'Bitcoin heist' shock: Cops seek 4 for aggravated burglary in Midsomer Murders town A gang of armed robbers reportedly burgled a village home belonging to Bitcoin traders in an Oxfordshire, England. According to police, four suspects broke into the home of a man and his partner in Moulsford, a town famous for its appearances in Midsomer Murders, last Monday. One witness speaking to the Mail on Sunday …
Stop misusing "exponentially" OK? Just stop. It has a particular meaning that is rarely applicable to the matter in hand. If something increases or decreases by a particular multiple each day - even if it's 1.01 - it's valid. Compound interest increases exponentially by definition. Market prices don't.
Here of all places we ought to keep the hype down.
"If something increases or decreases by a particular multiple each day - even if it's 1.01 - it's valid.
Erm no that's geometrically"
No, it is exponential. Exponential growth is any curve of the form a^t for a an integer and t being time. If something doubles every n years then that's exponential growth. Like GDP, for example, or inflation.
any real number greater than 1
Why stop there? For reals in (0,1), you have exponential growth in the value's smallness. For 0 and 1, you have exponential growth in the value's sameness. "This 1 is much more the same than it was yesterday!"[1]
Daft explanations of exponential "growth" for negative reals[2] and complex numbers with non-zero imaginary parts are left as an exercise for the reader. Many of whom, I'm sure, could use the exercise.
[1] Silly as that is, it reminds me a bit of Matt Skala's famous essay "What Colour are your bits?", where he considered how people may assign different interpretations to identical values based on their provenance.
[2] Pretty easy for integer exponents.
Can't speak for the PP, but I'd certainly make sure that my cryptogoodies were protected by a smart contract which prevented them being moved in a single block, over a single day, and which required other external factors to be recorded on the blockchain before paying out. Maybe a token transfer a day or two before, from another actor ?
But as I am learning, a lot of people simply do not understand blockchain - and more importantly what it's capable of.
Unless they paid pretty high miners fees the whole damn thing is probably not confirmed yet.
Really reg, a tech mag missing a btc related dad joke, standards are slipping!
@stoneshop is that a nay Sayer I see...it's bubble, the end nigh, crypto nonsense. Yes, being right is going to be so much more rewarding than any income from this stuff!
Pretty easy, transfer to an exchange, one that has high liquidity, so you don't lose much, sell to USD and/or directly to a more anonymous crypto currency, one based upon say cryptonight, such as monero, transfer out to a wallet, from that wallet transfer to another unused wallet address. Transfer from this wallet to 1 or more exchanges. Cash out. Use TOR when making the transaction just to be sure your IP isn't registered.
And/or transfer through a bitcoin tumbler which makes it much more tricky to track what btc is going where. As with all money laundering there's a fee, but they seem to usually charge less than 5% which I think is quite a good rate for money launderers.
A friend recently had his house broken into, they used power tools to remove the back door when all were out for the weekend. He came back to find not much missing, but the crims had unscrewed all his 230V wall sockets. I’m a bit mistified, unless someone sells a safe that hides in a mains socket?
Winklevoss twins allegedly keep their BTC passphrase quartered in 4 diverse bank vaults.
Could I just put a sign outside saying “no Ripples/XRP here”
> I’m a bit mistified, unless someone sells a safe that hides in a mains socket?
I remember seeing exactly such a thing in the "Innovations" catalogue that used to come with the news paper or the Radio Times or whatever it was. The earth pin was the key hole if I remember correctly. I guess you wouldn't want to encourage people to stick keys into the other two pin holes?
According to the Daily Mail, sigh, he faked the ownership transfer of the BTC.
The armed robbers are left supposedly empty-walleted.
DM helpfully printed the Google Map satellite picture for millimetric accuracy of the scene of the crime/domestic-crypto-exchange location. Should, perhaps, the rogue SAS robber fancy the next try.
How much, in crypto-coins, is a quick house purchase in Stewart Island, New Zealand?
Yes, they just regenerate into new Cotswold cliches, a bit like time lords or video game chacters do.
This story suggests a number of potential new spinoff series : Midsomer Bitcoin Robberies or Midsomer Minor Road Traffic Act Violations should keep old Bergerac busy for a few more years.
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