On the right one, you can play scrabble on your phone while you wait to get to your destination.
Pro Tip: build a time machine, travel back to 2009, buy $100 worth of bitcoins at $0.00076 each, sell in 2013 at $1000 ea (roughly $130 million).
If you travel back that far, there’s no need to buy them. Just start mining them. It was super easy at the beginning. I kinda wish I hadn’t been so lazy back then and done it myself.
Besides, I’m not sure there even was $100 worth out there available to buy at that price.
forced to drive to work vs leisurely taking the bus to go on an adventure
For every person that gets a payday from crypto there’s probably 50,000 that lost money. It’s just gambling.
Unless you mined bitcoin instead of trading it - especially early on, when it was practical on a simple home computer. People were essentially plucking money out of thin air.
Back then bitcoin was probably worth less than a penny per coin.
Ohhhh yeah - at some point in 2009 coins were worth less than 8 hundredths of a cent.
it was worth significantly less
It’s a much more valuable vehicle he’s ridding on the “after” picture.
That is not even a modern low floor bus. The Benz is worth more.
Change the caption to “before HODL” and “after HODL” and you can swap the photos.
Bitcoin as a pathway to wholesale adoption of mass transit?
I am forced to extend critical support
Well duh, you think they’re going to use their phone while driving? They’re a Bitcoin trader, not a maniac!
Yes, it’s much better to stop right in the middle of a road…
(But also yes, I know it’s photoshop.)
Using slop to make fun of crypto certainly is a weird choice. They’re very much adjacent.
Looks like photoshop.
It’s definitely a sign of the times that I didn’t even consider that! I hope you’re right.
Be a better detective if you’re going to accuse people of AI slop. The negativity it brings isn’t worth it.
What’s indicative of photoshop here?
The numbers on the gauge are completely wrong. If someone made this then they either sourced AI slop or are inattentive to details
AI would put the gage in the middle between 4ʼn and fa⁵t.
Crypto grift still grifting? Still waiting for the blockchain to change the world. Any minute now… the only people I’ve seen use a terminal to buy bitcoin have been senior citizens.
It is going to chnage the world:
Netanyahoo said Israel is going to use the blockchain to dodge sanctions
Saddens me that crypto is now about investment/gains instead of being improved as a fair, decentralised, convenient, fast, secure money system.
Looks like we will have to stick to the banks and their bullshit yet after all.
fair, decentralised, convenient, fast, secure money system
Can’t believe the scam money for scammers isn’t about the core principles of equity, efficiency, and security anymore.
What has become of the Mt. Gox’s of yesteryear?
That is why I was sp excited about XRP replacing SWIFT, it just made sense as a better method of Payments. I was heavy into XRP, and I got off the ride last year after 7 years of treading water
The real value Bitcoins tech brought us is immutable ledgers. We need our money to go through immutable ledgers.
There would be no “release your tax returns,” itd be public domain.
We need that shit.
I like how bitcoin has no idiotic ID requirements so the government is almost entirely dependent on you to report your income in it.
Yea, that’s one of the few good things that cryptostuff and the Blockchain.
That and the fact that you could, theoretically, do implementations that are actually progressive (instead of regressive), and where the ones that actually deserve rewards are the ones who get that (sort of a “Proof of Contribution” or a “Proof of Value”: if you actually add value and contribute to make things better, yoy get rewards, but if you’re only a leecher, then you get punishments, sort of torrent now that I think about it; but if you’re poor, you don’t have to contribute that much or nothing at all, because any difference is acceptable only if it favors the least advantaged, and favoring them is precisely what it means to contribute and add value).
But it needs regulation like any other currency.
It was a gov backed choice to pump and dump it, cause apparently thats peak economic strategy these days.
I loved the idea of crypto. There was even a niche but growing Crypto Leftist movement, creating tech/apps to help the working class (Breadchain), but in 4 years they built basically nothing. Then just fucking everything else got captured by VC money, big tech, and institutions. It’s just capitalism 2.0 now. It’s such a shame.
Yeah, now crypto is synonym of alt-right-incel-fash-neonazi-dickheads as Andrew Tate or Llados.
IMHO the problem crypto leftists have had is that our implementation choices generally ignore the “decentralized” requirement to avoid difficult economics problems. We try things like having nonprofits checking IDs, or creating yet another money supply so we can pay the devs from it, or recreating treasury bonds because it looks greener.
What we need isn’t “open source money, but generous”. We need to build a new economy outside the old one, and what we’re selling won’t shoot to the moon overnight. While we can contribute useful tools, we aren’t the architects of that future and can’t be in charge even for now.
IMO the goals of leftists within crypto is:
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protect the unbanked, underbanked, and even banked from the exploitative financial system: we’re making progress. There’s is demonstrable proof of this. Even just the base protocols (Bitcoin, Ethereum) offer real relief from tradfi. A very simple example is sending aid to Gaza.
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remove US hegemonic power by undermining the dominance of the US dollar: we’re making progress, but some things like USDC are actually reinforcing American dominance. The influx of institutions into the crypto space has really undermined this.
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move away from capitalism and asset speculation to collective ownership (governance tokens), trade of useful goods (digital or physical), and savings protocols: we’re not making very much progress and are actively moving against this. This is where Breadchain / Bread Coop comes into play. There’s so much potential, and some things have been built … but overall it’s been slow and big disappointment as we watch Capitalists actively co-opt crypto. The amount of scams, VC vaporware, rugpulls, casino games, etc seems to grow by the day. I truly believe there’s genuine use cases out there, but crypto right now is mostly just ultra-capitalist speculative garbage.
It’s been sad to see crypto leftists like Joshua Davila (author of Blockchain Radicals) move away from crypto and pivot into AI. sigh
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It is used as a decentralized convenient secure money system. States use it for bribing, sanctions, online crimes, laundering. There are so many use cases. It’s not what people think it is. You will never ever buy your bread with it but at the same time it is not going away as it is so useful as a shadow currency that there will be always billion transactions
I certainly have my critiques about the crypto space, but this isn’t one of them. There’s plenty of use cases that aren’t what you’re describing: https://ethereumadoption.com/built-on-ethereum?view=byEntity
You wanted stability. Stability requires centralization and trust.
Stability comes from popularity. Its already way more stable than before - $100 BTC fell into sub $20. We don’t have x5 swings now.
Bitcoin would be way more popular if it actually delivered the decent tech that everyone is using to do purchases.
BTC ran into speed & scaling issue, and eventually made Lighting Network. So now we have 2 different currencies, one stable and decentralized and one fast and centralised. This is not what was promised originally.
I remember the moment it clicked for me that this was the case. In early 2018 I overheard my roommate listening to a Bitcoin podcast hosted by people I understood to be prominent members of the community. They were trying to justify why it was a good thing Steam no longer accepted Bitcoin to purchase games. I couldn’t see a single upside to a currency, whose purpose is to be exchanged for goods and services, no longer being accepted for a good. I thought about the large amount of crypto the podcasters likely held and how they were probably trying to keep other people in to keep their own crypto worth more. But if the people near the helm were no longer able to admit when something is wrong, then the dream was dead, crypto was dead to me, and I stopped getting more.
I remember when it clicked for me, too, that crypto was a waste of time. It was 2008 and I had just read an article about this thing called Bitcoin. It was very obviously a pyramid scheme and/or system for money laundering.
That’s it, that’s the post.
Yeah I too like Blockchain stuff until it just turned into an investor bro space.
Like this whole argument about how to prove someone owns a game could be a really good blockchain use case.
When was it not?
People only complained they didn’t get in before 2016 so they could be rich.
There were more honest attempts to spread it and use it in physical/online stores back when BTC was under 1000 than now, and it’s not like we got higher exchange rate fluctuations. If anything, it becomes more stable.
Naw, we all talked about the once in a while pizza purchases that were reported on Reddit, but then a week later the $20 pizza was worth $100 in bitcoin. Right from the start.
On no, someone used money to buy food instead of hoarding money and only thinking about how much return they could’ve made if they invested money instead of buying food.
Crypto-as-invement midset is a poison to the real crypto adoption - ability to buy things with crypto effortlessly.
Looks like an absolute win to me
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
I’m so lucky that my work gives me a free public transport pass. It’s 25 mins from my door to the office with 10 of that being walking. I still have a car, but I dont need it for most days. Plus it would cost me like $180/month for parking at my work’s building. Hard pass.
Public transit is generally faster than driving around in big cities, especially places like NYC and Boston (at least when the T is actually operating as-intended).
Hell I live 45 miles away from my office and most days it is faster to do train–>subway–>half mile walk.
To these types of people, especially…time is money. You would think they would prefer public transit just for the time efficiency…or at least invest in it just to reduce the amount of traffic they have to deal with on the roads.
You don’t even see Musk riding around on a goddamn Segway. Which actually turns out to be a somewhat common Mandela effect, because I had to look it up to find out he didn’t actually invent/start Segway.
I don’t think I’ve seen this before. But it’s perfect.
What the ruck are those chairs? Prison bus?
I’m used to taking buses in Brazil and that looks pretty standard to me
I guess I’m not used to seeing such busses, usually the ones I been into are as low to the ground and the chairs are placed around parts like wheels and what not like this
I expected you to post an image of a bus with actual seats that doesnt make you sore if you ride for more than one station, but no, you just posted another prison bus but slightly lower lol
The car is also on the highway but the tachometer reads 0 km/h
And had two 7’s on it. Presumably for luck
Cars are for people with money. Poor people are taking the bus. Nobody should be taking public transit unless they’re poor, or have a DUI or something. If you’re sitting in a bus, you’re obviously a loser.
10/10 ragebait
The downvotes are a reminder of how important it is to denote sarcasm with a ‘/s’ because clearly it went over some heads.
The lack of upvotes are a reminder of how it wasn’t funny
Was it supposed to be? I think it’s a good critique of the meme for equating public transit with a lack of financial wealth.
“And remember to vote for [fascist party of my country] in the next elections!”
There, you forgot the last part of your message.
