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Author of books about why cryptocurrency is bad. Not really here. dgerard @gmail .com he/him ๐ฆฃ: @davidgerard @circumstances .run Bluesky: @davidgerard .co.uk
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Had to run Blue Blocker and close DMs just to make this site even slightly usable. Best find me on Mastodon or Bluesky:
or email or something
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adding physics to the long list of things coiners don't understand
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The BULL FLAG is a strong TA Pattern that everyone should be aware of.
It signals that a continuation to the upside is imminent.
Bull Flags are best found after long periods of accumulation, and are rampant during bull markets.
Here are 4 Crypto Related Stocks printing Bullโฆ
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this ends much better than it starts
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six months ago: the guy from Terra mocking the idea of *the precise attack that just happened*
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Websockets has has enough of your bullshit
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UNVERIFIED RUMOUR:
Musk fired everyone with access to the private key to their internal root CA, and they can no longer run Puppet because the Puppet master's CA cert expired and they can't get a new one because no one has access. They no longer can mint certs.
*ahem* lol
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this is the funniest cryptocurrency graph I've seen today
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"Bitcoinโs basically a re-enactment society for early modern economics. Like getting dressed up in medieval garb and going to feasts except instead you get to re-discover why each and every financial regulation we have today came into existence." - Riina Stewart
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that thermodynamics tweet is the stupidest thing i've seen today, and that's in the face of competition from other bitcoiners
imagining what joys of dumbass the afternoon will bring
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"They'll take a hypothetical application that doesn't exist, that no one's working on and might not even be possible, and treat it as though it's already happening. Give themselves a gold star for having already done it, when no one's even started."
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@elonmusk
@sampullara
as a professional writer, it strains my skills with the English language to describe how stupid this is in less than about a thousand words of swearing
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warning: Aella is a weird Rationalist and scientific racist, and you do not want to be involved in anything she does in any capacity
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What we need to talk more about is Affinity Fraud.
Crypto is running out of mass-market suckers, so is marketing to smaller groups on the basis "I'm one of you, would I scam you?"
the answer is yes, they absolutely will. all crypto promoters are grifters
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The phrase "social skills" doesn't appear in the story - that's completely
@Fahrenthold
's invention.
Text that *is* in the story: โEmployees leave jobs that suck. Jobs where theyโre abused."
A new trend in the workplace: "ghosting." As in, employees just leave for a new job without telling anyone at the old job. They just don't come back. Caused by a strong economy and weak social skills.
Great story by
@DPAQreports
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to translate for non techies
1. they put the keys to auto-update the computers in a box
2. Musk fired everyone with the key to that box.
3. fucking whoops
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@jesslynnrose
been here 19 years (good Lord). The English are batshit insane violent nutters, but very polite about it. Love 'em. Married one. They'll probably kill me in my sleep with the sword by the bedside, but it'll be an accident.
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Marc Andreessen in 2014 says Bitcoin is like the Internet in 1994. 8 years pass and now a16z says weโre in 1995.
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Reddit has told r/pics mods to open the sub, and to be the sub their users want it to be. Or else.
So they ran a user poll. By overwhelming mandate, r/pics is now a sub for pics of John Oliver looking sexy.
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lol holy shit fuck
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@davidpdxer
@minimaxir
@ZoeSchiffer
the most effective way for a tech to sabotage twitter is to do what elon tells them
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people being put off buying a Tesla as it's a $40k MAGA hat
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this is hilarious
crypto literally did a 2008 to itself
one shitty overleveraged pseudo-dollar collapsed and took all of crypto with it
this is actualy what set off the 2008 financial crisis
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yay,
@creativecommons
is now shilling NFTs! Which are *literally the opposite* of a creative commons. The CC board and staff - especially social media staff - need to disclose any crypto holdings, post-haste.
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"So I found out that my coworker has been selling gay indulgences"
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bitcoin hacking tip: try the 14 words as a passphrase and see how many wallets you get into
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@LeavittAlone
American Candy shops in Oxford St, London
just so incredibly in your face blatant
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El Salvador government spends $4,672 in electricity to mine $269 in bitcoins
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absolutely the densest motherfuckers
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tl;dr why all the crypto co's are long fucked, not just FTX:
all the crypto co's are broke because the dollars all left in May, and the co's now have to pretend these billions of dollars in illiquid cryptos are worth their book value, when they just aren't
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Bitcoin just went from $5,656 to $7,581 in four days - a rise of nearly two thousand dollars. This time around, there's near-zero mainstream media interest. I've had no calls or emails asking why - though lots for the $400 bobbles through the past year. Not sure why.
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you'd almost think Discord was a chat system for gamers, and not in fact designed to serve as secure financial infrastructure
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BUYOUT NEWS: The beleaguered and heavily indebted social network formerly known as "Twitter" is acquired by the X Org Foundation, a 501(c)3 scientific charity
"Fixing Twitter will be easier than finishing Wayland," said a spokesdroid
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My new short description of โblockchainโ is โa hash tree with a cult.โ
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fuck me sideways. Sam Bankman-Fried is not just tweeting through it - no, he's launched a Substack.
Youโll be amazed to hear that everything is Caroline Ellison and CZ's fault, and not in any way smol bean Sam's.
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Binance is insolvent. It doesn't have the cryptos it claims to. Your cryptos.
We literally told you weeks ago to get everything out of Binance.
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hired by Coinbase
I wonder if they will in fact try to pay the severance packages in crypto
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popbitch on gl!nn3r
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Why Elon Musk just singlehandedly destroyed all green advantage Tesla has ever been responsible for: bitcoin produces CO2 at levels that are a crime against humanity
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@nictheshaderoom
@_mxah_
@rhythmofcamila
when i went to school in the 1980s - at CCGS, a Perth private school - I learnt none of this. I literally learnt more about Aboriginal history and issues from punk rock fanzines than I was ever taught at school.
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did u kno that crypto dudes are reprehensible fucking ghouls
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new dimensions in ICO scams: literally impossible pseudoscience. The Philosopher's ICO.
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countdown to full McAfee
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Vitalik Buterin thinks an unregulated unbacked scam ponzicoin should be made whole because highly regulated banks are insured
lol gfy
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SBF will become the first man to post his way to getting the death penalty in an SEC civil action
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Twitter is no longer fulfilling key obligations required for it to claim Ireland as its so-called main establishment under the European Unionโs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a source familiar with the matter has told TechCrunch.
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when we said "be gay do crimes", that implied crimes with a sense of *style*.
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The Gang Discovers Why Banks Are Regulated
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the reason crypto's not usable as a secure currency is because it's not usable as a currency
because it was designed to implement delusional economics that don't work
and then the delusional economics proved not to work
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DELETE YOUR GLASSDOOR
"Glassdoor now requires your real name and will add it to older accounts without your consent if they learn it, and your only option is to delete your account. They do not care that this puts people at risk with their employers."
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"Elon Musk wants to drill, frack, treat, pipe and process an entire vertically integrated oil and gas operation, that is required for the proposed STARBASE facility. In a wildlife refuge. And he doesnโt think the public deserves to know."
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โI will bring freedom of speech back to Twitterโ declares dog fucker Elon Musk
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CRYPTO .COM SUMMARY:
20% of their reserve was Shiba Inu tokens
then they "accidentally" sent 320k ETH to another exchange blaming an error
then they and several other exchanges seem to have been passing around the same pile of ETH just before doing "proof of reserves" >>
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good to see ethereum miners just completely eating shit, heartwarming and wholesome content
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@Fahrenthold
The phrase "social skills" doesn't appear in the story - that's completely
@Fahrenthold
's invention.
Text that *is* in the story: โEmployees leave jobs that suck. Jobs where theyโre abused."
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@BillCorbett
short version: yes, absolutely and unequivocally
long version: the same, but in detail
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EVERY FUCKIN TIME
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this came true
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"Libra is nothing more than a brazen attempt to override national monetary sovereignty by creating a global-scale Federal Reserve equivalent โ within which Facebook's dominance is veiled by the cunning use of buzzwords" via
@FinancialTimes
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THEY LITERALLY DID THOUGH
HAL FINNEY, SATOSHI'S BETA TESTER, SAW IT COMING IN *2009* TWO WEEKS AFTER BITCOIN LAUNCHED
The fact that the inventors of cryptocurrency did not foresee their creation becoming a computing arms race that swallows up rare earth minerals, bandwidth, processing power, and energy at an escalating rate demonstrates how ill-equipped they were to change the world.
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@maracharese
@TheSGTJoker
There's a reason this is valid: because it's still an actual job that's ridiculously underpaid.
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this is comedy gold. Alleged Bitfinex money launderer Heather Morgan did rap, and sold NFTs of it. The NFTs have been seized by the feds. The buyers are demanding OpenSea refund them.
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Coinbase is not having liquidity problems! It's just their customers who are
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everything at Celsius is fine, fine
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Itโs quite popular to slam dunk on art NFTs right now
But where was everybody 6 months ago?
Youโre only entitled to a victory lap if you called out the nonsense when doing so came at a social cost. When it was the unpopular thing to say
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this is Aella going mask-off on Facebook a while ago, she just wants room to discuss the trans question you understand
so yeah, avoid under 100% of circumstances
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being asked about Vitalik Buterin's essays on the fabulous future of society, powered by Ethereum
so it's not worth treating Buterin's essays as saying anything useful
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soooo good news? the gossip from AI town is that the leadership are despairing they can't fix the hallucinations (cos LLMs are just hallucination machines) and hiring fresh Ph.Ds to fix the LLMs (charge as much as you can) and AI's got about three quarters of VC funding left
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every site and person that wants me to switch off my adblocker must supply a legally enforceable indemnity against any and all possible malware or identity theft courtesy of anything that may be served by their site
until then, shut the fuck up
Telling people not to use an adblocker is a tough sell with these facts. If you feel adblockers are threatening authors incomes or anything like that you should wonder how to fix this instead of doing "but please disable your adblocker" campaigns.
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it is possible that everything is fine and we just have a case of wet cat food skull
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Note that Bluesky didn't have block at first - until Matt Yglesias joined and was greeted by a zillion extremely pissed off trans people. They implemented it especially for him. Let's see how Twitter does on that score.
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The end goal of the crypto industry - which is correctly modeled as a single unified scam casino - has long been to become systemic and get a bailout, leaving the US Gov as the bagholder of last resort
they can get so, so fucked
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bitcoin grifters really are just absolutely the most loathsome pieces of shit
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and don't forget: uBlock Origin works great in Firefox for Android
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@denhamsadler
this is 100% the correct conclusion, and I hope they went through the sensible process of spending $25 on my book, writing the conclusion, and spending the next $699,975 on the booze that is medically necessary to recover from knowing about blockchains
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how are the journalists going on mastodon? well, journa. host just kicked a trans journalist for complaining about journa .host allowing transphobia, and journa. host is now getting widely defederated. lol. what plays in the British media doesn't work there.
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just had another web3 fraud claim it "banks the unbanked"
and when i asked him to tell me precisely how it does this step by step, asked me what i'd developed
every web3 promoter is a fucking liar. prove me wrong.
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bitcoin is a store of inflation and a hedge against value
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Reddit is forcing large subs that polled to go private public again, demodding the mods and deleting their comments (this example: r/tumblr)
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i'm wondering wtf is up with coinbase.
they were hiring, making very juicy offers just 2 wks ago. now they're *rescinding* offers.
they're demanding more KYC to withdraw than they did to deposit.
did coinbase get hacked incredibly hard or something?
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