We have lost access to approximately €6k in bounties
newpipe.net
newpipe.net
- (2023-11-08) Tell HN: Bountysource seems to have shut down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198261 (2 points, 1 (dead) comment)
- (2023-09-04) Bountysource.com is Insolvent, do not use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384014 (22 points, 1 comment)
- (2020-06-17) BountySource have turned evil – alternatives? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551098 (226 points, 105 comments)
- (2017-11-21) BountySource suspended from GitHub - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747328 (67 points, 52 comments)
> Therefore, I reached out to a lawyer. However, the costs of hiring one, added to the court fees for initiating the proceedings, are too high to warrant pursuing this
This is not an uncommon sutuation, is it? The very instituion that was setup to dispense justice, has become inaccessible in most situations for most people.
Because resource constraints exist. The justice is very expensive to run, requiring many highly qualified people. That means for cases where not enough money is at stake, it's not worth the cost (x hours * $300/billable hour for your lawyer, plus the other side's lawyers, plus judge/clerks/paralegals) to peruse justice. The government does step in some cases though, usually in criminal cases.
Is the blockain group insolvent?
https://www.theblockchain-group.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
As much as I like NewPipe and feel bad that I'll look up donating to them, I want to say, "Aaaahh you naive kids!"
Certain long term projects are already trustless, non custodial working solutions, a rug pull like this could not take place if let's say the funds was placed in some audited ethereum smart contract where the owner signs rewards and the middlemen here bountysource automatically receives a cut of the payout.
It isn't enough to stamp crypto or blockchain on a solutions to make it trustless hence safe. Let's concede a majority of crypto/blockchain gigs are not trustless, not really decentralized . Yes rug pulls do happen often in this context.
There is currently over 40 billion dollars worth of tokens owned by an aggregate of millions of self custodians, across DeFi alone on the biggest blockchain, in what is called a crypto winter. Funds are there, volume is flowing.
This blockchain France or whatever entity was running bountysource was a non blockchain shody business that stole from newpipe and many others, crypto could in fact have easily prevented that
40 billion dollars of self dealing and wash trading you mean.
More seriously traditional institutions aren't keen on pegging their fiat themselves, so other entities (not only tether) did it. If you don't like the smell of tether just ask Circle they have been audited by trads auditors even.
If you don't believe those trades to be organic, would you also deny the volume is happening decentrally.
My take on wash trading is that it is very prevalent, on centralised exchanges which blockchain and decentralisation has nothing to do with, quite the opposite.
while other people see that and think “okay go make the non custodial version”
hackernews crowd is ignorantly stuck in the former camp unwilling to understand the latter at all
Already there.It's as simple as creating a key pair.
Self custody is supported by dozens of open source wallets running on every OS even on mobile, being used, out there even by the layman.
I don't see where is the ignorance if hackernews users are there to debunk commentary stating "crypto scam" when the thing isn't even remotely related to crypto. Just the name.
1/ wasn't crypto. Yes rugged pull. Crypto did not invent that kind of crime 2/ crypto already self custodial, permissionless, and censorship resistant, safer than any centralised bank/ledger.
In other words. Use crypto in its current state and you won't be rug pulled. Use anything else, you might be.
Can use crypto blockchains, today. In a few minutes you can have your wallet with your own keys, and start receiving payments, among other things. No need to ask permission. Nor fill a form providing all your personal detail to an entity that a few years later will be ransomwared/hacked and leak most of your privacy. No need to wait for approval. Which may be denied
And nobody, nothing, can stop you. Not bitcoin.com, nor Vitalik, nor your bank, nor your state even if that's the CCP, nor the NSA, from transacting.
Can't get your account locked. Frozen. Under review. Or closed.
Of course all of this does open some concerns, what if you lose your keys, what if you are a dangerous angry terrorist, what if you are selling illegally drugs etc. But crypto, today not tomorrow or next year, gives everyone in the world equal and open access to being their own bank.
Maybe there are camps on hackernews. Not sure which side you put me on, I'm just stating some facts about the tech as it stands.
https://liberapay.com/TeamNewPipe/
Here is the discussion that went on among newpipe devs before setting it up
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/1153
I am already supporting them this way, but seeing they have 1.2k open issues maybe it would be better to contribute with patches and maintenence instead?
> maybe it would be better to contribute with patches and maintenence instead?
[1] https://www.theblockchain-group.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
How does a profitable company wipe out from negative cash flow?
There is a 99% chance they were fucking around with users money and speculating with it or betting on it
My gut feeling is that TBG bought the bounty site with a view to paying bounties in their own shitcoin, but then all their crypto "investments" went south, and they pillaged all the coffers... and probably threw good money after bad.
In many countries, this would put a flag against the individuals and/or have implications for other companies they are connected to.
and send XMR to it and put the desired currency in and their donation address in
the blockchain would show changenow’s donation address to the recipient
monero blockchain would show nothing
and changenow wouldn’t know your IP and neither would the monero node you used
a more complex way can be done completely onchain using the XMR to SCRT bridge. Then SCRT to Ethereum where everything is alot more liquid.
protip: already have a balance of XMR. if you need to get XMR first then do that but wait for a couple days worth of transactions to go across the Monero network before you send any of your XMR. Do not use the same XMR return address on Changenow that you sent to on the exchange where you bought your XMR or anywhere. Dont send the exact same amount of XMR that you purchased. You’ll get used to these constraints.