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Demetrax1
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Help! Wasps/Hornets in these dishes; need to be removed.

Hi all,

So I have a family-friend who is leasing their property, and asked me if I wanted these two dishes. Me, being a satellite geek, took them up on the offer. The dish on the upper side of the building is an original DISH 300 along with a 500 dangling by one bolt (for some reason) so I agreed to take them off their hands. I plan to refurbish and hang in mancave. However, I have a few problems.

First of all, the 300 is mounted 25 - 30 feet up. I'll borrow an extension ladder, no problem. However, it has come to my attention that wasps or hornets have built nests inside of both dishes. This brought a screeching halt to my plans. Does anybody have any advice for dealing with these things? It'd be one thing if the nests were visible, as I'd just hit it with some Raid when it gets dark and be done with it. The problem is that these nests are inside the actual mast assembly and maybe even the feed arm. I have seen multiple wasps fly into the hole so I know they're in there. I'm afraid to be that high up and come face-to-face with a swarm of Satans. Please see the attached pictures to get an idea of what I'm working with. Any advice from some accomplished satellite techs would be appreciated.

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As a ex tech I can tell you right now that I didn't deal with bee's no matter how much the customer complained! PERIOD!
I would reschedule till they resolved the issue. If I could put a new dish up some where else with ease and less than 20 mins then MAYBE I would do that otherwise nope. See I was paid per job not per hour so the faster you were in and out of the job the more you were paid...messing with bee's not only slowed me down but was also just flat out dangerous.
Some of the guys mentioned sprays they had...but at the end of the day NOPE.
I was a dish tech NOT an exterminator!
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dvrexpander said:
As a ex tech I can tell you right now that I didn't deal with bee's no matter how much the customer complained! PERIOD!
I would reschedule till they resolved the issue. If I could put a new dish up some where else with ease and less than 20 mins then MAYBE I would do that otherwise nope. See I was paid per job not per hour so the faster you were in and out of the job the more you were paid...messing with bee's not only slowed me down but was also just flat out dangerous.
Some of the guys mentioned sprays they had...but at the end of the day NOPE.
I was a dish tech NOT an exterminator!
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Wow...... Just, wow....
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Wow...... Just, wow....
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No wow needed. Just go back to his posts from years ago when he was an installer. It was his MO for just about everything... ;)
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No wow needed. Just go back to his posts from years ago when he was an installer. It was his MO for just about everything... ;)
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Is that why he isn't an installer anymore?
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Is that why he isn't an installer anymore?
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Naw I left cause I was getting ripped off left and right..I believe there are only 3 techs left that were there when I was there out of over 100 if that says anything.
Ya really gotta experience the position to understand it and what they go thru.
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Naw I left cause I was getting ripped off left and right..I believe there are only 3 techs left that were there when I was there out of over 100 if that says anything.
Ya really gotta experience the position to understand it and what they go thru.
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On that one, I will agree. Although, I tell people not to lock their dogs up, unless they're killers. I'm a big time dog person though
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On that one, I will agree. Although, I tell people not to lock their dogs up, unless they're killers. I'm a big time dog person though
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The CSR's tell you this on the phone when you set up an appointment for securing pets, also its stated on the emails you get for any appointment leading up to it- I just had a upgrade I even laughed with the CSR about it when I told her the two instances I got bit badly by two dogs in the past. Killers or not - the little cute ones are always the ones that your least expecting to react to a stranger. I'm in THEIR home...the dogs domain... its not a bad request for people to secure their pets for the time I was there which at most was 2 hours...I'm sure the dog will live.
Did I mention that pets also include crazy cats ( one guy had one jump on his head and scratch the crap out of his face) and goats...(one guy was trapped up his ladder on a roof cause the goat was going after him as he came down.)

Yeah ya can't make this stuff up and people are inconsiderate of their pets if they can't do that simple task to get service completed.

It's also not always about getting a bite from a dog either... I don't want them to slobber all over me, I don't want to drive around stinking like someones dog. The first dog does it- the 2nd dog gets the scent and then goes crazy. I'd just assume come in and have to deal with whatever the customer has in store for me which can range from THEIR urine soaked in furniture, them chain smoking over top of you, their kids running off with your tools ( yeah should say secure your kids too lady!).

Whatever man..3-4 years of doing the work I've seen just about everything.
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3 to 4 years and you think you've seen it all. :p

I've been installing satellite dishes in one form or another for over 33 years. My wife has often told me that we should write a book. :biggrin
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The CSR's tell you this on the phone when you set up an appointment for securing pets, also its stated on the emails you get for any appointment leading up to it- I just had a upgrade I even laughed with the CSR about it when I told her the two instances I got bit badly by two dogs in the past. Killers or not - the little cute ones are always the ones that your least expecting to react to a stranger. I'm in THEIR home...the dogs domain... its not a bad request for people to secure their pets for the time I was there which at most was 2 hours...I'm sure the dog will live.
Did I mention that pets also include crazy cats ( one guy had one jump on his head and scratch the crap out of his face) and goats...(one guy was trapped up his ladder on a roof cause the goat was going after him as he came down.)

Yeah ya can't make this stuff up and people are inconsiderate of their pets if they can't do that simple task to get service completed.

It's also not always about getting a bite from a dog either... I don't want them to slobber all over me, I don't want to drive around stinking like someones dog. The first dog does it- the 2nd dog gets the scent and then goes crazy. I'd just assume come in and have to deal with whatever the customer has in store for me which can range from THEIR urine soaked in furniture, them chain smoking over top of you, their kids running off with your tools ( yeah should say secure your kids too lady!).

Whatever man..3-4 years of doing the work I've seen just about everything.
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I've gotten bit twice. 5 yrs ago by a pit that I was never told was chained up in a back yard and last month by a great dane. That bastard bit me right in the chest lol. That one was my fault. I walked in the door and forgot she was in there
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I've gotten bit twice. 5 yrs ago by a pit that I was never told was chained up in a back yard and last month by a great dane. That bastard bit me right in the chest lol. That one was my fault. I walked in the door and forgot she was in there
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One time my 12 lb miniature pinscher scared the hell out of a Directv guy who was working next door. I thought it was funny because the dog wouldn't hurt a fly, he just barks a lot
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One time my 12 lb miniature pinscher scared the hell out of a Directv guy who was working next door. I thought it was funny because the dog wouldn't hurt a fly, he just barks a lot
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One of my problems is I have no fear of dogs, in general. I mean, you can tell an aggressive dog, but I'll walk right up to 99% of the dogs I see and for some reason, in most cases, even meaner dogs have been fine with me. I was at a house burying cable one day and the neighbors started talking to me over the fence and as I walked up, their Blue Tail Mastiff jumped up and I started petting him. The dog owners were like "Dude, that's the meanest dog there is. He bites everyone. Even me and my kids." I told him I'm the dog whisperer as the dog stood there panting while I scratched his ears lol
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Ep. 35 - Best Tech for a Deserted Island...

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USA Healthcare Costs are Ridiculous

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Pissed off at the crappy healthcare costs

My health Insurance renewal for 2027 just came in. Going from $827 a month to $1,187 a month. Deductible going up a $1k to $9,350. Max out of pocket also going up $1k to $11,000. Doctor co-pay of $40. Urgent Care co-pay $50. ER 50% coinsurance after deductible. That's all in network. Out of network is double, should it be needed.

Have to think about this. I'm really tempted to just go without now. I only go to the doctor once or twice a year. I pay out of pocket for Tirzepitide and can do without the Rosuvastatin (crestor) now. Really tired of spending over $10k a year and getting nothing out of it.

After years with Blue Cross I switched last year to Ambetter as my Blue Cross premium was going from $1200 to $1800 for a Silver plan and the Bronze plan was still going to be $1300 at BCBS. Ambetter was $827 for the same coverage with a Bronze plan. Didn't think it would jump this much so soon.

I'm guessing a Silver plan is probably over $2,000 a month for 2027.
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no worries soon you will no longer need to pay for health care as it will be Medicaid for all -and you will be able to save all those monthly payments.
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no worries soon you will no longer need to pay for health care as it will be Medicaid for all -and you will be able to save all those monthly payments.
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That will be hard as Medicaid is being cut by 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years?
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Are you employed with no work insurance or that is what you are paying for your workplace insurance? Or is that through Healthcare.gov? Retired? Eligible for medicare?
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that cut is only for illegals to get off the rolls and I was being sarcastic before -
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The 2030s will likely bring renewed health reform
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Are you employed with no work insurance or that is what you are paying for your workplace insurance? Or is that through Healthcare.gov? Retired? Eligible for medicare?
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Started my own business in 2006, been self employed for 20 years this year.
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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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What's For Lunch?

We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Leftover wanton soup and pork fried rice. Water.
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Breakfast for lunch. Crispy corned beef hash, home fries, two over easy eggs and sourdough toast.

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Auto Racing 2026

New thread or keep this one?

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Weird F1 weekend is already over with a Saturday race.
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Tried to watch the truck race but the stage c**p is why I don't watch NASCAR anymore…
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Today is the anniversary of Dan Wheldon's passing at Las Vegas in a dreadful crash that luckily didn't take more drivers' lives. I vaguely remember the crash, but I more strongly remember Paul Tracy trying to keep it together as he left the Medical Center knowing that Dan most likely wasn't going to.

The safety in these vehicles is beyond incomprehensible, especially relative to what it was 60 years ago, when dying wasn't unexpected. But it is still very dangerous. I always scoff at the prayer invocations, but never scoff at the risks these drivers take and the emergency workers out there who might need to pull short of a miracle to save a driver's life.
dfergie said:
Tried to watch the truck race but the stage c**p is why I don't watch NASCAR anymore…
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HBO Max has the live in car streaming without commercials, which provides an interesting take, but you are driving blind, knowing only what the team is telling the driver about what is happening on the track. The stages definitely ruin the NASCAR set up.
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NASCAR is an abject mess, but at least it has Kyle Larson. Guy had the lead on the green/white checker, fell back to 12th or the like, kept his cool, and charged back to win with room to spare at the line. And win very cleanly!

NASCAR needs to stop racing at Talladega. Especially if they are going for elderly Sunday drives at the track! Stage racing is real stupid, but NASCAR should consider one half point a second per group gap as a bonus.
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Cyberattacks Are Coming—Is Your Company Ready? #shorts

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!


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Looking for former DIRECTV Cutting Edge testers who have now subscribed to DIRECTV Stream.

If you are a former Cuttinge Edge member who has converted to Stream, please contact me.
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Hopper 3 with Hopper plus internet connection problems

Over the past few weeks, I have had problems connecting to streaming services (Netflix, HBO et al). When I go to the TV's native Channels, I have no problem. The Dish internet troubleshooter shows I have a good internet connection. I'm wondering whether it's an issue with my internet provider or a problem with the Dish software on the Hopper Plus. Anyone else seeing this?
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mheisen said:
Over the past few weeks, I have had problems connecting to streaming services (Netflix, HBO et al). When I go to the TV's native Channels, I have no problem. The Dish internet troubleshooter shows I have a good internet connection. I'm wondering whether it's an issue with my internet provider or a problem with the Dish software on the Hopper Plus. Anyone else seeing this?
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I have a DISH Hopper 3 (Software H713) with Hopper Plus (Software P15403). I have not tried streaming services but I primarily watch TVB Jadeworld international package which is only available by streaming and when I have an issue, I usually have to go to a non-streaming satellite channel first before the streaming channels will work again. What software versions do you have and what is the error message if any are showing on your screen? or is that Dish downloading logo just stuck and never finishes?
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I have a DISH Hopper 3 (Software H713) with Hopper Plus (Software P15403). I have not tried streaming services but I primarily watch TVB Jadeworld international package which is only available by streaming and when I have an issue, I usually have to go to a non-streaming satellite channel first before the streaming channels will work again. What software versions do you have and what is the error message if any are showing on your screen? or is that Dish downloading logo just stuck and never finishes?
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I'm on H713 on the Hopper and P15403 on the Hopper Plus. It shows internet connection issues and doesn't finish loading the various services. I see the "loading circle going around. Sometimes I get a message saying that the service is having trouble loading my content and to check the internet connection.
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I'm on H713 on the Hopper and P15403 on the Hopper Plus. It shows internet connection issues and doesn't finish loading the various services. I see the "loading circle going around. Sometimes I get a message saying that the service is having trouble loading my content and to check the internet connection.
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Did it ever work correctly before? Hard to say what the problem is. Usually for streaming, it will show the Dish logo with lines sweeping down to show downloading, never seen the circle issue. Did you try a manual reboot, red button reset, power cord unplug/replug to see if it makes a difference.
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Did it ever work correctly before? Hard to say what the problem is. Usually for streaming, it will show the Dish logo with lines sweeping down to show downloading, never seen the circle issue. Did you try a manual reboot, red button reset, power cord unplug/replug to see if it makes a difference.
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Might be worth just to ditch the hopper plus. No issues here on h713
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mheisen said:
Over the past few weeks, I have had problems connecting to streaming services (Netflix, HBO et al). When I go to the TV's native Channels, I have no problem. The Dish internet troubleshooter shows I have a good internet connection. I'm wondering whether it's an issue with my internet provider or a problem with the Dish software on the Hopper Plus. Anyone else seeing this?
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Buy a roku and dump the hopper plus you'll be better off. If you have a smart tv you don't need either one. No hopper plus here and no issues!!!
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Might be worth just to ditch the hopper plus. No issues here on h713
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I have a Hopper Plus and no issues either. charlesrshell has both a Hopper 3 with Hopper Plus and one without, he doesn't have the same issue. Before blaming it on the Hopper Plus, he should see if the problem still exists without the Hopper Plus connected as it could be the Internet connection itself or some setting in the router itself. There is someone in another thread who has EHD issues on the Hopper 3 only setup but does not have the EHD issues on the Hopper 3 with Hopper Plus and he has already tried swapping the EHD and it did not make a difference so like the saying, YMMV.
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Buy a roku and dump the hopper plus you'll be better off. If you have a smart tv you don't need either one. No hopper plus here and no issues!!!
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The Roku costs $$$, Hopper Plus is free. That may not be the only costs as it depends if the TV in question still has available HDMI ports and if not, it will require a HDMI switch and HDMI cable which adds more to the cost.

I have a LG 3D OLED Smart TV and I still need either of them because it does not have Android TV built in. Add a Hopper Plus and see if you actually have issues or not as until you actually tried it, it means nothing.
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$6.3 billion in crypto stolen by hackers

This should hit a lot of folks with a dose of reality. I can only imagine how much more common this will get as AI progresses.

I read several stories on this and most are clear as mud. They say a lot of the stolen bitcoin has been "locked out" and that everyone will be made financially whole. I guess time will tell if either of these statements are actually true.

www.cnbc.com

Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft

The company later added it began recovering assets impacted by the breach after pledging to cover losses using its Secure Asset Fund for Users.
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They say a lot of the stolen bitcoin has been "locked out" and that everyone will be made financially whole.
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The "Secure Asset Fund" had about $1 billion in reserves... in Bitcoin.

The fund started in 2018, so it may take a while to make investors whole, much less replenish the fund.
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The "Secure Asset Fund" had about $1 billion in reserves... in Bitcoin.

The fund started in 2018, so it may take a while to make investors whole, much less replenish the fund.
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That's kinda what I was seeing but all the news reports are suggesting that all investors will be made whole immediately.
The other thing they weren't clear about was the BTC that was "locked out" of the system. I guess that means that the stolen BTC is basically worthless now because I don't see how it could be replaced....but there is a LOT about the crypto world that leaves me scratching my head.
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This is what scares me about cryptocurrency: there doesn't seem to be any oversight.

It seems more like politics than investing.
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A few clarifications... the ~$3B "locked" was mostly stablecoins (USDT/USDC). Tether and Circle can blacklist their own tokens, which makes those worthless to the thief. Bitcoin and ETH have no issuer, so they can't be frozen. That's the ~$2.4–3.3B the hackers still have, so the stolen BTC is very much not worthless to them. It was also spread across 10 blockchains, not just bitcoin. On getting made whole: SAFU is ~15,000 BTC (~$1.2B), and Binance says it'll cover the rest from company funds. Analysts don't see it as a solvency problem, and withdrawals are expected back within days.

The attack was pinned on North Korea's TraderTraitor group via a compromised engineer laptop. Like many hacks and compromises, that's old-school social engineering, not AI.

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This is what scares me about cryptocurrency: there doesn't seem to be any oversight.

It seems more like politics than investing.
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That's the tradeoff stablecoins make - a central issuer that can freeze funds, which is why half the loot got stopped. Bitcoin and ETH have no one in charge, so nobody can reverse a theft, but nobody can freeze your coins either. Stablecoins trade price volatility for trusting a central issuer.
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That's the tradeoff stablecoins make - a central issuer that can freeze funds, which is why half the loot got stopped. Bitcoin and ETH have no one in charge, so nobody can reverse a theft, but nobody can freeze your coins either. Stablecoins trade price volatility for trusting a central issuer.
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Thanks....that fills in some of the missing pieces.
Why some of the money could be locked and the rest not was a gigantic hole is every story I read. I thought "well if they can lock up stolen BTC, then why couldn't they do the same thing to BTC that is used for ransom or some other illegal activity?". NOW I understand.
I miss the days when you could read a news story and now walk away with more questions than answers.
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The Future of XBOX?

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