• LEONHART@slrpnk.net
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    Crypto-whatsit? Is that something from one of Bobby’s vid’ya games?

    It’s a new form of money, Hank. VIRTUAL MONEY.

    Well, excuse me, Dale, but here where I live, in the REAL WORLD, we already have a perfectly fine money. It’s called AMERICAN DOLLARS and it works just fine, I tell ya h’wat.

    You say that now, Hank, but wait until the cyber-swarm-uprising of 2034 comes and replaces your precious “real world” with a virtualsphere so indiscernible from what you think you know as real! Wake up and see what’s coming on the horizon!

    Can you see me kicking your ass on the horizon?

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    Tell y’what man, you talk’n bout ol’ crypto, man, I don’t want none-a that ol’ bitcoin, none-a that ethereum, man, that ain’t money, y’know, talkin’ bout dang ol’ dogecoin, man.

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    Top Left – More or less the default position, sensible enough, if a bit naive. Nothing wrong with this.

    Top Right – Having knowledge is a good thing, and so is making decisions based on sound risk-benefit analysis.

    Bottom Right – Well, at least it’s an informed decision. Just don’t try to pass off the risk on someone else if it backfires.

    Bottom Left – Oooouuuuh, you don’t want to be in this quadrant, trust me…

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    Maybe, but I kinda think Dale wouldn’t bother with crypto thinking it’s some kinda government psyops or some conspiracy lol

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    I’m sorry, you want me to pay you in hwatcoin?! We don’t accept your silly Canada dollars here, this is Texas.

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    Bitcoin isn’t going anywhere unless someone figures out how to successfully hack it. All the other crypto currencies can get fucked.

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      Once someone hacked Bitcoin to give himself a bazillion bitcoin for free. Everyone else could see that - so they just patched the vulnerability - but Bitcoin was hacked.

      That’s why it ended up going here.

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        Which means it’s probably still being hacked but if someone was smart they would steal small amounts from everywhere. Fly under the radar and because it’s “decentralized” if it’s small enough and random enough no voice would be loud enough to silence it.

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          I’d rather just take the one time lump sum payout of shorting it and flying over the radar. (Which that dude probably did) If you patiently exploit the vulnerability, then someone else might figure it out or notice.