Mastodawn

No Boilerplate Aug 15, 2024

Bitcoin is 15 years old.
To put that in perspective:

The web started in 1991. 15 years later, in 2006, we had youtube, twitter, amazon, ebay - the world was unrecognisable.

What have we got in that timeframe from #blockchain? Ashes.

"A thriving market for magic beans doesn't make the magic beanstalk real." - lib.rs

Magic Beans

Beware of empty promises and fraud.

Lib.rs

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No Boilerplate Aug 15, 2024

(I think I first heard this analogy from münecat - love her!)

Before you continue to YouTube

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Willow "Wolveric" Catkin Aug 15, 2024

@noboilerplate I was trying too work out why I couldn't see the first post for this, and I realised it was because I have a filter that hides posts mentioning crypto- 🤣

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Andreas K Aug 16, 2024

@WolvericCatkin @noboilerplate
Ah, you hate magic beans.

Half the rust economy seems to be working on completely trustworthy virtual beans 🤷

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Willow "Wolveric" Catkin Aug 16, 2024

@yacc143 @noboilerplate Tbh, I set it up early on, when I worried crypto bros might flock to Mastodon because it's *""decentralised""*, and didn't want to deal with the spam... Interestingly, this instance seems quite quiet though, and I only recently received my first spam PM, from one of those "Elon" bots who flooded mastodon.social... 🤔

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Rin3d

@WolvericCatkin @yacc143 @noboilerplate Crypto has its own social protocols, like Lens. There's no reason to go to mastadon which is federated not decentralized.