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Maybe off topic: is it fine to publicly say that you have $3.6M in bitcoin using a profile name that exposes who you are in real life? Wouldn’t the IRS (or local equivalent) come to knock your door and ask for taxes on that money?
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> kept his wallet.dat on a server exposed to the internet Luke has specifically denied this (before you posted your comment)
Where was this posted? Can you post a link? edit: if you're talking about https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609661811455819776 , my guess is that he's either omitting something (eg. the cold wallet was internet connected, or there was a backup of its wallet floating around somewhere), or suffered a stuxnet level attack.
https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609683917644120067
You can easily browse through his recent tweets here https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/with_replies
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That's a No True Scotsman answer — it's not hard to make people keep their wallets secure, because people who got their wallets stolen don't count.
The opposite of "no true scottsman" is nut picking[1]. In this case, I think failing to follow widely promulgated security advice is a fairly reasonable justification to exclude him. [1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking
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That's a No True Scotsman answer — it's not hard to make people keep their wallets secure, because people who got their wallets stolen don't count.
The opposite of "no true scottsman" is nut picking[1]. In this case, I think failing to follow widely promulgated security advice is a fairly reasonable justification to exclude him. [1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking
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Where was this posted? Can you post a link? edit: if you're talking about https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609661811455819776 , my guess is that he's either omitting something (eg. the cold wallet was internet connected, or there was a backup of its wallet floating around somewhere), or suffered a stuxnet level attack.
In the twitter thread the OP links to. https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609683917644120067 You can easily browse through his recent tweets here https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/with_replies
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>These things happen every day, but happening to a core developer (if confirmed!) who has a deep understanding of the systems and security indicates just how fragile crypto can be (in my opinion) Based on the other comments in this thread it looks like he didn't bother using a hardware wallet (which is literally something that's recommended on bitcoin.org[1]), and kept his wallet.dat on a server exposed to the intern…
So you’re saying that to use crypto properly, I have to secure a physical object that grants irrevocable ownership of my wealth? That sounds bad. Is there a way I can get my crypto held my an institution with SIPC insurance, the way I hold stocks at a brokerage, so I can outsource this issue to someone else who is backed by a government guarantee? (I obviously don’t expect them to guarantee the value of the crypto, j…
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> So you’re saying that to use crypto properly, I have to secure a physical object that grants irrevocable ownership of my wealth? That sounds bad. Yeah, that's how most things work in the physical world. If you want to secure a widget, then you need to "secure a physical object that grants irrevocable ownership" of it. Cryptocurrencies improve on this slightly by allowing you set up multisignature schemes, so you ca…
> Yeah, that's how most things work in the physical world. If you want to secure a widget, then you need to "secure a physical object that grants irrevocable ownership" of it. You can’t steal my house by obtaining the deed. You can’t steal my stock by obtaining the stock certificates. That’s not how it works. The vast majority of wealth in developed countries doesn’t rely on physical security to maintain ownership. W…
You can also steal stocks. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-charges-ha...
> The vast majority of wealth in developed countries doesn’t rely on physical security to maintain ownership
Indeed, it relies on far sillier things like hoping that nobody spends $100 on a fake ID and pretends to be you.
"the pedos who took over Vatican City are NOT Catholic" Sympathy cratering...
Prior to becoming Pope, Benedict did lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which was responsible for covering up the child sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church in Ireland. In addition, while he was Pope, someone high up in the church instructed the Irish part of the church to stymie the government's efforts to investigate said child abuse scandals which resulted in threatened expulsion of the vatican ambassador[1] (recalled by the vatican before it came to that), the closure of the Irish embassy to the Vatican[2] and a public condemnation by the Irish government[3].
What is much less up for debate is that Benedict and his sucessor Francis (who to be fair, has not had the same pre-papal track record as his predecessor) were fairly elected leaders of the catholic church by its own mechanisms.
Also don't take this as approval or support for the guy's reactionary views of what he thinks catholicism should be.
[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14281441
[2]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ireland-closes-embassy-to-vat...
[3]: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/kenny-condemns-vatican-respo...
“kill the coranavirus” before putting them into long-term freeze, then getting mad & @‘ing the pizza company’s twitter account upon liquid ingress to aforementioned packing…
This is what has come of the cool thing (bitcoin - twitter user is a core dev to my knowledge) I learned of as a tween, well over a decade ago.
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In the twitter thread the OP links to. https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609683917644120067 You can easily browse through his recent tweets here https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/with_replies
Thanks, added a correction.