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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by PMan74 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @06:36AM (#14846632)
> Is anyone making money on Ethereum in ways that are unrelated to just currency appreciation/speculation?

Yeah, the hackers seems to be doing alright out of it.

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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by ghthor on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:14AM (#14846784)
They aren't hackers, they are scammers and crackers. Hackers are builders and creators, they persevere in the face of improper tools by being creative.
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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by dsacco on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:47AM (#14846962)
That ship sailed a long time ago. The commonly accepted definition is now the one you're contesting.
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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by sethrin on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:15AM (#14847845)
Both definitions are commonly accepted, for certain values of 'common'. The positive definition is limited to the tech industry, of course. I don't think that there is any appropriate situation to try to correct other people's usage, but I'm sympathetic to the idea that one should use the word properly on this site.
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