I’ve been patient tbh Every year the industry deploys some thot leader to try and say it’s more than extraction and that gives people the moral cover to go launch the nth iteration of shitters What’s worse is that everyone involved is a sheeple to the max No new ideas No creativity Just another token launcher to round trip our wealth on cause that guy over there did it and is raking it in Retardio

I have been here long enough to accept that I'll probably disappear once I make my lucrative sum of money with little to no work. I feel like we all want to extract but the ones who "make it" and can quit but don't just want to extract even more or go broke trying 🤑

It’s an impossible scenario because ok it’s just financial rails You can use them for productive means But No one, and I mean no one, is interested in that beyond a small handful of regens who are decried as snobs, called boomer, or out of touch

Ur right It’s so disgusting 🤢 When I bought my first crypto it had rebellious prestige For cypherpunks and insiders Now it’s unserious and ugly

even cypherpunk is a shell of its former selves at large

The incumbents honestly are the better players sorry not sorry No one here myself included is all that great Crypto afaik uses a revolutionary posture to take all the worst parts of the incumbent culture and KEEP those while being worse in every other way and hoping you don’t notice because you’re distracted by ideals no one lives up to Ie why is Coinbase so shitty at providing reasonable customer support while allowing company insiders to snipe every single new token listing of the year? Sure tradfi insider trades too but at least they give me a fucking person on the phone when I have a problem with my scraps

Have you ever taken a payday loan? Or had to remit money to another country? Or held physical dollars to hedge against inflation? I think incumbents are good for you because you’re in the top 10% in the world when it comes to financial access

These are the stories ALWAYS trotted out to justify the massive mountain of trash this industry is responsible for otherwise While not wrong, crypto hides a ton of subpar trashy shit behind the moral gloss of financial access And it’s Telling the chief consumer is a desperate one

I think you're moving the goalposts I agree with you that it's been 90% scams, 5% infra buildout, and 5% improvement to dollar access in the 3rd world Point is that the 90% scams acts a inscrutability shield against the entrenched players -- it's a far greater existential risk that the tech gets eaten and the circumstances stay the same re: financial access. Much better to chew a lot of glass for 20-30-40 years and tolerate the scammers, opportunists, etc. in the hope that something changes

If they don’t think you’re scum they’ll be plotting to kidnap ur relatives for ransom to extract your pkeys

Exactly. There's no upside to talking about it.

If it was regulated gambling then it would at least be calling a spade a spade. But gambling is trashy too Protocol layer … meh. Sounds cool and often is but only theoretically. all you are doing is building a better foundation for the trashy

But in the protocol layer- you have an excuse to not make money! And there is some cool research/harder software development It’s pretty cool to be the guy responsible for the bedrock Vegas sits on, even if it’s Vegas?

Just better uses of everyone’s time than to build a better home for wealth extraction

I think there’s some PvE here It’s not the current meta But it’s in the genes 🧬 Hodl and (3,3) Bitcoin was positive sum, with extractors sure. But you stick around long enough…

It’s TOO friendly Nastya 😂 It took Trump all of 2 minutes to get there too. Like I think the ink was barely dry on the ballots before $TRUMP and $MELANIA were launched 😂 😂

Lol, at least he stopped with only two and not tokenizing everything - his fiends, posts, kids etc

I low key think whole thing is elder abuse by Don and Eric and he has 0 clue

Could be... I'm ashamed to admit it, but when I saw Eric's (I guess) post everywhere about buying ETH, I actually bought some. Then it dropped like 50%

How do you use $CRITTER in your own ecosystem? Do you make any effort to maintain a minimum value of the token?

Well it’s almost a month old now, still in the community building stage. Showing people the vision of it. I earn from buy and sells so I stack supply from that to hold for giveaways and community projects. Coloring contest prizes! People who hold $CRITTER become part of the story they can vote on places we can visit different cultures to explore. Come up with new characters that the Geo Critters may meet. Critter helps fund the dream. Merch, plushies, kids books. Making art and travel accessible for people like me. Disabilities people who can’t afford to travel or can’t because of anxiety or depression. We explore the world together sharing kindness and wholesome pawsitive reinforcement.

I have seen people hypothesizing TIPS are no longer a safe buy because they do not trust the admin to honestly report inflation AT ALL 🤢 like just straight up say it’s 0 and in turn render the TIPS useless

Does not surprise me. I’ve actually never been more into crypto for the “tech” than since Trump took over. Black Swan events have never felt so palpable.

Such a good way to put it

A close second is like talking about it like “chemtrails” truthers

The less they know about that the BETTER makes perfect sense to me

It’s embarrassing because it’s so trashy idk Even when it’s not explicitly a scam or a rug pull it’s just got a veneer of ick

I agree, but also, you'll agree that crypto has not always been like this. I mean, let's take a trip down the memory lane, back to 2016-17,18,19,20. From the ICO era, to the onset of DeFi etc. Before the era of Uniswap, dex launchpads/IDOs and the apparent existence of memecoins. Crypto has always been beautiful, what we believed to be a wealth redistribution platform. You know what happened? Evolution! crypto has evolved, not positively, but it has.