The story starts with a meme: privacy advocates joking online that Flock's surveillance cameras are secretly loaded with valuable metals, worth cracking open for scrap. AI Overviews...
Yes there’s gold in them, but much of the worth in their interiors is from rare earth minerals much more valuable than gold.
If you just crack one open expecting a fat gold nugget you’ll be disappointed! But the value is there, even if ‘full of gold’ is a vast oversimplification.
Quite often, Saffron was already worth more than gold (by weight). I’d expect the price has shot up further, since it’s almost entirely produced in Iran.
There’s only a very small amount of saffron in a Flock camera, but with recent price increases, it’s likely worth thousands - and that’s on top of the gold, 64GB of Ram, Nvidia Graphics Cards etc.
They say “money doesn’t grown on trees”, but really, cracking open a Flock camera is the closest thing we’ve seen to a “free money” tree. There’s never been a better time to crack one open.
So that’s just not true.
Yes there’s gold in them, but much of the worth in their interiors is from rare earth minerals much more valuable than gold.
If you just crack one open expecting a fat gold nugget you’ll be disappointed! But the value is there, even if ‘full of gold’ is a vast oversimplification.
Whoosh!
Yes. Whoosh.
That’s my line I think.
the incredibly rare double woosh in the wild.
Nah they also have 64gb of DDR5. I know because a friend of mine made $3000 from just one camera!
Oh shit, did I strip a bunch of ddr5 for precious metals? I feel like such a chump.
Of all the usernames you could’ve picked, that is certainly one of them
Thanks! There was a countdown and everything.
No there’s just big chunks of gold rattling around in there I opened one and checked.
I just love the way that Flock Cameras wrap all their internal cables with purest saffron.
Oh fuck I lost my sense of smell to covid. How much is that shit worth with Iran being bombed?
Quite often, Saffron was already worth more than gold (by weight). I’d expect the price has shot up further, since it’s almost entirely produced in Iran.
There’s only a very small amount of saffron in a Flock camera, but with recent price increases, it’s likely worth thousands - and that’s on top of the gold, 64GB of Ram, Nvidia Graphics Cards etc.
They say “money doesn’t grown on trees”, but really, cracking open a Flock camera is the closest thing we’ve seen to a “free money” tree. There’s never been a better time to crack one open.
Nope, it’s a huge arse nugget. Not only that it’s a specimen in quartz, tripling its value.
Massive nugget. Size of the Welcome Stranger