Posts by MrGreen

Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending

Cut Overheads

Cutting overheads?

Oh yes, that’ll be cutting commission and bonuses.

Funny how quickly you can get those profit figures to change.

Brits turn off Twitter, although teens and tweens keen on generative AI

The Data Source

OFCOM > UKOM > Ipsos Iris > BBC

The BBC?

This report just lost all credibility.

Royal Mail cybersecurity still a bit of a mess, infosec bods claim

Re: 450K fine is too little

450k is a bargain for them. This is why they don’t spend any money. Cheaper to do nothing.

Unequivocal proof they don’t care about your data.

UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech

Decoded

Decoded: A UK Minister has told all his mates to invest in a certain company and that company will now be awarded a massive contract using your tax money.

The transfer of wealth continues.

Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says

Governments have spent decades weaponising misinformation to the point where no one believes them anymore.

The EU is one of the worst offenders. They continually bang on about democracy but are unelected by citizens. Now they’re blaming everything on climate change and Russia but continue to burn more coal and buy loads more gas from Russia.

Compare your bank account to MP’s and EU bureaucrats and you’ll see why controlling misinformation is so important to them.

95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers

Wait…..

There’s quite a few Bored Apes on this forum.

EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024

More BS

EE claim they have 85% coverage of the UK.

Well, having 26 bars of signal on your mobile may be great but you can’t actually transfer any data!

And where’s that useless shower of sh*t OFCOM?

“According to Ofcom’s Connected Nations Report Summer 2020. 85% geographic coverage equates to more than 99% of the population.”

What a surprise! The failed government uses one of its non regulating regulators to pump out more propaganda to the plebs.

EE/BT making billions for a service that only partially works.

Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns

She Doesn’t Understand the Question

She was asked about “programmability” but talked about “privacy”? These are two very different things.

The only reason for a government to adopt a digital currency is for full control.

We already have digital transactions which do everything that a digital currency does apart from the programmable part.

Also remember that once you download a digital wallet for the proposed digital pound it will capture a face scan etc.

This is Digital ID by the back door. The government get full control of your money and can track your movements.

UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program

Transfer of Wealth

The transfer of wealth continues.

Compare your bank account to Rishi’s or any MP’s or any EU bureaucrat.

If you think any money going to the EU is a good thing then you’re a lamb to the slaughter.

All of your tax ends up going to big corporations and then banks. Money going to the EU is just another way to siphon of your tax. Guess who’s the most invested in these corporations?

You guessed it, Rishi, all MP’s, EU bureaucrats, banks.

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Nothing Will Change

OFCOM? Another useless government department wasting more taxpayers money and only protecting big corporations.

Everyone knows these contracts are a scam to sign people up on low deals and then hike up the prices. Mobile phone companies have been allowed to get away with it, by OFCOM, so other companies will jump on the gravy train.

“Ofcom rules state that customers can only leave mobile contracts early, penalty-free, if the price hike is of “material detriment” “

Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it

New Version

$3.5k is crazy money, especially when Vision Pro 2 is released.

Yeah, Rishi, it's AI that'll make Britain great again

The Game is Rigged

Ask yourself this question:

Why did a man who is worth £900 million, take a job on £165k ?

UK telco watchdog Ofcom, Minnesota Dept of Ed named as latest MOVEit victims

OFCOM - The government’s propaganda non-regulator.

Cry-pto: Feds bury Bitcoin exchange giant Binance in 13-count fraud lawsuit

Re: Another one bites the dust

Binance was founded in 2017 and has $69 billion in assets.

EU passes world's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrency

CBDC = Digital ID

You don’t need it but governments want to tie your Digital ID to money.

CBDC’s will require an app on your phone. They’ll offer free money to download it and people will lap it up.

Once you submit all your details via the app the government can now track all of your movements and financial transactions. This removes all of your privacy and freedom.

CBDC Trojan Horse

The EU will say anything to introduce Digital ID. When you download that friendly government CBDC app your privacy and freedom have gone.

Let’s create loads of fear around crypto being bad so we can save everyone:

“U.S. Treasury Department says that fiat still accounts for the majority of financial crimes.”

“Chainalysis found that the share of illegal money in crypto is only 0.15% of all transactions in 2021.”

https://beincrypto.com/fiat-still-accounts-for-the-majority-of-financial-crimes-us-treasury-department-report/

Users complain over UK state-owned bank's services as Atos eyes the exit

Let’s Hope

Let’s hope Atos don’t get the CBDC contract.

That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models

Re: Eminently qualified

Any idiot (MP) can keep increasing taxes.

Brit cops rapped over app that recorded 200k phone calls

Is Anyone Surprised?

Is anyone surprised the Police are using technology to record conversations when they’re recording you on video via CCTV and monitoring your internet activity?

NHS England considered using Palantir tech to manage strike disruption

Control is a Drug to Government

“NHS England considered using Palantir tech to manage strike disruption”.

Translation:

The government are using Palantir tech to track staff who went on strike.

UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle

Money Making and Control

Palantir will win because those making the decisions have loads of shares in the company which will shoot up in value when the contract is awarded.

Also, Palantir proved during COVID how quickly they can pass your data to the police so you get a knock at the door. Government love this level of control.

Tech giants looking for ways to wriggle out of UK digital tax, watchdog warns

Tax is a Scam

Tax is only there to keep the little people down.

Australian bank stops handling cash at the counter in some branches

CBDC

50% of cash points closed in the UK.

Lots of restaurants are now cashless.

CBDC is being promoted by the government.

Get ready for the CBDC app which they’ll fool people in to downloading with an offer of £10 for free in your digital wallet.

This is Digital ID by the back door. Full control and surveillance is imminent.

Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals

Re: Well certainly putting the "bin" in binance then

So you supplied no evidence other than the corrupt IMF?

Oh I believe you then.

Re: Well certainly putting the "bin" in binance then

Easy.

Peer to Peer

PayPal

Lightening Network

Re: Well certainly putting the "bin" in binance then

When all the banks closed in Ukraine when the war started what do you think was still working?

People were buying things with Bitcoin.

People could also flee the country immediately and still have access to funds once they reached another country.

Oppressed people and people in countries who don’t trust their banks also use Bitcoin as currency.

People who can’t get a bank account use Bitcoin.

1.7 billion people don’t have a bank account but Bitcoin allows them to become their own bank.

I think these are good examples of blockchain solving very important problems.

How many HPE staff does it take to pay for one CEO? 271

Juggling the Numbers

It’s easy to pay someone at the top in millions if you’re not paying commission to those at the bottom.

Bank of England won't call it Britcoin but says digital pound 'likely to be needed in future'

There isn’t a digital pound in the UK. There are however digital transactions.

CBDC’s will require digital wallets and that means ultimate control because now the government has a Digital ID system by stealth.

Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

Great Distraction Susan

So Susan doesn’t want to do anything about nearly every processed supermarket product containing seed oils or massive amounts of sugar that’s making people ill or obese, so blames it on office staff?

Great distraction technique.

Apart from meat, fruit and vegetables, try buying something from your chosen supermarket that doesn’t contain toxic seed oils. Top tip, vegetable oil is not made from vegetables.

NHS England Palantir contract extension could result in further legal threats

Re: "Better understand their waiting lists and pressures in near real-time"

And so did all of the UK’s money!

The Real Use for This Data

“digital-profiling tools for the CIA and US immigration agency ICE”

All you need to know.

Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red

Bitcoin or CBDC’s ?

So which one are you choosing, Bitcoin or CBDC’s?

This isn’t a joke, this is the reality. People are buying Bitcoin because they don’t want to be slaves controlled by the government’s CBDC. 105 countries are testing CBDC’s and governments want to attach it to digital ID’s and your carbon footprint.

This report is the continuing FUD to scare people away from Bitcoin adoption. The FCA saying it’s bad yet banks are buying loads of it.

Germany says nein to Qatari World Cup spyware, err, apps

Don’t Worry

Don’t worry, Gary Neville said he’s going over there to call them out on any wrongdoing.

CEO told to die in a car crash after firing engineers who had two full-time jobs

Who Has the Most Jobs?

Isn’t there over 600 useless MP’s that all have multiple jobs and never do the first one they’re supposed to be doing?

America, use Bitcoin instead of old-school money? Not likely, says Fed

The FED Are Not Fooling Anyone

The FED don’t like Bitcoin because they can’t go to war with it to defend the dollar.

Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens

Re: Explain to me how this is supposed to be better than the old way of doing things?

Bitcoin is a better than the old way of doing things, “crypto” is not.

Fiat = centralised

Crypto = centralised

Bitcoin = decentralised

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

Only Part of the Story

Isn’t it interesting how all these studies compare Bitcoin with other things they don’t agree with, like oil or beef farming?

Why didn’t they compare usage against the fiat banking system, tumble driers or Christmas lights, air conditioning or the aviation industry?

Ultimately the figures used in this study are incorrect. Claiming Bitcoin mining is worse for the environment than gold mining is laughable. These figures have been presented for many years.

The author clearly doesn’t understand that Bitcoin and crypto currencies are not the same. This basic flaw in his understanding undermines the credibility of any of the data presented.

Barclays inks multi-year deal with Microsoft, starts rolling out Teams

Busy

The only good thing about Teams is being able to set your status to “Busy”

US treasury whips up sanctions for crypto mixer Tornado Cash

Privacy Should be Protected

Let’s first note that illegal crypto transfers were only 0.15% of all crypto transactions in 2021.

People use mixers for privacy as most blockchains are public. You wouldn’t want your bank transactions public so crypto is no different.

Governments are banging the terrorism drum because they want to control everything. Why do you think 50% of cash points have been removed? CBDC’s are being trialled by 105 countries so governments will be able to track everything you’ve purchased and all of your movements. They don’t want people moving to crypto as it offers privacy.

DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (and Bitcoin) security

FUD

More FUD from the US government. They are paving the way for their Central Bank Digital Currency.

Why don’t they release a paper on how many times the centralised banking system has been hacked?

US brings first-of-its-kind criminal charges of Bitcoin-based sanctions-busting

Distraction

Isn’t it funny how the US prosecutors love making these Bitcoin cases public but we hear very little of the massive amount of fiat money laundering that goes on by the big banks?

0.15% of illegal activity uses crypto.

3-5% uses US dolllars.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/2022-National-Money-Laundering-Risk-Assessment.pdf

Coinbase CEO says everything's OK after SEC filing gives netizens the jitters

Re: At some stage

So you think 9% return against inflation of over 10% is a hedge!

Interesting maths.

Re: At some stage

Unfortunately all 3 of your statements are incorrect. I noticed you gave zero evidence to prove your statements.

HEX went up 10,000% in 2 years and if you held Bitcoin you received it for free.

I didn’t say that I think Bitcoin will go up 12,800% again.

I’m very happy and I’m most definitely not broke.

I’m also not blinkered enough to keep ignoring investments which offer life changing wealth. It’s like claiming Bitcoin isn’t an inflation hedge in the middle of a market crash. There are no hedges at that point. Inflation was talked about over 2 years ago. Bitcoin is up 237% in 2 years. If people think that’s not a hedge they don’t understand maths.

Have fun staying poor.

Re: At some stage

Tell me you have no Bitcoin without telling me you have no Bitcoin.

As you’re the font of all financial knowledge why not share with us what is the best unconfiscatable asset available that can give a 12,800% in 7 years?

All the thumbs down are from Nocoiner’s.

Re: At some stage

You can’t compare centralised “companies” against decentralised software.

Centralised companies are a single point of failure. It’s also the reason why all currencies have failed over time.

Re: At some stage

All investments are down. All markets have crashed. Peoples pension portfolios are down. Netflix is down 64%. So what you’re saying is you don’t have any Bitcoin and you haven’t looked at the liquidity shortage on exchanges. Do some research on how much Bitcoin is not moving from cold storage. Bitcoin is the world’s best performing asset over the last 10 years.

People are buying gold and Bitcoin because they know CBDC’s are coming. If you have no assets, you have no power. We saw what happened to the Canadian truckers bank accounts. The only way to be self sovereign is to be your own bank.

Also remember, Bitcoin is not crypto currency. The word crypto has been banded about by those wishing to promote centralised Altcoins. Bitcoin is the only decentralised asset.

Cryptocurrency laundromat Blender shredded by US Treasury in sanctions first

Re: Misinformation Campaign

US Treasury report says different.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/2022-National-Money-Laundering-Risk-Assessment.pdf

Obviously your reading skills are bollocks.

Next.

Misinformation Campaign

3 - 5% of fiat currency is used for illicit activities.

Only 0.15% of crypto is used for illicit activities.

The banking system misinformation campaign is working well.

We can’t have a new banking system where the peasants can control their own money otherwise we become irrelevant. Let’s blame everything on crypto.

Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans

Re: Distraction

Bitcoin’s total transaction value in 2021 was 20% more than Visa. Therefore I believe your view that people are getting more benefit out of tumble driers is incorrect. This was Bloomberg’s findings but doesn’t include all other Altcoins.

Bitcoin uses 58% renewable energy. The U.K. only produces about 39% renewable energy and the that number is falling rapidly due to the unfavourable weather.

Bitcoin uses less than half the energy of the banking system or gold industries.

Bitcoin is a digital store of value better than gold. Instant transactions can be run on Bitcoin rails, utilising the Lightning Network, which is better than the banking system.

Datacenters in Ireland draw more power than all rural homes put together

Energy Consumption is BAD !!

This is the new narrative the mainstream media is belt feeding to everyone.

Energy consumption is a good thing, otherwise we’d all still be living in caves. However, the narrative is that green energy from wind and solar is what we need because rich land owners have incentivised their politician and media friends to say so.

No mention of nuclear energy for years though? Isn’t that funny. Oh yes, it’s because we can’t get subsidies off every single person who pays an energy bill.

The media were told to start a witch hunt against crypto mining, now it’s data centres, next it’ll be tumble driers and Christmas lights.

Let’s blame the energy “users” as it distracts from politicians choosing to adopt green energy solutions that don’t work but make maximum profits for them and their mates.