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if you want authenticity, just get good fucking moderation running, but noooo, this involves paying people (giving money away?? this is not how billionaires are made) and can't be grifted on
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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New idea for instance application questions.
This is the best xkcd I've seen in ages!
At this point cryptocurrency has a bad enough reputation that they have to try and ease readers into it.
(insert clown getting dressed meme image here)
- It's new digg!
- AI is bad (but also sexy and all powerful)
- so captchas are hard :(
- let's make a real fancy captcha!
- With... Zero-Knowledge Proofs :D :D :D :D :D (all non cryptocurrency people flee at this point)
- Also like NFTs for products you buy so when you shill them people know you're at least a real person doing so (maybe, kinda, sorta)
- So anyway I was thinking if only there was something else as ~~dystopian~~ cool as Sam Altman 様's orb thing and we smeared it across the entire internet
With pump[.]fun anyone can. This has made crypto scamming easier, and has no other discernable benefits.
Hey guys, you should invest in some KolaKoin!
Edit: 3 people are upset this was just a joke and they can't buy KolaKoin 😔
You gotta be careful not to joke in a way that's indistinguishable from real shitcoin spam 🙃
Classic orange cat move
There's always money in the banana -coin!
Ah yes, back to key signing parties. But dumber.
Do I have to put my pgp key on "The Blockchain" to get people to use it?
Dont think you can solve social problems with technical solutions tbh
@Soyweiser @Irelephant you definitely can't solve *anything* with PGP
not true! if I want to be really fucking angry, pgp is a great solution to getting that done quickly!
It was an attempt to solve a problem at the time (which partially still exists now) it had some use then (as it does now). It just didn't work as something that would be adopted by the general public for various reasons. Stuff like, you need to go to an open source conference.
Didn't steemit already fail horribly trying to do this?
Yeah, not with these tech bros in charge. They have no interest in the truth or they would pay fact checkers and mods.
Honestly, this does seem like a valid use of the technology behind crypto. Definitely a more beneficial use than just value speculation like we have now.
Worldcoin is a scam. This is a scam
how does one become an irate anteater? is it mostly by lacking ants to eat and instead consuming only inaccurate thinkpieces about how the will-never-pay-you-the-bagholder casino "works"?
