Cryptocurrency (and related fuckery)

Musk has just been warning us about the danger of trusting billionaires. Trump has been teaching us an important object lesson about the value of democratic institutions. Heck, Hitler probably was too, he just took things a bit too far trying to make the lesson stick. :unamused:

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FTX Japan would let customers withdraw funds … if only anyone could log in

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Wannabe crypto bro dinged for improper relations with crypto over the “Let’s go Brandon” coin.

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In related news, Madison Cawthorn is still a congresscritter for, like, another month! I’d forgotten.

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I foresee him joining the Ye wing of the republican party.

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How could the Texas power grid be even more fucked than it is already? Crypto has the answer!

A scheme where crypto-miners get paid, in real money, for not mining. :thinking:

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Ah - the old protection racket.

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Ah yes… he looks like an idiot. Definitely just that.

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I’m not mining bitcoin right now! Where do I sign up???

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Did you just accidentally hack a UBI for Texans?!

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“Exclusive institutions and collectors control some of the world’s most important civic artifacts,” writes ConstitutionDAO2 on its website. “… Rather than burying the artifacts away in private vaults our goal is to ensure the objects which were designed ‘for the people’ are returned to the people, increasing public access, and allowing everyone to learn from the history and values.”

This makes no sense.

I can go and find the contents of the US constitution with a simple google search, and I’m absolutely sure that in America you can get a physical printed copy of the constitution pretty easily, from a library or a bookstore. These people seem to fundamentally not understand how books and information and the internet work.

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It reminds me of the Spice DAO clowns.

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It’s almost as though the only use case for any permissionless blockchain technology is “solving problems that don’t exist”.

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Quality obfuscation takes time.