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Snipped from the sun but apparently direct quotes... I think fair enough.
@Stonehedge pretty much what you asked for, no?

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I've seen a few stories about Bitcoin Scams recently
It's hard to feel sorry for some people.

Imagine someone who has unfathomable wealth, and they decide to make a massive altruistic act.
What would they do? Make a serious impact on world hunger, or provide clean drinking water to millions, or end homelessness, or many other acts that would help the most impoverished on our planet.
But no, they are going to give back double the money that someone (who is in the top 3% earners on the planet) gives them.

Really?

Someone has dug something up on another cricketer it seems, from when they were 16. Not yet named.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/57393217

Wait, how do we know that's not the fake BBC news article and actually she's super rich?!

Ms Bushnell, a gambler in cryptocurrency

BBC needs a word with itself if it thinks this stuff is legitimate 'investing'

*Checks Jimmy was over 16 before Twitter was launched. As you were.

The BBC story on El Salvador and Bitcoin was embarrassing. They dug up some cryptocurrency marketeer as their only "expert", who was of course all "woo!" and "Bitcoin gonna go green!" etc. No critical thought involved.

is there some mega DDOS in progress? bunch of hi profile shizzle is down.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16032268/

Amazon Web Services problem, I've heard?

Edit: I'm wrong & Oliver is spot-on

that'll do it.

oooh those russians!

Not really asking for it but at least he seems to have had the decency to admit that his actions were racist and sexist. Too often the apologies are along the lines of "im sorry for causing offence but i'm not a racist". Subtle difference but quite important.

If people don't feel able to fully admit what they did was wrong and came from a position of ignorance and bigotry then there's no hope that people will change imho.

Is that why the guardian is down?

I had an email from MacKenzie Scott last week. Written in German no less. Turns out she received a bunch of money from ol' Jeff and wants to give me $100,000,000. All she needs is for me to pay the $10,000 transfer fee in Bitcoin.

Think so. Beeb about to put out a story.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57399628

The BBC story on El Salvador and Bitcoin was embarrassing. They dug up some cryptocurrency marketeer as their only "expert", who was of course all "woo!" and "Bitcoin gonna go green!" etc. No critical thought involved.

Could you ping me a link please?

gov.uk too, that's just great

https://status.fastly.com/

'Vast swathes of the web are currently offline, including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times and the Financial Times websites. '

Wow, lots of websites down, is this one still working?

I think the finger of suspicion points straight at Elton.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070802/011353.shtml

I used to work with Jimmy when he was 16. I remember very little about him though so the anecdote does tail off a little.

Boo hiss, everything's back up again.

Yeah, agree.

Yeah, agree.

Similarly, the "fuck off you racist" response from many people isn't going to help the situation much.