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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
What ever happened to CUM Coin that Musk was promoting?

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Squiggle
Sep 29, 2002

I don't think she likes the special sauce, Rick.


Like so much cum, straight into the toilet

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Darth TNT posted:

Who are the idiots buying for 1?

Absolutely no one, except the people who run the stablecoins say that they will buy it at $1 any time someone wants to cash out, and they support its value and their ability to afford to do that through the imaginary value of their other coins that they created.

They're basically casino chips, except the vault is 80% full of a different casino's chip instead of actual real money, and the plan is that if you want to cash out more cash than they have on hand they will quickly run to the other casino and redeem those chips there in order to pay you. But the part they don't tell you is that they own the other casino too, and it has the exact same setup.

deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 16:05 on May 12, 2022

Guze
Oct 10, 2007

Regular Human Bartender

Its Shrutebucks and StanleyNickels all the way down.

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Guze posted:

Its Shrutebucks and StanleyNickels all the way down.

What's the ratio of apples to unicorns?

Wayback
Aug 16, 2004


I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Squiggle posted:

Like so much cum, straight into the toilet

I've got mine invested in stocks

How are u
May 19, 2005

by Azathoth
I'm so happy that things are still falling apart :)

Guze
Oct 10, 2007

Regular Human Bartender

I am having fun staying poor. I'm doing it in the house I own.

hseroK divaD
Jun 3, 2011

Creepy Richard will keep leering at you NON-STOP!
https://twitter.com/novogratz/status/1478535972560195585

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.

I would definitely throw a few hundred bucks at this poo poo show but I guess since RH can't trade Luna RH is saving me a few hundred bucks.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person


That is a really poorly drawn wolf.

Aramis
Sep 22, 2009



The LUNA algorithm was never meant to actually run at all, wasn't it? The idea was probably that the mere existence of the algorithm was enough to cause buyers and sellers to self-regulate the value of UST in a sort of chess-like "the threat is more powerful than the attack" sense, I guess?

The fact that it still stands at 0.45 (at least for now) despite LUNA having hit rock-bottom sort of leads a tiny amount of credence to that notion, but LMAO at free-market geniuses building something that requires any amount of cooperation from participants to be functional.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.




https://twitter.com/Cryptofly777/status/1523879653215117318?t=NONlz3kYPhzrnj1bCCbBNw&s=19

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Aramis posted:

The LUNA algorithm was never meant to actually run at all, wasn't it? The idea was probably that the mere existence of the algorithm was enough to cause buyers and sellers to self-regulate the value of UST in a sort of chess-like "the threat is more powerful than the attack" sense, I guess?

The fact that it still stands at 0.45 (at least for now) despite LUNA having hit rock-bottom sort of leads a tiny amount of credence to that notion, but LMAO at free-market geniuses building something that requires any amount of cooperation from participants to be functional.

What? I'm pretty sure it's running, that's why billions of LUNA have been printed in the last few days.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

He's been awfully quiet lately.

Aramis
Sep 22, 2009



HappyHippo posted:

What? I'm pretty sure it's running, that's why billions of LUNA have been printed in the last few days.

I'm not saying that it's not running at all, but that it was never meant to, or at least not at that scale.

If people just traded their UST at or around the pegged 1$ value, then the algorithm wouldn't have to run, and when it did, it would just be some minor influence, and the system would achieve :airquote:stability:airquote:.

Aramis fucked around with this message at 16:50 on May 12, 2022

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

pro starcraft loser posted:

I would definitely throw a few hundred bucks at this poo poo show but I guess since RH can't trade Luna RH is saving me a few hundred bucks.

can you just like film yourself clamping a car battery to your nuts or something, announcing you're a dumbass and not putting up is wasting my time

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


Let this be a reminder to those that have forgotten.

THINGS WE HAVE ACHIEVED:

- When we want to move money, we move our drat money. No ifs, no buts, no fear from the banks that we 'trust'. - It's OUR MONEY, we do what we WANT, WHENEVER we want, and FAST . That's Bitcoin.

- We funded and supported or friends in UKRAINE . We acted QUICKER than the nation-state governments. WE ARE FREEDOM. That's Bitcoin.

- We don't print money from thin air like the FED does. Look at the state of the world now as a result. WE ARE JUSTICE. That's Bitcoin

One bitcoin, is one bitcoin, and will always be one bitcoin.




source: r/bitcoin lol

pippy
May 29, 2013

CRIMES
I needed to change my graph settings for LUNA to logarithmic to clearly see each time the value halves.

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Party Ape
Mar 5, 2007
Don't pay $10 bucks to change my avatar! Send me a $10 donation to Doctors with Borders and I'll stop posting for 24 hours!

ikanreed posted:

If you're raised your whole life to see almost fictitiously valued securities, based almost entirely on speculation, as the way to financial security, it's not too crazy to just drop the almost.

I never thought of it like that before. If you look at the history of cargo cults, they acted the way they did because they didn't understand how flight or logistics worked but wanted the gods to bring them more of that delicious cargo.

So if you don't understand how modern derivatives work (which is literally everyone including myself, I'm pretty sure they're all just agreeing to pay each other hand jobs and cocaine in a dark room together and the derivatives aren't real), you might try to build fake derivatives to summon wealth in the same way.

I'm as guilty of this as anyone, trying to summon the gods of "exercise" and "god I really mean it this time" by buying new sneakers, but in my defence I never yoloed millions of dollars into a virtual box that promised me a 20% ROI so I'm taking take as my win for the day.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Fire or knife

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.


"Gotta cover this up somehow"

*Adds tear under wolf's eye*

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Aramis posted:

I'm not saying that it's not running at all, but that it was never meant to.

If people just traded their UST at or around the pegged 1$ value, then the algorithm wouldn't have to run, and when it did, it would just be some minor influence, and the system would achieve :airquote:stability:airquote:.

I think it was more that it was running and "worked" so long as deviations were small, but once there was a larger deviation the house of cards fell over. Fundamentally it was based on people having confidence that LUNA was worth something, once that was lost it went to poo poo all at once.

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

Party Ape posted:

I never thought of it like that before. If you look at the history of cargo cults, they acted the way they did because they didn't understand how flight or logistics worked but wanted the gods to bring them more of that delicious cargo.

So if you don't understand how modern derivatives work (which is literally everyone including myself, I'm pretty sure they're all just agreeing to pay each other hand jobs and cocaine in a dark room together and the derivatives aren't real), you might try to build fake derivatives to summon wealth in the same way.

I'm as guilty of this as anyone, trying to summon the gods of "exercise" and "god I really mean it this time" by buying new sneakers, but in my defence I never yoloed millions of dollars into a virtual box that promised me a 20% ROI so I'm taking take as my win for the day.

Even better, this is a cargo cult that thinks that they can do it better than the original!

WorldIndustries
Dec 21, 2004

Boywhiz88 posted:

Sorry to quote myself but you guys need to see how broken these people are. The comments on some of these.... Also, really loving the concept of "gotta work harder" even though it's just putting good money after bad in a slot machine rather than any kind of actual work.

Yep, and Luna is not even a slot machine, at this point it's a mathematically guaranteed death spiral. Do Kwon surely knows this because he already built a failed algo stablecoin under a pseudonym, but instead of warning his current bag holders he said the Terra project would bounce back.

It's just 100% a cult where people will self harm if the leader tells them to.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

LUNA has flatlined, trading at $0.01 per token that was hovering around $80-90 pre-crash



The people who held on have lost literally everything now

hotdog feet
Nov 3, 2005
Man, i would totally understand if somebody looked at these prices and said "lol might as well throw $10 at it because who loving cares" but these psychopaths dropping major bank on this poo poo is intense. some real gamblers fallacy going on here

William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"
I'm glad I bought a little bit of crypto last year for the same reason I'm glad I bought a basic Star Citizen package. I'm invested in the drama, and I'm obligated to follow it to the bitter end.

hotdog feet
Nov 3, 2005
(I'm gonna buy lunch with my $10 because i love empanadas)

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
you can make billions on fake money but you need to own the people who can write the checks and have nominal control over the police and military to back it up. crypto morons don't understand the last part.

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.

hotdog feet posted:

(I'm gonna buy lunch with my $10 because i love empanadas)

Don't forget the dip!

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.
I bought Dogecoin last year on a lark when it was like .0045 and then it went up to like .0080 and I sold and made a minor profit

That's about the extent of crypto I've ever or will ever do

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Party Ape posted:

I never thought of it like that before. If you look at the history of cargo cults, they acted the way they did because they didn't understand how flight or logistics worked but wanted the gods to bring them more of that delicious cargo.

So if you don't understand how modern derivatives work (which is literally everyone including myself, I'm pretty sure they're all just agreeing to pay each other hand jobs and cocaine in a dark room together and the derivatives aren't real), you might try to build fake derivatives to summon wealth in the same way.

I'm as guilty of this as anyone, trying to summon the gods of "exercise" and "god I really mean it this time" by buying new sneakers, but in my defence I never yoloed millions of dollars into a virtual box that promised me a 20% ROI so I'm taking take as my win for the day.

they've been told all their lives that you get rich by being smart and working hard, and replicated to a tee the 'work' you see the very rich doing. unfortunately upon further research it turns out you actually get rich by having rich friends and family and the other stuff is largely window dressing

Hillary 2024
Nov 13, 2016

by vyelkin
(Kramers into the thread) hey guys, I got slurp juices here… oh, oh no.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

repiv posted:

The people who held on have lost literally everything now

There's a poo poo load of 'Honey, remember that money we set aside for the outdoor pool...' talk going on today.

Might invest in divorce lawyer stock brb.

Serjeant Buzfuz
Dec 5, 2009

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

they've been told all their lives that you get rich by being smart and working hard, and replicated to a tee the 'work' you see the very rich doing. unfortunately upon further research it turns out you actually get rich by having rich friends and family and the other stuff is largely window dressing

Don't forget you can get rich by being a greedy bastard and screwing over everyone else you possibly can, you know, the crypto method.

drk
Jan 16, 2005
https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1524785058296778752

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Hillary 2024 posted:

(Kramers into the thread) hey guys, I got slurp juices here… oh, oh no.

George: Did you slurp? Jerry, he slurped!

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

repiv posted:

LUNA has flatlined, trading at $0.01 per token that was hovering around $80-90 pre-crash



The people who held on have lost literally everything now

But they still have their dignity!

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priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
I had an economics prof that liked to collect share certificates of high profile stocks that tanked and became worthless, I wonder if he is getting worthless crypto coins. Probably not, don’t even get a nice printed certificate. He had a binder full of em!

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