Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Elon Musk was actually saying he would give give everyone like 2 eth if you send him 0.2 during the launch. (I don't recall the exact amounts) Unfortunately I have not mined that much yet.
Bah, rooky!
Elon Musk was actually saying he would give give everyone like 2 eth if you send him 0.2 during the launch. (I don't recall the exact amounts) Unfortunately I have not mined that much yet.
Hmm I knew it sounded fishy, but given it was coming from his account (it was actually right on his feed) I could not really figure out how a scam like that would work unless his account was hacked which was not the case as he was also posting updates on the launch. But yeah I don't do twitter enough so must be some kind of weird trick that is easy to miss if you're not familiar with Twitter. I also had figured that people would be calling it out as a scam, or Elon himself would delete the tweet. But it just stayed there.
Looks like lot of people fell for it too: https://www.etherchain.org/account/44bd8348a45ac183c358a9b59dea0f8ba1721129
Yeah it wasn't his account. These scammers use the same name and picture, but the actual Twitter handle is different. As someone who played Eve online for years, it was super easy to spot these scams.Hmm I knew it sounded fishy, but given it was coming from his account (it was actually right on his feed) I could not really figure out how a scam like that would work unless his account was hacked which was not the case as he was also posting updates on the launch. But yeah I don't do twitter enough so must be some kind of weird trick that is easy to miss if you're not familiar with Twitter. I also had figured that people would be calling it out as a scam, or Elon himself would delete the tweet. But it just stayed there.
Looks like lot of people fell for it too: https://www.etherchain.org/account/44bd8348a45ac183c358a9b59dea0f8ba1721129
Hmm I knew it sounded fishy, but given it was coming from his account (it was actually right on his feed) I could not really figure out how a scam like that would work unless his account was hacked which was not the case as he was also posting updates on the launch. But yeah I don't do twitter enough so must be some kind of weird trick that is easy to miss if you're not familiar with Twitter. I also had figured that people would be calling it out as a scam, or Elon himself would delete the tweet. But it just stayed there.
Looks like lot of people fell for it too: https://www.etherchain.org/account/44bd8348a45ac183c358a9b59dea0f8ba1721129
It's *not* from his account. It was from an account that ripped his profile pic and display name but was actually "elonn muusk" or something like that. They reply to the legitimate twitter account as one of the first replies in order to fool people who don't notice it's a different account.
It's a very common scam:
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q="i'm giving away" "to my followers"&src=typd
Oh is this some weird unicode thing where they use letters that LOOK like letters but arn't the same ones? Because that's the first thing I checked when I saw it, that the name matched, and it did. Kinda wish I had taken a screenshot now. It looked very legit, but I also had some slight doubts. I do admit if I had 0.2 eth I probably would have tried it though.... I would not have bought eth to do it, but if I had some from mining or whatever I probably would have used it. Glad I didn't. Seems it's a rather well crafted scam. I usually don't fall for crap like that.
That said, the world might be close to ending when Dallas gets below freezing
There will be a thread titled "Wow Bitcoin is almost $1,500" again soon, except this time it will be coming from the other direction.
That day can't come soon enough.
Yum... jam. Maybe someone should make a crypto for that!
The best thing about this thread is all the jealous people. Here's something free.
Meh, still worth it to run NiceHash on my rigs when it gets cold enough outside.
Electric heat is electric heat
That said, the world might be close to ending when Dallas gets below freezing
If you run electric heat may as well just keep it running either way. wattage is wattage, it all converts to heat. Heck if crypto dies out I would just do folding@home or something on those rigs.
I heat with gas but as long as the rigs are making money then I also see it as slightly offsetting the gas bill. It's basically free heat.
Exactly! I use NiceHash to run (what I think it is / selects) XMR on a bunch of dual Westmere rigs.If you run electric heat may as well just keep it running either way. wattage is wattage, it all converts to heat. Heck if crypto dies out I would just do folding@home or something on those rigs.