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299 points gastonmorixe | 8 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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jchw ◴[12 Nov 25 10:53 UTC] No.45898647[source]▶
I tried to donate, but apparently I am not human:

> 1 error prohibited this submission from being saved:

> Looks like you are not a human

Good to know.

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autoexec ◴[12 Nov 25 11:28 UTC] No.45898869[source]▶
I'm not sure why they'd try so hard to keep bots from paying them anyway. If someone wants to write a bot that constantly pays me good money I'm fine with that. I might rate limit it if the stream of payments coming in can't cover the cost of keeping the server from being DoS'd, but that's not going to inconvenience a human trying to submit a payment one time.
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1. slv77 ◴[12 Nov 25 11:55 UTC] No.45899049[source]▶
Bots use sites like this to validate lists of stolen cards with low dollar donations to validate the cards before using them on the target site. Without some one of protection sites like these are quickly flooded with fraudulent transactions and then fined and shut down by Visa and Mastercard.
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2. lapsis_beeftech ◴[12 Nov 25 12:06 UTC] No.45899156[source]▶
This sounds like a problem where cryptocurrency could actually be the solution. Next time I want to make a charitable donation I will ask for an XMR address to preserve my privacy and work around commercial payment processor issues.
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3. lez ◴[12 Nov 25 13:45 UTC] No.45900092[source]▶
I was thinking the same. Seems HN is now pro-bank and anti-cryptocurrency.
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4. FabHK ◴[12 Nov 25 14:27 UTC] No.45900618{3}[source]▶
HN is anti-nonsense, anti-hype, anti-crime, so, yeah, pretty anti-cryptocurrency.
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5. dlahoda ◴[12 Nov 25 14:57 UTC] No.45901023{4}[source]▶
until one's society started to collapse, one does not think crypto is good
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6. mynameisash ◴[12 Nov 25 15:40 UTC] No.45901497{5}[source]▶
When society collapses, will we still have reliable infrastructure (internet and electricity, to be specific) on which cryptocurrency depends?
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7. dlahoda ◴[12 Nov 25 19:11 UTC] No.45904674{6}[source]▶
another one from high trust stable place. glad for you being there.

have you heard about decentralization?

society is not civilization. local vs global.

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8. mynameisash ◴[12 Nov 25 20:05 UTC] No.45905675{7}[source]▶
> society is not civilization. local vs global.

I agree, and I am still pointing to the collapse of society, not civilization. My infrastructure is local. If local society collapses, what reason do people have to maintain transmission and distribution lines and electrical substations, to work at power plants, to maintain fiber optic or copper lines for internet connectivity?

Even if "the internet" as a whole is still around, the inability for someone to connect to and to use it means cryptocurrency is similarly useless.