ToolSool
Molly Whitecrypto folks out there like "is this anything?" while searching around for the next narrative to draw in new bagholders
Scott Michaud@molly0xfff I read "86% of social media posts about the metaverse are written by bots and shills" lol.
Allan Chow@molly0xfff is heyholdmybag.com taken yet
Michael W Lucas 
"How to lie with statistics," example several billion. 
The only people talking about it are those trying to shill it, except for a few folks haven't given up calling them doofuses.
Oliver Hunt@molly0xfff there’s also a selection bias though. The only people who even remember the metaverse as a thing that exists are the people who inexplicably believe it is something that has value (and scammers obviously, but that’s just a default for anything crypto or crypto adjacent)
Óscar Morales Vivó@molly0xfff https://www.theonion.com/crypto-leaders-call-for-infusion-of-20-million-dopes-to-1850544377
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re calling for millions of bozos to be infused into the crypto market to stave off collapse and assure investors their money…
NoiseColor@molly0xfff
People are usually excited about new technologies. People like to read about them, see movies about them, dream about them... Not everything is a conspiracy. Think about all the products we were hyped up for, that never happened or sucked when they did. It's not a crypto thing,it's the fact that we want the future to happen fast and we want the next shiny thing.
People are usually excited about new technologies. People like to read about them, see movies about them, dream about them... Not everything is a conspiracy. Think about all the products we were hyped up for, that never happened or sucked when they did. It's not a crypto thing,it's the fact that we want the future to happen fast and we want the next shiny thing.
Austin Willis@NoiseColor @molly0xfff crypto isn’t a product though, they are unregulated penny stock scams
@austinwillis
US Securities and Exchange Commission disagrees with you, but you do you champ.
@molly0xfff
US Securities and Exchange Commission disagrees with you, but you do you champ.
@molly0xfff
Everyday FreethoughtConsidering that buffer overflows, injections and cross-site issues are still problems, maybe we should think more about getting good at the older tech before going crazy about anything new.
@EFreethought
Humanity works more like steaming ahead and stumble into newer and newer areas and make half ass solutions to issues as they arise. Not the safest way, but that's how it is. We can't change that. The only thing we can do is build better solutions.
@molly0xfff
Humanity works more like steaming ahead and stumble into newer and newer areas and make half ass solutions to issues as they arise. Not the safest way, but that's how it is. We can't change that. The only thing we can do is build better solutions.
@molly0xfff
Major Denis Bloodnok@NoiseColor @molly0xfff A cryptocurrency cultist says what?
(I suspect by now most people are not remotely excited about "new technologies" in the cryptocurrency space, unless it's a way to burn the whole thing with fire and salt the earth.)
@NoiseColor @molly0xfff I think my desire to see all cryptocurrency completely destroyed is pretty straightforward, really (and quite a common one), and likewise it doesn't seem particularly bizarre to note that most people are not actually excited about new scams in a space already riddled with them.
@denisbloodnok
No doubt your situation is the result of some personal trauma and your over the top emotional response is nothing else but bizarre. Why anyone would invest so much of themselves into hating something like a technology that they don't need to have any contact with is just bizzare af and you should get that checked out.
I'm interested in having rational exchanges in my activities and this for sure could not be that. Have a good one! Bye!
@molly0xfff
No doubt your situation is the result of some personal trauma and your over the top emotional response is nothing else but bizarre. Why anyone would invest so much of themselves into hating something like a technology that they don't need to have any contact with is just bizzare af and you should get that checked out.
I'm interested in having rational exchanges in my activities and this for sure could not be that. Have a good one! Bye!
@molly0xfff
@NoiseColor @molly0xfff I think I missed this personal trauma. Indeed, I'm not sure I have very much invested in disliking buttcoins. It's White, not me, who devotes a lot of time to writing a newsletter about how the space is riddled with fraud - a worthwhile activity, but it's not me who's doing it.
Disliking your scammy cult is pretty normal, really. Most people want nothing to do with it.
Heath Stewart@molly0xfff Those "crypto" folks have turned it into such a loaded, ugly word, too. Just a couple days ago I saw a post where someone was initially panicking because because they were pulling down #golang mods and saw Go's crypto mod in the list. They thought they were getting malware.
I also have to clarify to many people when I mention I work in crypto I mean the good kind - the kind that keeps them safe.
Like cryptozoologists, maybe we should refer to them as cryptogrifters.
Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann@heaths @molly0xfff totally agree with it.
Even if I like what @molly0xfff is doing, I still like web3.
But the cryptogrifters turned it as well into a loaded, ugly word.
The original concept behind the web3 (from the ethereum project, not the W3C) is really nice. But all those grifters transformed into a get rich quick scheme and it sucks.
It seems to me that a lot of the people who said the metaverse would change everything are the same people who said blockchain would change everything. And now they are saying AI will change everything.
Sometimes I think I need a new line of work.
freezeanopensore@molly0xfff The real surprise here is that there are 86k posts where anyone gave enough of a shit to say anything about the Metaverse at all.
Ruby Quail@molly0xfff I wonder how good these reports are at detecting satire
Arniepix@molly0xfff
Here in Brooklyn we call them "marks" or "suckers".
Here in Brooklyn we call them "marks" or "suckers".