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A Wizard of Goatse posted:there were definitely a lot of people casually trading bitcoin back when it was mainly digital drug money but I feel like the last several years of glassy-eyed freakazoids yelling gibberish about how their mutant snot monkey is going to give them diamond hands have been way too offputting for any even vaguely normal person to get into it as a casual hobby This is 100% something that absolutely mystifies me about cryptocurrency: the extremely deeply rooted culture and fanaticism surrounding it. I remember several years ago reading about how the Taliban used the internet and social media to radicalize and recruit people. I wondered how something like that could happen. How could someone surfing the internet somehow get so caught up in what a bunch of obvious lunatics were saying that they'd be willing to pick up an AK-47 or strap a bomb to their chest and die for a cause that they only recently learned about? I wish I could go back to wondering that.
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May 13, 2022 17:43
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greazeball posted:So is this starting on Monday or what? Honestly, I think everyone is just guessing at this point because we just don't know anything anymore. The brazen, transparent corruption endemic to cryptocurrency means that the whole thing is a house of cards in a hurricane that could collapse at any minute for any of a hundred different reasons. On the other hand, with institutional investors and billionaire psychopaths now entangled in the grift, maybe there is always just enough propping the whole thing up for money to be extracted from the con at the expense of an inexhaustible supply of enthusiastic marks in the form of retail speculators believing that the 1000-to-1 longshot of overnight success is all but assured. I mean, gently caress, Amway's still around, right? Isn't that all cryptocurrency really is? Amway for nerds?
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May 13, 2022 19:55
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Squiggle posted:Wait where's web4 You don't get that one. You weren't nice enough to Jack and Elon. Shame, too. That was the good one.
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Tnuctip posted:How is he not in jail yet? We've all just kind of collectively agreed that the world is a free-for-all and that the concept of laws, consequences, and ultimately causality itself are slowly going to be phased out until life is no longer perceived as a contiguous narrative but as a frenzied montage of disconnected calamities.
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Futanari Damacy posted:Bad news for El Salvador I guess Oh well. It's not like anything else has ever happened to the Salvadoran people, right?? *Loads up Wikipedia article* Oh no. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no...
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Jun 13, 2022 02:41
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Paladinus posted:I can think of several better times to buy. Right, but other than those, I this is the best time to buy!
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LifeSunDeath posted:Libertarian mayors ruining a city will never not get old to me. Kansas' libertarian governor Sam Brownback actually hosed the state up so bad in 2015 looked like we weren't going to be able have school. Even though I know how much they suck, every single time one gets into power, it still somehow amazes me how much they manage to suck.
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Jun 18, 2022 17:52
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kw0134 posted:It's arguably a security (though it's a bit hard to say whether it strictly passes the Howey Test in the US) and if not then it's at the very least a bank-like function which brings its own set of regulations.
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DaveWoo posted:In a few weeks: "Yeah, we were audited, we passed and everything is great, no you can't see any of the audit documents" Ah, the Activision self-audit special: "The Two-Knuckle Oil Check."
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chaosbreather posted:if he's buying the shitcoins for you as a gift, he's the C that they have to K in KYC. so he's definitely trying to scam you. if he's asking you to trust him more and is upset that you aren't trusting him more, that's definitely confirmation. just say no to everything, even very innocuous things like taking in packages, and make sure any guests or family members are clued in. he's dumb enough that he's probably going to get caught soon if he's had any success so you want to avoid providing him any freedom liquidity, if you catch my drift. Exactly. Don't give him any of your piss or sperm.
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Foo Diddley posted:i mean i'd have been way past being polite by now, but maybe piggy really is that much of a fuckin doormat Wasn't he the dude who was talking about how using the bathroom on company time is literally theft?
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Oh poo poo I didn't know Kimbo Slice was dead.
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Crust First posted:
There is literally no chance these guys haven't molested kids.
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LifeSunDeath posted:LMAO they that any gov would accept bitcoin as tax payment. I'm actually kind of behind that cause gently caress it let uncle sam hold the bag for once. I get what you're saying, but Uncle Sam holding the bag on this one was inevitable as soon as institutional investors got involved.
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LifeSunDeath posted:truly the best thing for everyone right now, is to swipe to deposit all of your money, to secure the platform, and the future. I believe her. I genuinely, sincerely believe that she is telling the truth.
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evilweasel posted:because there were trillions of it in circulation so you could multiply those fractions of a penny by a trillion I'm going to throw out a hot take and say that it was a smart move from their position. If they hit the jackpot, they could have walked away tens of millions of dollars richer (if they could cash out... which, lol, but cryptidiots are all operating under the assumption that the completely unregulated market they're speculating on will do the noble thing and allow them to actually get the money when they cash out). But if they ate poo poo (like they did), who cares? Sure, they lost a comparatively small amount of money and burnt their stupid scam company to the ground, but I'm willing to bet it wasn't their money that went up in smoke. I mean, it was obviously a stupid loving plan doomed to failure from the start, but purely based on the risk-reward to them, personally? Yeah, I totally get why a bunch of brainwormed cryptobros would go for it. From the perspective of someone who drank the Flavor-Aid, they'd have been stupid not to bet it all on trying to pull off the grift of a lifetime. To be clear: this is not even remotely an endorsement of cryptocurrency. This is why it's a festering tumor eating the human race from its bowels.
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putin is a oval office posted:Hahaha what? No, it wasn't. Yeah, I thought about what I was trying to say, and I'm just being an idiot.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Yeah I think maybe that's a bad idea given transaction delays and gas fees, and also given how much of the sales to boost it above 20k are likely just wash trading Don't you also have to report all your sales of cryptocurrency on your taxes? Given the very real risk of bitchcoin taking a sudden nosedive, the exchange you are using suddenly shuttering or freezing withdrawals, the difficulty of actually getting your funny money out of ecosystem and turning it into real dollars, and the various overhead involved in both the purchase and sale of cryptocurrency, you probably would need much bigger swings than just "buy below $20,000, sell above $20,000" to make it profitable--at least to an extent that would make it worth the effort.
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Party Ape posted:Granted, but people keep going "ok it's bad but it will be better if we add yet another opaque complex system over the top". Because you can funnel contracts for those opaque solutions to donors.
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Criss-cross posted:Réaumur? Tell me you work in an Italian dairy without telling me you work in an Italian dairy.
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Noob Saibot posted:Crypto and nft apes is what bronies got into after outgrowing my little pony My Little Ponzi
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latinotwink1997 posted:I never wore JNCOs but I was listening to Blue just last week on my iPod classic. Am…am I out of touch?!
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Wall Balls posted:You've got to know when to hodl 'em Hodl me closer, DeFi scammer
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:That's because it's a legitimately obscure composition of some dude I used to live next door to. He was chill to hang out with so long as his friends who definitely weren't trafficking meth weren't around. How often were they around?
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Rad-daddio posted:My only experience gambling was when I went up to Reno for a cousin's wedding. I lost 200 dollars on video poker, and the next day I dropped a quarter in a slot machine inside a grocery store and won 200 dollars back. I think there was a Seinfeld episode about your kind.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:This is a real NFT Gamestop is selling: You know, I feel like I'm pretty loving jaded and it takes a lot to genuinely surprise me anymore, but I have to admit that this is way, way, way beyond what I thought anyone would even consider giving the greenlight. Like... surely someone would step in and say, "Hey, uh... you know what photo that looks like? Pretty famous photo? Maybe something we might not want anything from us to resemble, even on accident? Uh, yeah... I'll grab a shovel. You two roll the computer up in that carpet over there. We'll meet in the parking garage in 15 minutes. Nobody ever saw anything."
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Serious_Cyclone posted:In web3 you can answer helpdesk tickets on reddit for customer support shekels, trade your cs shekels for an equivalent amount of woop woop coins, set up an instant gift card transaction to turn your woop woops into furry bucks, which you can then use to buy pron tokens or pay for erotic fan fiction or what have you Is this what they mean by "perverse incentives"?
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coolusername posted:A real crypto influencer would just sell the rights to a portion of the drive once found. Fund the search and get 10x returns when I regain my lost Oh my God. This would work. This would actually work. Somebody needs to do this. Holy poo poo.
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Dabir posted:did anyone say shitcoin yet Look, it's called "bitchcoin."
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MarcusSA posted:I saw this in my Robin Hood email this morning and lol This is the most obnoxious writing style, and I hope the author gets worked over by a croquet mallet by their editor.
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LifeSunDeath posted:You can't be on stimulants constantly, not eating, and not be terrible, at the same time. Stop doxxing me. If anyone needs me, I'll be grinding my teeth to powder and organizing my several hundreds of gigs of pornography.
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah it means Seraph might rereg and brag about buying a SkeeDoo because #ToTheMoon It was a genuinely nice surprise to see Seraph come back and spend like 18 hours trying on the "contrite, humbler, wiser Seraph" persona before he couldn't take it anymore and broke down like someone covered in poison ivy rashes giving in and wildly scratching every crazy itch 'til it's bloody, just whiplashing hard back into being the big ol' weird cryptogoober he is and getting banned was a riot.
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Piggy Smalls posted:Any of you goons in the know have any more info about Nugen coin? I’m the guy who’s neighbors are heavily into it. For the last 3 months they haven’t spoken a single word to me about Nugen like they used to do before. This is literally the only news I've heard about it, and I feel it's all the information I need to know everything there is to know about it.
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Captain Yossarian posted:An Ito NFT makes me so loving sad Straight. Up. I'm still trying to process this.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Jesus saves to desktop No savior of mine.
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syntaxfunction posted:In the real world there's all sorts of protections for this. I have no idea what the hell cryptobros would do. Then get fooled again.
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