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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by colesantiago on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:09AM (#30135905)
TL;DR: He completely lost his money by entering the wrong details rather than testing payment first.
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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by freemint on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:34AM (#30136603)
He tested it by converting Euros to Dollars first, used it for a while and then put Dollars in to the same machine and they were shredded.

He did test but using the wrong mental model.

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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by dahart on Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:06AM (#30138332)
Why do we have a machine that shreds any dollars? Who anywhere is interested in a dollar shredding feature?
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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by marcosdumay on Sunday January 30, 2022 @12:30PM (#30139088)
That's the correct question.

The supporters here are saying "yeah, it shreds dollars, he should have known that". And yeah, if you have a machine that shreds dollars, you better know what it does. That's a good reason for not having such a machine.

Anyway, ETH seems to be full of those features where it shreds money on places that are really not obvious and sometimes gets every single person by surprise.

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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by CRConrad on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:36PM (#30171334)
> Why do we have a machine that shreds any dollars?

Fuck knows. No legit reason that I can see; because cryptards are idiots, is the only thing that comes to mind.

> Who anywhere is interested in a dollar shredding feature?

Nobody with the least bit of sense. (But, see above...) That's why he was complaining about it.

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