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The anti-crypto thread

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VirtualLarry said:
Someone made $250,000.00 on crypto-mining. Not too shabby!
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Not really surprised. People who are able to mine without immediately turning tokens around to pay for electricity or other costs can make a ton of money. There are likely miner millionaires out there. If you mined out even a few BTC over a decade ago, you'd be filthy rich. And the ETH miners we had around here in our old ETH mining thread could have sold at $2k+ for an enormous profit.
 
AdamK47 said:
Doesn't say net or gross. Going to guess gross for the easy click-bait headline. Enslaving GPUs and electricity costs eat into that. There is no breakdown showing operating profit. It's yet another crypto pep rally style video.
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those with utils included in rent would be fools not to mine crypto
 
I'm still using it, and yeah, between NH, miner app fees, Coinbase fees, and Paypal fees, I feel like I'm paying nearly 10-15% of my mining, just to realize the gains.
 
Microstrategy's founder and CEO steps down but not because of almost $1B loss in bitcoin:

He's going to take a new post as executive chairman, focused on the company's bitcoin strategy.

So it looks like the company is still going to be the defacto surrogate for buying bitcoin.

Come on bitcoin $10k.
Then i buy Microstrategy HUGE

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and it looks like microstrategy is also the defacto surrogate for shorting btc.
there's still a HUGE short on microstrategy meaning speculator sentiment is that btc will drop short term 😱
 
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JEDI said:
there's still a HUGE short on microstrategy meaning speculator sentiment is that btc will drop short term 😱
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They can always lose more money when they get squeezed. I think a lot of people were expecting BTC $12-$14k or so and are getting wrecked now that it isn't happening.
 
arstechnica.com

SEC: Crypto fraudsters raised $300M with “textbook pyramid and Ponzi scheme”

Victims lured with "smart contracts" on Ethereum, Tron, and Binance blockchains.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

Another day, another crypto scam:

Forsage Crypto is a textbook pyramid and Ponzi scheme. It did not sell or purport to sell any actual, consumable product to bona fide retail customers during the relevant time period and had no apparent source of revenue other than funds received from investors. The primary way for investors to make money from Forsage Crypto was to recruit others into the scheme.
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A beautiful summary of the entirety of crypto. Just burns power and electronics to solve imaginary number sudokus. They have "value", yo. And they're "real", yo.

Cryptobros use terms like "smart contracts", "Ethereum", "Tron", "Binance" and "blockchain" to tell us we're just not smart enough to understand the Emperor is wearing clothes, even tho everyone who isn't legally blind can plainly see a whole lotta shit coming from his asshole, just like crypto itself.
 
BFG10K said:
arstechnica.com

SEC: Crypto fraudsters raised $300M with “textbook pyramid and Ponzi scheme”

Victims lured with "smart contracts" on Ethereum, Tron, and Binance blockchains.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

Another day, another crypto scam:


A beautiful summary of the entirety of crypto. Just burns power and electronics to solve imaginary number sudokus. They have "value", yo. And they're "real", yo.

Cryptobros use terms like "smart contracts", "Ethereum", "Tron", "Binance" and "blockchain" to tell us we're just not smart enough to understand the Emperor is wearing clothes, even tho everyone who isn't legally blind can plainly see a whole lotta shit coming from his asshole, just like crypto itself.
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as long as i'm not the last person that is still holding tulips when it crashes
 
BFG10K said:
Cryptobros use terms like "smart contracts", "Ethereum", "Tron", "Binance" and "blockchain" to tell us we're just not smart enough to understand the Emperor is wearing clothes, even tho everyone who isn't legally blind can plainly see a whole lotta shit coming from his asshole, just like crypto itself.
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Sorry but statements like that aren't really helping your case.

@VirtualLarry

They'll probably go live with it anyway. Also while it's not a "you" problem, you may have noticed that it's getting to be nearly impossible to read Twitter posts without a Twitter account now. Those of us who refuse to actually use Twitter can't read this stuff anymore without a big graphical occlusion in the browser window making it hard to read everything and impossible to scroll through the page. If there's any way to paste this info without going direct to Twitter, that would be very helpful.
 
AdamK47 said:
Cryptocurrency attracts caring wholesome upstanding people that just want to make a better world for everyone.
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I'd say that's mostly accurate pertaining to a lot of the people on these forums that got interested in cryptocurrency. Our old Ethereum mining thread was (mostly) cordial and helpful, outside of a few BTC maximalists that kept trolling the thread.

Now if you went to the old Poloniex Troll Box then yes, you'd be dealing with the scum of the Earth.
 
DrMrLordX said:
I'd say that's mostly accurate pertaining to a lot of the people on these forums that got interested in cryptocurrency. Our old Ethereum mining thread was (mostly) cordial and helpful, outside of a few BTC maximalists that kept trolling the thread.

Now if you went to the old Poloniex Troll Box then yes, you'd be dealing with the scum of the Earth.
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There isn't a corner of Cryptocurrency left that hasn't been exploited by grifters.
 
The first whim I got of vapor bux was that it would be great for thieves, web crooks, hackers, ransomware thugs and a whole host of other human underbelly slime.

Not once have I ever considered it 'honest', 'wholesome' or useful in any legitimate mainstream way.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
or useful in any legitimate mainstream way.
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What if we had a "currency for the web", that was used to pay to view articles (without needing a login to each site), while at the same time, earning currency for the content that you authored, such as these forum posts.

As should be obvious, transaction speeds and costs mean that ETH and BTC are unfit for playing that role.
 
AdamK47 said:
Cryptocurrency attracts caring wholesome upstanding people that just want to make a better world for everyone.
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The same can be said of liquor stores, casinos, and pot dispensaries. Threads regarding such subjects also tend to attract caring, wholesome people who know what is best for everyone else and crave the power to force it down everyone's throat instead of minding their own business.
 
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