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generateduser29128

CS students who thought it'd be fun to mine magic internet money on their gaming rig.

shico12

CS:GO skins sell regularly for 5 figures up. So YOUUU don't want to pay for content that isn't included in the game, which is fine. Let other people spend their money how they want to.

reticulatedjig

It's a solution for a non existent problem. People buy and trade and sell CS skins right now, without valve built in NFTs.

HSuke

ZKPs are special, but they're not crypto-specific. They've existed for a long time. zk-Snarks are crypto-specific and very useful for compressing proofs. You can use them for L2 rollups and self-rollups that can be used for L1 compression. Ethereum is using it to develop thin clients, and other blockchains like Algorand are using for their light clients/State proofs to further compress L1. I would consider zk-Snarks to be the most important recent innovation of crypto besides the invention of CS and CP Automated Money Makers.

Somebody__Online

Applies to my house too, is that a security? How about my retro air Jorden’s? Ok let’s keep it digital, is my CS2 AK47 skin a security? It’s worth way more than I payed for it years ago and I can sell it

Dadsaster

Saylor Academy has CS120 Bitcoin for Developers and PRDV151 Bitcoin for Everybody

LemonsDew

I think it more as a barter, I have electric coins, you have paper. Doesn’t help if you need to make major purchases due to unavailability to prove income. If you are trying to put the money in your bank account I would say that would be fraud. This is more evasion. But still illegal I suppose. Can’t be deposited but just to pay for groceries etc. you could theoretically transfer you bitcoin from a ledger to a gaming site for example buying CS:GO gun skins on a p2p marketplace. Straight Bitcoin. This doesn’t involve tax. Then sell them for USD but not sure where this lines up with tax or profits as this would be the same as selling something on FB marketplace. But through all the headache it’s worth just doing a 1099k declare your profits and pay capital gains allowing you to sleep better at night.

RBTropical

The mailer is legit. It’s promotional material. The Coinbase CS is wrong - and notoriously useless.

Clearly_Ryan

Hey, quant investor here. Retired at the age of 27 with dual degrees in CS and economics. Don't do what I did and tell people about Bitcoin. Seriously. That's all people ever know me by. I've basically turned every family and friend I know into seeing me as "that weird Bitcoin guy who got lucky." Every single person is waiting for me to lose it all, waiting for Bitcoin to fail, waiting for governments to ban it to say haha they were right. I'm a multimillionaire traveling the world, and they still ask me when I'm going to get a job because one day Bitcoin won't work. Just keep quiet and stack your coins - everyone is eyeballing my stash because I didn't keep my big mouth shut 4 years ago. 

viewmodeonly

Selling my CS skins for some extra sats.

Diligent_Property_39

Calm down boys the story is fake. Was just some nerds playing CS over Lan 3 weeks long.

bigbadhonda

>a mathematics and engineering problem that humans have toiled over for millennia (the Byzantine Generals Problem). >>It's not really either one of those. Listen to this poster. The Byzantine General's problem is a CS thought experiment from the 1980s!

jnellie100

It appears you have given this a lot of thought and are quite knowledgeable about Bitcoin. I have a few questions if you wouldn’t mind taking the time to share your opinion? 1) approximate cost to set up a cold storage wallet? 2) Cold versus warm? 3) a reputable cold storage source? 4) what is a hardware device? 5) why don’t I need to worry about the CS provider scam or bankruptcy? 6) is a transfer from Robinhood to CS a taxable event? Maybe easier for you is 7) can you recommend a trustworthy source of information to do my own Due?

cH3x

People absolutely love spending time in such virtual worlds as Roblox, EVE Online, CS:GO, Fortnite, Call of Duty, etc. While they all have mechanisms for spending real-life money for in-game assets, only a few allow one to sell in-game assets for real-life money (and some don't even allow one to sell in-game assets for in-game money). Crypto-enabling those games would mean the ability to profit from the time one spends to e.g. earn, loot, or craft a legendary item by trading it to someone else in exchange for crypto. Players already do this sometimes even when it violates their EULA via shady websites, but typically the sites are game-specific. Some sites allow players to buy and sell assets from different platforms. Game designers might prefer some measure of in-game economic control by creating cryptocurrencies for use both in and out of the game, allowing them to track transactions.

Njaa

> God people are stupid. You're not the only person in the world with a CS degree, but thanks for letting me know your opinion is worthless.

Clearly_Ryan

Miners don't decide what Bitcoin is, the free market does. BCash is an example of miners and market participants in an alternative system being punished, heavily, for dissenting. The upkeep cost of Bitcoin is again what the free market decides. It has that cost because the market is willing to tolerate. Bitcoin ran on a single computer for months without issue, the cost is adjustable and always finds equilibrium.  Energy cost to mine Bitcoin at scale goes to zero in the long term. Stranded energy that has zero worth on the market keeps the hashing going. And anyone that wants to compete with 100% of the world's stranded energy being used to mine Bitcoin can go ahead and do that. Propaganda? It is literally baked in code lol. I have a CS degree and read the whole thing myself, please go to a library and study what you're preaching first. Flaws... then go ahead and ignore it. Nobody forces you to buy Bitcoin, nobody forces the miners to mine Bitcoin, and nobody forces 1.3 trillion in market capitalization power to be stored in Bitcoin. Ignore it and find something else to store your wealth in.

getzumm

Live chat doesn't work as they just refer me to the email chain and say I already have a ticket open. Problem is the CS behind the email has no intent on helping or listening. Eventually they just set an automated spam response. Scammy af. I strongly advise you do not interact with the Bitrue exchange.

Any_Brother2570

Also Im on hold as well with Bitcoin CS. I suspect until I die...hopefully they just keep working on increasing the price!!!

Ok_Way_8692

Your forgot the worse of the worse Karmala Harris the CS queen of the democrat party.

flog_fr

I work in CS. We have seen much larger fiasco, and none of them moved toward more decentralization. I'm just happy to see that the Bitcoin protocol is reliable.

thomas_grimjaw

It's a failure and always will be. Games thrive when their gameplay is strong. Blockchain doesn't add to that or sometimes even hinders it. Economic incentives in games are pointless without appealing gameplay, and even then mostly unnecessary. People don't play CS GO for skins, they play it for the game, everything else is just a bonus.

ChonsonPapa

I really appreciate your input on this so thank you! If you want my opinion on CrowdStrike, it was done purposefully for reasons most would call me crazy for so I wont divulge too much. But there were $2.7 trillion dollars worth of options expiring that day (most in history) and $555 Billion of it was specifically in GameStop stock. Call me tin foily but this CS “accident” bought Wall Scum more time before inevitable market implosion thanks to no regulation by SEC and insane greed/bad bets.

Clearly_Ryan

Read two dozen books bought on Amazon about Bitcoin and modern currencies with a dual degree in CS and economics. 3.7 GPA top 30 US university with 2 financial analyst internships (energy options trading and supply chain auditing) and a financial consultant career out of college. I live and breathe my work so deeply I worked myself out of it, thanks. 

throwaway50cent_

I sold over $100 worth of CS:GO skins via bitcoin I accept/use BTC as a payment option for digital products and services I sell, as well as for such that I buy

Active_Estimate_2598

Where did you go to school? Was it a top 5 CS program? If not, fuck off

frenchmisery

Crypto gaming needs a classic game where you don't need tokens, but in-game items that become NFTs. Crypto gaming will only be successful if the mindset shifts from earning money to enjoying the game while earning from drops. For example, in CS2, people have fun while also getting cases. The major problem with crypto gaming has always been the focus on earning money, regardless of whether players enjoy the game.

ThoughtsObligations

CS skins, TF2 hats, all of these prove at least the tangibility of the concept. The biggest issue is universality. Is there a huge point of putting them on the block chain if enough games don't play along?

StevenSeagal12345

Look at CS:GO and Steam market. Basically NFT's in a nutshell but on Valve's server.

beyondtherapy

Thats been my experience with them as well. I had 6 miners with them too for also about the same time frame as you. It took them about 7 months to even get online from date of purchase, but granted it was tail end of last bull run and availability was low and demand sky high. Since then there have been less than consistent uptime, and encountered many issues you described. I also had a miner "break" and they suggested either shipping it to Bitmain for repair which they estimated would take 6 months, or pay them $500 to repair the unit in 2 weeks. Customer service is non-existent. When I originally bought the units, everyone had a customer rep assigned to them, however the company grew way too fast without proper infrastructure and now their CS takes weeks or months to get back to you. My contracts with them renew in May, they chose not to renew 2 of my units with no reason given. The other four, despite being exact same units, got renewed no problem. For non-renewed, they gave options of shipping the miners to me at a cost of approx $600/miner or retiring them. They did offer $1000 credit towards a purchase of a new S21 for each miner I chose to retire. Overall, when the service works, its great. Very hands off and set it and forget it type. But problem is company sucks and grew way too fast for their own good without ability to maintain...well anything really. Its been a fun experiment, but I certainly wont be renewing anymore contracts with them once the current ones expire, by that point the machines will be a write off anyway.

AgeSad

Indie games don't use crypto at all... nft are just gritting and nothing else, it's pure garbage and is totaly unless. CS go has a store and don't need this shit. There isn't a single good game or even played game that use NFT. They try to add crypto in eve online, and guess what ? The whole community rejected it so hard the canceled the whole thing. Rral player don't want it and see no advantage in it.

WeIsStonedImmaculate

This doesn’t sound good for people with a CoinStats wallet. From this it seems “connected” wallets were not affected but CS wallets have been. The attack has been mitigated, and we have temporarily shut down the application to isolate the security incident. 1. None of the connected wallets and CEXes were impacted. 2. Thanks to the immediate incident reponse from the CoinStats team, only 1.3% of all CoinStats Wallets were affected, totaling 1,590 wallets. The list might change as the investigation is ongoing but we don’t expect significant changes. 3. If your wallet address is in this affected list, please move your funds immediately using your exported private key (if you have exported previously): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lwxpy2T6W7aptjBJUio0Z01zihsqknXn6KPhzawQLVI/ 4. We are actively investigating the extent of funds moved and will provide updates as soon as they become available.

Backrus

Kraken EU has been my preferred off-ramp for over 4 years (money via SEPA is in my bank the same day). My US company also uses Kraken as on- / off-ramp. I used Coinbase before but stopped after they stopped feeless trading on Coinbase Pro about 5-6 years ago. I have Binance (international), Coinbase and Kraken (and also Bybit, Woo, Mexc, etc for shitcoin gambling), every one since its inception. You can't beat Binance when it comes to trading with real size (coz fees and discounts) but for fiat-related stuff when you often need to talk with a real person from CS, Kraken is goated - doesn't matter if you're VIP with size (US experience) or just a regular folk (private EU account) - never had a problem with 6-digit deposits/withdrawals.

Simke11

Anyone looking at IO? Looks like Render competitor, but low CS of only 11% is off putting. There will be monthly unlocks until 2028.

C-Class_hero_Satoru

Don't be naive, neither bitcoin nor alts are not going to replace Fiat, banks would never let that to happen. Etfs are approved because banks want to get more control via btc and alts. Now it's just another asset class. Also Bitcoin is good store of value, but not good for everyday transactions, because fees are high and speed is slow. For example in European Union we have instant SEPA transactions - I can send my money to my friend in 10 seconds and for free. Talking about alts, they missed the most important nyche - they had opportunity to replace in-game transactions. For example skins in Fortnite, Dota, CS could be sold for community token, but big game developers prefer real cash monetisation, so what are we talking about? Even reddit doesn't want to have community token. If community token is rejected everywhere, how can it replace Fiat? We should start from something simple, like meal vouchers at your employer

puddingboofer

What's CS?

CoffeeAlternative647

Coinbase have 100% the best interface, but worst CS. They may be the most crypto aligned but are for sure the worst trader aligned cex.

---CS---

You sly sob, I see what you did here. Gj man. I'm long since the macro bottom and I'm kinda lax with the sentiment read lately but I get you https://twitter.com/Trader__CS/status/1753119282152796361/photo/1

achow101

No, that is not secure. You don't have enough entropy, and none of your randomness sources are CS(P)RNGs. Although `std::random_device` specifies that it is non-deterministic, this is not guaranteed as it can fall back to a deterministic algorithm. That might be ok if it is a CSPRNG, but it's completely implementation dependent and so different stdlib implementations may do wildly different things. Even so, the use of `std::mt19937` breaks any security you might get from `std::random_device`. Besides the fact that it is not a CSPRNG, the seed size is only 32 bits, so at best you are getting 32 bits of entropy. It's fairly trivial to iterate the 32 bit search space and generate all possible seeds, and therefore the output necessary to produce your private key. Wallets that have used mt19937 have had any and all coins stolen from them because of this. The [MilkSad](https://milksad.info/) vulnerability in libbitcoin is a recent example of this. Basically what you're relying on is security through obscurity. That's not something you should rely on, and of course you've just posted your method to reddit anyways, so that doesn't work. When implementing any security system, you should assume [Kerckhoff's principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle).

the_lone_unlearned

Well he will also have like 8 years of presumably making good money after graduating college with a CS degree, plus whatever bitcoin he has already accumulated (though presumably that isn't much). By ten years from now he's gonna have a good bit more than 1.5 btc to retire on, including probably investments other than bitcoin too. But of course it all depends on his finances and life plans (is he frugal or a spender? how much student loans will he have when graduating? I'd by 30 if he's been working good paying software jobs and isn't a big spender and is loading up on bitcoin and stocks for 8 years in addition to 1.5 btc plus whatever little bit of btc he already has, he could at very least be sitting real pretty at 30 and have the option to retire within a few years or work less from then on. Again depending on spending habits, where he wants to buy a house, possible kids, etc.

WeakLab4828

I assume CS is computer science. You can DCA whatever amount you are comfortable with. Since you will eventually learn CS, you can learn distributed system(part of CS) now, so you will fully understand Bitcoin network. Fully understanding Bitcoin helps you remove emotions; you won’t panic sell or panic buy.

brianobush

It depends on where you go and what you major in. My point is that you can't get the rigor of a mathematics or physical sciences major, nor the path to a graduate program in said major. If you want to write web apps, then sure, use ChatGPT. However, there are many degrees that are worth it. Bias: I majored in math, CS, and finally, a PhD in CS.

Training-Ad7524

Not true. The whole concept of DeFi is based on a blockchain. Blockchain has many other use cases apart from finance. I am particularly interested in the blockchain use case where we use it to tokenize data. Healthcare data, real estate data. This way we can be 100% sure that that data is secure and really true. I have a BS in CS but I’m really interested in data analytics and thought blockchains could be very useful for it. Maybe this is the wrong sub for it but I was just wondering where to start if you want to be a blockchain dev.

deathbot-

Do you think that the average person gets how WiFi networking works?! Not even all people on CS get it! Yet it has takeover all of our everyday lifes!

Background-Paper-686

Sad asf but harsh reality is 99% of the time u can only be friends with ppl of ur own class. And if u don't accept this to be reality, when u meet enough people life is going to show u this is true. Reason being is u may not do it but other ppl DEFINITELY judge u. I was actually really oblivious to this... lmao... I'll give a few examples. *I used to wear glasses and my glasses broke or whatever or it was time to get new glasses just because... idk... something anyways, my dad bought me name brand glasses and i was like ok? they're just glasses. it wasn't even something that i thought about because at this stage of life i didn't feel the need to flex on people. like i had a girlfriend i think already and like friends and like whatever. anyways to make a long story short, FIRST thing some idiot in school said was something to the extent of 'U tryna flex!???!?!?' but in like words ppl would use back in like 2009. *the same thing started happening when i got a little bit into sneakers lmao... people would try to do legit checks lmaoooooo. Idk man i was still kinda oblivious to it. I didn't understand how someone could hate so much. *when i went to college i went to a really good school at first so i didn't experience this at all (now ur starting to see why i was kinda oblivious to it) but then i transferred to a school back close to home for a bunch of reasons and this school was like hs pt 2 except its worst because it's like with the kids u see like on tiktok nowadays. completely insufferable... huge ego but absolutely clueless... etc.. i don't remember clear examples but this time i definitely saw signs of hating. *finally i graduated and i move into this spot and im like okay this dude went to a good university kindaaa similar to the one i originally went to. ok and i already graduated. he already knows i can make bank whenever i want to, so hopefully there's no hating like that's the new FLOOR... Lol i was wrong cuz as soon as i got a job and it wasn't even really that good of a job, actually pretty bad considering my skills but i just bro like i was tired of CS at that point.. IMMEDIATE hating. Life isn't a competition. But other people will make it a competition because they haven't fought their internal demons yet. dude this dude literally told me to get a job for 30k knowing what i majored in lmao. i still don't know if this dude was just stupid or mega hating. My advice. Stay away from 99% of people that aren't in ur tax bracket if u want to avoid this. This is everywhere. this is a battle that has existed long before u were born and u cant fight it.

mickalawl

Why on earth would someone think that running an AI training model on something as inherently inefficient as a blockchain would be cheaper? Dedicated machines vs a distributed low bandwidth consensus driven non revwrsavle worse data structure ever? You realise that will just be another scam that wanted AI to be associated with their blockchain, right? Ai needs enormous compute and data storage. 1st year CS know that isn't improved by blockchain.

Dark_Raiden_

Is the inflation primarily the locked supply being released into circulation, or new coins being minted and adding not only to the CS but to the total supply?

RedBassBlueBass

Do you think python development on Algorand is gonna go anywhere or is it too high level? I'm a first semester CS major and I only know Java so I'm just trying to learn as much as I can

Creme-Waste

Well, their CS has been backlogged, and they acknowledged as much. They keep working on cutting the lag, but it takes time. Recently CDC hired almost 500 new CS reps, and is looking to hire more to alleviate the issue.

Thick_Offer_7562

Omg I forgot to add, I do code on my freetime lmao. Haven't done any OSS work yet but I encountered a project from one of the Youtubers I follow I'd love to help on for the sake of it. The start your own llc and hire yourself method got patched sadly :( . Regarding video games, I took a course in my undergrad, and I did not enjoy it at all at that time. (I was way more of an unseasoned dev than I am now though) How is a 9-5 in CS-related/dev like? I suppose it's not working 8 straight hours (specially going off those tiktok day in the life of a SWE lmfaooooo)

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.