{"id":2261,"date":"2017-11-17T08:16:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T08:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2017-11-17T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:56:09","slug":"bail-bloc-the-new-inquiry-recommends-you-steal-electricity-to-run-bail-bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/17\/bail-bloc-the-new-inquiry-recommends-you-steal-electricity-to-run-bail-bloc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail Bloc: The New Inquiry recommends you steal electricity to run Bail Bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Inquiry’s written a revised FAQ<\/a> (archive<\/a>) for their utterly misconceived Bail Bloc<\/a> initiative, to mine Monero to help fund a bail bond charity. It reads like a direct response to my post, though of course there’s no link to what they’re responding to. I should note that they disagree that you’ll be mining at a loss, by the way \u2014 they link to a mining profit calculator that shows a profit right now. (One that doesn’t account for the cost of burning out your graphics card<\/a>, however. Always figure hardware!)<\/p>\n

I said previously:<\/p>\n

Of course, the obvious nod-nod wink-wink use for Bail Bloc is corporate theft \u2014 take back some of the surplus value you generate for your horrible boss and pass it to a charitable cause. The problem there is that corporate networks tend, for obvious reasons, to have good virus checking; run this and you can quickly share a fate with the sort of people who were fired for running Bitcoin miners at work back in the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Guess what they’ve just added to the FAQ?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re worried about even a small increase in your electricity bill\u2013we\u2019re talking $1-2\u2013try using Bail Bloc in a place where an institution pays the bills: at your place of employment, at school, or at a coffee shop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New Inquiry is literally recommending you commit electricity theft to fund their wizard wheeze.<\/p>\n

While you could conceivably argue a moral case for stealing the electricity, there’s the slight problem that they’re recommending you commit a crime<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 one you can actually go to jail for<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 to … pay bail for other people arrested on suspicion of crimes.<\/p>\n

Maybe they can do Bail Bloc 2, to bail out people arrested for running Bail Bloc 1!<\/p>\n

There’s a reason crypto people have the sort of reputation they do. Monero, it’s a hell of a drug.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> The suggestion of who to steal electricity from has been updated<\/a> — it now specifies a gentrifying<\/i> coffee shop.<\/p>\n

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Really: The New Inquiry is literally recommending you commit electricity theft to fund their wizard wheeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[239,96,243],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bail-bloc","tag-monero","tag-the-new-inquiry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}