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Prurient Squid posted:I'm going to make a register of stars in the sky in which each star is linked to an owner and then sell unowned stars to mooks and then procedurally generate Starspawn as visual representations of those stars in my upcoming new game Star Quest. No one gives a poo poo Unless you say “blockchain”
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It was a Magic: the Gathering tournament. I assure you everyone in the room was bullied.
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Dec 9, 2021 15:36
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Jose Valasquez posted:They skipped the part where the Constitution guys lost a huge portion of their money to gas fees I think it was Vice that got in as a donor as part of writing an article about it and they had to pay about $200 for a $75 donation, the rest was eaten by fees.
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Dec 9, 2021 17:04
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So is Kickstarter accepting crypto AS currency now? Or is it just business as usual, but something something blockchain? Because both are stupid choices, but the latter without the former would just be hilarious.
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Dec 9, 2021 17:24
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Still lolling at Ubisoft using NFT but locking it down to the point it’s indistinguishable from the type of tradable and sellable in-game items TF2 and CSGO have had for years and years.
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Dec 9, 2021 17:47
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Fish Appreciator posted:So is Kickstarter accepting crypto AS currency now? Or is it just business as usual, but something something blockchain? The article claims the latter. Supposedly, the customer-facing part of the website will be unchanged. It's just all the server costs will be way lower because they won't be hosting, they'll "something something the blockchain" host them. I suspect this is all nonsense to get fresh investors and nothing will come of it, they'll probably wait until they have new money and then "change their mind based on consumer response" or something.
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Dec 9, 2021 17:49
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Gutcruncher posted:Still lolling at Ubisoft using NFT but locking it down to the point it’s indistinguishable from the type of tradable and sellable in-game items TF2 and CSGO have had for years and years. Yes, but the big difference is that sellable items from TF2 and CSGO didn't spike the price of a crypto that nobody was required disclose if they owned any of.
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Dec 9, 2021 17:51
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MechaCrash posted:Yes, but the big difference is that sellable items from TF2 and CSGO didn't spike the price of a crypto that nobody was required disclose if they owned any of. Very true, but small note: the csgo and tf2 markets were immediately used for money laundering which created huge headaches for valve. quote:Why make this change? In the past, most key trades we observed were between legitimate customers. However, worldwide fraud networks have recently shifted to using CS:GO keys to liquidate their gains. At this point, nearly all key purchases that end up being traded or sold on the marketplace are believed to be fraud-sourced. https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/10/26113/ So imagine how much better that would be by introducing a crypto currency.
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Mozi posted:i read the article and it doesn't say anything about how exactly this will be a benefit to anything, other than giving more money to carbon offset scams crowdfunding isn't new or innovative anymore, kickstarter is now a stable and established old-tech company. and that's just not acceptable, so they're adopting recent buzzwords also, Kickstarter's workers unionized in Feb 2020, and Kickstarter bought out or laid off 40% of their their employees two months later. so this could be a corporate shell game to get rid of the union, because they're spinning off a separate company to run the blockchain project
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Dec 9, 2021 18:01
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Bobulus posted:The article claims the latter. Supposedly, the customer-facing part of the website will be unchanged. It's just all the server costs will be way lower because they won't be hosting, they'll "something something the blockchain" host them. This is amazing. The biggest, dumbest thing about cryptocurrency to me has always been the fact that even after so much time and so much hype, its ability to be used as actually currency is next to non-existent. Companies making cynical ploys to crypto enthusiasts using buzzwords without actually accepting crypto in exchange for goods and services is a hilarious reminder at how impractical cryptocurrency is as, well, loving currency.
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Fish Appreciator posted:This is amazing. No no you see it's an ~*investment*~ now.
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Out of curiosity, I tried to figure out what major outfits are currently accepting cryptocurrency as money. Basically, you have Tesla, Microsoft, Starbucks (which surprised me), Overstock.com, and a few obscure hotel chains and airlines. Also some random Dallas-based sportsball team. About half of entries on the lists I found weren't even "this company accepts crypto to pay for things," they were "this company allows you to buy and sell crypto on their platform." Like... the people making these lists didn't bother to distinguish the two. Probably because cypto-enthusiasts don't bother to distinguish the two.
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Dec 9, 2021 18:39
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The irl James Bond villain CEO of EA constantly saying "invest" during E3 promos
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Dec 9, 2021 18:40
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Yeah, but there has to be some kind of product for you to invest in, right? Something of value? If its just the idea of cryptocurrency that you're investing in, you might as well just buy and sell links to jpegs with a promise of value because they exist on a blockchain and are non-fungible. And that would just be stupid.
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Dec 9, 2021 18:51
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Fish Appreciator posted:Out of curiosity, I tried to figure out what major outfits are currently accepting cryptocurrency as money. Basically, you have Tesla, Microsoft, Starbucks (which surprised me), Overstock.com, and a few obscure hotel chains and airlines. Also some random Dallas-based sportsball team. Shouldn't it be like really easy just to Google a list of companies / services can be Legiterally Purchased with crypto? I wanna see this list for reasons
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You’d think crypto people wouldn’t want people to view crypto as an investment to be cashed out for dollars and yetFish Appreciator posted:Yeah, but there has to be some kind of product for you to invest in, right? Something of value? If its just the idea of cryptocurrency that you're investing in, you might as well just buy and sell links to jpegs with a promise of value because they exist on a blockchain and are non-fungible. And that would just be stupid. Also, lol. gently caress they’re dumb
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Dec 9, 2021 19:18
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Fish Appreciator posted:Out of curiosity, I tried to figure out what major outfits are currently accepting cryptocurrency as money. Basically, you have Tesla, Microsoft, Starbucks (which surprised me), Overstock.com, and a few obscure hotel chains and airlines. Also some random Dallas-based sportsball team. I guess the upside to these "investors" is that when Tether is brought down and the inevitable crash comes, you can't really kill yourself by jumping from a basement window.
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Dec 9, 2021 19:33
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Fish Appreciator posted:Yeah, but there has to be some kind of product for you to invest in, right? Something of value? If its just the idea of cryptocurrency that you're investing in, you might as well just buy and sell links to jpegs with a promise of value because they exist on a blockchain and are non-fungible. And that would just be stupid. the product they are investing in is hype they believe in number go up uP UP. the US Govt dragging their feet on crypto regulation for over a decade has allowed this bullshit to fester much larger than it should've, and a hundred years from now this cryptosporidium trash will be in textbooks along with the south seas bubble, the gold-backed market manipulations of the 1800s, "buying on margin" causing the Great Depression, etc digital money is a cool and good concept but buttcoin is not the correct answer to that question.
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BigRed0427 posted:I may become a anti-internet luddite if it turns out in ten years you "need" to be on something like this to function on the internet, same way how you kind of need a Facebook or Google account. The Metaverse is for Second Life furry orgies that should have been emails
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Fish Appreciator posted:Out of curiosity, I tried to figure out what major outfits are currently accepting cryptocurrency as money. Basically, you have Tesla, Microsoft, Starbucks (which surprised me), Overstock.com, and a few obscure hotel chains and airlines. Also some random Dallas-based sportsball team. Pretty sure there are a few other big chain stores in there along with Starbucks, but note that when they say they "accept cryptocurrency", they mean "we have partnered with a crypto trading app so that after you sell them your crypto there's a button to transfer money to your store card."
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Collateral Damage posted:I guess the upside to these "investors" is that when Tether is brought down and the inevitable crash comes, you can't really kill yourself by jumping from a basement window. good thing we still have heatstroke from mining
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divabot posted:The Metaverse is for Second Life furry orgies that should have been emails the metaverse already WAS second life furry orgies before some of today's goons were even born
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Ad by Khad posted:digital money is a cool and good concept but buttcoin is not the correct answer to that question.
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Sashimi posted:Haven't most of us been there already for over a decade? Many people get paid by direct deposit into our bank accounts, and we spend that money through debit and credit cards. Physical cash is never handled or needed. Yeah, at this point using cash feels like using checks 20 years ago - it's inconvenient and embarrassingly slow. The rare occasions where I can't pay using my card are frustrating and weird.
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Fish Appreciator posted:Yeah, but there has to be some kind of product for you to invest in, right? Something of value? If its just the idea of cryptocurrency that you're investing in, you might as well just buy and sell links to jpegs with a promise of value because they exist on a blockchain and are non-fungible. And that would just be stupid. You're investing in the idea that more people will want to get rich quick with crypto and thus be willing to buy your crypto for even more money. There's a term for this kind of scheme where the money from people buying in to scheme is used to pay out large returns to the people who bought in earlier, thus enticing people to put more money into the scheme because they saw some people get rich quick.
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Sashimi posted:Haven't most of us been there already for over a decade? Many people get paid by direct deposit into our bank accounts, and we spend that money through debit and credit cards. Physical cash is never handled or needed. yeah its really just the United States that's lagging behind in digital payments, and thats because of the credit card lobbyists. in my country I've been able to send money via email without a fee for years. I can even send money to most countries internationally without a fee for about a solid year now. "digital money" when it comes to using money as an actual currency is much closer to Interac (which we've had since the mid 80s) than cryptosporidium
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mkvltra posted:Shouldn't it be like really easy just to Google a list of companies / services can be Legiterally Purchased with crypto? I wanna see this list for reasons It's impossible to get a reliable list because crypto folks have every incentive to exaggerate and lie to inflate the list to draw people in. They don't care if it's hard to find merchants that actually take crypto, because they don't want to actually spend crypto - they want to hold onto it and watch number go up.
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mkvltra posted:Shouldn't it be like really easy just to Google a list of companies / services can be Legiterally Purchased with crypto? I wanna see this list for reasons here's the thing about this - almost all the companies that 'accept crypto' will use a processing service like BitPay that basically washes their hands of the dirty crypto at every point in the process and they just receive delicious fiat instead. like, look at BitPay's pitch to businesses, literally the first bullet point, verbatim, is 'Never touch crypto'.
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https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1469008170064486406?t=_SubpxioaKd-rIsFZXaTyg&s=19 So, I'm actually kind of confused: does the metaverse already "exist"? Like, is there a program to download and sign up for? Edit: nevermind, I think I found my answer https://fortune.com/2021/12/07/how-i-signed-up-metaverse/ quote:The metaverse is essentially a merging of virtual, augmented, and physical reality, and blurs the line between your interactions online and in real life. But broken down more simply, it’s a handful of platforms like the Sandbox, Mirandus, and Decentraland on which people can interact in different ways. Happy Landfill fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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Happy Landfill posted:https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1469008170064486406?t=_SubpxioaKd-rIsFZXaTyg&s=19 It's the second coming of VR hype, which I expect will be exactly as impactful as the first coming.
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Dec 9, 2021 21:52
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It's the second coming of VR hype, which I expect will be exactly as impactful as the first coming. Was honestly my first thought when it was announced. My friend has one, it's neat but it's definitely not something I have to have
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Happy Landfill posted:https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1469008170064486406?t=_SubpxioaKd-rIsFZXaTyg&s=19 "metaverse" is currently being used to refer to any semi-social online space that uses 3D avatars and isn't a videogame also, the metaverse hype hits different when it's next to this picture instead of the one in the tweet 
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Dec 9, 2021 22:08
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I can't believe the guy that sells oranges said everyone needs to buy oranges.
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One of the best parts of Second Life was companies trying to host serious things being assaulted by flying penises, and I’m thrilled to see this happen again but in VR
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There's basically two faces to the metaverse. On the one hand you have corporate spaces like Horizons where the spiciest you can get is putting a dog emoji over your own head, and on the other you have VRChat and Neos where furries and anime girls do battle with bluetooth sex toys.
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https://youtu.be/KxlPGPupdd8 Virtual court is the best court. Bring it on, Facebook!
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Gutcruncher posted:One of the best parts of Second Life was companies trying to host serious things being assaulted by flying penises, and I’m thrilled to see this happen again but in VR Making sure that kind of poo poo can't happen will be like #2 on the list of priorities for Facebook/Microsoft/etc. as they implement their Metaverse stuff (#1 is figuring out where to put ads and how much data they can collect/sell). You'll be lucky if you can model a hotdog for your company picnic without getting banned by the Automated Penis Detection System.
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Dabir posted:Somehow I always had the impression that Second Life was VR. No idea why. It's literally Second Life and VRML somehow being the next big thing. If we're gonna make such things cyclical can we just go back to email being revolutionary so people abandon social media for it? Not in this timeline!
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