Satoshi's original white paper (.pdf download).

FREEDOOOMMMM!

Environmental cost.

Have at it.

Dumb on so many levels and incredibly interesting on others. The most interesting thing about cryptos is the technology behind it, rather than the gambling with the money part.

Every time someone tries to convince me that cryptocurrency will be the gateway to some kind of revolution, I think of the Consolidated line:

The technological rationale is the rationale of domination itself

I don't understand it at all. Crap, even though I have small amount of monopoly money in it.

where were all of you when i was giving away 500 doge (for poker) on this forum? i think one guy took me up on it.
it's $.60 today.

the environmental thing wasn't really part of the discussion (or, to my shame, I hadn't noticed it) until the NFT craze took off. So I'm pretty sure it's unequivocally crap. How useful is this kind of decentralisation really -- like, compared to something like bittorrent. Surely it's not worth burning up the planet.

i do have a little bit, and it's (sadly) probably a good investment. But I don't think I'd get into it again, knowing what we know.

Two of humanity’s worst instincts: greed and self-destruction in a perfectly overlapped Venn Diagram.

CRAP

Patrick H wrote: Sat May 08, 2021 11:35 am Two of humanity’s worst instincts: greed and self-destruction in a perfectly overlapped Venn Diagram.

CRAP

Well put.

Crap, zero waffles.