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After I learned that NFTs were essentially just signed git commits, I wrote them off as a hilarious grift. I feel bad for the people that were injured, so here's my advice: run away from NFTs and crypto. RUN AWAY!
I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting. Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.
Its called Schadenfreude and tbh the amount of NFT or Crypto scams, garbage and co people had to endure the last years is horrendes.
Its one thing to state in a comment that you shouldn't use NFT or crypto, but unfortunate we are not discussing banning them activly.
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Thank you! Also possible candidates: A few watts short of a lightbulb. Their lights are on but nobody’s home.
In french, we have "they are not not the sharpest knives of the drawer" but my favorite one is "he is not the penguin who slides the furthest" :D On the light related ones, I only know "they are not lights" which is a bit to bare bones to my taste, but works well in french
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I’m surprised they didn’t stuff the room with paid actors. The closest tangible value to NFTs is that they grant membership to an exclusive social club.
They do this with Discords and bots to make interest look high, I can't believe they didn't think to do it with an in person event. Actors must be a bigger pain to get than bots?
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Mmm. Maybe. It's still not clear to me that you can have a decentralized, P2P verification network that can handle anywhere near worldwide transaction volume. It's also not obvious to me that cryptocurrencies have value beyond "buying things you're not allowed to buy".
A decentralized P2P verification network is not hard. What's hard is building a global consensus to order these transactions, and there's not really a satisfying solution to that problem. > It's also not obvious to me that cryptocurrencies have value beyond "buying things you're not allowed to buy". The same could be said about cash but that's an important aspect of life. Whether we're talking about drugs (like canna…
But there are a ton of very obvious uses for cash aside from for things that are illegal. I use it every single day.
Now I wonder whether wearing photochromatic lenses (transitions lenses) would have reduced the damage. I do believe they are triggered by UV.
Er... might of worked. A lot of light can come in around the sides of normal glasses. so it would depend how the uv was reaching the eye.
Sounds very much like arc eye (welder's flash). Very painful, caused by UV.
You would think the pain would be immediate though.
Looks like they tried to kill the prosecution.
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Crypto on the whole is a scene where Sam Bankman-Fried was considered very smart while he was busy conducting the most inept financial crimes in modern history. The bar is low indeed.
We - humans - could have had digital money - fast and fee-less, micro-transactions, decentralization, secure, anti-spam. Everything Bitcoin claimed to want to be. Instead we - the tech community - got smug about scams. People here get smug even toward the victims of scams. The attitude has been 'Who gives a flying fuck about the details of any crypto tech, or the potential of digital money'. 'It's all a scam, so I do…