Topic: Confession: I want to become a Bitcoin hacker - page 2. (Read 288 times)
If you get some nethashing factory "payrolls". You must live somewhere else when "shit hits fan" and "human haunt begins" , Interpol, Europol, CIA, FBI, Echelon/NSA.
The thought of being able to sit in one's own house in one's own pajamas while making thousands (and sometimes even millions) of dollars in just a few seconds with just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks is, I have to admit, very, very tempting.
Whenever I hear news of a cryptocurrency exchange or business being hacked and losing coins, I feel bad for them yes but I also feel intense jealousy. I feel jealous because I am not the hacker. I wish I could do what they can do.
The beautiful thing about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is that they are decentralized and no central authority can take your wealth away from you. A passphrase consisting of 12 normal English words could hold millions of dollars in Bitcoin but is impossible to brute force with even the fastest supercomputers. The key to the wallet is in your head. Bitcoin is not like cash sitting in a bank's vault or numbers in a bank's database. And if one takes certain precautions, then any coins can be made almost untraceable (although this takes time).
I see parallels with the Harry Potter novels. Those Bitcoin hackers have chosen to join the "dark side" of our society and this is analogous to the wizards who decided to join the ranks of Voldemort's army. But while Voldemort's army was defeated in the end of the seventh novel, the same is not true in this world. Those who follow the "good side" end up being shafted by our society in the end. They take out loans and go into debt to waste 45 years of their life slaving away in a 9-5 job under a boss that they hate and maybe if they are lucky then they will get to enjoy a mediocre retirement. And by the time I am 65, it's almost guaranteed that the retirement age will be lifted even further.
Meanwhile, the anonymous Bitcoin hackers get to enjoy their spoils at typically ripe young ages (often in their twenties) and 9 times out of 10, are never to be heard from again.
Now, you might be wondering why I'm posting this here. Am I not incriminating myself? Am I not a lousy hacker for exposing my thoughts online? Well, the answer is no. You see, the thing is, I want to become a Bitcoin hacker. But I am not a Bitcoin hacker. I have only just started learning the basic fundamentals of Python, Java, HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL on edX and have roughly the same amount of technical knowledge as a 1st year computer science student.
So I'm not scared. I have done nothing wrong so far. To dream is not a crime.
Whenever I hear news of a cryptocurrency exchange or business being hacked and losing coins, I feel bad for them yes but I also feel intense jealousy. I feel jealous because I am not the hacker. I wish I could do what they can do.
The beautiful thing about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is that they are decentralized and no central authority can take your wealth away from you. A passphrase consisting of 12 normal English words could hold millions of dollars in Bitcoin but is impossible to brute force with even the fastest supercomputers. The key to the wallet is in your head. Bitcoin is not like cash sitting in a bank's vault or numbers in a bank's database. And if one takes certain precautions, then any coins can be made almost untraceable (although this takes time).
I see parallels with the Harry Potter novels. Those Bitcoin hackers have chosen to join the "dark side" of our society and this is analogous to the wizards who decided to join the ranks of Voldemort's army. But while Voldemort's army was defeated in the end of the seventh novel, the same is not true in this world. Those who follow the "good side" end up being shafted by our society in the end. They take out loans and go into debt to waste 45 years of their life slaving away in a 9-5 job under a boss that they hate and maybe if they are lucky then they will get to enjoy a mediocre retirement. And by the time I am 65, it's almost guaranteed that the retirement age will be lifted even further.
Meanwhile, the anonymous Bitcoin hackers get to enjoy their spoils at typically ripe young ages (often in their twenties) and 9 times out of 10, are never to be heard from again.
Now, you might be wondering why I'm posting this here. Am I not incriminating myself? Am I not a lousy hacker for exposing my thoughts online? Well, the answer is no. You see, the thing is, I want to become a Bitcoin hacker. But I am not a Bitcoin hacker. I have only just started learning the basic fundamentals of Python, Java, HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL on edX and have roughly the same amount of technical knowledge as a 1st year computer science student.
So I'm not scared. I have done nothing wrong so far. To dream is not a crime.
Jump to: