Tag cryptocurrency

the crypto space is a lot like the movie Avatar, in that no one is able to make compelling arguments about it being actually good or revolutionary in material impact, only in its use of a specific technology

cron mom (@sophaskins)Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:08 GMT

Take a good long look and let it really sink in that all that is producing nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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Here’s is look inside building 1/4 of my mining farm. Almost all 3070s in this building. My new building will be all 170hx cards. Hoping to have it finished by EOY. #ETH #RVN #Mining

Jaxson Davidson (@jaxson_davidson)Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:48 GMT

Gwen C. Katz (@gwenckatz)Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:57 GMT

the matrix 4 press tour has just been keanu ruining these tech bros lives

hermione🫀🏺 (@thorlokid)Thu, 16 Dec 2021 23:40 GMT

I just heard the term "fomosapiens" used to refer to cryptobros, and I'm completely on board with that.

Anna "Legacy Archaeologist" Filina (@afilina)Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:35 GMT

best new yorker cartoon in decades probably

Aleph (9, 5) (@woke8yearold)Thu, 09 Dec 2021 04:11 GMT

RagnarRox 🏴‍☠️ (@RagnarRoxShow)Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:26 GMT

https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1468719052377890819

Kickstarter: an escrow service you trust to hold funds until a project reaches a threshold and delivers on its goals. Okay but get this: what if you *didn't* trust it?

Laurie Voss (@seldo)Wed, 08 Dec 2021 23:10 GMT

jfc, Wikipedia got on the Ponzi scheme bandwagon too now. theverge.com/2021/12/3/2280…

Bodil Stokke, Esq. (@bodil)Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:59 GMT

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1467565132813242369

People putting .eth in their Twitter usernames is creeping me out. Seems very cult like.

Rich Burroughs (@richburroughs)Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:51 GMT

It seems a lot of people in the crypto space have linked their identities to the underlying technology and are unable to discuss things without feeling personally attacked.

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:42 GMT

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1467098737021493252

It is a gambling tool for gamblers who want to gamble on how many gamblers are willing to gamble on it at any point in time.

Ghias El Yafi (@YafiGhias)Sat, 04 Dec 2021 12:10 GMT

Some people can't even afford their medical or grocery bills while others drop $650k on a fake boat. This is the worst timeline.

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Someone paid $650,000 for a virtual mega-yacht. I repeat: the yacht does not exist beyond a virtual world called “The Sandbox.” Every time I see a story like this I not only think we need to rein this in, but also that taxing the rich isn’t enough; we need expropriation.

Paris Marx (@parismarx)Mon, 29 Nov 2021 02:10 GMT

Ashley (@Infosec_Taylor)Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:26 GMT

whenever some VC tweets about some use case for crypto: - you could do the same thing without crypto - it would be less complicated - the crypto version bottoms out on the same problem anyway - it probably doesn't work

offline cursed (@mountain_ghosts)Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:15 GMT

https://twitter.com/joshuamartian/status/1447468817618071559

The Trouble with NFT's

Jellicle Josh (@joshuamartian)Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:15 GMT

whoever made this has captured the spirit of DS9 to a degree that is uncanny

broccoli rob 🥦 (@turnip_tops)Sun, 28 Nov 2021 01:49 GMT

I'm a tech guy and I can say with confidence I've lost every private key I've ever held within three years or so. Excited to see this important technology go mainstream with no recourse and tied to real assets. Please share your own stories in the comments!

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One of the most significant side-effects of the rise of crypto is we're *finally* giving everyone a public/private key pair What cypherpunks had tried unsuccessfully to do for yrs w/ ideology is happening w/ crypto incentives This has *far* reaching consequences warning long🧵

brantly.eth (@BrantlyMillegan)Mon, 03 May 2021 17:26 +0000

Pinboard (@Pinboard)Sun, 28 Nov 2021 01:32 GMT

changing my name to crypto so men see long term potential in an objectively unstable prospect

xanax in a cinnabon (ali) (@xanabon)Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:43 GMT

"If you're new to pyramid schemes, just give us your money and we'll explain later" twitter.com/cooopahtroopa/…

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If you're new to crypto, join a DAO. You'll find a community of advocates eager to answer questions and help you along the way. There's starting to be a DAO for just about everything - do a little digger and find your homebase.

Coopahtroopa (🔥,🔥) (@Cooopahtroopa)Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:25 GMT

Laurie Voss (@seldo)Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:57 GMT

furries, a community of people who are all about commissioning unique pieces off artists. porn, forever looking for ways to bypass payment blocks from payment companies, famously willing to champion new technologies. neither adopted crypto. make your own conclusions.

Freyja Katra Valentine, despooked (@FreyjaErlings)Fri, 12 Nov 2021 21:29 GMT

I've been on Twitter for OH GOD IT HAS BEEN FOURTEEN YEARS and uh anyways I routinely grumble about how I'd rather be a customer than a product. Soon as this option shows up for me I'm taking it.

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honestly twitter blue seems like kind of a good deal

soul nate (@MNateShyamalan)Wed, 10 Nov 2021 02:06 GMT

brian wisti (@brianwisti)Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:35 GMT

https://twitter.com/dannypostmaa/status/1457648827637272578

Andy Bell (@piccalilli_)Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:01 GMT

good stuff, well done everybody

thom (@thwphipps)Mon, 01 Nov 2021 14:07 GMT

https://twitter.com/bloodberry_tart/status/1450961152947675138

blockchain

N I C 🕸 L E (@nicoleamurray)Thu, 21 Oct 2021 01:52 +0000

A while back I met a self-proclaimed bro who spends all his time literally destroying the world looking for coins. The funny thing about it all, he never bought anything with the coins, but kept collecting them as if his life depended on it.

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)Sun, 03 Oct 2021 06:58 +0000

I never wanted to fully mute all the crypto/nft stuff cause I wanted to keep an eye on who I support and if they’re into that kind of crap 👀 But it’s too rage inducing, I can’t deal. Y’all continue burning our fucking planet and scamming each other, I’m out.

Carol 🌻 (@CarolSaysThings)Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:35 +0000

i genuinely feel like I’m in a giant prank when people start talking about NFTs as if any second someone’s gonna be like “punked! Of course this is an incredible fuckwit idea no one would actually take seriously!”

shelley (@codebytere)Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:54 +0000

Most people who make fun of eating tide pods - Eat zero tide pods - Have never prepared a tide pod meal - Have never met tide pod chefs - Have never puked up a tide pod - Aren't "tide pod connoisseurs" - Have won no tide pod eating contests - Missed out on drinking bleach

Kyle Pflug (@kylealden)Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:27 +0000

NFTs are the libertarian equivalent of asking your family and friends to join your essential oils pyramid scheme. twitter.com/cdixon/status/…

MalwareTech (@MalwareTechBlog)Mon, 27 Sep 2021 01:28 +0000

https://twitter.com/samjanvey/status/1442312937146830850

Except that ownership is not provable or enforceable. I could upload a U2 song and sell a token to it, and that proves nothing about my ownership of the song or the sucker who bought a token to it.

st33med (@st33med)Mon, 27 Sep 2021 04:59 +0000

Once you push through the crypto gaslighting, you realise there's no meaningful tech here at all all, and the whole of it just gambling, regulatory arbitrage, and scams. Torching the planet to sell expensive entries in a database really is as stupid as it seems.

Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl)Sun, 22 Aug 2021 12:12 +0000

In a world with no shortage of Bad Takes, crypto dudes still mange to deliver the goods every time.

Sharon O'Dea (@sharonodea)Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:09 +0000

I'm sure that their state backed insurance means that no customer is left out of pocket…? Perhaps their central bank can trace and invalidate all the stolen tokens…? At least they were regularly audited by professionals - which makes this sort of thing rare…?

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Important Notice: We are sorry to announce that #PolyNetwork was attacked on @BinanceChain @ethereum and @0xPolygon Assets had been transferred to hacker's following addresses: ETH: 0xC8a65Fadf0e0dDAf421F28FEAb69Bf6E2E589963 BSC: 0x0D6e286A7cfD25E0c01fEe9756765D8033B32C71

Poly Network (@PolyNetwork2)Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:38 +0000

Terence Eden (@edent)Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:17 +0000

*hangs a no solicitors sign on my twitter page*

KC Green (@kcgreenn)Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:43 +0000

did not have tim berners-lee turning into a crypto bro on my bingo card

Andy Bell (@piccalilli_)Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:09 +0000

The #Bitcoin2021 conference is called “BitCoin 2021” because if they put the word “con” in the name it would be saying the quiet part out loud.

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:37 +0000

First they wasted our energy Then they wasted our storage Now they want to waste our net connections If you're still defending cryptocurrency, you're either immoral, or a moron

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well, they finally did it. pkt.cash 🤮

Aaron A. Glenn (@networkservice)Thu, 27 May 2021 18:18 +0000

Dr Anthony, Eng, of course 💉 (@ofcAnthony)Thu, 27 May 2021 22:03 +0000

I’m not gonna pretend to know anything about crypto but I do know that all my most unreliable friends whose advice I follow the opposite of are very very into it

Chris Fleming (@chrisfluming)Tue, 25 May 2021 00:22 +0000

https://twitter.com/murderxbryan/status/1389686207932682243

Dear employee, I hope this email finds you in good spirits. When I decided to pay you in crypto I thought it would be worthless and you would essentially working for me for free. That has not been the case and now I want my crypto back as it is not worthless Sincerely, Boss

🔪🔪bЯyan🔪🔪 (Moderna gang) (@murderxbryan)Tue, 04 May 2021 21:05 +0000

Lmao

🔪🔪bЯyan🔪🔪 (Moderna gang) (@murderxbryan)Tue, 04 May 2021 20:55 +0000

*deleting NFT blog post* it's been done now, we can wrap it up

Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0)Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:08 +0000

Why Is Hell So Hot?

System32Comics (@System32Comics)Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:12 +0000

NFTs are cool because we’ve all been like “corporations are behind the worst of climate change” but now we know that if given the chance the individual will also sell out the environment for tons of money

charles foster kane (@justbrizigs)Sat, 24 Apr 2021 02:33 +0000

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1383014287321530368

A single bitcoin transaction now consumes almost a thousand kWh. Or a month's worth of power consumption for an average US household. 🤯☠️ digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy…

DHH (@dhh)Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:15 +0000

Linus trashes miners and GPU manufacturers for months over everything going on and then some fucking Crypto company sponsors a video and they go along with it? Spineless. Lost a lot of respect for LTT today.

Matt Brunt (@Brunty)Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:37 GMT