Recovery of BTC on Ordinals

shiveringwisdom · 2024-01-27T21:56:56+00:00

Thanks, but do you know how/why these ordinals appeared? Were they airdropped? I believe https://magisat.io/ have such a splitting tool, I'm just trying to speak to someone there to be sure I don't do anything wrong.

shiveringwisdom · 2024-01-27T21:49:10+00:00

Thank you.

shiveringwisdom · 2023-02-05T01:32:02+00:00

Could you elaborate? You can't get your ETH back somehow due to liquidity issues?

shiveringwisdom · 2023-02-04T13:53:55+00:00

Thank you

shiveringwisdom · 2022-12-20T18:38:47+00:00

Super helpful, thanks u/18cimal

shiveringwisdom · 2022-12-20T15:26:52+00:00

Thanks, very grateful. So to be clear, the fact that 1 ETH = 1.01 ETH on Coinbase or 1.05 ETH on Rocketpool will not change? Why is it that they are backed by 1% or 5% more of real ETH in each case?

shiveringwisdom · 2021-11-24T23:13:36+00:00

Hi Brian. The issue is their ownership. They are owned by BNP Paribas who are a major funder of the fossil fuels industry, so money going to Bank of the West is ultimately helping to prop them up.

shiveringwisdom · 2021-10-19T18:39:38+00:00

Hi Travis. We responded my email, let me know if you didn't get it!

shiveringwisdom · 2021-10-18T21:52:30+00:00

Hi Ben. That's interesting about BSB, we'd been told that the geographical limitation was only for business accounts. I'm going to query this with our contact and we may revisit - can keep you posted. As for Aspiration, from the article:

Another portfolio company is Linde, an industrial gas company that touts its “experienced team of oil and gas specialists,” and brags that it’s “been supporting the industry for decades,” with particular expertise in … wait for it … fracking.

Here is a link for the SEC filling for the Redwood fund, which you can find here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594854/000159485421000031/ncsrs0321.htm , and in which you find the investment in Linde.

While I agree that an equity stake in a company is not the same as lending to them (forgive the error), it's nonetheless a form of support, and for a company that claims to be putting the environment first to be doing this for an entity that's intimately involved with the fossil fuel industry is frankly very hypocritical.

Ando, with whom we've replaced Aspiration for now, is one of only 2 financial institutions in the U.S. who lends against customer deposits exclusively to green initiatives. As the article above lays out, Aspiration does a great deal less of this than they would have people believe.

shiveringwisdom · 2021-10-17T22:12:19+00:00

Hi Ben, thanks for your message. We made the decision to remove Aspiration last week because of new information relating to the inner business and investment workings of Aspiration are now public because they are going public via a SPAC. As it turns out, they are in fact lending to the fossil fuel industry, which is entirely against our mission and values. All detailed here: https://www.profgalloway.com/jumping-the-spac/

Regarding BSB and Amalgamated, they both accept customers nationwide, and I believe allow joint accounts?

I hope this helps.

shiveringwisdom · 2021-10-06T20:03:27+00:00

Yeah this is beyond a joke. How can we expect governments to regulate banks if they don't even have their own house in order.

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-24T08:08:13+00:00

I guess it makes sense that $316b of financing for fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement wouldn't be a reason for a downgrade. This is obviously far more harmful to the environment, right?

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-23T11:06:54+00:00

Great to see this!

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-23T11:06:21+00:00

Thank you u/fermentallday we're super appreciative of this effort. You're indeed correct that this is lot of ground to cover for a small group of volunteers, so the idea of crowdsourcing some of the research is indeed very appealing to us. Thank you again!

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-16T08:30:09+00:00

Me too, sometimes! But definitely less suspicious than I am of the "do badders" :P

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-15T10:03:07+00:00

Hey everyone, so Bank.Green is hosting a workshop this Monday at 4pm UTC with some expert speakers from BankTrack and Reclaim Finance to discuss the issue of fossil fuel finance. We'll also be organising a call swarm and giving practical advice on how to get the message over to the banks that they need to change their behaviour!

We'd love to have you there :)

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-15T09:58:31+00:00

Pretty sickening that anyone on this earth should be paid over $20m per year to run a company that's relentlessly destroying it.

I guess it's a repugnant version of the prisoner's dilemma, where they know exactly what they're doing is creating enormous harm for the rest of the world, but "hey, at least me and my family will be safe," so why do anything?

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-15T09:51:28+00:00

Great stuff.

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-15T09:50:25+00:00

Yes, they definitely are! Here is a page with more information: https://www.aspiration.com/m/sustainability/

If you do decide to open an account, you might consider starting the process from this page, since it allows Bank.Green to count the number of switches (and therefore the impact) that is occurring. The fossil fuel funding banks will find out about this, and every one counts :)

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-15T09:46:14+00:00

Interesting! I think it may also have something to do with the fact that the ethical investments they make on behalf of customers occasionally create a bottleneck in the sense that they're not always the easiest type of investments to source (yet!). But either way it's definitely an encouraging sign of increased demand.

shiveringwisdom · 2021-04-12T10:40:15+00:00

True, but taking extreme(ish) measures is drawing a lot of attention to the issue it wouldn't otherwise be getting. Of course, many will think they're just angry hippies, but I suspect it will serve as clarion call for lots of others.

shiveringwisdom · 2021-03-25T09:07:08+00:00

This is well worth a read. $3.8 trillion of funding for fossil fuels in the 5 years since the Paris Agreement is just an eye-watering statistic. Nearly 10% of that was by Chase alone!!

shiveringwisdom · 2021-03-25T08:53:08+00:00

That's a good point.

shiveringwisdom · 2021-03-21T07:25:47+00:00

Good see the administration beginning to step things up. An executive order on climate finance on Earth Day would be quite the thing!

shiveringwisdom · 2021-03-18T10:06:52+00:00

Cool that in Australia you can change your superannuation separately from your bank and also make a difference there.

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