Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

Forgot about:
"Oh, did I say I want to replace USD? No, no, no, don't be silly. That's definitely not why crypto exists. It's definitely not made to replace fiat currency, because fiat currency is prone to governments messing around. What, every crypto advocate says crypto is good to keep governments away from manipulating the market? Don't be silly, you need to believe what I say now! Crypto is not for that. It's good that this crypto relies on fiat currency, makes perfect sense, it's not a bother at all that it's consequently just as susceptible to government manipulation. "

I used to have a friend that managed to get involved in a pyramid scheme, or maybe I should be nicer and call it "multi level marketing" like he was suckered into. In any case, I still remember some of the bullshit he'd say to me trying to convince me to join under him.

"Gaslight" was not a word in my vocabulary at that time, but looking back, I'd say he was trying to gaslight me with the whole "no, no, it's not a pyramid scheme, it's multi level marketing, definitely not the same principle". "No, no, don't use your logic to figure out that you're giving money to the level above you, and stealing money from the people below you, and that there's clearly a limit to how far down you can go, so some people at the bottom simply can't make a profit, and that if you draw it out it clearly forms a pyramid, cause it's not a pyramid, it's multi-level marketing!".

I'm feeling the same thing really. "No, don't look at the obvious things, that anyone can logically deduce. Crypto is great and perfect and fixed, and USD is sooo bothersome. But don't think about how people buy crypto with USD because they can't get it in other ways, and sell crypto for USD because they don't actually want to keep the crypto. And definitely don't think about why they don't want to keep the crypto, it couldn't POSSIBLY be because it's more bothersome than USD. No, don't look at it, you hear me! Things are 100% exactly like I tell you, don't think about it! Don't contradict me! If you do you're just emotional and will be left behind. Don't believe your eyes and your reason, believe me! Crypto wastes energy resources? Well what about the banks, they waste too! But of course you shouldn't think about how we're still buying and selling crypto via banks, duh. In fact, crypto is clearly more efficient than banks, so we don't need to rely on USD and banks, so that's why it's good. Oh, did I say crypto doesn't rely on USD, well there is this crypto that fixes the stability problem by relying on USD. But it's a good thing that it relies on the thing that I said is bad and bothersome and that I want to get rid of because it's more wasteful than using crypto."

I already consider antisemites my personal enemies. I'm considering making crypto defenders too.

Why? Cause they try to gaslight you with bullshit.

>crypto problems are solved, but don't look at the fact that no one is using the fixed ones and everything is still Bitcoin dominated.

Remember Bitcoin Cash? And how it was supposed to fix some of Bitcoin's problems? Well I didn't. Had to search the name again, cause it fell into obscurity and no one is talking about it anymore. I remember being quite optimistic about it at the time... yeah, so much for a fix. Apparently it was so "good" it got forked again.

In a decade of crypto development, the only other noteworthy alternative to Bitcoin has been Ethereum, and maybe a meme coin. That's it. Everything else, you kinda know it's somewhere there in the background, but no one uses them as currency. At best shady people use it as an overhead to bank transactions to somewhat hide things.

But that's not using crypto as currency. That's not moving away from a reliance of USD.
Even with Bitcoin, the king of crypto, you still have an abundance of people relying on USD, to either buy Bitcoin to pay to others, or to convert the received Bitcoin to USD asap, because it's volatile.

And if you don't intend to move away from USD, then stop being a fag and use PayPal. You're literally solving nothing, while wasting electricity. And if you're obsessed with wasting electricity while we still have a big issue with CO2, then at least do folding@home or something.

>but muh baking system
1) as I pointed out earlier, you're still heavily relying on banks to constantly buy/sell crypto. Depending on how optimized the crypto system is overall, you might actually be giving banks even more work to do than without crypto;
2) congrats, now you're just making new banking systems, that are probably based in China or something. So much better.

The central idea behind crypto is genius. I remember when I finally sat down to understand the basic principle and how I was amazed by it. But problem is, years later, the IRL situation is dumbfoundedly bad. It reminds me of some format wars, only it's so much much much worse.
Remember, format wars don't guarantee you the best format for the user wins. It just guarantees the format that makes it easiest to exploit you out of your money wins.

I've had discussion with antisemites that ended with me being less annoyed.

>crypto issues are resolved cause of a very fringe coin exists that no one actually uses or promotes in any way. No, don't look at how a prototype Bitcoin is still king, trust me, it's all fixed now, cause me and a few buddies use something else.

I'd have an easier time believing climate change and pollution have been resolved cause some people drive Teslas.

Crypto is not magic. Bitcoin is worth something cause some investors put money into it. But investors didn't put money into it for your sake. They put money into it to make more money. Meaning, someone has to loose money in all of this. Big investors are usually pretty smart and have plenty of experience in trade. So don't jump to conclusions it's them.
So if you made it in crypto, then someone else lost it. Who was it?

Now that I think about it, what's even the point of paying someone in crypto, if you know they'll just convert it immediately in state currency, and you're likely buying it yourself with normal currency in the first place? How exactly are you subverting the USD and bank system, when for every bitcoin transaction there can be up to 2 regular bank transactions taking place?

Yes, there is the potential to make a parallel crypto economy, so that you have bitcoin transactions that don't cause bank transactions. If the payer has a decent store of bitcoins, and the receiver uses the payment to pay others. But I've yet to hear of bigger companies that receive crypto payments/donations say they'll commit to pay wages in the received crypto, or their bills or whatever.

I do wander though, would the average employee agree to being payed in crypto, and would the average company want to risk holding on to crypto?
I think bitcoin rate would stabilize if more people used it more like currency, but would people be willing to take the risk now, hoping that things improve in a few years?
At this point, it's not like bitcoin is that new anymore.

Makes 17 minute video. Only 6 minutes of it is not connected to Elon Musk or Hyperloop.

Is Thunderf00t autistic? He tried to make a video debunking some old battery research, and it ends up being a video on Elon Musk somehow. I didn't even finish watching it....

Elon Musk should take his satellites and make them write a big 69 in the sky. Then everyone would say "nice" at the same time and we'd achieve world peace.

>Why Master Chief is badass
He was genetically engineered from birth to be the pinnacle of mankind. Given the best training and the best equipment, he goes against the odds to fight for the survival of mankind.

>Why Doom Guy is badass
He's not a mere human, he's a force of nature, stuck in an eternal battle against the unending forces of hell itself. And he's winning.

>Why Prophet is badass
Through sheer willpower alone, he uploads his own consciousness into the nanosuit, merging with it's AI, and attaining life after death, all the while battling an alien force that humanity can barely comprehend.

>Why Gordon Freeman is badass
He was not forged for combat. He has no special training. In fact, he's just your average theoretical physicist, and his equipment is quite standard for the work he's doing. But when his life is on the line, he rises to the occasion, and if necessary, he will destroy a tank with just his lucky crowbar.

Visual aid for the poll.

Battle of badass suited FPS protagonists

Igel is back in full power

>band I like
>HOME MADE Kazoku
>what's a "kazoku"? sounds like a type of food
>looks it up
>it means "family"
aaawwww... wholesome overload.

To the trans people reading this:
WHY?!