Today, 15 years ago #OTD the person or group with the fictive name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” created the first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin with the thought of it becoming a secure and fast alternative to fiat currency.
Now it's known as the most wasteful use of electricity, inefficient and limiting capability/functionality, as well as being among the most insecure and de-anonymizing ways to transfer money.
However, what Satoshi Nakamoto probably hasn't expected is how many scam-currencies would come after theirs, and how their invention would create a new breed of the most annoying people known to our species: crypto-bros.
Bitcoin's liquidity is nonexistant and it's value is solely based upon rich assholes hoarding it and #TechIlliterates buying it for more than it's worth, which should be 0!
I donate to Mozilla every month and will continue to do so, regularly.
The story making its rounds on Mastodon and the Fediverse, is one that was often shared on Twitter, by haters of Mozilla and Firefox. By a "libertarian" with both a political and personal agenda.
Pay it no mind, it is the same nonsense every year. 🙄
Y' know - same people that fanboyed #Musk for #Hyperloop which was only pushed to #defraud taxpayers and undercut #CHSR funding as well as sabotage #HighSpeedRail in general...
WELP
after seeing that Guardian video of delegates singing to the very fascist Italian prime minister BELLA CIAO, an old #antifa#song, i went looking for a video and what do i find?
BECKY G, one of the current Zoomer pop stars, singing a reggaeton version.
it's meant for a movie called The Heist, but she's dressed in the colors of the #Anarchist flag, has an #Anonymous-like character & seems to side-eye not only #cryptobros (what with the gold) but #capitalism.
#SBF gonna be HODLing his cell for a very very long time so probably we can safely tell him that he ngmi and will instead hfsp like all those he frauded.
I was watching a video from More Perfect Union about how the US and Puerto Rico itself have created a wealth inequality that is as profoundly unique as it is disturbing.
In a clip from this video, I noticed something called Anarchapulco in the background. So, I paused it and looked it up.
Upon looking up this AnarchApulco nonsense, I first click to see what it costs (ignoring the fact that they have a menu at the top for NFTs.
The tickets are $600 per person.
So I click on the speaker page. It's as diverse as a Connecticut country club squash team, filled with white grifters pushing conspiracy theories, crypto, and tips to living like them (which never includes being handed their wealth or social connections to acquire wealth).
The leader of this shitshow is a self-proclaimed AnCap Libertarian named Jeff Berwick. Dude pushes Crypto, NFTs, and his own newsletter called the Dollar Vigilante.
Next is Max Igan. Max Igan has links to MeWe and Rumble (far-right friendly platforms). He also uses the term "globalist" in his biography on "The Other Side of Midnight" which appears to be some sort of right-wing, online radio station.
For those unfamiliar, "Globalist" is a euphemism for Jew. It's a frequent term used by far-right, like Alex Jones.
Next is Larken Rose. He's another AnCap Libertarian. He's done time for tax evasion. And is well-known enough that Wesley Snipes tried to use Rose's arguments at his own tax evasion trial.
Rose is pushing his new movie, about a plantation that likens actual slavery to wage slavery and capitalism. While there are parallels, Rose (who is white) wrote a script in which he drops the N-word in an opening scene. Beyond that, the movie is full of exposition and lacks any real talent or vision for storytelling.
I'm not going to go through every grifter on this list, because I do have actual work to do, but there are two more standouts beyond the pasty homeopaths, internet-only radio disk jockeys, and COVID deniers.
I was going to do one last sketch on Ian Smith, but, to be honest, he's just a gymbro science-denier that sells "water treatments" and supplements. 🥱
What's the point of all this?
These grifters are insidious and the far-right is trying to appropriate leftist terminologies and twist them.
They take small grains of truth, the base rhetoric of AnComs and grow genetically modified shitmuffins from them. If you ever doubt this is happening, remember that Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Watch yourselves out there, keep your heads on a swivel, and don't assume that people are who they say they are.
#Nukebros and #Cryptobros United. What could go wrong?
NuScale pumping up the share price with nothing much going on.
"Nuscale Power (NYSE:SMR) is getting a lot of love from the market after Blockchain firm Standard Power said it will work with the company to procure power for two data sites in the U.S. Nuscale, which designs and markets small modular reactors, will provide its small modular reactor technology to the two locations." https://www.tipranks.com/news/nuscale-nysesmr-soars-after-receiving-nod-from-standard-power
So... you find people posting idiotic and dangerous misinformation and hate. Upon reporting (to the instance?) it looks like the entire instance is the problem. I imagine this is how hateful extremists are populating the fediverse. So... what happens? #hatespeech#misinformation#transphobia#dogwhistling#cryptobros#climatedenial
Sometimes you see perfection
The answer to: “unvaxxed sperm is the next bitcoin" what does this even mean”
Bo Thompson • @gaudipern.bsky.social
“It means that it will be overvalued by straight White men who think feminism is the problem, and despite their best efforts they're in a race to find someone to unload it onto before everyone realizes they have nothing of value to offer.”
#Cryptobros AND Qanon nutbaggery summarized at once perfectly.
This is why the #CryptoSpace is almost exclusively #CryptoBros because I'm convinced that any female person that is known in that space had at least one #DickPic of any kind dropped non-consentially into their wallet...
I’m apparently getting into it with #cryptobros apparently because I said the cardinal sin that #blockchain doesn’t make sense for everything and that #ActivityPub and the #fediverse is a better approach. There’s this #Deso blockchain based social media and I can’t help but ask many questions about it and other #cryptocurrency options. Don’t get me wrong I like cryptocurrency but it’s not the solution to every tech problem and they make it sound like I insulted their mother
alright, I think it's time to translate the #NWB spec language to RDF and start on the first leg of getting this p2p thing off the ground and mirror all the neurophysiology archives. got a big stack of hard drives and bandwidth going to waste
Okay, we’ve established that the US military gave #Ukraine its leftover munitions and equipment then sat back and watched #Russia deplete its inventory and get stuck in a quagmire.
The #cryptobros, #muskstans, and #Qtards on twitter want me to believe that this coup was planned by the #CIA to distract everyone from hunter biden.