Maybe they can send some of this money to the Wuhan Institive of Virology to research respiratory viruses in bats and some to Raph Baric at UNC for vaccine development. What could go wrong?
If they didn't have RCE but could push config to the router, they might have pushed a syslog destination and then mined the logs. URLs for uncrypted HTTP requests could end up in the logs due to ALG, parental filtering or any other numbers of features. If you replayed such URLs from a large enough set of victims over a long enough period of time, you'd find something valuable in a response sooner or later.
You have a good point but I feel overwhelmed with subscriptions today. Between personal and business I have easily got 40 or more paid subscriptions. It's not just media but software too. Mac apps, iPhone apps, web apps. They're hard to cancel and easy to forget (until I check my bank statements). And they dip into my bank account with no renewal confirmation or approval. And they'll happily self-renew for the next year without being used once in the last year.
Of course I signed up to and pre-authorised all of this, and forgot to cancel when I stopped using them, so it's 100% my own fault. But something doesn't feel right about it.
Surely cold storage is compatible with segregated accounts using payment channels or one of the other novel Bitcoin mechanisms. But if not, and cold-storage had to be abandoned, then that would have been a good signal to walk away.
And if accounts had to be segregated then losses should have been segregated too, not socialised.
Sunk costs have no bearing on the logic that "if miners are spending more on electricity than the Bitcoins they mine are worth then they should immediately stop mining".
You're falling for the so-called "sunk cost fallacy".
What does have a bearing is whether they intend to sell or hold those Bitcoins. If they believe the value go up before they sell, then they would continue to mine speculatively.
Another layman here. In claim 1 it refers to "a space outside the structure" which to me implies this is literally a hold right through the aircraft. EDIT: I think I'm wrong here, the structure refers just to the cabin.
This requires signup which completely defeats the object of Bitcoin donations and leads me to the conclusion that this site is a thinly veiled attempt to attract users to Beam.
I know only this because I genuinely tried to donate.
Or they realised too late that they had a bug which caused some people to get back 900% instead of 120%. That would break the model. Underpaying is something you could correct retroactively, overpaying not so easy.