This is infosex.change and bourneshell.itjustworks.justworks erasure.

Look at me, I’m a libertarian! I think fiat currency is scary because I don’t understand what social constructs are! No step on snek, unless the snek consents of course, which it should be able to do at any age!

Oh pray tell, what is the potential you saw in the technology? Was it the part where every transaction costs immense amounts of power and time and resource usage grows superlinearly with respect to usage? Or the part where the monetary system can be controlled by a few oligarchs with the most computing power or market cap of the currency instead of full nation states? Or the part where making payments comes with a built in fee, a bit like a tax without the upside of funding anything?

Or maybe you just like the part where governments can’t print money to enact keynesian new deal style spending because boo hoo muh inflation. Maybe you think money should be made of magic yellow metal so that you can’t invent more of it when needed? If you want to try what it’s like when the state can’t arbitrarily mint more cash, try living in the Eurozone. Some of us are fine, but many sure think they could use that moolah printer. Somehow not getting to conjure up new Euros at the drop of a hat has not brought in the triumph of the People’s Economics.

Money without a state is not a better money, it’s just nonsense. Money is always a tool of vertical power structures. A state government is just about the least worst entity to have control over money. Don’t privatize money, consider abolishing it instead.

Do you expect me to walk?

No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to buy!

Perfect timing, “self”, if that really is your name. I was just getting tired of the dirty talk 😇

Me dropping a radioactive gold bar on my foot: “Au!”

Oh dear, please give Mr. Gerard my apologies for assuming first name basis, how impolite of me.

I think calling gold “most stable currency in human history” is pretty buggish, but maybe by the time I’m intellectually ready to go back to college I’ll figure out why it isn’t.

Sure, investment in gold is reasonable. Particularly compared to most of whatever the hell Trump administration is doing. You said goldbugs are unreasonable yourself, so your initial hostile tone seems misplaced. Most likely you either misunderstood what was said or felt that the remark about goldbugs was meant to include people as reasonable as yourself, even though no one said investing in gold is unreasonable per se.

As for your later hostile tone, that is perfectly understandable because I’m being almost as much of a condescending dick as you are.

Come to think of it, dragon types are know to be big on hoarding gold so I guess it’s natural for you to take the issue so personally.

Okay daddprofessor. Most of us were agreeing that Trump admin trading gold reserves for cryptocoins is a stupid idea. This seems to have attracted people who agreed for the incorrect reason, namely that they think inert yellow metal is the fundamental source and measure of wealth, which David called out. After that it could be one of three things:

a) You misunderstood what David wrote and rudely insinuated he is unfamiliar with the concept of speculative investment.

b) You correctly understood what David wrote and — being a goldbug yourself — took issue with it and proceeded to make the aforementioned rude insinuation.

c) You’re flirting with me a bit too aggressively and it’s activating my brat instincts, professor~

Beanie Babies are real and generally increase in value.

You probably felt really smart when wrtiting that comment, and that’s totally normal and valid. Everyone has lapses in reading comprehension sometimes.

In a way every bubble economy is already a meta-bubble in that they don’t just aim to generate hype about tulips, but also to generate hype about hype about tulips.

And like @YourNetworkIsHaunted pointed out, it’s a pretty good description of private equity in general. More abstractly, every stock market crash is a consequence of some first-order bubble winning the meta-bubble race.

Works as a flex I guess. Does this government agency budget statement really include a multi-million dollar line for “arming fascist death squads to destabilize countries most of us couldn’t find on a map”? Why yes it does, what are you going to do about it!

Hello from Radio Yerevan. Our listeners ask if it’s true that America is standing on the edge of a precipice. We are happy to report that not only is that the case, but the USSR is once again one step ahead of them!

That’s about 800 characters, though. X the everything app has helpfully made it easier to ignore bluechecks by allowing them to make their posts tl;dr and saving me the trouble of accidentally reading them.

Yep, agencies do track blood money on the chains and place sanctions accordingly. It’s just a little more complicated than checking “was this specific coin used in one of these crimes” and laundering is still possible through a rogue exchange or P2P/sneakernet transactions to parties that don’t care about the sanctions.

Bitcoins aren’t really discrete individual units like that. Imagine you send me 0.1 bitcoin and my mom sends me 0.1 bitcoin and I then send 0.1 bitcoin to Alice (ignore transaction fees and such). It’s not really a meaningful question whether the sum Alice received was the fraction of a “coin” I received from you, from my mom or some specific mixture of both. The blockchain just records increases and decreases of a wallet’s balance.

Bitcoin is also unserious and unstable to a degree that woukd be comical if it weren’t tragic.

It’s incredibly subtle but if you take the first letter of each word in “Department Of Government Efficiency” you get DOGE, which is also the abbreviation of a popular memecoin Musk has shilled before. What a fascinating coin-cidence!

Perhaps they should have called it the Bastard Asshole Youth Criminals. Headed by the world’s oldest child prodigy.

Not at all innocent, no. But I’d rather see the exchanges suffer than the small fry retail speculators (though I can still laugh at them).

I see. You should maybe know that while it’s true in a sense, a lot of people don’t like that phrase very much. It’s a cliché cryptocurrency fans recite in response to any issues with cryptocurrency exchanges and I among others feel it serves to downplay the responsibility of the exchanges and blame the victims.

Securely taking care of an offline crypto wallet is somewhat more complicated and technically involved than just having an account on an exchange site. That the easiest way to use cryptocurrency is also an insecure one speaks of a major usability problem in the whole ecosystem.

More importantly, exchange sites offer what is essentially a bank account with little of the accountability of an actual bank. If a bank gets hacked and loses all your money or freezes your account for frivolous reasons, people generally don’t go “well you should have stored your money in cash inside your mattress instead”. (I guess some do, but they deservedly get the stink eye from people in polite society)

I dislike cryptocurrencies and have little trouble having vindictive schadenfreude when coiners and their platforms keep being embarrassed time and time again, but I know the real problem are the corporations and the tycoons, so I don’t like their responsibility being shifted on the least informed and most vulnerable group of retail users, who are also the most likely ones to use these exchange platforms and thereby not hold their own keys.