Reg now behind invisible HTML5 Bitcoin paywall Readers will be aware that these are tough times for the media. And The Register is no exception: like many other publishers we need to diversify our revenue base. So we set a team of developers to find disruptive ways of funding our journalists, pun-generation labs and to ensure our founders' long labours are properly …
this could descend into a meta-physical, economic debate as to whether any money is truly real.
I guess "commodity" money had a "real" representation when the gold standard existed.
Lots of (name your fiat currency here) "money" just exists as some number in a database on some computer somewhere, and that's not even thinking about bitcoin.
(the short version) Seems to me "money" is a virtual numbers game that the ruling elite continually tweak to their advantage ( no surprise there ). The ruling elite don't like bitcoin because they don't control it .
A few points:
I used Bitcoin last week to buy all the parts I needed for a dual xeon PC upgrade, all off Amazon
How is it that people arent using Bitcoin ?
Very quick, very convenient and no CC companies ripping me off
I purchased a bunch of x11 miners last year using bitcoin.
Some of my customers are using Bitcoin to buy engineering supplies off me in NZ as I added it as a purchase method with 25% discount.
As I was reading this I actually thought this to be a good idea; I'd gladly give you some of my processor time in exchange for your hard work. And after you mother******* successfully rickrolled me (yes I clicked the 'source code here' link) I still think it's a good idea.
I've never been rickrolled before and years since I was last succesfully april fooled. And now laughing my ass off, thanks el reg. Maybe because of this kind of stuff I keep coming back here, after some 15 years now.
Hmmm, we can see the truly moderately paranoid amongst us.
Knowing that it was a rickroll, I clicked on the link.
Nothing. Just some random YouTube archival page that wasn't loading. Had to tell NoScript to let it pass for now.
Still nothing. Turns out it also needed Flash and I haven't had that in years.
Have a beer on me for your bravery ;-)
I clicked the link too, but have java script disabled so ... irony or something.
Thing is it's not a bad idea, if someone lingers on page (possibly even reads it) for 20-30s ... I imagine bit coin mining has got to the point where it probably isn't worth the effort, but there are new 'bit coins' all the time, mine, cash in, move on .. it could work. couldn't it?
Javascript you say?
I heard from a friend (of a friend...) that one of the Shadow Equation Broker Group's leaked attack tools was a dynamic reverse redirect rewrite router written entirely in Javascript and embedded in the new SHA-256 certificates. Supposedly it silently redirects your browser to a harmless looking "Rickroll" video prank page. The music video has a special carrier signal embedded in ultrasonic and infrasonic frequencies that hack any IoT devices within speaker range to mine (?i:bit|scrip|doge|\w+)coins to crowd fund the Patreon of the NWO's Lizard chemist research to develop a a fair-trade, carbon neutral chemtrail chemical
Just had brekkie, though I daresay I hadn't when you posted. My favourite from the Reg time machine.
"Just had brekkie, though I daresay I hadn't when you posted. My favourite from the Reg time machine."
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