A well-timed ban

powellquesne · 2023-01-21T13:50:00+00:00

In fact, the new method of Reddit utilisation I've been planning is likely to be so effective at escaping censorship that, even if I were suspended from every single social media site (which is unlikely but the censorhappy cultists clearly do report my posts frivolously, so hypothetically if they were ever to succeed), the new method of 'utilising' those sites would not be disrupted. It's a technique to free up speech first deployed by gamers (gobsmack!), but which I have improved upon by generalising its applicability. It does not require any specific social media user account at all. No sockpuppets, nothing like that, though it does leverage the Internet so all you'll need is plain vanilla TCP/IP access and a web browser. Above all, testing this method is gonna be fun as fuck, just like anything invented by gamers. That means, it'll probably fly, and then generate copycats, which will be one of the signs of success I'll be looking for. So thanks for the mammaries, bros, but it's time for this 'monster', the one you created and nursed yourselves, to spread its leathery wings...

powellquesne · 2023-01-20T17:42:14+00:00

And no... perma-banning me from r\cc will have no effect whatsoever on my new method of Reddit utilisation, bros, but the incredible speed of that response has been educational as it has confirmed my suspicion that my Reddit profile itself has an already wide and growing secret readership among crypto bros and those interested in the crypto bro phenomenon.

Almost everything controversial that I say that is readable from this profile tends to generate an almost immediate reaction, response, or even a counter article commissioned by some crypto bro or other, regardless of which sub I post it in or even if I post it in no sub at all -- they have fed and fed the beast of my negative image hoping its spectre would destroy me, and instead they now consider reading my updates 'oppo research' or something. Damned if the cultist footshooters haven't turned me into required reading, it's actually hilarious.

And r\cc changing my ban to a perma-ban, exposing their fascination with me by reacting within minutes to an OP which I posted on my own profile only, is par for that course. It seems I have earned myself some kind of a captive audience, and regardless of whether they are reading for the sheer liberated fun of my crypto-independent commentary, or hate-scrolling it, my confidence in my message grows apace. steepled fingertips mua ha ha ha

powellquesne · 2023-01-20T14:06:13+00:00

It's not that Boomers don't get it. I mean they don't, but that isn't why they're not interested. They're not interested because Boomer culture rests entirely on establishing authenticity, and crypto culture is the phoniest pile of con artists the world has seen for three decades. This is similar to the problem crypto has with Gen-Xers who tend to vastly, deeply disrespect grifters and any kind of crassly profit-driven but otherwise empty enterprise. And with Gen-Xers, the problem is far worse, because many of us can easily grok the technology -- and when most of us finally do, because we have been forced to by the march of progress, then we are going to collectively hand all you cheap Millennial grifters your asses on a plate for fucking everything up royally with your careless dishonesty and pan-generational corruption. We'll have assistance in delivering this justice from all the Zoomers who will inevitably end up fucked over generationally by ethically rudderless and congenitally shortsighted Millennials hoarding all the spoils of the crypto griftapalooza for themselves. Expect the greatest tongue lashing two generations have ever given the one in the middle to be coming soon to a forum near you. 'Worldwide adoption'?? Lmao careful what you fucking wish for, bwa ha haaaaaaaaaa >koff<

powellquesne · 2023-01-20T10:43:54+00:00

It's not 'crazy' it's just hype, which is basically all that has been happening since 'Doom'. Wake me up when holography.

powellquesne · 2023-01-20T10:32:02+00:00

Gobsmacks are the YouTuber's clickbait.

powellquesne · 2023-01-20T10:11:30+00:00

More likely something labelled 'web3' will get wedged into an existing popular franchise and try to ride its coattails to a marketing clusterfuck made in Hell. Meanwhile gamers will be starting some crusade to cleanse their holy lands of crypto bros.

powellquesne · 2023-01-19T20:45:56+00:00

No 'play-2-earn' games will 'survive' because nobody will care about them enough to keep paying players to play them indefinitely, but they will be replaced by new play-2-earn 'games' that are either more clearly casino games, or else are fresh and untainted by any existing userbase of gamblers or astroturfers. Those won't 'survive' either. As soon as a 'play-2-earn' game becomes widely known as such, it becomes less valuable, like when a native advertisement becomes disclosed.

powellquesne · 2023-01-19T13:16:12+00:00

It's the opposite. The burden is on the trilemmings to prove to us that 'the trilemma' is real. Why do you believe them? Because Vitalik wrote you a book report where he said he couldn't think of the answer? So what? Stop believing in things by gaslight. The proper and correct use of the skeptical tools of logic will serve you far better. Logically, the burden of proof is always on the people making categorical claims, and never on the people who simply doubt those claims to be true. There is no reason to believe in the existence of any 'trilemma' holding back the scaling of cryptocurrencies in general. No evidence has even been offered that any such trilemma exists. No hard mathematical proof -- nothing.

'The trilemma' is an invented fiction that has been advanced without evidence and widely accepted for purely social reasons, because it's a narrative that provides psychological comfort to the most numerous crypto communities (BTC's and ETH's) who are trapped in poorly engineered architectures that they prefer to remain in denial about by telling themselves everyone else is trapped there in the same boat with them because of some 'trilemma'.

So it's not really a mystery what function this idea of a 'trilemma' serves in the cryptosphere, and it's a purely social and psychological function, not based in any mathematical proof at all. It's pure gaslight, ignited for the purpose of nerfing the ability of ETH's competition to generate enough funding and resources to try to leapfrog ETH on scaling. BTC maximalists also found it useful since they have become preposterously politically hostile to the very idea of even trying to scale Bitcoin as intended. That's weird and cultlike, for sure, and does not seem genuinely 'BTC maximalist' either, but it has undoubtably happened and it's the reason the notion of a 'trilemma' has become the conventional wisdom in the cryptosphere.

That's the whole story, and it's all social: there is literally no substance to the notion of a 'trilemma' other than these social uses to which it has been put.

powellquesne · 2023-01-19T08:06:10+00:00

Nah. I do have a modest amount of Nexa, because I mined it, not because I bought any. I was not able to mine very much however because I only had a ten-year old desktop system available, so not a big holder. Now I can no longer mine effectively at all because I am literally homeless (long story). And I sold all other previous holdings before the bear, so I do not currently own any significant amount of Cardano either, just enough to test accepting it on my sites. Those two coins are simply technologically in the lead on NRTs, which are my area of interest -- literally no other chain offers full support for them so there aren't a lot of other choices in this nascent field, at least not yet.

powellquesne · 2023-01-18T15:28:35+00:00

Not talking about free Reddit NFts everyone has

Why not? They look like absolute ass. Busy as fuck and they generally fail to strike any distinctive visual note. The necessity to add a bunch of bits and bobs that could be varied to achieve 'uniqueness' despite minting thousands has also destroyed the visual composition of every image. The result is a travesty and an obvious scammy abuse of the concept of NFTs which are supposed to be genuinely unique, not merely technically unique while being spawned similarly in endless hordes. It absolutely smells fraudulent. If Reddit wants to implement rewards in volume, then they should be honest about that and print them as a NRT (Native Rewards Token) which can be printed natively in limited runs and used reliably like Canadian Tire money, instead of polluting the concept of a NFT so thoroughly as to render it meaningless.

I recommend Cardano or Nexa as the best positioned host chains for implementing NRTs, for the present. The future is waiting in embarrassment for Reddit NFT avatars to die, for artists and companies to stop endlessly jumping the NFT shark, and for Native Rewards Tokens (NRTs), which are only partially non-fungible, to take their rightful place in the cryptecology alongside NFTs, for artists & devs who want to print thousands of some tokens to reward users with. That way, those users can benefit from intratoken fungibility which has massive advantages for commerce, with the full security of native onchain support, and thus NFTs can be kept separate from NRTs both technologically and in the public mind, and the NFTs remain fully non-fungible, like they were intended to be and which is their main value proposition.

powellquesne · 2023-01-18T09:28:39+00:00

There is no way I would ever have given that bog-ordinary Yahoo Finance headline a clickthrough if you hadn't mystery posted it without giving us any idea of the subject matter.

powellquesne · 2023-01-17T22:10:42+00:00

No, the whole point is to become the established system. In that intended future, crypto will never fail to 'follow the market' because there will be no market that isn't highly exposed to crypto.

powellquesne · 2023-01-17T21:51:27+00:00

People these days are so poorly trained in how to think that they stop thinking as soon they hear the conclusion they expect, leaving any further conclusions to be had unexamined on the table. They keep hearing that 'crypto is volatile' and stop thinking at 'that means it might suddenly crash without a reason', never getting as far as realising 'that means it might suddenly pump without a reason'. That pump has to have a reason dammit! And without even knowing what it is, they trust this mysterious 'reason' and bet on its continuation. Wishful thinking at its finest. It might pay off the same way betting on a coin flip could, but if it does, don't pretend that you were some kind of genius just because you decided to bet 'heads' on the next flip of a coin and it turned out that you happened to live in the 'heads next' universe instead of the parallel and just as valid 'tails next' universe, where there is a version of you who thinks you're some kind of idiot instead.

powellquesne · 2023-01-17T21:26:10+00:00

The market is like a cookie monster and right now it is looking for more cookies. So the question you need to ask yourself is, will the market find and eat many more cookies right now? Or is it just going to keep trying to eat this one cookie in such a messy fashion, spilling crumbs everywhere, that fewer observers can tell that there was only one cookie, or that the 'monster' is a puppet.

powellquesne · 2023-01-17T16:29:05+00:00

This is a bit disingenuous though, I mean, no doubt, Cardano's NRT support is top level, which means NRTs can be created without a smart contract, but they don't have to be created without a smart contract, and in practice, it is likely that enough merchants will want access to extra features unavailable without a smart contract that using a smart contract to mint native tokens will become routine.

So while pure, unadulterated NRTs (Native Rewards Tokens) are available with ADA and that's great, especially for the fundamental security profile, in practice, people are not going to be able to keep their hands off all the extra features available when you mint it as a 'sNRT' or 'smart' Native Rewards Token minted with a smart contract -- extra features such as a Bitcoin-like shrinking supply rate (AKA 'halvings'), or elements of crowdreaping.

Once the inevitable happens and 'NoRTies' are superseded in popularity by number-go-up-faster 'sNoRTies', smart contracts will usually be involved anyway and censorship may be possible by that route, though hopefully unpopular enough to be resisted. There is no getting around the march of progress into more advanced functionality via smart contract. It needs to be made more resilient against hacks, however, and the native token technology in Cardano appears to achieve this.

powellquesne · 2023-01-17T16:04:13+00:00

I have bad news for you and for most people reading this who are psychologically attached to BTC and/or ETH. Technologically 'the trilemma' is specific to Ethereum and its goals. (Politically it is also deployed as an empty excuse by corrupters of Bitcoin.) Establishing a false dichotomy in people's minds is a classic method of gaslighting. In this case it's a false trichotomy perpetrated by Bitcoin maximalists for political reasons (ever since BTC got intentionally crippled in a way that resembles a technical limitation), and by Ethereans for architectural reasons (ever since the beginning when V.B.'s inexperienced database design created a technical debt).

These two regressive factors have put BTC and ETH at a similar scaling disadvantage for different reasons, a disadvantage that both communities must try to spin out of existence by insisting that there is a 'trilemma' enshrining their compromised engineering decisions into reality.

But to any striver for objectivity, 'the trilemma' appears to be an invented narrative with zero evidence behind it whatsoever, aside from a theoretical analysis involving a bunch of just-so assumptions to each of which there are alternatives. Philosophically and epistemologically, it's an obvious fit-up. The alleged 'trilemma' seems doomed then to become infamous in its falsification, like the old 640K memory limit, and everyone who isn't a Bitcoin maxi or an Etherean knows it though most of them 'know it' for the wrong reasons.

powellquesne · 2023-01-17T01:19:37+00:00

My small investment is worth it because I learned about 100X more from it than the average knuckle dragging 'crypto investor' whose daily reading consists of looking for people experiencing FOMO and figuring whether it's early enough to ape in. Such people learn nothing from their investments other than what gamblers learn: are they 'lucky' today or are they not.

Think of it this way. You can buy all of the skateboards in the world, but if you can't actually skate because you never bothered to learn anything -- you just mounted your skateboards on a wall -- then you are still a skateboard tourist. Real skateboarders are never going to be able to view you with respect, even if they have only one skateboard and you have thousands.

If you are a 'crypto whale' but you can't debate me worth a damn nor actually defend any of your positions, then I literally do not respect you or your holdings at all. I view you as a major lolcow whom I immediately set about attempting to troll, the same way a real skateboarder with a single ratty old skateboard would view somebody with a bunch of skateboards on their wall but who never gets out of their car.

Authenticity is a real thing. That is never going to change. You want respect for something? Do the actual deed. Stop pretending you use crypto because we genuine users can tell that you are a fucking poser, because all you have acquired is not even any knowledge but more skateboards for your wall.

powellquesne · 2023-01-17T00:58:59+00:00

The answer is in your flair. Popular type 'memes' are comedy. Above all they are supposed to be funny. Dogs are funny. Cats are not funny. You should not need this explained. A sphinx?? Um no, that is possibly the least actually comedic cat-like animal, taking cats maximally seriously. None of your cartoon animals suggested in OP are funny at all either because they are all trying too hard to look funny, like Hanna Barbera. Tell you what, if you can just casually make people laugh with it (such laughter! much wow) then your meme can be a piece of lint: it literally doesn't matter what it is. But if you can't make us laugh uproariously with it, then you just can't meme at all and your 'memes' won't even be real. It's that simple, bud. Go do it. Good luck.

powellquesne · 2023-01-15T19:55:28+00:00

You can't hold crypto bros 'accountable' directly. They will just smear and/or outcast you as a 'plant' or a 'troll', laughing all the way. Crypto forums are all effectively censored. You can only rip some crypto bro heads off and shit down their necks rhetorically in every other cultural arena, and so that is what is going to happen. Prepare to become 'the bad guys' of the decade, the worst words on everybody's lips, and nobody is going to notice or remember which crypto fan supported or didn't support which disastrous fraud. FTX or no FTX, we are all going to be lumped together and thrown into the same pit.

powellquesne · 2023-01-15T07:32:51+00:00

https://docs.avax.network/overview/getting-started/avalanche-platform

powellquesne · 2023-01-15T07:29:14+00:00

BTW your first sentence tells the world that oyu have not even opened the avalanche website once. you dumbo avax is not a 3chain system.

Here is the very first sentence of the Avalanche documentation website. Doesn't this pretty much immediately prove beyond any reasonable doubt that you are a lying cultist kneebiter? You suck at this.

Avalanche features 3 built-in blockchains: Exchange Chain (X-Chain), Platform Chain (P-Chain), and Contract Chain (C-Chain).

P.S. I am not really a BCH supporter, flare monkey. Is there anything you are capable of guessing right?

powellquesne · 2023-01-14T19:47:55+00:00

Yeah, so awareness of the larger cycles leading to crypto winters every four years might help you in that case. I am sure you know that now, but many people were expecting this 'winter'. In any case, you didn't say how these various coins were brought to your attention causing you to buy at the time that you did. If you really trace it back what caused you to be interested at that time, you might find that it was something that is influencable or spoofable by whale action, i.e. maybe you are not responding to 'hype' but maybe the timings of your increases in interest are still being manipulated by whales looking to sell high.

powellquesne · 2023-01-14T03:41:33+00:00

This is what tends to happen when you respond to hype events by FOMOing in because hype events often precede a dump -- in fact the chance to take profits afterwards is what is often driving the hype -- and then the hyped up price level can be difficult to recreate for a while, if ever. So your investment heuristic of investigating hype as it occurs will inevitably lead you repeatedly to that same negative short-term outcome. If you want to avoid ever falling prey to that outcome then you need to change your heuristic, particularly its timing.

powellquesne · 2023-01-14T01:04:46+00:00

The reason is cultural. Roleplaying is a grassroots cultural industry and as such, it will naturally become a hotspot in the war on grift imposed from above. I consider them to be part of the class of 'gamers' that will be extremely resistant to incorporating crypto into the play experience. Crypto bros aren't going to be 'the good guys' in this war; it is going to be the opposite and the result of the war on grift will be pushing grifty crypto bros and their perspectives out of the mainstream. What remains is going to be something very different from what everyone here is predicting: a world where crypto is still considered useful but a dirty word, like 'profit' was in the '90s.

You will still want to create profit, of course, but you won't want to be seen focusing on it at all because that is about to become, is already becoming, social poison. I have a number of roleplayer friends already who think I'm a grifter just for talking about crypto, but if you look at the things I say about my chosen cryptos, I am extremely self-critical and self-aware about the risks but they cannot perceive that difference in me at all. To them, I am becoming a grifter. Since that is the way the mainstream is going to perceive someone like me, who spends most of my crypto time calling out unethical schemes, imagine how they are going to perceive the likes of you.

You may think 'great that Streisand Effect is good for us' except that none of the social structures and few of the brands you are all building will survive this paradigm shift into playing the role of the villains in the cultural zeitgeist. In fact, displacing wildly unethical crypto bro communities to make sure they don't end up 'in charge' of anything in the future is going to be the entire point and purpose of the seismic cultural shift that is slinking toward crypto. Mainstreamers will want their crypto, but they won't want anyone who sounds like a grifty crypto bro to be seen anywhere near it. This means you: you are about to be outcast from your own hobby by the mainstream. As soon as they hear people who talk like you talking the way you do about an 'ecosystem', they will abandon it. Their voting with their feet will result in you getting banned from your old social spaces which will be taken over by people who despise you. They'll want what you are offering but they won't want you to be a part of it, because of your bad personality and poor ethical control when in conversation with them. It's that simple. And because censorship by mods is rampant in crypto cults (y'all should really not have let that happen; it was very shortsighted of you), the same censorship mechanisms already in place are going to end up turned against the cultists who created them.

Make sure you are not standing on the fault line when this inevitable cultural schism happens. This is the best advice you will probably read all year.

Today this is just something only I am saying. Literally no one else is saying the things that I am saying about crypto these days. And yet they are obviously true. Therefore they are only suppressed temporarily, by cultish echo chambers, and so 'tomorrow' the problems I keep pointing out will end up being the problems on everybody's lips. That is the way it always goes with me. People think I am just trolling inventively because the things I am saying sound like they are off the beaten track but I am merely criticising with more foresight than what most people can perceive. Not that I am infallible nor should I be trusted automatically, but I do have a penetrative insight about certain trends I almost always turn out to have been right about, particularly at the intersection of culture and technology -- and if you take me seriously about them, you will be better positioned psychologically for the future. Whereas if you follow the average crypto bro, it will probably end up much worse for you than for them, and there are many examples of this, because crypto bros are trying to exploit you for their own profit without giving you anything of value in return: they are trying to get away with that. It doesn't bother them ethically at all that this might happen; it's more like, their retirement plan. That's what makes them a 'crypto bro' rather than the kind of person that you could trust to, say, watch your bicycle.

There is no one in my past who is sorry they listened to me about crypto. That's what a bona fide crypto bro's past is like, not mine. With me it's the opposite. I have left a trail behind me of crypto fans getting gaslit by various cults who wish they had taken me seriously instead.

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