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Re: PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub

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Post by Crinus »

mtrovo wrote: post #579
jotm wrote: post #569

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So that couldn't have been the reason for account closure, I meant :)

Don’t know if it’s only in Germany but banks here don’t need to give you any reason to close your account. There are some stories of how every time they tweak N26 Risk ML there’s a wave of termination letters to customers that didn’t do anything wrong. A bunch of friends got affected by this a while a go, they didn’t do anything wrong and the bank refused to give any reason at all for the termination.

Does closing your account also mean you lose your money or they give it to you somehow?

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Post by maxwell »

MisterTea wrote: post #638
alias_neo wrote: post #541

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been with my bank for 15+ years. One time I sent a payment of several hundred £s to a friend who's paid my share of a holiday when booking. In the description I put "fun times". I had a call from my bank asking me to explain the payment the next day. I've never been called before nor since that. It certainly feels like they're a bit touchy about certain references.

> In the description I put "fun times". I recently started using Venmo to pay a few people and the things I have wrote are awful. Recent examples include: "Human organ trafficking" "Lunch and murder for hire", "sack of shrunken heads" and so on. Let them call me.

Get ready for your account to be closed suddenly without warning over the next few years.

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

Geee wrote: post #540
dorgo wrote: post #514

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How does a 0-conf transaction work? I mean, without confirmations the transaction is not on the blockchain. It basically doesn't exist. Is it just a promise that I will pay a bitcoin in the future?

It means that it has been sent to the Bitcoin network to be mined in the next block.

Could the sender simply cancel it?

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Post by DennisP »

codexon wrote: post #482
fastball wrote: post #474

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What's your point, exactly? My initial comment was that ETH is faster (15tx/s vs 3-5tx/s) than BTC and that layer1 scaling solutions for ETH are probably coming soon. Everyone that has replied to you is just providing more info than I did. And your response is "ethereum's transactions per second are comically low right now"?

What is my point exactly? I feel like this should be obvious to anyone that doesn't have a bias towards crypto because they are gambling a lot of money on it. Making confirmations faster usually just tends to make them weaker. The security of each confirmation is based on the work down (or cpu hours). By making confirmations take half the amount of time, this only makes confirmations half as secure, because the amoun…

Here's why GHOST supports shorter block times for the same security.

In Bitcoin, the chosen block is the one with the most hashpower in the linear chain behind it. Abandoned forks contribute nothing to that.

With GHOST, the chosen block is the one with the most hashpower descended from it, in all forks. This way all the forks contribute to a block's security.

With a linear chain, propagation time is an issue. If blocks are too short it's more likely that miners will find more than one candidate block, causing the work on abandoned blocks to be wasted. With GHOST, no work is wasted.

The original GHOST paper, which proposed the algorithm as a modification to Bitcoin, has some math to calculate, for a given propagation time, the block time that would produce equivalent security to a linear chain. It was significantly shorter.

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Post by cpursley »

MisterTea wrote: post #638
alias_neo wrote: post #541

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been with my bank for 15+ years. One time I sent a payment of several hundred £s to a friend who's paid my share of a holiday when booking. In the description I put "fun times". I had a call from my bank asking me to explain the payment the next day. I've never been called before nor since that. It certainly feels like they're a bit touchy about certain references.

> In the description I put "fun times". I recently started using Venmo to pay a few people and the things I have wrote are awful. Recent examples include: "Human organ trafficking" "Lunch and murder for hire", "sack of shrunken heads" and so on. Let them call me.

I put "Crimea" in a venmo transfer to my own wife and they will no longer allow me to transfer funds to her.

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Post by humanrebar »

mola wrote: post #563
noobermin wrote: post #517

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Which further highlights how many "problems" that tech people in the US have tried to solve (transit->uber, various health care start-ups, etc) are essentially due to the failure of the US state to function properly or even focus on the right thing.

Yup, it seems US citizens pay crazy amount of hidden tax because of inefficiencies caused by fanatical anti government propaganda. This isn't only about freedom it's about keeping power in certain hands. Too bad it's being exported everywhere

> ...fanatical anti government propaganda.

Jim Crow, Watergate, Catholic priest abuse scandals, regulatory failure in 2008, too big to fail, gerrymandering, police involved shootings, Hurricane Katrina flooding, Keystone Pipeline leaks, ...

And, yes, it happens in local markets too: taxi medallion systems, overzealous zoning, local corruption, running Amazon out of Queens, and so on.

We could call skepticism fanatical, but that dismisses some pretty substantive history and current events regarding government corruption and incompetence.

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Post by ianai »

gorgoiler wrote: post #458
habosa wrote: post #448

I hate that any online company can set arbitrary Terms of Service which they know for a FACT I have not read (I didn't click) and then decide to pull the rug out from me at any time because of that. These companies are seriously important in our lives. If you take away my payment source or my email or whatever you are potentially setting me on a path to ruin. I don't know what the answer is but I do think these compa…

Even if you did click to accept the terms of service, their server knows you probably didn’t read it. They know exactly how long it was between you being served the contract, and you accepting it. Clearly if that time is anything under a number of minutes or hours you can’t possibly be agreeing to the contract and so they should be duty bound to refuse service. I look forward to a test case where a judge rules a term…

Actually I’d suggest we all take some time to learn the law. Actual legal practices and whatever. I’m increasingly of the impression that lawyers are the real first class citizens of a constitutional government.

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Post by [deleted] »

nothrabannosir wrote: post #633
raxxorrax wrote: post #553

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At that moment you should have made it clear that it isn't his business at all to disincenitivise future bad behavior. Even as a lazy person I probably would have switched banks.

It is; the UK has very strict KYC laws and any institution handling money is quickly on the hook for certain misdeeds by their customers. They need to show diligence in monitoring that activity. > You must meet certain day-to-day responsibilities if your business is covered by the Money Laundering Regulations. These include carrying out ‘customer due diligence’ measures to check that your customers are who they say t…

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Re: PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub

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Post by [deleted] »

Crinus wrote: post #641
mtrovo wrote: post #579

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t know if it’s only in Germany but banks here don’t need to give you any reason to close your account. There are some stories of how every time they tweak N26 Risk ML there’s a wave of termination letters to customers that didn’t do anything wrong. A bunch of friends got affected by this a while a go, they didn’t do anything wrong and the bank refused to give any reason at all for the termination.

Does closing your account also mean you lose your money or they give it to you somehow?

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