Originally published at: In shocking news: a crypto bigwig appears to have lied about his education | Boing Boing
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“What do you mean that you can’t get a doctorate in wearing fedoras, toking a vape pen and filling up a spare room with lightly worn Nikes?”
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You don’t get to the top of the pyramid (or the bottom of the reverse funnel, if you like) by a proclivity to tell the truth.
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Y2K stuff right there.
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Ah… so THIS is the guy my sisters keep bugging me about. “You’ve done some family tree research, are we related to this guy?”
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Everything you ever need to know about NFTs in one picture
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In other news, Biden issued a executive order today, declaring crypto is here to stay, the US will be a leader in the tech, and the US will research launching a digital U.S. dollar with it.
The current hubbub over crypto will end when the functional and useful applications outgrow the massive field of scams and ripoffs. Federal regulation will help.
There are blockchain networks that serve a purpose other than “be treated as currency” when they start to be “useful services supported by a tradeable instrument” instead of “Gotta Catch Them All” things will change and Web3.0 will be a thing. We are still in the “Friendster is the only social network” part of the game.
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I would like to point out how great social networks got after Friendster in order to complete your analogy 
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Although, it does sound like an interesting challenge. I’m 90% sure I could find an advisor and program that would let me submit that as “A Deconstruction Of Infantilism As A Conversation With Post Competent Normative Values” or some such.
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Again I say: show me a valid use case for this that is better than the existing systems in place for said use-case.
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Crypto has a long way to go before any app or service out places kids trying to get rich quick off the next off-shore tax dodge the billionaires pick to stash their cash in. However, I can remember an Internet that was only really good for tee shirts, porn, and stock trading with lower fees. If you swap the tee shirts for NFTs, it’s the early 90s.
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Surely that is still all it is really good for
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Now you can mine crypto, if you can find a gpu.
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Everything post-Gopher was a mistake
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You’d think that it would be bad enough to be a dropout, but for that to be your fake credential…
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More shocking news from the cryptocurrency sector:
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If he was a serious crypto escape artist, his name would be Justin Time.
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