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Quote from: jbreher on January 15, 2019, 05:35:24 PM

I reckon most 'hacks' are inside jobs.

100% agreed. when looking at all other possiblities, inside job is by far the most plausible/likely.

Interesting Wired article... maybe pertinent to the WOber thread?
(Apologies if already linked as its 4 days old... I know,that's ancient history in crypto,and tbh
I don't obsess over this thread so much as I used too, fair weather fan and such....)

https://www.wired.com/story/the-exaggerated-promise-of-data-mining/

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In 2018, a Yale economics professor and a graduate student calculated correlations between daily changes in Bitcoin prices and hundreds of other financial variables. They found that Bitcoin prices were positively correlated with stock returns in the consumer goods and health care industries, and that they were negatively correlated with stock returns in the fabricated products and metal mining industries. We dont give explanations," the professor said, "we just document this behavior. In other words, they may as well have looked at correlations of Bitcoin prices with hundreds of lists of telephone numbers and reported the highest correlations.

It's impossible to completely keep up with this thread if you have any life and don't carry a tether (smart phone or whatever:not usdt).

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Quote from: Last of the V8s on January 15, 2019, 10:15:38 PM

So what's the plan guys? If Grin works out well, bitcoin devs shove all that tech onto bitcoin?
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/grin4bitcoiners.md

ha!! another legend actually paying attention to this ~~shitcoin~~ alt launch.
It caught my eye as I notice even theymos is interested.
I'm definitely watching it anyway...maybe fire up a miner again, who knows...

Satoshi's intent was privacy on the chain and that is paramount and a deal breaker in my mind if it is not currently included. BTC has not fulfilled that promise as of yet and a second layer solution is not acceptable.

Sorry if all you worshipers can't hand the truth. Monero and possibly Grin can fill that role until BTC can provide this service.