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Echoes of Mt Gox: when something meant to be a much smaller operation (such as a place to trade Magic:The Gathering cards) suddenly finds itself playing a much
by red_admiral 5y ago
Echoes of Mt Gox: when something meant to be a much smaller operation (such as a place to trade Magic:The Gathering cards) suddenly finds itself playing a much bigger game.
It's like you agreed to temporarily store the Fort Knox gold reserves in your spare room, but still have the same ordinary lock on the front door.
- mhitza 5y ago> Fort Knox gold reserves in your spare room What do you mean a wooden safe isn't good enough?! Joke aside. This is the reality we live in. Almost makes heist movies pale in comparison. The failed Die Hard heist was planned in order to steal $640M. I wonder how long until Hollywood will start making movies about these hacks.
- babyshake 5y ago> I wonder how long until Hollywood will start making movies about these hacks. I'm guessing they would portray it as being in the "metaverse" so they get to actually show a physical heist happening. And yes, of course that's not even remotely how any of this works but that's never stopped Hollywood before.
- bombcar 5y agoThese hacks are boring, it's just code - the closest to making code look cool was perhaps the Matrix. Oceans 11 is interesting because what they're doing is explainable and interesting, running various commands in a console window isn't.
- rchaud 5y agoThere is a whole genre of teen thriller movies that play out entirely in the medium of messages sent back and forth on phone screens. It's exactly as exciting as you can imagine.
- imtringued 5y agoProbably about as exciting as stacking icons on ingame maps. https://youtu.be/W12zKDvHsQI https://youtu.be/W12zKDvHsQI
- rchaud 5y agoThere is a whole genre of teen thriller movies that play out entirely in the medium of messages sent back and forth on phone screens. It's exactly as exciting as it sounds.
- sincerely 5y agoMt Gox was a place to buy MTGO cards, but had been closed for years before the owner reused the domain name to host the bitcoin exchange.