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I've read some of the cryptocurrency subreddits recently and it has been absolutely fascinating. The degree of group cognitive dissonance is something else.

So if it's a scam but everyone knows that it is, you think there is no risk?

> it’s a currency not a stock. It's a digital asset that you buy with dollars (or equivalent). If your position benefits from the price in dollars increasing, then you're long.

This thinking only holds if you feel positively about who you currently are and your place in life right now. If you don't, then these "what if" questions can be a lot more appeali…

I genuinely gave up after two unsuccessful clicks. It probably says something about my personality or current state of mind.

> Jobs are handing out more money with more flexibility than ever seen before. I'm in the UK and not seeing any of this.

I don't think that my point is getting across because you're focusing on the people that you have most commonly observed in the environment around you. Sure - people can work harde…

> In my own perhaps limited experience, I've never really encountered anyone who is simply incapable of deep thought / critical thinking. I don't know how we're defining deep thoug…

Aren't you sharing that key with anyone that you transact with?

No, it's not the same at all. Tether is not a bank. Banks are audited and bank deposits are insured. Banks can't print money unilaterally. Tether doesn't have the same regulations …

> It's also hard to call a 0% interest, zero return token, a ponzi scheme. Much easier if we mention that only 3-4% of the entire Tether supply is backed by actual dollars.

Maybe we have very different experiences and perspectives. If you're healthy and things are going well, then stability and routine look like something boring that maybe even takes …

When I clicked on this post I was thinking of timelines like 1-2 years but 10 years is a long time to have something on the back burner. Do you really need to keep up? Do you want …

As someone who is depressed, founding a company is very low on the list of things I would like to do. Reasons: - it's practically impossible for me to be excited about any business…

> I talk about my mental health to anyone who will listen, and also try to those who won’t. I don’t launch into the story of my life and whole disease history but I need everyone t…

> Maybe, and this is a fat maybe, Greek symbols could make the odd write-once math or scientific code easier to read. The Julia community has been trying really hard to convince pe…

The whole video would have been better if he had built an argument from the ground up instead of starting with the idea that Tether is a scam and laying so many attempts at humor a…

It's not even created by financial people. If you watch the coffeezilla video that some other people in this thread linked to, you'll see that the people behind Tether have backgro…