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Vietnamese family commits suicide after Nicehash lost their Bitcoin investment

23 points by duramato 9y ago

breakpointalpha 9y ago
That seems a bit extreme.
themoat 9y ago
I'm suspicious when I hear that more than one person to committed suicide. When there's a child involved in the parents' "suicide"...
- mr_spothawk 9y ago
  rightly so, according to the second paragraph police suspect the husband poisoned wife and child.
orasis 9y ago
Each of us has some small responsibility in this, call it karma if you will. These outcomes highlight the importance of telling the truth rather than promoting ideas that are in our selfish best interests. Jordan Peterson has some excellent talks about this - https://youtu.be/EfEK-Pmi7v0 https://youtu.be/EfEK-Pmi7v0
- boobsbr 9y ago
  > Each of us has some small responsibility in this How am I responsible for this?
  - orasis 9y ago
    Indra’s Net connects us all, especially in meme-space. We grow or diminish memes based on the fuel we give them. BitCoin is not an investment. It is speculative baseball card trading and its harder to keep safe from theft than baseball cards. This is the truth as I see it.
divbit 9y ago
This is terrible - the thing about cryptocurrency, as opposed to traditional investments (or just banks), is it's extremely rigid, which means if you misplace a digit, you can lose a lot of stuff. I would guess that you shouldn't really expect to get out much more, in traditional currency terms, than you put in, in traditional currency terms (and, stuck on Earth, what else is there). Imho cryptology has it's place in the privacy and security realm, so the real use case for playing with these things is as training to do work in that area (obviously feel free to disagree).
- divbit 9y ago
  Sidenote: Given the types of people that are traditionally familiar with public key use (journalists, linux users, etc.), and weird tax situations these highly fluctuating, unregulated type things might create, sometimes I wonder if cryptocoins might be a tool used by unscrupulous governments or such to knock-off opponents (certainly not in this case, but given that it's a global thing, it could be anyone... ).

23 points by duramato 9y ago

That seems a bit extreme.

I'm suspicious when I hear that more than one person to committed suicide. When there's a child involved in the parents' "suicide"...

mr_spothawk 9y ago
rightly so, according to the second paragraph police suspect the husband poisoned wife and child.

orasis 9y ago

Each of us has some small responsibility in this, call it karma if you will. These outcomes highlight the importance of telling the truth rather than promoting ideas that are in our selfish best interests. Jordan Peterson has some excellent talks about this - https://youtu.be/EfEK-Pmi7v0 https://youtu.be/EfEK-Pmi7v0

boobsbr 9y ago
> Each of us has some small responsibility in this How am I responsible for this?
- orasis 9y ago
  Indra’s Net connects us all, especially in meme-space. We grow or diminish memes based on the fuel we give them. BitCoin is not an investment. It is speculative baseball card trading and its harder to keep safe from theft than baseball cards. This is the truth as I see it.

divbit 9y ago

This is terrible - the thing about cryptocurrency, as opposed to traditional investments (or just banks), is it's extremely rigid, which means if you misplace a digit, you can lose a lot of stuff. I would guess that you shouldn't really expect to get out much more, in traditional currency terms, than you put in, in traditional currency terms (and, stuck on Earth, what else is there). Imho cryptology has it's place in the privacy and security realm, so the real use case for playing with these things is as training to do work in that area (obviously feel free to disagree).

divbit 9y ago
Sidenote: Given the types of people that are traditionally familiar with public key use (journalists, linux users, etc.), and weird tax situations these highly fluctuating, unregulated type things might create, sometimes I wonder if cryptocoins might be a tool used by unscrupulous governments or such to knock-off opponents (certainly not in this case, but given that it's a global thing, it could be anyone... ).