• qevlarr@lemmy.world
    4·
    16 days ago
    • Doorbell surveillance network
    • Self-service identity theft
    • State secrets betting house
    • Billionaire fan club fund
  • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    15 days ago

    Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn’t have a local dealer. It’s also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      0·
      14 days ago

      Fake money for criminals is unironically a decent addition to the world, although it’s coded in a really dumb way. Plagiarism machine is overhyped right now, but it also has some legit uses.

      So, the poll actually seems about right.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        Even the chatbots now can write code that compiles and does what you tell it to. I’m a system analyst and can code but I am slow. Now I can give a design to any of them and get code that works in a couple of hours, with most of the time spent iterating toward the right result

        In the past it often took a week of afternoons and late nights to turn an idea into working code. I can see why programmers fear for their jobs

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          8 days ago

          It has some serious reliability and scalability issues as of last I checked, but yes, if you’re a skilled programmer who can check for shit like this:

          it’s a good force multiplier.

    • drath@lemmy.drath.ru
      11·
      14 days ago

      Fake criminal money more legit than government money. One day I woke up to the news that all my deposits are frozen indefinitely, that I am not allowed to carry cash abroad, and that I am not allowed to get bank accounts or transfers from any foreign institutions. .Thank fuck for crypto and that I had some. It literally saved my life, so yeah, fake criminal money by a long shot for me.

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    16 days ago

    The very fact that it’s “fake money for criminals” is exactly why I didn’t pick up any BitCoin when it was 12p per coin… I could have been rich af off of £10

    • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      “criminals” = people the goverment doesnt like crypto is untraceable (mostly)

      I think thats why there are so many smear campaigns against it

      • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
        0·
        15 days ago

        crypto is untraceable (mostly)

        It is very traceable. It’s just that the government doesn’t have a special position with tracing transactions, so there’s been a bunch of kludges built on top of the very transparent Bitcoin network to try to mask things.

          • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
            01·
            15 days ago

            For your lay: the government puts a significant fraction of the coins into these boxes and can use the statistical information gained from this to deobfuscate transactions. If you put enough money in, either at once or slowly over time, they can figure out who you are.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      I too, ran across Bitcoin in the VERY early days, when it was pennies. I thought it was a scam and probably illegal, I mean “people can’t just set up their own currency, can they?” It didn’t help that I first found it when I was poking around in Tor, wondering what the “dark web” was all about.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    1·
    15 days ago

    The exposure of hotels using surveillance pricing. A room should cost a hunnert bucks a night. Not $100 or $150 or $200 or $250 etc., depending on which “app” you pray to. Am I right Trivago?

  • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    16 days ago

    Its an old meme And it all started with illegal banking for musk and their… That should make the cut