Stefan Thomas lost the paper where he wrote down the password for his IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 bitcoins.

lmao I hope he gets desperate the next time bitcoin spikes & pays some cryptology firm to 'crack' it and they wipe it by accident.

  • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Oh that's true, I forgot how wasteful it is. Though that's inherited from capitalism.

    edit: When I say it's inherited from capitalism I'm not excusing it

    • snackage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      No it's not. Bitcoin is wasteful because it works by having millions of computers guessing numbers until one gets it right. This has nothing to do with capitalism.

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        It's because of capitalism that people are running millions of computers trying to guess a number

        • AuthorityIsBad [any]
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          4 years ago

          I don't think you can blame this one on capitalism as much as the concept of money itself

        • snackage [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          That's one way to look at it I guess.ninsinr know if it's very helpful in this particular instance but it's correct

          • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            I just mean it's one of many perverse incentives created by capitalism, wasn't trying to excuse it in any way.

            • volkvulture [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              BitCoin is perverse in many ways

              knowing that Silicon Valley & "early morning grinders" have all gone fully in on obsessing over it should raise more suspicions than it quells

    • cilantrofellow [any]
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      4 years ago

      The BitTorrent founder I remember was setting up a peer to peer crypto. Dunno what happened to that. It was called chia I think