I wish XMR/Monero had better traction. I abhor using BTC

This should be some interesting conversation since Lemmy likes Dorsey’s baby, Bluesky, so much. But Lemmy also hates AI. Dorsey embraces AI. Hmmmm…

cool. I don’t mind them.

So what do we do about people who just do bad shit? Love and affection doesn’t work. What country are you in and what size is it compared to the US?

Imma watch Trump’s crime-fighting task force scoop up thousands in Memphis like a claw machine gone berserk. The jails creak, the courts wobble, and I can’t tell if I’m seeing justice or just hearing my brain hum like a busted duopoletic jukebox.

Nobody said I had to agree with you. Who said you had to agree with me? Not me. Not supporting a candidacy IS what democracy is all about. Same with supporting one. I support my fav, you support your fav, and that’s awesome. :)

Again, we’re a democracy and people can run for office and people can choose to vote for them or not. Just because you don’t like someone, doesn’t mean everyone has to agree with you. That’s fascism.

Jesus doesn’t have to weep, I’m sure he’s handling the news just fine. It ain’t the end of the world. We’re a democracy and people can run for office and have people vote for them or not. Welcome to democracy.

Just because you don’t agree with someone, doesn’t mean they have to be silenced.

Glad to see you changed your mind. Great work!

And for the haters, the frog is still here!

Love that you stand up to people and avoid the whole groupthink that Lemmy does. You’re a great Admin!

This seems like a… lot. Sometimes if someone spends too much time online, they start to see conspiracies where there aren’t any.

This will get promptly ignored and covered up

Yep, or people will just start using whatabout-ism and pretend this isn’t that big of a deal.

Good point. Seems like there would be some sort of record if they were sued. Maybe they got a cease-and-desist letter, and canceled it all before a real lawsuit tho

The show’s three main characters were Myo (a rabbit), Ga (a turtle) and Kuu (a chicken), who was later renamed to Co. (along with a fish named Auryong in 2006)

The show was based on Byeoljubujeon with many modifications made to the story, such as the rabbit’s liver being replaced by a yeouiju.

Various animations were made for the series, however only a few of them have been found, while most of the others only have a few images avaliable. The only flash game made for the series has been found on several websites, but a lot of the series’ other content is still missing.

The hunt is on for more original newspaper strip art by the late, great John M. Burns – and downthetubes readers out there may be able to help.

“Eartha” was a colour weekly strip, the tale of a Stone Age cave girl preserved in ice for 10,000 years, revived in 1981 when a nuclear waste site in the north of England is excavated.

The strip appeared in Britain’s News of the World “Sunday” magazine from September 1981 to July 1982. Written by Donne Avenell and illustrated by John M. Burns, 52 full colour instalments were commissioned following her adventures, but only 45 were published.

Right? I would have liked a lot more details.

Crypto was created with awesome ideas in mind: decentralization, privacy, etc. But it didn’t end up being that at.

I still invest and believe in crypto, but I wish the market would tank and crypto went back to be what it was intended to be: alternative money/bartering.

A staggering $2 billion worth of Bitcoin has been reactivated after more than a decade of inactivity.

The digital vaults, each holding 10,000 bitcoin, were reactivated on Thursday, July 3 and Friday, July 4, after lying untouched since 2011.

The wallets, tagged as “12tLs…xj2me” and “1KbrS…AWJYm,” moved their full balances to new addresses within 30 minutes of each other. The transfers—spotted by blockchain tracking services Whale Alert and Lookonchain—mark the first time the assets have been touched in 14 years.

Back in 2011, when Bitcoin traded at roughly $0.78 per coin, these wallets represented a modest investment of around $7,800 each. Today, thanks to a nearly 13,982,800 percent increase, the contents of each wallet are estimated at more than $1.1 billion—placing their owners squarely in the rarefied ranks of crypto’s “whale” class.

“In the early days of Bitcoin, there were quite a few early enthusiasts who mined BTC or bought it for a fraction of a dollar, but most of them either sold it much earlier—for millions instead of billions—or spent it on something trivial at the time, like the two pizzas famously bought for 10,000 bitcoins in 2010,” Nic Puckrin, crypto analyst, investor and founder of The Coin Bureau, told Newsweek.

“Holding on to such a staggering amount requires either a great deal of foresight, when the asset is already soaring by many thousands, or a great deal of forgetfulness,” he explained.

Despite the digital trail, little is known about the wallets’ owners. The sudden activity—on consecutive days, and involving identical sums—has led analysts to believe the wallets may be linked.

With the wallets now valued at over $2 billion, the bitcoin represents a 140,000-fold return on the original investments. But cashing in isn’t as easy as it may seem.

“There’s no such thing as payouts or dividends when it comes to Bitcoin—like gold, it’s simply an asset that can be sold in exchange for its market value in a fiat currency,” Puckrin explained. “As long as the person still has access to the private key to the wallet where the Bitcoin is held, which it seems they do if they moved it to a new address, they can sell this Bitcoin. However, given the amount, they would have to sell it very carefully, because disposing of this amount of Bitcoin all at once could crash the price.”

Nobody knows the identity of the Bitcoin owner or owners, but Puckrin explained it is unlikely that they will come forward.

“It’s highly unlikely this person will go public, especially considering the physical danger several prominent crypto figures have found themselves in lately from so-called ‘wrench attacks,’ such as David Balland, co-founder of cryptocurrency wallet firm Ledger, who was kidnapped with his wife in January,” he said. “Apart from that, early adopters of Bitcoin tend to value privacy and anonymity, so there’s no reason why they would want to reveal their identities to the world.”

I was hoping for superpowers.

Love this!