#eat shit cryptobro

[ladyarjuna]

"Yep, don't wanna be that gal."

"I shit you not I was eating my cereal in the same seat with the EXACT SAME POSTURE and the cryptobro who's in my dorm room just... doesn't even wait."

Carla squeals in anticipation.

"'Damn, girl, where did you come from?'" She pauses. "Now keep in mind, it hadn't really sunk in for me yet. Never mind he's the greasiest motherfucker I've ever met. So when he says this, I just look at him like he's a moron-- which, to me, he is-- and say, 'Same place I went to sleep in'.

"I swear on my soul the next words out of his mouth are, and I quote, 'holy shit, Fred actually got a pity fuck?' and I just. Wow, tell me how you really feel when you're not trying to sell me on dumb bigger fool schemes, bud,"

[impossiblepackage]

Somebody downloaded all the nfts and put them up on a pirate bay style website

[agrioxoiros]

Dan Olson’s video “Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs” is very informative and exhaustive on everything wrong with this whole thing but it’s also 2+ hours long, so here’s some cliffnotes

the blockchain is a log of transactions where new entries can be added to the end and nothing can be deleted.

adding new transactions requires “proof of work” i.e. solving a math problem. This can add up to millions of processors in warehouses eating up the energy costs of a small nation.

this is advertised as secure to “hacking into the mainframe” type attacks but does nothing for “hi we’re the bitcoin inspectors, please hand us all your bitcoin and turn around for 10 seconds” attacks.

also sometimes there’s disagreements on what transactions actually happened that can lead to the blockchain splitting into alternate universes where in one it did happen and the other it didn’t. It’s not a frequent thing but that it can happen at all is ridiculous.

The ability to exchange cryptocoins for actual money is dependent on other people doing the opposite. Making profit off of crypto is dependent on making other people think they can make a profit off of crypto by making other people think they can make a profit off of crypto, and all of this is totally legit and not at all a scam

The decentralised nature of the blockchain is a big selling point, but the actual market is very much under the control of the rich. Those warehouses full of processors aren’t decentralised, they’re owned by people with enough money to buy them who believe they can make a profit by duping everyone else.

an NFT is a cryptocoin with a bit of code attached. That code can be a link to a shitty ape jpeg hosted on a site that could go down at any time leaving you with a link to nothing, or it could be a little program that will empty out your wallet if you interact with it.

the idea that NFTs are good for artists is bullshit. Lots of the art is stolen, including from dead artists, but even if you manage to mint (turn into an NFT) your art first there’s no guarantee you’ll be able to sell it, and no recourse if you lose your login info. It’s all just gone.

while the cryptowallet by itself is anonymous, once you make a transaction that connects it to your real name there’s no deleting that. Anyone can now go through the entire list of your past transactions.

The entire crypto market is a matryoshka doll of scams. Every other NFT project ends with the creators taking investor money and disappearing, there’s pump and dump schemes conducted on broad daylight, and did I mention the trojan horse NFTs that will steal all your shit if you so much as click on them?

Some cryptobros believe the future of crypto is one where all transactions go through the blockchain, and all of a person’s information is hosted in their digital wallet. Before you start screaming about the obvious security risk of putting all your eggs in one basket that might as well be gone if you forget your password, make some space for the further realisations that a) anyone (for instance, your employer) would be able to see any transaction you’ve ever made (for instance, supported a union) and b) anyone could send you an unspendable NFT with a picture of whatever they want and it’d be stuck in your wallet forever. You may now start screaming.

[borntofishforcedtowork]

monthly holy fuck why am i so pathetic wall of text rant

everyday i realize more and more how much of an absolute pathetic little worm i am. i have maybe 1 irl friend? it's weird. i havent hung out with anyone outside school since 2019 (and not because of covid i just have 0 people who want to do anything) ive been spending years spending all my free time in my basement consuming media trying and failing to learn things and trying and failing to make things. then i see people from my school and everyone actually like. having fun and doing things. and yeah ok what you see isnt whats real but i dont care if they arent having as much fun as it looks, i just want to talk to someone and have someone i know i can call a friend irl. my standards are low i dont need to find my soulmate i just want someone who i can listen to and they will listen to me in return and maybe we would take walks and eat together sometimes. the only people who i think actually enjoy my presence are people who are obligated to be nice/tolerate me (family/teachers) so i don't know if they're just tolerating me or whatever the hell. i think the reason i like war movies about comradery so much is because i like the history first of all but most importantly the COMRADERIE!! that i lack. i just found out that these four guys all of which i know from somewhere (one i was acquaintances with in 9th grade, another on the bus with me who used to chat with me a lot but a lot less now its mostly just good morning good night, another who was in my computer science class this year, another who is a friend of the 1 person who is my sort of irl friend) and also my neighbour showed up in one of the episodes?? shes nice and all. i wish i could be like that tbh, i dont really know how to interact with other peole and i try to be nice but the only way i really know to get people to like me is to do homework for them or make things for them, and when i try to talk to them i'm the most awkward autistic motherfucker youve ever seen, i think being in online school for like a year and 3/4ths messed me up lol, even before that i wasnt great at socializing but now im like. wooo. im kind of tired of being the idiot loser who spends every lunch period in the stairwell reading library books and only has people talk to me in class, when they can use me for my notes and homework. and yknow what? in a way i like it. i like having 0 social capital. i can say outlandish shit in class and argue and whatever and i lose nothing because there was nothing to lose before. two days ago i was arguing with this cryptobro in my tech class and was i worried about fucking any relationships up? no, i have none! i am so free. i can walk whatever direction i want and go wherever without worrying about what another person wants. but still, i feel like im missing out on something so fundimental with how im alone so much. at home, at school, most of the time i'm completely by myself. and right now i'm kind of tired of being lonely. i like being alone, don't get me wrong. i just wish that maybe once every week or two i had someone to have food with and talk about nothing and maybe just share facts or tidbits about things we like. i don't know man. i know very well none of this is going to change, everyone at my school already has friend groups they're in and honestly the people in my town, most of them are just not really my kind of people, no similar interests and we just don't really jive; not in a we hate each other way, just a we belong in different social groups way. i can;t wait to look back on my teenage years and remember spending every lunch in the stairs reading by myself and going home to do more shit by myself with absolutely nobody to remember funny stories with or reminisce. nothin. and even in adulthood it'll be the same. i've heard people talk about how hard it is to make friends as an adult and tbh if i've already had issues socializing for my whole life i'm just destined to die alone.

anyway gn sleep well