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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • The lack of denial and deflection when accused of holding a sizable investment in it is very telling.

    Besides that, calling it a currency is a joke. Its value is based entirely on speculation as an investment opportunity, and it’s nearly useless for anything other than converting to some international currency. Outside of illegally purchasing highly-regulated goods or paying criminals to decrypt your computer, it has fewer merchants accepting it than Amex. Furthermore, proof-of-work blockchains are an enormous waste of electricity and needlessly stupid contributor to global warming.

    Wholeheartedly, fuck Bitcoin.








  • Explaining why people kill each other is why more complicated.

    Only if trying to actually educate your kids. Otherwise, there’s the tried and true lazy/bad parenting method of only telling little Billy that “bad people need to be punished” and being surprised when he hits a classmate for taking his crayon.