CS

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.

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.