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Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry's Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate.

The article details several possibilities for how the account may have been compromised, highlighting the importance of strong passwords and multi-factor authentication for securing social media accounts, especially for celebrities with large followings.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cool. How much. Do you know? Can you give me a specific number? Can you guarantee that there is no more gold than that which can be extracted anywhere on Earth and that it will not be enough to devalue gold until it is unrealistic to use? If so, please provide evidence for all of that. If not, you cannot make that statement honestly.

Off the top of my head, no, I could not. However, I could find out how much gold is in the crust of the earth by figuring out how much gold is in the earth and then taking 30% of that number. To figure out how much gold is in the earth, you would obviously have to go back to how much gold is in the universe. And from that, you'd have to go back to the element that is gold, and its atomic weights and shit.

Got it. Huge numbers of people will get fucked over by choosing the wrong currency and that's why they will give up using U.S. dollars. Logical.

Bitcoin is a good intro into cryptocurrencies. I don't think there will be one cryptocurrency that everybody on earth uses. I also don't think there will be 300 or however many nations have their own fiat currency. But I do think there will be a few. What I find most interesting and what I think most people will find most interesting either by learning about it themselves or somebody telling them about it is the inflation rate that basically does not exist and Even if it does is controlled very strictly by code instead of that the whims of people. I, for example, am an American, and I remember a decade or so back, hearing commercials all the time for a subway $5 foot long. Why on earth is it not still $5? If it was $5 then it should be $5 now, but it's not because the government has printed more dollars. If that subway foot long were priced in gold, instead, the price would have stayed steady, or only went up slightly. So apparently the blood and sweat and tears I sacrificed yesterday is not worth as much today. You are literally saying people are worth less.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You keep saying things you are not backing up with evidence.

Anyone can make the claims you are making. You have already been shown to have made false claims about taxes.

It seems I have to "do my own research" to find out if anything you say is true... or just stop trusting anything you say, which would be a hell of a lot easier. And if you expect everyone to research whether or not you're saying true things and then give up their dollars for crypto currency within, say, the next 20 years I think you're going to be very much mistaken because I have never been less convinced to adopt crypto currency than right now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Fair enough, but at the end of the day, that's why you are you and I am me. We are all different people with different sets of opinions about how the world has worked, is working, and will work. We express that through our actions in life. I have been Am and will continue to be a crypto user because I find it has value in the world and other people agree with me. I can't say what you were, are, or have been, but you have a view of the world, and think cryptocurrency is worth nothing, and you express that opinion by not using cryptocurrency.