Web3 aka distributed ledger aka blockchain
People are still grifting in this space and I hear these guys on twitter talking about how they made six figures working in web3/dao/whateve buzzword
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#12Agile coaches who never wrote a single line of code. Blockchain people. Coding bootcamps and content/course creators promising unrealistic timelines to developer jobs. Pretty much anyone talking like they just made OVER-9000-DOLLARS(!!!) in a week with ChatGPT/Midjourney/Bitcoin/affiliate marketing/whatever the latest fad is. To lesser degree consumer grade VPN companies.
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#13Social Media Influencers - and the platforms they ~~rode~~ wrote in on.
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#14Anyone selling anything at all...
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#16So sorry to observe Blockchain tech/ppl as a perfect example of a snake oil / snake oil sellers. I can clearly see a big future on this field, kind of a Democracy 2.0, the "short script which is going to replace all the governments".
But the myriad of dudes who don't know even the very basics of cryptography but having some excellent sales skills make me feel sad sometimes.
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#17Anyone who pitches a "safer" computer language, or methodology. Rust, for example. People who sell memory that they know is unreliable, otherwise RowHammer[1] wouldn't work Most of the "CyberSecurity" industry... the Operating System should be doing their job, but isn't. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
It's wildly insulting, defamatory, and detached from all reality on several levels, to classify Rust as snake oil.
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#19If you look in blockchain, antivirus or AI, you’ll find heaps of snake oil salesmen.
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#20So sorry to observe Blockchain tech/ppl as a perfect example of a snake oil / snake oil sellers. I can clearly see a big future on this field, kind of a Democracy 2.0, the "short script which is going to replace all the governments". But the myriad of dudes who don't know even the very basics of cryptography but having some excellent sales skills make me feel sad sometimes.
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