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111 sats \ 3 replies \ @Signal312 16 Jun \ on: Why you can't deposit cash into someone else's account at the bank bitcoin
I talked to a guy at a btc meetup years ago, he was an interesting character.
He told me that he used to have a business, buying bitcoin for people. He had a bank account at a large bank with ATMs everywhere in the US. The customer would deposit money into his account at an ATM. Then he would send the customer bitcoin.
Of course, that stopped working after a while, as regulation picked up.
What he was doing when I talked to him was...he had two jobs. Two full-time, regular IT jobs, that he worked at the same time. Apparently that was quite a thing during the early covid era. He told me one of the keys was to have 2 separate computers, one for each job. And don't try for high level jobs - medium level jobs.
I remember there was a WSJ article on it, but couldn't find that easily. But here's an article from Fortune magazine on this phenomenon: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/08/15/the-remote-trend-of-working-two-jobs-at-the-same-time-without-both-companies-knowing/
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Yeah, it was a real thing, I remember reading articles about it.
I think having 2 separate machines is probably a good idea in this situation. I'd even put different colors on them. Physical separation of devices is really useful, I find it also helps me with digital distraction (like, I use a separate, really old laptop for random web surfing).
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Color-coding them is a good idea. I worked with a person that was spontaneously fired because while WFH, they used their work laptop instead of their personal laptop for... personal activities. I'm guessing their laptops were similar in vendor/model/form-factor and they easily got them mixed up.
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