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I received a phonecall from somebody claiming to be apart of Coinbase. Jokes on him, I don't have an account. I tried to call back and it was a Google VOIP number.
Fuck this guy. Mr. Vonage? Mr. VOIP so he can be trusted and all the bullshit everyone spewed back then. Luckily I pulled all my coins off their platform as they were up to some shady shit during Xmas season some time before they rugged everyone. Anyone remember his shitty ass webcasts? Horrible production screamed scam
In some cases you might be using crypto and not even know it atm. Kinda like how you might of heard/know of TCP/IP is "internet" stuff. Most people dont understand how it works at a Protocol level. Stuff like VOIP,FTP,SMTP,HTTP etc etc etc. These are all "protocols" where the user experience is "I press send and it magically works" there are some cryptos in some situations atm that are the underlying guts / protocol to how things work and users are completely unaware they are even using it.
When I first heard about Bitcoin, my business partner told me about it in 2010. He prefaced his explanation with "I probably should not be telling you about this technology because you will quit and go off and start working on this stuff." He was right, once he told me about it I started learning everything I could about it. I read almost every post on Bitcointalk. I jumped on IRC and started chatting with everybody and felt like a revolution had just started. I met with my two business partners and said "Im out, you can have my shares in the company as long as you sign this affidavit that I am not on the hook for any unpaid taxes". I then went to my wife and said, we need to go all in on this. I maxed all of my credit cards out ($7k) and bought a bunch of GPU's and computers and started mining in my parents basement. The house was running 80 degrees in the winter and we had all the windows open. $900 a month power bill. I then went to a friend running a data center an pitched them about mining bitcoin. I explained how for $100K we could launch a 51% attack on the network and make alot of money hording transaction fee's. They wanted me to work at their data center to help with their VOIP product line and help with their edge and core routers (MLXE's). They were only willing to put in $10K and gave me all the free power I wanted and could use as long as I worked as an employee for them. I was only able to corner 30% of all the hash rate with $17K worth of GPU's and the hash rate exponentially got harder every day until I was having to mine on a pool. I was the first large scale Bitcoin miner using GPU's, but within months everybody was mining with GPU's and the 51% attack was nearly impossible to pull off. Lost all the bitcoin to Butterfly labs, hacked on mtgox, and liberty reserve stole a bunch of cashed out money from me. And lost some in a boating accident. Gave a few hundred to Jeff Garzik who's pooled mining thing didnt really work out. Long story short, don't mine bitcoin just buy them and never sell them until you really need them.
If they want to control something they should start cracking down on American VOIP phone numbers being used outside of the United States. Most people overseas with an American phone number are probably trying to spam call Americans. If they’re trying to check up on family, they would probably do it over Facebook messenger instead of a regular phone call.
parents would cry "electricity costs!" just by seeing the LEDs on the PC shining, even after you turnt of the monitor. My mom is in her 80ies and to this day feels uncomfortable having the internet router running at night. Simply, because before VOIP, her telephone didn't need lights.
People still answer numbers they don't recognize? If an unknown person calls me and doesn't leave a voicemail then it wasn't important. 100% effective rate against scammers since VOIP was introduced in '95.