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Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks

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Re: Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks

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Post by j_s »

It's always interesting to see HN'ers publicly share here the degree to which they've personally invested in cryptocurrency (non-deletable, non-editable after 1 hour, plus whatever other restrictions). I wonder if HN is willing to delete accounts and/or some or all of their posts?

Edit: to be specific (for gtirloni's sake) - the unusual artificial limits of this site add additional exposure/risk to anyone painting a target on themself here, especially new users and/or years ago when Bitcoin was worth nearly nothing.

Re: Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks

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Post by jameskegel »

This site is unusable on mobile. As soon as the scroll effects kick in the whole browser locks up and scrolling has to be done with a four second delay; when the article is 40% advertisements on mobile, I'm only going to reload the article so many times before I just give up. I don't want to be a part of this new internet anymore, everything is going to shit.

Re: Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks

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Post by pc86 »

j_s wrote: post #3

It's always interesting to see HN'ers publicly share here the degree to which they've personally invested in cryptocurrency (non-deletable, non-editable after 1 hour, plus whatever other restrictions). I wonder if HN is willing to delete accounts and/or some or all of their posts? Edit: to be specific (for gtirloni's sake) - the unusual artificial limits of this site add additional exposure/risk to anyone painting a…

I bought 1.5 right around $2500 because I had the money and was willing to lose it. I figured worse case scenario it's a lifetime supply of scratch off lottery tickets in one shot :)

Sold it in one transaction right around $4700, so a nice return. Never buying any more unless it drops below $2k, I think.

Re: Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks

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Post by gtirloni »

j_s wrote: post #3

It's always interesting to see HN'ers publicly share here the degree to which they've personally invested in cryptocurrency (non-deletable, non-editable after 1 hour, plus whatever other restrictions). I wonder if HN is willing to delete accounts and/or some or all of their posts? Edit: to be specific (for gtirloni's sake) - the unusual artificial limits of this site add additional exposure/risk to anyone painting a…

What's interesting about that and why would HN care if people are sharing private details of their life willingly?

Re: Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks

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Post by markatkinson »

jameskegel wrote: post #4

This site is unusable on mobile. As soon as the scroll effects kick in the whole browser locks up and scrolling has to be done with a four second delay; when the article is 40% advertisements on mobile, I'm only going to reload the article so many times before I just give up. I don't want to be a part of this new internet anymore, everything is going to shit.

I'm sorry to hear that but if you on mobile you should try the app materialistic

Re: Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks

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Post by aaron-lebo »

gtirloni wrote: post #7
j_s wrote: post #3

It's always interesting to see HN'ers publicly share here the degree to which they've personally invested in cryptocurrency (non-deletable, non-editable after 1 hour, plus whatever other restrictions). I wonder if HN is willing to delete accounts and/or some or all of their posts? Edit: to be specific (for gtirloni's sake) - the unusual artificial limits of this site add additional exposure/risk to anyone painting a…

What's interesting about that and why would HN care if people are sharing private details of their life willingly?

It's that people should be a lot safer and aware.

I've seen a guy brag about his cryptocurrency stash, and if you went through his post history he'd also talked about where he lived and his profession. If he leaked any other details (through HN or crossreferencing other sites), he might be a really vulnerable target and not even realize it.

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