Petition: Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji
35 crypto companies made a Change Dot Org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji” [https://www.change.org/p/bitcoin-deserves-an-emoji] F that Sign this one instead: “Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji”: https://www.change.org/bitcoin-is-stupid [https://www.change.org/bitcoin-is-stupid]
Well.
Step one. Bitcoin gets emoji.
Step two. Young people and other folks with fragile minds think it's legit because it has an emoji.
Step three. Poor people lose their money.
Outcome: The rich get rich, the poor stay poor.
Alternatively:
Step one. Bitcoin gets emoji.
Step two. Young people and other folks with fragile minds think it's legit because it has an emoji.
Step three. Crypto currencies keep burning through resources as if it was a Brazilian rainforest.
Outcome: The few lucky ones will feel really stupid living in their bunkers after the collapse.
I don’t think emojis should be the place to have a socio-political discussion.
have some entirely non-political emojis:
🗳️: BALLOT BOX WITH BALLOT 🇹🇼: FLAG: TAIWAN 🇵🇸: FLAG: PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES 🗽: STATUE OF LIBERTY 🤡: FACE OF “NON-POLITICAL” PERSON
Good for you. That’s a red herring, but just to be clear: did you miss the part where I said that emojis should represent what people think or talk about? All those examples you put are exactly what I meant.
BACK to the fucking discussion: You’re proving my point that the emoji bitcoin should then be included. Because a large group of people talk about it, in pro- or against.
Why?
Is there a case of the unicode comission blocking proposals of a scientology emoji?
🤯: me when ☦️, ☪️, ☯️, ☸️, ✝️, 🕉️, ✡️ all have emojis making each one legitimate.
They’re stupid internet pictures people aren’t going to make financial decisions off of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion
They're all legitimate, doesn't make them factual.
There is a wine emoji… There is a cigarette emoji…
People with fragile mind could think that it’s perfectly healthy to consume that stuff…
There is even a bomb emoji… People with fragile mind could…
Edit: Thanks for the dislikes. Negativity is way better than sharing arguments!!!111
yeah you’re annoying as fuck and we don’t need your posts
Easier to distinguish between people who want to establish a patriarchal white ethno-state, and people who just like ancient Greek sculpture
Nice.
Emojis are not stupid when used well. They help add more context to a text.
If people use emojis stupidly, chances are they’ll use “the alphabet” stupidly as well if there were no emojis. As in “lol like etf amirite anyway bei felicia!”
emojis are stupid
Really curious on what grounds, like is the entire idea of a pictogram stupid?
This may be the best usage of emojis ever. I think we should probably shit down emojis as a whole, they’ll never get better than this comment.
Oh, shoot. I mean
☝️🤯👏🎉
🖔
i’m fifty, and you’re full of it.
we can ban the crime coin because literally the coiners themselves admit it’s crime coin and that that’s a problem for crime coin
also roads are useful for non-criming and crime coin isn’t
Yes, I agree there is a stigma around bitcoin because of the amount of scams and ransomware that is around them but I don’t want to delegitimize decentralized currency.
Currently the options are really bad because of the amount of resources they consume and their use as an investment option. I really wish there could be an option to have money outside of government control.
I agree decentralized currency is great.
All I need is some quarters and I can start my laundry without waiting half an hour for the centralized blockchain ledger’s global state to acknowledge the transaction.
Blockchain will never be a good system of private transactions as it takes too many resources to run it and you have to fork it all of the time because the chains get too heavy. That much I know and agree with.
I want an alternative and currently after the grift made because of crypto, no one wants to innovate in a private and decentralized currency. In truth, I haven’t searched that much for an alternative.
The problem isn’t just the nature of blockchains, the problem is the uses to which such systems will be put. The explosion in ransomware fuelled by bitcoin et al isn’t something that can be replicated with physical cash at the same scale, for example (consider why you want electronic cash in the first place). Similarly, the need to “be your own bank” will always expose you to a greater risk of fraud and theft and loss, because being a bank is harder than people seem to think.
The technology involved is (almost) irrelevant.
I wanted this “electronic cash” to make it easier to carry cash without ending with lots of coins in my wallet. The point of being your own bank seems dangerous and too convoluted to make it more convenient.
I guess I will keep trying to use cash whenever I can and call it a day.
You realise that all electronic currencies will necessarily involve transaction logs stored in someone else’s computer? Even Zcash and monero, which have clever anonymous transactions, allow selective disclosure of the details of those transactions if you ever find yourself at the wrong end of a criminal investigation or tax audit. Moreover, their anonymity guarantees are not perfect (the IRS has certainly paid big bucks to chainalysis for de-anonymisation, for what that’s worth).
Unless someone magically invents a software artefact that can’t be duplicated (don’t hold your breath, I’m serious about the magic) there’s no escape from this fundamental requirement.
Using that logic, the US government has enough computing power to decrypt your internet traffic even if you use a VPN. I only want more protection, not complete anonymity.
And for what it’s worth, I think that the protection an internet service can provide is only “trust that we are doing it right”, every data leak that is happening is proof of this.
the US government has enough computing power to decrypt your internet traffic even if you use a VPN
No. Not even slightly.
I see you are completely unfamiliar with any of the issues here. I appreciate they are complex, but I don’t have the time or patience to educate you right now, even assuming you’re willing to learn.
Can you leave me with some reading material regarding the problems of trying to get privacy in electronic currency?
Something like the de-anonymisation of monero, I think it’s interesting and will try to read more about it.
are you dim? you literally replied “hey can you spend some time to give me things for free” to someone who literally explicitly made it clear that they don’t have the time
it sounds like you already have some idea of what you want to know about, maybe you should act on that curiousity! by, idunno, going to find the information? it’s not like this stuff hasn’t been well-covered spanning the space of a decade, or as though there aren’t literally companies that do this as their whole thing. nah, gonna have to be greenfields research, hard shit.
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