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Thread: Bitcoin....who's gotten into it?
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11-23-2021, 06:26 PM #6301
Let's be real. FOMC members have been getting richer from printing cantillionaire cash and pumping their own assets, while the middle and lower class get devastated by inflation. Therefore the plebs have resorted to buying DOGE and SHIB lottery tickets as what they see as their only option.
Of course there are conflicts of interest in crypto. But in many respects, I think distributed ledgers are preferable to corrupt politicians and central bankers.
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11-23-2021, 09:52 PM #6302
Polygon going for the ZKRollup so it can settle on Ethereum Layer 2. Finally
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11-23-2021, 09:53 PM #6303
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11-23-2021, 11:51 PM #6304
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11-24-2021, 12:51 AM #6305
Not that I know of. Sidecoins, rollups, siloed protocols.... it's things like this that constantly remind me that "Web 3.0" is so very much in its infancy. Tomorrow I have to fund Shakepay, send Eth to Binance, bridge to Polygon to buy Matic, then convert to USDT and fund Metamask, then buy KlimaDAO, then stake it.
ahhhh DeFi. It's like doing my first ever Redhat Linux install
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11-24-2021, 01:14 AM #6306
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11-24-2021, 03:49 AM #6307
Except linux is free
In other news, Sergey has spoken! About staking! (link price not affected, so far)
https://twitter.com/SergeyNazarov/st...50397343522820Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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11-24-2021, 08:13 AM #6308
In this respect we agree. Neither they nor members of Congress should be able to trade using any information they happen across in the scope of their service.
But let's blame the kids, I guess.
No doubt that there will be winners in this market, some in a big way. There will also be losers. Reality says more and bigger than the winners.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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11-24-2021, 09:09 AM #6309
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11-24-2021, 11:22 AM #6310
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11-24-2021, 11:32 AM #6311I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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11-24-2021, 11:48 AM #6312
Saifedean and PlanB, veritable titans, podcasting:
The resilience of stock-to-flow with PlanB - https://saifedean.com/podcast/93-the...ow-with-planb/Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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11-24-2021, 01:04 PM #6313Registered User
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11-24-2021, 01:54 PM #6314
I thought I'd expand on this. Early finance readings would say that Fed money printing was also a Ponzi Game but played over generations and the winners being the current and next generation but the lovers potentially being the future generation UNLESS one could (gradually) inflate money back so that future payments would) gradually become less and less meaningful. Obviously a dangerous macro game to play.
edit to add a classic article https://www.jstor.org/stable/2526789
If one is to extend that to crypto ( and I think its a stretch), then crypto and Web 3.0 and the various shifts it will trigger are more likely than other Ponzi games to persist over time and have more amplitude of money making (and conversely money destruction) potential. Viewed from the lens of Web 1.0 there are lots of lottery tickets. The payouts are bigger. The losses are distributed over a wider population because there are more participants.
Viewed in this context crypto YOLOs are logical
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11-24-2021, 02:26 PM #6315
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11-24-2021, 02:30 PM #6316
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11-24-2021, 02:45 PM #6317
Ok, so why gamble on BTC instead of something else? Does the fact that the biggest negatives are externalities make the odds seem better?
It sounds like there's a pretty strong sentiment that BTC will survive the longest because it was the first to solve all the blockchain problems, but it also created the environmental problem. Why shouldn't the first one to solve that get just as much legitimacy? Particularly among the younger folks who stand to inherit a bigger share of that particular externality?
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11-24-2021, 03:23 PM #6318People will gamble even when the odds are against them. People think they'll be the winners and that others will lose. Sampling numbers is difficult due to survivorship bias.
Speculating on Crypto or day trading stocks at least there is no House that has odds in their favor instead it will be the other participants that will take a loss, right? Cause for a seller to make money there has to be a buyer convinced what the seller is selling will move either up or down.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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11-24-2021, 06:15 PM #6319
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11-24-2021, 06:18 PM #6320
All correct. Plus with crypto there is the ability for nimble speculators to "yield farm" ie move from token to token to obtain yield thus offloading bags fairly quickly to latecomers who may or may not become bagholders depending on how the tokens do.
Ie better odds, low entry barriers, potential asymptotically large gains ( for crypto as opposed to stocks)
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11-24-2021, 08:42 PM #6321
Why not just by USDT directly on any fiat onramp?
You want some cray defi shit, this guy has it on lock:
https://www.youtube.com/c/DefiCryptoTodayIs it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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11-25-2021, 08:25 AM #6322
Yeah, I caught your reasons earlier, and the argument of lesser ponzi makes some sense, I'm just trying to understand why it stops at BTC specifically for so many people. Is that a rational argument for security at the cost of environmental disaster, or just sentiment?
ETA: ponzi game is my new vocab for the weekLast edited by jono; 11-25-2021 at 09:33 AM.
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11-25-2021, 02:20 PM #6323
I am grateful for bitcoin, truly. It has changed my life and I hope and expect it will do the same for people all around the world.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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11-25-2021, 02:44 PM #6324
‘i got mine so i won’t critically examine the process’
america in a nutshell
i never bought bitcoin 10+ years ago because (i didn’t need drugs and) it was apparent it had become a fake tech advertising gold rush which just means those lagging in tech understanding/access would be the new plebs. the friction is still way too high
that’s a new version of the same, not a revolution
NFT self-flagellation highlights our current state of detractive tech development in a perfect way
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11-25-2021, 07:11 PM #6325
TBH that was a bit of a ramble. There's more liquidity in the KLIMA/USDT pair than the KLIMA/Matic pair which I was looking to USDT. I'm inclined to buy and hodl MATIC (as opposed to USDT) so I may simply do the txn in MATIC and accept the slippage. I'd have to look at conversion fees and take that all into account.
Again; for me, BTC was my first entry to crypto. It took me a while to get past my reservations which included the undeniable environmental impact. However because my cost base for BTC is so low there's substantial inertia in rotating to other cryptocurrencies. If/when I do liquidate my BTC I'd rotate to things that are more ESG - friendly; of which there are many choices. Partly that would be personal ethics, partly that would be because I feel that many consumers look askance at BTC's impact. However, I have no idea at what point I would liquidate.
I suspect many simply hold their nose and accept the stench. I know I do and reconcile it by biking everywhere possible, having no kids, recycling etc etc.
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