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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by joe_the_user on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:56PM (#33554031)
Maybe you're thinking of Etherium or other smart-contract systems, Etherium is a system where things like that happen automatically. With Bitcoin, the only thing you have is a secure (but static) ledger of who (which wallet/id) has what bitcoins. Any transfers have to be "manually" and just recorded by the blockchain.

Of course, the automatic processes in Etherium produce a bunch of other weird effects.

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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by mccorrinall on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:38PM (#33554596)
Where does this Etherium-meme(?) come from? I’ve seen several people writing Etherium and Monaro instead of Ethereum and Monero on mailing lists, but never understood what it means and where it comes from.
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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by UncleEntity on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:06PM (#33554924)
Since when is bad spelling a meme?
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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by chidg on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:32AM (#33558451)
This particular misspelling happens often enough (on this forum) that I don't think it's unreasonable to think that some people are doing it intentionally as a form of trolling.
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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by mccorrinall on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:14AM (#33559336)
It must be a meme, especially since a quick search reveals that joe_the_user wrote it correctly 1 year ago!
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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by joe_the_user on Saturday November 12, 2022 @12:22AM (#33570218)
My gawd, I'm moderately dyslexic and I need to check my spelling on everything unusual. I generally succeed but this time I didn't. It's truly bizarre that you think there's anything weird here.

Overall, I'd suspect people not immersed in the crypto world would easily fall into a spelling that "sounds" like they remember it - spelling phonetically is a lousy way to spell but some percentage of the world does it.

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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by mccorrinall on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:40AM (#33636739)
Oh, nevermind then.
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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by joe_the_user on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:57PM (#33555450)
Maybe 'cause they're phonetically similar?
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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by mccorrinall on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:15AM (#33559343)
You tell me!

So, there is no interesting lore behind it?

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