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This is all of tech right now.

I suspect if you incur a fine due to your refusal to provide data, they might deny your entry next time you try to visit. Just a guess though.

Emphasis on FUN

That makes sense. I just don’t think the economics work for anyone to spend time developing this. It would take work to get to the point where it’s functional (which is potentially quite expensive). Beyond that, a domain name is $10-$15 a year and hosting would be $5-$7 a month. For $0.65 per request, it’s just not worth it.

I’d need a little over a hundred requests a year to break even on just mandatory external costs (development costs are harder to estimate and would almost certainly be 10x, 20x or more of the other costs).

I think the issue here is that someone has to pay to run that, and while I don’t want to discount your use case, I think this is already solved in a variety of (cheaper) ways.

Would you pay for a service like this, and if so, how much?

Look at the zoomed out 5 year chart for its price and you tell me.

$1,839 -> $4,217

No. I think my life is generally too boring to be scripted.

Seems like we just need to circle back and then double click into this. I don’t want there to be any lack of alignment in this cross functional group.

For standard Klondike, ~82%

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.12314

Gold and diamonds can really back ya up.

Good ol’ paid forums.

Sometimes Coinbase is integrated into the checkout flow for “pay with crypto”, but it shouldn’t be needed for most crypto transactions.

Generally the guidance is not to keep funds in an exchange any longer than needed. That’s what you should think of Coinbase as, so no, you shouldn’t keep coins in Coinbase long term. I’m not as deep into BTC, I only hold a little ETH, so my setup might be a little different to yours.

I’d recommend Metamask for a wallet. I think they just added BTC support as well. You will get a recovery phrase when you set up any wallet, make sure you keep it in a safe place, this phrase IS your money. If someone gets it, they have your money. Guard it.

Lemme address your other questions point by point:

• I need a Coinbase account to receive BTC, but I don’t need to keep it there

Nope. You don’t need Coinbase at all. Your wallet can send a receive directly. You need Coinbase to go back and forth between fiat currency (dollars or whatever).

Does it cost anything to move my BTC out of Coinbase?

Yes. All crypto transactions charge a fee. I don’t know if Coinbase charges on top of that, but probably a bit.

is Coinbase safe?

Eh, safe enough. They are publicly traded and US based so that should give you some comfort, but exchanges get hacked and fail, which is why even if they are the best company in the world, you shouldn’t let them hold on to your coins long term.

Hope this helps!

This would ick me out. You’re spending a lot of time in the danger zone as your heating and cooling. Seems like the bacterial byproducts would compound over time.

You have to construct a fence to hide your shame from the street. Freedom baby!

I should call her.

GPT-5.1: so our CEO said he was just gonna ask us to make him profitable and I’m too busy drawing furry versions of people so…nah.

The most alarming evolution in this variant is its aggressive volatility. While the primary goal remains credential theft, the malware includes a destructive fail-safe that triggers if it cannot establish persistence or exfiltrate data.

Certainly as escalation compared to what you normally see in NPM attacks.