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A short story on why ETH is dying and will continue to do so:

First, why on earth does the ETH crowd work so hard to be the cringiest thing in the world?

Second, ETH is stagnant because they sold their token on a bunch of "revolutionary hullabaloo" and literally the only thing with a meaningful market turned out to just be token gambling during the hype cycles. The growth was always on the "next thing" that was gonna "break open the floodgates" of the whole world running on the ethereum VM, but it never came and there was never a use case that really mattered.

The value case for Bitcoin was always just fixing the money. ETH thought it was literally going to replace the entire internet with a giant, slow AF, expensive, poorly secured and completely unnecessary consensus system because the whole world would financialize everything arbitrarily, and literally sold people on that idea. Apparently all of the same things, "BuT WiTh tOkENs!" that inject pointless volatility, liquidity problems, and that were all centralized anyway, was somehow a "groundbreaking" idea.

-- Bitcoin realized that the problem was the gross OVER financialization of the world, and the pointless gambling of the fiat financial and political apparatus that had caused staggering imbalances and trillions in misallocated and wasted resources. All resulting from shitty, cheap, endlessly manipulated money. It sought to END it.

-- While ETH didn't even understand that as a problem. To the contrary, it sought to EXPAND the over financialization of everything into every last corner of the world and into every market that it hadn't yet ruined.

It only hung on for as long as it did because it had a "roadmap" and everyone could just point to a date in the future where it would suddenly get better and fix all the problems. It was the iceberg build, then the avalanche merge, then the deep freeze, or whatever stupid name they came up with for the15 stages of their 1 year plan that stretched out a decade, that finally culminated into the conversion to a PERMISSIONED proof of stake system... and it was all just a giant "meh."

It's now even more convoluted and less secure, and essentially for the sole purpose of appealing to the "cult of fixing the weather." And still to this day, they survive on the last vestiges of token gambling, but increasingly people are finding out that theres no long term market to gamble on stuff that has no purpose to begin with, except to simply gamble with money. Adding arbitrary tokens just makes it worse. Slot machines are far simpler and serve the purpose perfectly. And if the tokens aren't going anywhere, then there is no way up, and if the token gambling isn't going anywhere, then what does ETH even do except suck at the one thing #Bitcoin has done since the beginning? Be reliable, trustworthy, open, and incorruptible money.

#Bitcoin sught to undo the destructive disincentives of the fiat world. While ETH tried to "technify" all of those bad incentives by tokenizing it all on the blockchain, without ever understanding what any of it actually meant.

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Financialization for the sake of financialization is so completely missing the point. That is always what "crypto," with ETH as the cringe father of it all, really represented.

The slow, drawn out fall of ethereum was easily predicted.

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I guess that’s one way… what I never understood with chemtrails, or putting anything high in the atmosphere is it will effect everyone, including those putting it up there.

There’s so many exciting ways the world could end, this is quite far down my list.

Panic is always fun.

Gm.

I spent my evenings writing 30,000 words of science fiction over the past week.

Definitely fun, and the most fiction I’ve ever written. Prior to this I would write like a sample chapter, whereas this was like 8 chapters.

OK friends, I currently have my fortune (lol) parked on #Coinbase .

Is that smart or...??

Getting a cold wallet for long-term storage of larger amounts, but is Coinbase ok to use or another newbie mistake??

Be gentle but honest...

OK friends, I currently have my fortune (lol) parked on #Coinbase .

Is that smart or...??

Getting a cold wallet for long-term storage of larger amounts, but is Coinbase ok to use or another newbie mistake??

Be gentle but honest...

Would be interesting to see if there is any correlation in today's world between % of bitcoin uptake in the population and child mortality in a country. I guess the data will be muddied by a dominating correlation between how advanced a nation is in terms of technology and thereby allowing for knowing about, having access to & buying bitcoin in the first place and health care development but if one could correct the dataset for this kind of likely dominating correlative factor, maybe one could at least get a glimpse into whether or not there is any credence to the theory.

Solo Satoshi is pledging to give away the very first #Bitaxe Gamma that we receive on the NOSTR platform!!!

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1.2 TH/s of raw desktop power. You don’t want to miss this! We’re decentralizing #Bitcoin mining together!

Solo Satoshi is pledging to give away the very first #Bitaxe Gamma that we receive on the NOSTR platform!!!

Like, share, and follow us!

1.2 TH/s of raw desktop power. You don’t want to miss this! We’re decentralizing #Bitcoin mining together!

I know this isn’t quite the answer to your question, but the villain that always comes to my mind is GARY OLDMAN.

The man is a CHAMELEON and nails the depth of every character:

There are so many indie-published novels with mediocre ratings on Goodreads and Amazon and such, and I always find myself thinking, “who reads these?”

Since I don’t have as much time as I’d like to read fiction, I generally end up reading just the big hits and then continue reading sequels on them.

I'm slowly but surely putting all my YouTube videos on Rumble.

Where else should I put them for safety from censorship?

What's your productivity secret?

What tools to you use to support organization and smooth flow?

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