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lead product designer | music @ Alchemy Vibrations | hermetic manuscripts | defi | decentralization

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@darengb
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8 months
I was just SIM swapped and robbed of 22 ETH via @friendtech The 34 of my own keys that I owned were sold, rugging anyone who held my key, all the other keys I owned were sold, and the rest of the ETH in my wallet was drained. If your Twitter account is doxxed to your real
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2 years
@PsychicCancer @psychic_nonna @AstroByMax Think it was more because before computers, the sun sign was the only one you could figure out on your own without consulting an astrologer if you were reading a newspaper horoscope
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2 years
@PsychicCancer @psychic_nonna @AstroByMax Imagine if every birth certificate had a natal chart on the back that would be amazing haha
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10 months
@allgarbled They’re so advanced they have magic signs that appear in whatever language you’re fluent in. For example when I look at the video, it says “emergency” in English. But to most of the people in the station, it appears in Mandarin
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8 months
@friendtech If your FT/Twitter is tied to a doxxed name, and you start getting rapidly spammed with phone calls, make sure you don't get any texts from your carrier that you're being distracted from! It seems like time from the text from Verizon that I missed and when they apparently got
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5 months
@nope_its_lily Steve Jobs had this discovery once he became elite: “When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people
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2 years
@cobie There was an account labeled “Bank - customer funds” and he accidentally thought it said “Bankman funds”. Account labeling error. Easy mistake to make.
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5 months
@WClementeIII Posted on May 13, 2021 lol
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10 months
@RokoMijic @lisatomic5 Unless red gets 100%, which it won’t, picking red guarantees not only that some people will die, but that the kindest, most altruistic and selfless people will be the ones who die, while the most selfish live. Picking blue provides a high chance that everyone lives, and it won,
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10 months
@Ih8California @InternetHippo @DBattisto16 You either have “it” or you don’t. He just doesn’t have “it” and probably never could.
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2 years
@thecryptodawg @cobie Lol the reason people trust BTC is because it’s never gone below the high of a previous 4 year cycle, if BTC goes below 20k it would not be seen as a safe store of value anymore and prob not going to 100k for a very long time
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9 months
@LittleMammith The fallacy is thinking the outlaws would be isolated, and not realizing they would simply organize together for protection into violent and powerful gangs and crime syndicates and would become untouchable, eventually taking over society and recreating feudalism
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2 years
@SnappingNeuron @APompliano The rules that they write in congress and the news of those rules moves stock prices.
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1 year
@TheStalwart Open protocol + flagship corporate high-UX app for onboarding is the best combo
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@darengb
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8 months
Just to be clear, if I had rugged, I would have hardly made anything because I only had about 13 keyholders. The 22eth stolen was mostly other people’s keys that I owned plus eth that was in my wallet.
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8 months
Just to be clear: I did not create a doxxed FT account from my Twitter that is tied to my full name and easily searchable public address in New York City, an account which only has 195 followers, and spend every day chatting with people on FriendTech, just to rug my 13 key
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1 year
@NeerajKA Not your keys, not your wife
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6 months
@8teAPi Maybe they allowed GPT4 degradation to make the improvement in 4.5 look more impressive
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2 years
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1 year
@TheStalwart The trick for this game to work is to ask it to put what it’s thinking of in a hash, which it then can go back and reference as it answers your questions.
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2 years
@HassanBassiri Here is a helpful visualization of the #Aptos tokenomics
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8 months
@TheDazzleNovak @friendtech Either they called Verizon and convinced someone that I had a new phone, or they had an employee on the inside. I’m hearing that this is happening a lot, with other phone carriers as well. Basically anything that is protected with a code sent my sms message can be compromised
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8 months
@Decentralizd @friendtech I bought them very early on, when it was a safe way of farming points. I didn’t even have that many key holders, I had like 13, I would not have rugged for the 1 eth or whatever it was when I was getting points every week that will probably be worth a lot more than that
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8 months
@base4267 @friendtech Thanks. I asked the woman in the Verizon fraud department lots of question and she had zero answers.
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2 years
@inversebrah Seriously though what kind of memes are people supposed to make off the name "zksync"???
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1 year
@TraderMercury It’s a bit more complex, the order of whether the lunar or solar eclipse is stronger defines the bull/bear cycles, and we should now be in the macro bull part of the eclipse cycle - not sure who actually made this chart but it’s remarkable
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@darengb
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6 months
@mister_shroom GPT is great though because it’s how robots are named in movies GPT-4 RD-D2 C-3PO It’s what people expect an advanced AI to be called, not “Siri”, “Bard”, etc
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9 months
@amasad @paulg Tim Cook is not a professional manager though. Steve Jobs chose him because he’s great at execution and “doing things”. He just is not creative and independent / rebellious the way Steve was
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8 months
I was just SIM swapped and my FT wallet was hacked, drained of 20ETH which was most of my portfolio Starting around 5pm my phone started getting spammed with phone calls every second, so I turned my phone on silent, then as a result I missed the text from Verizon notifying me
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10 months
@AgiDoomerAnon @RokoMijic @lisatomic5 No, some people just care about other people’s lives in addition to their own
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6 months
@0xAlaric Icarus was also warned not to fly too low or the humidity would clog his feathers, but that part usually gets left out
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2 years
@JBlowsmoke @GarrittyOf @sophiamzaller You can type the same recovery phrase from coinbase wallet into any other wallet app from any company, you could even do it now if you want and have multiple wallet apps controlling the same wallet
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1 year
@Pentosh1 If it turns out that main is Cobie, we have all just spent the last x years living inside of one man’s dissociative dream.
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8 months
Also I want to say, I still like FriendTech. I still want to use the app. I recognize that balancing security and a smooth UX is hard, and I don't blame the FT team for what happened to me. However I think there's a lesson here for everyone that phone numbers should never be
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6 months
@GaryMarcus @davidmanheim He said they won't be "training" it for "some time". However this article itself confuses "training" with "developing" since he never said they're not developing it - they're probably still working on developing the architecture.
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2 years
@fintechfrank So basically the model was maybe something like this: 1. CeFi app/fund promises high interest to investors 2. Pays the interest by giving uncollateralized loans to 3AC at high interest 3. 3AC pays interest by borrowing from another app/fund + hopes to trade their way out of it
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2 years
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8 months
@friendtech @0xRacerAlt Thank you for this update. I just removed my phone number and added Apple auth. Unfortunately, doing so did not force log out sessions on my other devices that had previously logged in, which means my hacker is possibly also still logged and now might be able to remove my auth
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2 years
@gainzxbt @conzimp The problem is that a great PM is someone who understands engineering, design, and business, but the type of person who chooses to become a PM often picks it as a default because they don't understand engineering, design or business.
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3 years
@kates_9999 @marenaltman @kates_9999 @marenaltman Posted on 1/27 that she was going to start using times for crypto transits which was two days before the video "trap" that you posted. Here's her posting why she's going to start using exact times. Your video was on 1/29.
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6 months
@greentexts_bot The writers secretly put all their dark fantasies into the villain, it gives them an outlet for the urges they feel guilty about.
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2 years
@ColinLieb @danav337 @AutismCapital He put out a guide recommending that people block all of Crypto Twitter and only follow web3 twitter, and suggested a good way to do this is to look at posts by @inversebrah and use a tool to automatically block anyone who likes them, along with a bunch of other CT accounts
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1 year
@tszzl Saw a comment the other day that was basically “sure chatGPT analyzed the blood test results better than your vetenarian and saved your dog’s life, but a good, experienced vet should have been able to catch that, so it’s not a big deal”
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8 months
@theraybao @davidzmorris Trabbuco literally said on UpOnly they were just trading news headlines and Elon tweets like retail bc their original arbitrage strategy was not profitable enough.
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8 months
@CryptoWithNick @friendtech Thanks for this! I asked the woman in the Verizon fraud department how I could prevent it in the future and she had no idea. I’ll look for this asap
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5 months
@8teAPi Decline doesn't have to mean being replaced by another country. It could be more like the decline of the western roman empire, which was not replaced by another empire and simply lead to the dark ages.
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2 years
@Enchiridion22 I withdraw Avalanche from Coinbase, swap to USDC in Trader Joe, bridge to Harmony in Synapse bridge, then swap to Jewel. Basically zero fees. Huge pain though.
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3 years
@satsdart My understanding is that Atom has poor tokenomics that don't really capture value from the cosmos ecosystem. So luna, rune, secret, etc doing well don't do much for atom despite being cosmos chains. Hopefully the tokenomics will change at some point
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8 months
@NFTethics @opensea Apparently Sisyphus is Thomas Middleditch from Silicon Valley
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1 year
@CryptoFinally "The creatures outside looked from Bankman to banker, and from banker to Bankman, and from Bankman to banker again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
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@WilmsRolf @ESYudkowsky Yudkowsky is included in the training data, and it correctly guessed that there is only one person named Yud who talks about dangerous AI
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2 years
@CryptoCobain Trillion dollar idea: Play to Earn, but the "play" is a "job", like driving people around in real life or serving them food or letting them stay in your apartment, but you call it a "game", and you get paid in coins that go down in value as the circ supply increases
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2 years
@sassal0x Can't compete with the speed of ADA development
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2 years
@AlgodTrading @gametheorizing But normal people were not told that they were getting paid for risk. They were told it was safe. And they did not understand that if something is actually safe, then it doesn’t need to pay a high high apy
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@stevegraham @balajis The only thing holding back hawkish politicians is the lack of manpower to fulfill their dreams. If we had a draft after 9/11 we would have invaded Iran and maybe North Korea
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2 years
@Just_this_time @matthew_d_green The fact that people think the environmental issue is true for all crypto when in reality it’s actually only specific to proof of work coins because they use electricity as a mining mechanism is a massive misunderstanding
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@SunnyDfan4eva @RichardHanania @chribreuer Of course, but they would not have been able to invent it.
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2 years
@JackieMoooon @cobie Imagine having your money in celsius, listening to that, immediately rushing to withdraw your funds, and then not being able to because withdrawals are frozen
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2 years
@DegenSpartan Little known hack - if you go long on a pretend paper trading app, and short on Binance, it will magically transfer your pretend funds into real ones on Binance
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@Crypto_Shaggy @friendtech From what other people are saying, they either have the inside people working at at the phone carriers, or use psychological manipulation on the phone. They got my phone number transferred to their phone, so they could receive texts with my verification codes
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1 year
@cobie @pythianism That was it, down only from here
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3 years
@amandaa_eliz @C_Jalin @kates_9999 @marenaltman Kate is claiming that techniques in her gamestop video were used in maren's Tesla video, so in that case yes the Tesla video was after but it's literally just standard astrology techniques and it's not even the same stock.
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3 years
@kates_9999 @marenaltman @kates_9999 @marenaltman Maren posted on 1/27 that she was going to start using times for crypto transits which was two days before the video "trap" that you posted. Here's her posting why she's going to start using exact times. Your video "trap" wasn't posted until 1/29.
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2 years
@TheStalwart @IolaElla The corporate greed explanation for companies raising prices makes no sense because it's like if lions suddenly were running around NYC eating people and they told us the cause is that lions like eating people - yes but lions have ALWAYS liked eating people, that's not new
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2 years
I intentionally connected Metamask to scam phishing sites to test and review 3 new wallet security tools. I tested @_joinfire , @PocketUniverseZ , & @Sunrise_WTF and allowed my wallet to be drained by a scam site to see what warnings they'd give me.
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@StuartJRitchie Do you dream? Do you see visuals when you dream? To me there is no difference between what I see when I'm dreaming vs what I see when I try to imagine something while awake except for the scale and resolution, when dreaming at night it's in a bit higher definition and more
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@AgiDoomerAnon @RokoMijic @lisatomic5 What do you think people misunderstand about the wording of the question? I think people simply see a choice between “100% chance you contribute towards the death of some people” vs “you do not contribute towards the death of anyone and instead contribute towards possible saving
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7 months
@koko8971 @RichardHanania This was his motive
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8 months
UPDATE A huge thank you to @henri_stern at @privy_io for being super responsive and going out of his way to help all of us who were affected get info on our hacks. I have not received any responses from @friendtech support. Will update if I do. The other 6 other people I'm in
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9 months
@lex_node Most modern western spirituality replacements are focused on encouraging people to be selfish because that’s what they will pay a lot of money to hear. You’re more likely to give money to someone telling you that it is spiritual to put yourself first then someone telling you to
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@GamesbyMiLu @d_feldman Important question is whether it is at all possible to accurately emulate a complex world model without actually having one internally. GPT4 may have needed to develop a world model just because it was the only way to predict text that required a world model to predict.
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@dystopiabreaker Originally she just wanted to fight Wall Street, but they were too powerful and she lost. So then she pivoted to easier battles like fighting shady small-time loan sharks etc, and had more success. She sees crypto as a weak enough target that she can defeat it and build a legacy.
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2 years
@Maxiimiliano_L @marenaltman Eclipses always come in pairs of a solar and lunar eclipse with about two weeks in between
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1 year
@mezaoptimizer The flip side is that if it doesn’t end the world, AI might help solve all the other problems that have a higher chance of ending the world
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3 years
@TrynaFarm @NeerajKA It’s one of the original prints that were distributed to delegates at the constitutional convention prior to signing so they could read it and decide whether to ratify, so it’s original except in the sense that it isn’t the one that was signed
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2 years
@tonsoflaw @thecryptodawg @cobie If either of those two rules breaks, bitcoin will no longer be a store of value, and if crypto as a whole doesn't die, BTC will probably start to lose it's place at the top
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2 years
@Just_this_time @matthew_d_green They can literally just stop accepting proof of work coins (btc and eth) and limit donations to the vast number of proof of stake coins which don’t have an environmental impact. And resume eth when it switches to proof of stake this summer.
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8 months
@cryptoShields @friendtech @Verizon Yes. Apparently most carriers do. Some other people are tweeting that it just happened to them as well
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6 months
@kartographien The problem is EAs cannot actually predict or control consequences in complex ethical situations with even moderate accuracy, so they end up just gambling with probabilities (usually poorly), which is how they end up with SBFs and Helen Toners. Virtue ethics is correct when
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1 year
@GrantEzraMetts @jbrowder1 @FilmThePoliceLA It’s only a needlessly added step until the vision feature gets turned on and it can solve the captcha. Then no other steps would have been needed
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@BanklessHQ @SBF_FTX @ErikVoorhees The #1 long-term competitive threat for FTX is decentralized exchanges and perps. It's in his interest to support regulation that kills them.
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@IncomeSharks @friendtech Yeah I also had a PIN on my account so they must have either been very persuasive, been working with an employee at one of their store, or maybe the employees just don’t care or are dumb
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2 years
@SnappingNeuron @APompliano 1. Write policy that’s good for X industry and bad for Y industry 2. News announcement of your rule will be Thursday 3. Buy X and sell Y on Wednesday
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2 years
@burnpile_eth @defi_jay @tomhschmidt For example Infura can decide that nobody in your country is allowed, and then Metamask will immediately stop working for you unless you switch to another RPC
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3 years
@ACassiopei @MatiGreenspan @marenaltman @QE4Everyone She created hundreds of original videos. The tiny handful of accusations of plagiarism were not the original ideas of the astrologers accusing her. The concept in Astrodim's video was so widely known it has its own Wikipedia page. It was first mentioned in the year 1940.
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@AgiDoomerAnon @RokoMijic @lisatomic5 There’s basically no chance that everyone chooses red, so if you choose red you’re choosing to kill the most selfless and altruistic members of your population
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2 years
@dystopiabreaker He goes into a whole thing about eugenics and then never even tries to actually connect it to crypto but leaves it hanging there implying that it relates to crypto somehow simply because he mentioned it in the same thread
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3 years
@0xSisyphus I'm thinking the top will be when titkok kids are making up new copy+paste memecoins again and dumping them on each other - right now we're just seeing the ones from the spring pumping which are now old already, not a frenzy of new ones yet...
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@jachaseyoung @XanderSisco @elonmusk From Elon’s point of view, the probability of being the one richest out of billions of people has to seem far lower than the probability of none of it being real.
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2 years
@CoinbaseWallet @Apple Apple is probably creating their own wallet for iOS and attempting to make it impossible for any competing wallets on iOS to exist
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3 years
@0xSisyphus I think it's because you can't buy L2 ETH on CEXes - if you want to use it without paying $200 gas fee to bridge ETH, you have to buy something like AVAX and then bridge it on Synapse to Arbitrum vs just buying AVAX and using it immediately
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3 years
@marenaltman Bought $deus $dea two weeks ago and can't believe I haven't really seen anyone talk about it
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9 months
@0xFlick @penglj118 Someone contact the SEC
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6 months
@bil_prag @svpino There were no videos. They only uploaded static images to the chat. The idea that it was interpreting videos was a lie. It's really bad.
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3 years
@fantomstaker @DelucaDougie @danielesesta I think a lot of the criticism that btc maxis give about proof of stake chains not being decentralized enough is best solved by having many chains, with the same apps working across all of them. Multi chain adds another level of security
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@NikkiHaleyFan02 @KareemRifai Ukraine did not invest in crypto. People donated crypto to them and they needed an exchange to convert it to cash
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2 years
@___shakeel @marenaltman It means we are at May 5th.
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8 months
I have removed the phone auth method and added Apple auth. Unfortunately, my sessions on other devices are still logged in from before, removing phone auth did not force log out existing sessions. That means my hacker probably still has access to my account! That means my
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You can now add and remove log in methods for your account. To access these settings, tap your wallet balance in the top right corner of the app
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@0xSisyphus Why would you want to buy a chain that already works, when you can speculate that a broken chain might work in the future?
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