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"This is the #DOGEplaybook. It's all about #plunder:take something that was carefully built up over generations & burn it to the ground, warming yourself in the pyre, leaving nothing behind but ash.
Trump's a plunderer…elected by the #plundererclass—like the #cryptobros who want to run wild, transforming workers' carefully shepherded #retirementsavings into useless #shitcoins, while the crypto bros run off with their perfectly cromulent #fiatmoney."
@pluralistic
pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/bro

pluralistic.netPluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

bitcoin maxis finding out what it's like to have leopards eat your face as it becomes increasingly clear Trump is considering including shitcoins like #Ripple's XRP (created by one of the Trump's largest donors, #BradGarlinghouse) in America's "Strategic Crypto Stockpile" which they thought was going to be a #StrategicBitcoinReserve.

(Alexander Leishman runs a bitcoin custody company called River).

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@spaf or lile any other #Currency their "#value" is solely based upon convertability.

That's why 5.000 KPW won't buy you a Cheeseburger in the USA, but 5.000 U$D a car and 5.000 XMR :monero: a house or at least an tiny.single-room condo...

All currencies are beased upon acceptance and convertability, and that's why #Bitcoin :bitcoin: and everything else but #Monero are #Shitcoins that prey on people horny for money and greedy af.

Am I wrong?
youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9

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@selzero People who shill #Shitcoins and have a #eth name on their profile are unbearably #cringe.

Needless to say that in the age of #dusting, this level of blatant self-doxxing will bite them in the rear more than anything...

ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/1078
home.treasury.gov/news/press-r

Seriously, who in their right mind still shills for #Ethereum, #Bitcoin :bitcoin: or any other #Shitcoin in the era of #Monero :monero: is beyond me.

Office of Foreign Assets Control | U.S. Department of the Treasury1078 | Office of Foreign Assets Control
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@aral @lexd0g let's say it this way:

I usually can find the merits in #tech but as of now people shove "#blockchain" and "#NFTs" into everything regardless if it makes sense or not just to fleece #VentureCapitalFirms...

Noone needs the floods of #Shitcoins when the only one that actually works as a #payment system is #Monero and it's only demand exists due to Credit Card firms & #PayPal being anti-consumer shit and horribly centralized.

youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9

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@stux I've to agree and the only exception of the rule I know is #Monero but that's solely to it being unable to be abused for NFTs and other "bigger fools #Scam|s"...

Unlike all #shitcoins Monero actually aims to be a #payment system equally as convenient like #PayPal - if not far better...

But that's just me acknowledging that the core concept behind NFTs can be good but all current implementations are just "below" it's potential and usefulness...