The Never-ending Grift
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 18:04 last edited by
@Jolly said in The Never-ending Grift:
I would say 90% of the population has little knowledge of bitcoin.
I agree with that. Even a lot of people who invest in it (and swear by it) dont really understand it.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 19:15 last edited by
I understand blockchain. It’s the coins I don’t get. I’m still waiting for a use case besides money laundering, smuggling, and speculation.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 19:21 last edited by Doctor Phibes
Nobody who claims to understand it has ever been able to explain bitcoin to me so that I can understand it. Admittedly, I felt much the same way about quantum mechanics, although at least in that case the professional dorks could back up their claim with third order non-linear differential equations.
So either I'm really stupid or they don't actually get it. Obviously, both could also be true.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 19:25 last edited by
One classical use case is that bitcoin would be a currency that would survive the collapse of fiat currencies. Thus "digital gold".
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wrote on 4 Feb 2025, 18:14 last edited by
Trump bitcoin pricing chart since launch
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wrote on 4 Feb 2025, 18:15 last edited by
I'm actually glad it's dying a quick death rather than building up slowly so that more people eventually get burned.
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wrote on 4 Feb 2025, 18:16 last edited by
Yeah, that initial burst was probably from the cohort that made a fortune reselling his sneakers.
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wrote on 8 Feb 2025, 14:35 last edited by
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 03:25 last edited by
More than 813,000 crypto wallets have lost a total of $2 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s memecoin, according to an assessment by Chainalysis commissioned by the New York Times. Meanwhile, the Trump Organization and its partners gained $100 million in trading fees. Since its Jan. 17 launch, $TRUMP has lost most of its value, which is now about $16 per share, down from its $75 peak.
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More than 813,000 crypto wallets have lost a total of $2 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s memecoin, according to an assessment by Chainalysis commissioned by the New York Times. Meanwhile, the Trump Organization and its partners gained $100 million in trading fees. Since its Jan. 17 launch, $TRUMP has lost most of its value, which is now about $16 per share, down from its $75 peak.
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 03:27 last edited by Renauda 2 Dec 2025, 03:27Meanwhile, the Trump Organization and its partners gained $100 million in trading fees
It’s the Ferengi way.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 05:08 last edited by
$2B compared to just USAID is chump change.
You want grift? Check that agency out.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 11:44 last edited by jon-nyc 2 Dec 2025, 12:40
Sorry Jolly, we’re not changing the subject. It is objectively gross the way he repeatedly fleeces his sheep and at some level you must see through it.
I just hope you haven’t bought into any of his grifts yourself.
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Sorry Jolly, we’re not changing the subject. It is objectively gross the way he repeatedly fleeces his sheep and at some level you must see through it.
I just hope you haven’t bought into any of his grifts yourself.
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 11:59 last edited by@jon-nyc said in The Never-ending Grift:
Sorry Jolly, we’re not changing the sunjisect. It is objectively gross the way he repeatedly fleeces his sheep and at some level you must see through it.
I just hope you haven’t bought into any of his grifts yourself.
You changed the subject way back in the thread, since the thread was about the Biden Crime Family.
All pardoned now, btw.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:41 last edited by
LOL you can thank Trump for those pardons. Wouldn't have happened otherwise. I guess J6 folks who beat up cops can also thank Trump for the pardons, too. MAPA!
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:43 last edited by jon-nyc 2 Dec 2025, 12:45
My personal view is he would have pardoned Hunter in any case. And his brother was in fact under investigation by his own DoJ (imagine that happening to a Trump family member under Bondi - lol). So maybe that one too.
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LOL you can thank Trump for those pardons. Wouldn't have happened otherwise. I guess J6 folks who beat up cops can also thank Trump for the pardons, too. MAPA!
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 12:43 last edited by@89th said in The Never-ending Grift:
LOL you can thank Trump for those pardons. Wouldn't have happened otherwise. I guess J6 folks who beat up cops can also thank Trump for the pardons, too. MAPA!
Biden pardoned the Biden crime family, not Trump.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 14:15 last edited by
Do you think Biden would've done those last minute pardons had it been McCain or Romney or someone else about to be sworn in?
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 14:22 last edited by
It's not all about Trump 24/7, you know.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 14:23 last edited by
Again, I think he would have pardoned his son and maybe his brother. The other preemptive ones? No.
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Do you think Biden would've done those last minute pardons had it been McCain or Romney or someone else about to be sworn in?
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 14:50 last edited by@89th said in The Never-ending Grift:
Do you think Biden would've done those last minute pardons had it been McCain or Romney or someone else about to be sworn in?
Those double standards are a little bit blatant. Trump did not introduce the concept of politically motivated prosecutions. In general, when someone tells you what they're terrified their enemy will do to them, that's what they'll do to their enemy, if given a chance. In this case, it's what the left already did to Trump that they're afraid of.
