA2k or FIFA gamer being able to trade and sell each of their skins, characters, players on a decentralized market place after they're bored with it thus creating another ecosystem just like steam's cards. Basically, capitalism for gamers that don't make money streaming or making content but rather re-selling NFTs a click away while sitting at your desk and profiting from trading and potentially buying in game items with digital assets which you can then also use to stake with buy equiping that item on your game character and helps with generating tokens or coins for free which you usually would have to pay for without any other purpose... Imagine Overwatch 2's business model is based around buying a coin as per normal but instead, they fluctuate in price just like any other crypto assets while also releasing new skins, emotes, loot boxes, season passes etc which you can purchase with the coins you bought. and when that item you purchase is equipped to your any of the roster of heroes or villains you earn x amount of tokens either by the amount of kills, exp, wins/loss, and other aspects depending on the rarity of your character's skin or emotes and you can then use your earned token which is seperate from the coin to purchase other epic games video game in game items. Note that the coin you bought and token you earn can also be traded on an exchange or another daaps dexes or cex and if you get a 1/1 unique skin or legandary one, you can keep it or sell it in the market place to somebody else at either a profit or a loss. You can transfer those coins//tokens on an exchange or dex and sell them for usdt or eth or sol or whatever other assets,

Previous_Shock8870

??? I trade and cell CS skins, for rust skins, for dota skins, to buy games, which i can then trade to friends. My knife skins increased in value for ten years. And it works, its worked for 10 years without blockchain.

CryptoArb444

P2P seems to be suspended along with withdrawals but that could maybe be an option if they open it back up. Didn’t see converting as an option Seems at this point I need to hope they open withdrawals again in the next 7 days or see if CS will unlock the account again later to withdrawal. Hopefully people learn from my mistakes 🤦‍♂️

CloudyBabyy

Skins…..they hold value for some games like CS/Rust. Basically OPSkins but for more games.

sakatan

Oh yeah? "Hey Ubisoft: Please reference this CS2 skin in your next Assassins Creed game; I want to play as a GIGN operator while traipsing through the Renaissance. ...What do you mean your game engine is not compatible with another one and you can't be bothered to develop this compatibility because it would mean working together with a competitor and spending developer hours for no obvious financial gain?"

Positron49

It would work, but a few APIs and an L2 zkEVM can do it far cheaper. Remember that the asset can trade across all platforms. Your PC based asset can trade from the in game marketplace to the PlayStation out of game store directly. It can also trade from wallet profile to wallet profile while you and your buddy are sitting on the couch, and the studio always gets the royalty % off the price of the trade. The studio doesn’t need to build the exchange aspect, nor the security and team required to secure the assets. Additionally, and imo the big one, is that you won’t see studios shutting down 3P marketplaces. Those in some game environments provide the biggest liquidity boosts when they launch, but the studio doesn’t see the cut, so they sue and shut them down. CS:GO will actually WANT the players to go to their preferred marketplace, perhaps even player created, because they don’t need to care where the item trades.

Django_McFly

Explain? I get the idea that if the game shuts down then these assets are just relics but why does asset ownership mean nothing? I can give an example. CS:GO let you trade items on 3rd party sites. Then they changed their mind. If you actually owned your assets and they couldn't stop trades no matter what, what would it have mattered if game logic was on the blockchain or not?

Lazy-Entrepreneur-85

I am not a glutton for verbal punishment. As I look back, it really wasn’t his fault. It’s what he was trained to do by representing CS.

WhyYesIAmADog

CS2 skins have replaced the rubble. My only suggestion, not financial advice Good luck

ilovesaintpaul

Irony is CS now offers a BTC ETF. Wonder how red that guy's face is now.

btc21million

Mods should shut down this thread and/or delete it. This has nothing to do with bitcoin as it is only another currency amongst many others and only the means to gamble. OP claims - w/o any proof - losing his deposits and earnings and is bitching and whining about getting caught redhanded with a fake ID he submitted. It's a pathetic story about a gambling addict who tried to cheat and got (possibly) cheated. He presumably even uses another account to support his bs story and tries to stir shit about a topic nobody cares about or can help him with, resp. He's like CS Wright - a cheater and a liar and he's a criminal and that throws a bad light on all of us in this bitcoin community.

fllthdcrb

Hahahaha!! This is like C/C++ 101 stuff. It's missing the context and the rest of the declaration/definition, but there is already a lot we can know. If this is part of a variable declaration, `unsigned int` means it's an unsigned integer (must be 0 or positive) of default size; `const` means constant (should not be changed); `static` means either persistent across invocations of the function (if it's inside a function) or not exported as a symbol (if declared globally). If part of a function definition or prototype, it's declaring the return type to be the pretty much the above (except `static` applies to the function itself). I think there are more semantics about `const` in return types in C++, but this is plenty explanation already. Okay, so maybe a beginner CS student can't explain all that, but I imagine they should understand at least some of it by the end of their first C/C++ class. Meanwhile, the supposed writer of the code is stumped by this basic line of it.

saylevee

From my experience, my CS friends didn't have enough curiosity to grasp the intersectionality of the invention. Most of these friends continue to doubt Bitcoin's future.

No_Investigator3369

Do they just not want to read the white paper or is there something specific you think should be a lightbulb? Without a CS background, I am convinced by enough of the reading and research that I have done and can understand. But what specifically from a CS perspective do you get let down about with your peers?

Local_Raisin4586

Same here. Using CDC since a couple years now and never had any issue with CS

Creme-Waste

Their CS is lagging, and the CEO acknowledged this on Twitter and apologised. They are boosting the CS capacity bc the traffic and bull run just came earlier than expected. He estimates they should cut through the backlog by March. In my experience, I had mostly decent waiting times, but I heard it also depends on your card tier and net worth on the app. I would imagine the complexity of the issue also matters.

Creme-Waste

Well, for what it's worth, Kris posted that they are aware of the lag and are working to boost the CS capacity. The backlog should be eliminated by the end of March. He encouraged folks who need urgent solutions to their problem to just DM him, and he will escalate the issue. It works, tried it myself.

must_improve

Crypto Apes x CS Go skins incoming.

Tibo90

It was understandable why customer support was flawed, it is not something to be surprised of. They have almost 100 milion users... and during bear market it is normal to cut staff. Kris announced 2 days ago that they will bring the quality of the CS back till March, new systems and more staff to be hired which is promissing. I belive they will do better than most of the projects this bull market.

SonnyJackson27

Try to DM Kris on Twitter. Keep it short and respectful, don't rage, don't wall-text. They acknowledged the fact that their CS is not on par with previous levels and are aggressively trying to fix it.

Jjerot

If its tied to in-game usable items it's dead on release, no one likes pay to win. If you want NFT skins, just play Counterstrike. Theres zero advantage to putting it on the blockchain. Crossgame adoption is a pipedream and easily achievable without NFTs. You want to list items on a third party exchange? CS already has that. Meanwhile Valve has had play to earn cosmetics in its games for over a decade now. I pulled a hat in TF2 I flipped for ~$1300 and bought my friends games with it.  What does crypto add to any of that?

Forexisboring

I was trading ridiculous volume on CS:GO by 16, dragon lores for $2k was the bread & butter then. Now they’re $10,000 😵‍💫 all these years later. BTC was a phenomenal workaround currency

SirSkittles111

Yup, it applies to every single thing that has some form of CS, nobody wants to help you with your issue, so you have to find the person in there who will atleast do the bare minimum to get the ball rolling

SirSkittles111

I've seen CS say alot of various issues aren't fixable, unless you keep persisting to find the right person in CS who can actually help you. If you give up, then nothing more to it. That's just how CS works. There is still a very low chance they can be recovered, zero chance if you just give in.

test_tickles

Yea. But Windows.. There's Ubuntu and I like that. But freaking Adobe won't let CS run on Ubuntu...

Slipperfox

The amount of tea bags i saw in CS

Bendy_McBendyThumb

I left Coinbase for Kraken the second they gubbed my account for whatever reason. I literally couldn’t buy crypto using my bank card or even bank transfer, so I moved everything away from them. Their customer service was absolutely dreadful too - Kraken’s CS is a breath of fresh air.

LakeResponsible6924

i mean not a lot, im a CS student whos into the idea of privacy and anonymity, as of now i just explore random weird websites and learn stuff about online security

Creme-Waste

I have the best experience with their card, exchange and defi wallet. The app is much better than it used to be IMO, but I use it mainly to contact CS, which is the area I would like them to improve. If they really want to service more than 250m customers (2-3x) at the height of the upcoming bull run, they gotta investing in recruiting more CS staff.

Creme-Waste

I have had mixed experiences with their CS. For simple inquiries, they have been quite helpful (resolved within 2-3h), but anything more complex takes time for them. On the other hand, have you recently been on the CB sub? It's also quite saturated with complaints. IMO, these are the birth pains of being in crypto. But criticism is the only way we push these platforms to improve.

Creme-Waste

If you look at the 12m spot trading graph on CDC, the volume dipped considerably in mid-23, so I anticipate that any substantial increase in rewards will take time to catch up. Expect some lag/delay. Otherwise, we can expect similar rewards other exchanges offer like Kraken or Coinbase: decreased fees, rebates, improved service (hopefully CS), and staking. However, CDC already has one of the lowest exchange fees in the industry. Considerably lower than both Kraken and Coinbase mentioned above. This has also been confirmed by Investopedia, for example, which has done a comprehensive overview of all exchanges and scored CDC the second highest, awarding it 4.7 stars. [https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-com-review-5209370](https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-com-review-5209370) CDC was only beaten by Coinbase with 4.8 stars, but in a direct comparison, Investopedia found CDC to be the "clear winner, with lower fees and an extensive array of earning opportunities." https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-com-vs-coinbase-5188428

oMadRyan

The ideal crypto game needs to have crypto not play a role in the actual gameplay. If you are able to buy things that help you win, the game will either be too easy (resources too abundant) or too pricey (can't compete unless you spend thousands). Gamers hate pay to win games, I'd stay in real life if I wanted to lose to the son of an oil tycoon. CS:GO weapon skins would have been a perfect thing to turn into a NFT, if crypto were relevant 12 years ago.

Crully

People will pay for anything, whether it's FIFA players, CS knives, or MMO gold. Whether it's OK for people to turn this into a business is entirely dependent on your point of view. Is it OK to buy in game gold in WoW? Plenty of people think it's perfectly fine, Blizzard says no, and gives you a slap on the wrist, and then implement their own mechanic for you to pay for gold with real world money... I don't see it as a problem, if the game is good and enough people play it, then it will have a healthy secondary market. You can grind for that COD rifle, or buy it off someone that already did but doesn't want to use it, so who cares? At least when you're done you can sell off the shit you no longer want and maybe use that to get a head start in something else.

Nullist09

Except, there is no CS support bro and you forgot to post your affiliate link. lol

Crypto-Hero

Nonsense, I just bought on Gemini Active Trader on desktop. Lowest spread & fee ever. Then withdrew it to my cold storage. No issue! I like Gemini for the fact that once you successfully setup to wire money from your bank to Gemini & verified, you can transfer USD > Gemini & have it available immediately for buy, before the money from your bank settle in Gemini. 0 issue whatsoever. I buy in chunk between $1k-$10k. Your situation may be the outlier & I believe their CS support will get you out of the hole.

dooski3

I think they should have to just like us "little guys". This OTC BS is 100% market manipulation imo. 7B is almost 1% of the entire friggin supply. That's basically Saylor's stack in one day. Coinbase doesn't care about the little guy at all. They haven't let me add any funds to my little ass account for over 3 weeks now with no end in sight, and their CS is horrible. I was literally forced to go to another exchange and they could care less.

Reach_Beyond

It’s as bad as politicians seeing the vote of the people then doing the opposite, looking at you Ohio. The literally said nah the people don’t know what they were voting for I think they want this instead. Vanguard cannot play king, screw them and move to Fidelity or CS.

Eric0329

Ahh i see. Yes it makes sense if it was a few years ago cuz there was more demand. Idk when u graduated post-secondary but everyone and their moms are doing CS now hoping they can make 300k😂😂🤪.

Just1_More

I'm considering taking the course CS120: Bitcoin for Developers at the Saylor Academy. I'm curious if anyone can recommend a course that might be a prerequisite before I dive in. My programming skills are very amateur.

froz3nt

Thats a good feature. Reminds me of CS:GO skins. Only difference is that you actually own NFTs. So if Gods Unchained decided to ban your accountfor whatever reason. You would still be able to sell all of your skins because you truly own them in your wallet.

_Piratical_

This sounds just like what happened to me with EToro. I had made deposits to their system using two different accounts with two different banks and when I decided that I wanted to withdraw funds they just straight wouldn’t let me. They wouldn’t allow withdrawal apparently due to not having the funds go back to the account that funded the buys, since there were two possibilities and they either didn’t have proper record keeping or whatever. EToro at the time also didn’t allow crypto withdrawals of the currency I had invested in (Cardano). So after several months I resorted to angerly trashing them in literally every international forum I could find online until finally I got the attention of some middle level manager. They fixed the issue in less than an hour and sent me my money to get me to stop trashing them everywhere. I think some of this is laziness on the part of the CS team at the exchanges but there’s also some seemingly nefarious shit that seems to be a need to keep your money until you damage their reputation badly enough that it may cost them more to keep than it’s worth in new clients. Joke was on them. In the months I had to wait to get my funds, the price of the crypto I was selling shot up and I ended up selling it for far more than they would have paid out if they had done the exchange when I sent it in the first place. Eventually I got it sorted, but only after flaming them on every corner of every forum on the internet that was even remotely related to EToro. I hate businesses that do that with the burning passion of a thousand suns and I would implore you to burn these fuckers down on every review site you can find. I mean it sounds like you have a very legitimate complaint and it’s not like I haven’t seen shit like this personally. Just copy the post above and go from site to site telling everyone to stay away from them at all costs and why specifically they suck and how hard and how they will take your money and just lie about what you need to do to get it back and you’ll probably find someone in management pretty fast on the right forum that will help. Good luck. I’m sorry you have to go through this.

hi_top_please

So.. buying a skin for CS:GO2.. would retain its value.. even if Valve decides to shut down the game? If I buy a license to game on a blockchain.. I can still download it even if the servers are down? Reality is unfortunate. No sane company would ever implement anything like that. I have literally have had games on Steam for 15 years; why do you think regular consumers give a flying fuck about non-fungible ownership?

masixx

I doubt there were only a dozen. The cryptography and peer to peer tech Bitcoin uses was pretty much available knowledge to anyone interested (check literature and publishing dates if you don't believe me. I was myself working on a p2p app back then). Hash trees have been common knowledge for anyone doing CS even back 20 years ago. The invention was putting that all together into a usable product and having the - as you said - 'ideological disposition' to do it as an open source project without any direct personal benefit. You got to be weirdo for that for sure. But if you think NSA was keeping a list of all weirdos back then I disagree. Also keep in mind that Satoshi was fully aware of him being of interest some time in the future. He did all he could to keep a low profile.

ResponsibleTooth8291

>To generate the seed from the mnemonic phrase, you decode the mnemonic phrase into binary (using UTF-8) and basically hash it 2048 times. this doesn't seem like something a human could do very easily. However, making a direct conversion from decimal to binary from the *correct* decimal number that corresponds to the mnemonic is something a human could do pretty readily. I guess ultimately the checksum is still required though and maybe that does need a computer to do that? Sorry, for the silly questions - i'm not a CS person and this is a pretty deep rabbit hole it seems.

JamesBondMI6007

No they didn’t, but many banks do run those OS’s on closed intranet environments where they have total control over what can be done with them. That’s very different than utilizing a public blockchain, and why many banks are opting to use closed private blockchain solutions over open public ones. They also largely build and deploy their own custom applications and software. When they do deploy things like MS Office, again it’s heavily customized, locked down, and monitored by the banks OpsSpec/CS teams. They will almost always use private closed blockchain solutions over public ones.

Regular_Chapter_788

>That CS is not to be counted on Naughty

MagicianNatural5202

I asked Santa for 45k btc for Christmas. That CS is not to be counted on