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To: little jeremiah

Don’t discount your feelings. IMO Crypto is SPECIOUS.

spe·cious
[ˈspiːʃəs]
adjective
specious (adjective)
superficially plausible, but actually wrong:
“a specious argument”
misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive:

I’m no luddite... I’m a Principal SRE that’s been coding for household name companies & government agencies since the mid90s (as stated before)

I was selling my free range chicken eggs in 2014 at work for BTC... Even had my BTC QR code on the “ops office” window so others could just scan and send. My boss was OK with me “stress testing” our 1024 Xeon core cluster (used hardware) mining LTC for 20 hours a day since the cluster was only doing processing work for 4 hours a day.

It’s scary to me... to participate in a world wide distributed ledger with no possibility of going offline or being scrubbed (outside of state actions)... sounds like a DS tracking dream to me... not a freedom based monetary policy. Imagine a world where cash transactions don’t go away. Yup, thats crypto... Lets not even talk about the speciousness of the BTC/crypto electricity usage given the country’s “green” insanity. 0 energy required for cash, metal, or barter transactions. :thinking_face: ... why would TPTB be pushing us to something that can be turned off like a lightswitch via either the power grid, a national firewall, or ISP actions in the name of safety/security? I know... I bet you (proverbial) know if you think about it rationally.

Those eggs sold in 2014? Yuuuuup... those transactions are still able to be retrieved. Connected the dots between me and the transactions? It’s game over...no anonymity.

I know this isn’t a popular stance here, but JUST maybe... Trump... is also specious.. fulfilling a specific role in the end days prophecy... greatly deceiving.

This (of course) doesn’t discount the Q drops... it just paints them in a different light.

IMO, Crypto is just another plank in the criminal syndicate money laundering scheme... .and “The Only Winning Move is not to Play”... but as free will dictates... YMMV/Your Life Is Yours to Create...


3,151 posted on 09/17/2024 4:14:50 PM PDT by yantis
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To: yantis; Axenolith

“Don’t discount your feelings. IMO Crypto is SPECIOUS.”

Crypto and AI are all well and good until the sun or some well-placed EMP nukes decide to turn off the power.


3,283 posted on 09/18/2024 4:37:29 AM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly (America was not designed for people to be SAFE. It was designed for people to be FREE.)
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