Cryptocurrency (and related fuckery)

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The idea of a “blue-chip NFT” is absolutely ridiculous. There is no such thing, and there can’t be.

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A better excuse than “the dog ate the crypto”?

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“My career and livelihood depends on being perceived by others as a sophisticated person of superior intelligence, education and knowledge. So, naturally, I do not want people to know about that one time I bought into a bleeding obvious Ponzi scheme like a greedy, lobotomized dumbfuck.”

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I think an investment vehicle whose premise was “do the opposite of whatever Cramer advises” would have serious legs.

[In 2011,] Action Alerts Plus [fell] 9.5% in that year, when the S&P 500 was unmoved. It rose just 1.3% in 2014, versus an 11.4% increase for the S&P…

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And then the nothingness swallowed the entire real world.

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I’ll say it again because I can:

If it’s government-backed, why do you need a blockchain?

[insert “what does God need with a starship?” gif here]

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Because reasons!

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To decentralize it, obviously.

(/s, but I’m sure there’s a cryptobro that would say it seriously)

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There are so many things wrong there: EFTs, Sotheby’s, “glitch artists”, but if they want to shut down because the scam wasn’t inclusive enough, okay…

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