TIL!

Whoah ... people still use Reddit ?

Haha, great find!!

I somehow assumed he bailed himself out and was fighting this from the outside.

Regardless of the harm he caused Bitcoin, I truly wish him freedom, and will sign the petition as I know Roger would do that for any one of us if we were the ones targeted to this degree.

My car, built in the past 5 years, can't figure out that I forgot to turn off the headlights So if I do that, I might return to a car that has a dead battery.

But this ancient tech device knew how to avoid a sudden permanent and frozen death and then phoned home with what little juice it had available yet? Amazing!

The way the UX has three buttons (back, home, recent apps) on my android pisses me off when it is hidden, default. Tactile controls are never hidden, so I'ld prefer those navigation buttons to be physical.

At the same time, had to change the time on the lcd display on my car -- was hoping we were done with this twice-a-year change for daylight savings, but not yet. Anyway, it took under 20 seconds thanks to good design, with clear labels. I can't tell how many years prior I'ld have to try to remember ... is it that I press the Volume UP and the Tune dial at the same time to get the clock to change? Or was it both the Seek next and Seek previous buttons? Crap like that because there isn't the room to justify dedicated tactile buttons for the clock.

Leased a vehicle twice in my life, ... both ended badly.

The first vehicle because of the mileage overage. When i got the lease I was driving way under the 12,000 miles / year allocated mileage. But in the last year of the lease I had a long commute and went way over. Cash-flow wise, it was a better option to accrue the per-mile overage expense, versus getting a second car for commuting, especially because I didn't have to pay for excess miles until the lease ended (i.e., a deferrable expense). It still stung though.

The second vehicle was where I got rear-ended, and for the repair I had to first drive a good distance to bring it to their estimator, and then for the repairs I had to drive a distance to bit it to a shop that was approved. It was just under two months between the accident date and when I finally had my (repaired) leased vehicle back --though I knew that them getting the parts would take a while, especially since they had ordered them just before the Christmas holidays.

Body language / non-verbal communications 💯

"In one instance" for $230M

and then

"[...] with conspiracy to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency from a victim in Washington, D.C."

That doesn't read "victims".

Is the one instance the only instance?

If so, then unlikely they rented the houses, procured the vehicles, etc, within the 30 days since. Or they have the interns and/or AI writing the Press Releases.

Lots of larger exchanges have their own "OTC Desks" now, ... but for only $10K or $20K buys, you don't want to (and wouldn't want to, ... or likely be able to even) use an OTC Desk.

Added to the list:

/me reserves a spot on an upcoming StarShip to Mars

RoboSats has a Swap page (i.e., buy on-chain BTC and pay via LN, or sell on-chain BTC and receive via LN): https://dex.robosats.com/offers/ <-- Then press the "Show Lightning Swaps" button

Other P2P exchanges have swaps as well (e.g., HodlHodl): https://cointastical.github.io/P2P-Trading-Exchanges/

Or additional methods here: https://cointastical.github.io/KYC-Free-Instant-Exchanges

Behind Nigeria’s Arrest of Binance Employee, Claims of a Bribe Request https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/technology/binance-nigeria-tigran-gambaryan.html [Archive] <-- No paywall

The motivation and guidance I needed today.

During recent shopping which included Dollar Tree and Walgreens I got jalapeños, berry jam, cashews, and a handful of other items in which I later noticed they were imported, from India. I don't think I've ever noticed packaged foodstuffs coming from India before -- at least not a variety of items like this.

Another shitty web application server deployment.

So, 22 looks to be the limit.

Weren't these things initially expected to only launch about 10 times before being retired?

Bank transactions are private?

It was too early.

The size of the bitcoin "community" was a miniscule fraction of it today, which itself is a miniscule fraction of the broader Q&A/Link sharing social media landscape (from which Reddit, Stack Overflow, etc. are frequented by).

Also, early bitcoiners were not fond of dropping 0.01 BTC (~$0.01) just to reply to a post, for example.

The two founders, an ideas guy and a dev, kind of clashed if I remember correctly. If I remember correctly the dev was open to shitcoinery. And then the dev had a number of issues with his personal life. Witcoin stagnated and before completely wilting away, was hacked, and shuttered.

In other words, Witcoin did not have a K00b -- not even close.