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50-year old TradFi bankers

artappraiser — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:36:52 +0000

50-year old TradFi bankers watching 20-year old crypto traders blow up pic.twitter.com/G450hdx9H1
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) November 14, 2022

p.s. except for the number,

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:41:16 +0000

In reply to ^ you told em so!

p.s. except for the number, that's one billion

EXCLUSIVE At least $1 billion of client funds missing at failed crypto firm FTX – sourceshttps://t.co/mJFYEWxHys https://t.co/JMATgLM1Al
— SourcesEh (@sourceseh) November 12, 2022

^ you told em so!

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:17:06 +0000

In reply to Think of Blockhead, but

^ you told em so!

Anything that sounds like a

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:26:25 +0000

In reply to Yeah smartass me and Peracles

Anything that sounds like a Libertarian Wet Dream makes me wanna head for the border. Thanks, no thanks. I'll stick with stock options, safer.

Yeah smartass me and Peracles

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:36:24 +0000

In reply to What's a Blockchain? The Future of Almost Everything (Eventually)

Yeah smartass me and Peracles thought we had this all figured out months ago when I started getting solicitations galore in my inbox to learn all about the blockchain revolution in Meetups with hors'deouvres and entertainment: just another pyramid scam, this one attached to a glorified ledger system that eats energy like a monster in a post WWII Japanese science fiction movie.

But then, and I haven't informed him yet, I'm breaking it now: I read this Feb. 2 article about Puertopia.Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico, and in it I read: live in the Caribbean but very close to the mainland with other English speakers around who are weird but more than tolerable, pay really cheap rent, eat cheap good food stay a citizen, but pay zero federal taxes, private electricity and water, private airports being built, libertine attitudes, and I'm going: how am I going to convince them that I adore them and that their ideas are really awesome and they really really need this old lady? Teach me your crypto lingo, dudes! I'll be glad to sit at a computer all day if there's a breeze coming from the open French doors since I already do in a lousy climate. Ain't gonna bad mouth them no more, keeping all options open.

Think of Blockhead, but

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:14:54 +0000

In reply to This strikes me as a

Think of Blockhead, but played distributed like a massive multiplayer online (MMO) game. Lose 10,000 bucks? The internet eruptz, "Blockhead!!!" Of course you can lose 100k or a million - like in Vegas, happy to have the suckers and dupes take a fall to give it all. Of course blockchaon's not just about cryptocurrency, but most of the suckers are lined up around that booth, a non-problem in search of a worse solution. Wonder if I can sell tulips with it?

This strikes me as a

barefooted — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:33:05 +0000

In reply to What's a Blockchain? The Future of Almost Everything (Eventually)

This strikes me as a particularly important private industry solution to the deregulation that the Trump administration is taking on so many turfs. And not just his - it's likely that as the years go by it will become essential for private companies to safeguard not only their data, but their relationship with consumers.

eta: And we could get more cool stuff along the way! As well as a safer way to do business ...