Stumbling upon the Nakamoto Institute on Twitter in 2014 is why I’m into bitcoin & why I’ve managed to avoid getting scammed by shitcoins. Thank you @BitcoinPierre and @bitstein! #ThankAMaxi
There are more than 21,000 shitcoins. Each one of them at some point was sold to suckers with the promise of outperforming bitcoin. Fewer than 20 shitcoins have done that & it won’t last for long. You hear a lot more about the shitcoiner wins but the losses are far more numerous
Shitcoiners portray bitcoin maximalism as sacrificing easy gains for principles. That’s bullshit shitcoin marketing. Shitcoining is negative expected value compared to bitcoin because you’re far more likely to get rugged & rekt by falling for proprietary vaporware shitcoin scams
If you listen to the stories of casino goers, you’d think gambling is a sure way of getting rich. The ruined don’t like to tell their stories as much as the fewer winners. But casinos don’t pay their bills by losing & Shitcoiners don’t promote their premined scams to your benefit
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Shitcoin scammers saying ‘DeFi fixes this’ are like the ‘but it wasn’t real socialism’ socialists. Your moronic childish fantasies of what defi or socialism should be like are irrelevant. In reality DeFi is just another decentralization theatre for scammers to rug morons.
Every piece of the DeFi stack is fake decentralized with countless single points of failure. The shitcoins like Eth & sqlana are fake decentralized, & they hardfork periodically. Vast majority of staking happens on centralized exchanges. DeFi devs can & do rug the whole thing
The stablecoins on which DeFi relies are also all centralized or fake decentralized. Pretending that this can all be fixed & decentralized in the future is delusional because finance itself by its very nature has to have single points of failure & it’s insane to expect otherwise.
Bitcoin exchanges are run by people who learned fiat finance. Gambling with depositors' money is normal & healthy for them, because in the fiat system the central bank destroys the currency to bail them out every time it goes wrong.
Bitcoin has no central bank, thankfully, so nobody can steal others' bitcoin to bail you and your exchange out when their fiat tricks blow up. Your only options are to take your bitcoin off the exchange, or spend your life praying that fiaters who hold them don't play fiat tricks
Almost all fiat economists & financiers believe that lending out deposits available to the depositor on-demand is some genius financial innovation that magically creates new resources and helps promote economic growth, when it's just inflation.
The latest podcast hosts Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who explains how his background & expertise in physics and meteorology lead him to conclude that the alarmism around climate is unjustified. saifedean.com/podcast/140-cl…
We discuss how institutional and financial reasons have made fiat scientists so keen to promote an agenda of fear and panic, & we discuss the problems with the academic publication industry.
We also discuss Professor Lindzen’s experience as a lead author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and what it tells us about the IPCC's conclusions. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
Based on Zillow, housing in America's 10 largest cities has appreciated at ~8.5% per year over the past ten years. Extrapolating to 10.5 years, that's a ~136% increase. Meta, one of the biggest success stories of the last decade, barely beats that.
More Lebanese are turning to bitcoin as they wake up from the ridiculous delusion that their kleptocratic banking system can be reformed & their money returned. cnbc.com/2022/11/05/-in…
Lebanon is an example of how bitcoin adoption happens the hard way.
While the fiat ponzi works, normies laugh at it & at the early adopters.
"But it doesn't even pay you interest!" my university colleagues would laugh as they collected 10%+ on their deposits that are now gone.
When the fiat ponzi stops working, the brighter normies begin to use bitcoin out of necessity. The older and more fiat-brained continue to believe the thieves who ran the ponzi scheme will manage to somehow bring it back out of thin air.
I'm not an accountant or a shitcoinologist, but can someone explain to me how Alameda can have more FTT shitcoin listed as an asset on its balance sheet than there is FTT in existence?
Could they be counting tokens that are not circulating as an asset? The obvious problem here is that releasing them for circulation increases the supply & depresses the price of the rest of the tokens.