The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.
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i have no argument with you
instead i am saying that unlike the stock market, which is about ventures based on real world applications, #cryptocurrency has none. thus, it is only a casino
so you win the argument on the basis of scoping the discussion to the dreamer buying and selling crypto
but outside that argument: the consideration of what crypto actually does
it does nothing
it's just poker chips, with hype signals driving ups and downs that you can analyze
It's a fair discussion and I thank you for the space.
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I think one can argue rental e-bikes are changing the way London works. A grester impact in two/three years than standard bikes have made in the last 20/30 years.
Especially amongst the young.
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right but i'd say the entire sector is a grift
it has no applications, besides as a casino whose selling point is tech hype. it's 2026: nothing useful, nothing large scale, has been adopted from #cryptocurrency. people thought it was a new internet
it started out full of dreams, which is fine. normal. noble even
but there's a lot of that in tech: dead ends
and all cryptocurrency offers now is this endless hype and nothing but harvesting money from the impressionable
@benroyce @Jazone @mattblaze Business in general has given up on pure R&D so now every time they come up with a new idea, they monetize it *first* before getting to the point of feasibility or viability.
It turns *everything* into some kind of grift when handled this way.
"We have no idea whether this is useful but like hell are we gonna let consumers get away without paying for it anyway."
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@navi it seems like scooters had a modest impact, probably mostly offsetting personally owned bicycles. I don’t think they’ve come anywhere close to “changing how cities work” (the supposed promise of the segway). A thing can be successful without being “revolutionary”.
@mattblaze @navi Rental scooters seem to have cluttered sidewalks and impeded pedestrians. Doesn't that count?
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@benroyce @Jazone @mattblaze Business in general has given up on pure R&D so now every time they come up with a new idea, they monetize it *first* before getting to the point of feasibility or viability.
It turns *everything* into some kind of grift when handled this way.
"We have no idea whether this is useful but like hell are we gonna let consumers get away without paying for it anyway."
@gooba42 @benroyce @mattblaze
Totally
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i have no argument with you
instead i am saying that unlike the stock market, which is about ventures based on real world applications, #cryptocurrency has none. thus, it is only a casino
so you win the argument on the basis of scoping the discussion to the dreamer buying and selling crypto
but outside that argument: the consideration of what crypto actually does
it does nothing
it's just poker chips, with hype signals driving ups and downs that you can analyze
@benroyce
Money is promises.
It seems obscure whose efforts are promised by a unit of Cryptocurrency.
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The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.
@mattblaze The blockchain works great! You can block everyone who shows up in your timeline talking about crypto, then block everyone who asks why you blocked the first fool.
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@benroyce @Jazone @mattblaze Business in general has given up on pure R&D so now every time they come up with a new idea, they monetize it *first* before getting to the point of feasibility or viability.
It turns *everything* into some kind of grift when handled this way.
"We have no idea whether this is useful but like hell are we gonna let consumers get away without paying for it anyway."
past:
here's a product. oh wow -> lots of money
current:
let me describe an amazing product. oh wow -> lots of money
perverse incentives
in cryptocurrency, AI, lots of the edges of tech
people buy the promise rather than the thing
then something strange happens: they get very defensive about it
because they invested so much, they can't face the reality it's empty promises
this begins to take on the trappings of a social movement, a cult, rather than business
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sure, cryptocurrency has been remarkably profitable
for the whales
the rest are gullible rubes who are robbed by con men extolling an amazing flimsy tech dream built on hype and FOMO
just like AI
@benroyce @Jazone @mattblaze Cryptocurrency was very profitable for that one guy who used to own crypto.com and sold it to some coinmongers. What was his name...?
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@benroyce @Jazone @mattblaze Cryptocurrency was very profitable for that one guy who used to own crypto.com and sold it to some coinmongers. What was his name...?
Everyone has a different definition of profits but historically, 10% on your investment is reasonable.
I'm aware of many private Trust funds that are sitting on 3000 to 5000% profits plus dividends because of the maturity of the assets. -
@benroyce
Money is promises.
It seems obscure whose efforts are promised by a unit of Cryptocurrency.
Also, what happens if such a promise is not kept, and who causes it to happen?that's easy
you understand what's going on. i understand what's going on. we're not involved, we're spectators
of this large crowd of gullible rubes enthusing about some tech thing. ok... but why are they so enthusiastic?
that's psychology: they invested their time and energy and money, and all they have is waiting, so they do this weird hype circus
until what?
until the third person who understands what's going on, the grifter, does their rug pull, and walks away with a tidy sum
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The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.
@mattblaze Almost like they're the same people...
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@intothewestaway @benroyce @mattblaze
Corruption personified.
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The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.
@mattblaze they want to believe!
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@navi it seems like scooters had a modest impact, probably mostly offsetting personally owned bicycles. I don’t think they’ve come anywhere close to “changing how cities work” (the supposed promise of the segway). A thing can be successful without being “revolutionary”.
@mattblaze Scooters, at least in my area, aren't changing much, even though we're seeing more of them.
Biggest impact seems to be the amount of injuries people are being seen for. Kind of like this decade's high impact aerobics, or yoga.
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@intothewestaway @Jazone @mattblaze
right
that's a family of con artists, for a long time
how they got into #cryptocurrency should educate crypto cult dreamers, but it doesn't
the con artist arrived late, and heard: "what you do is hype something, people buy a bunch of it, the price goes up, you rug pull millions or billions, and the gullible marks get ash in their mouth, and somehow never learn"
and the con artist said: "great! sign me up!"
it's an amazing money laundering grift
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right but i'd say the entire sector is a grift
it has no applications, besides as a casino whose selling point is tech hype. it's 2026: nothing useful, nothing large scale, has been adopted from #cryptocurrency. people thought it was a new internet
it started out full of dreams, which is fine. normal. noble even
but there's a lot of that in tech: dead ends
and all cryptocurrency offers now is this endless hype and nothing but harvesting money from the impressionable
@benroyce Have you no respect for the Iranian proclamation that they'll take payments in crypto for passage in Hormuz? (If you don't want to pay in renminbi.)
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The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.
@mattblaze are they different people, really?
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@benroyce Have you no respect for the Iranian proclamation that they'll take payments in crypto for passage in Hormuz? (If you don't want to pay in renminbi.)
any movement in crypto drives hype. so just the bare act of large sums flowing through it drives up the price
thus, criminal and shadowy elements *love* crypto. instead of receiving funds, they often receive funds, and a profit
it's funny because unlike a suitcase full of cash, crypto is pseudonymous
you can see all transactions. and potentially connect that to a real person/ org
