What the hell is (a) bitcoin?

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I don't think Bitcoin will ever totally die. People need it to buy drugs (though maybe a new currency will emerge). I was going to buy a little at $10000. But it has rallied a bit.


Kriptopenguin, when is your initial crypto coin offering?

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bitcoin is going up

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That's the spirit!

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bitcoin is going down

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Checking in on the “does blockchain have any productive uses yet” question: lol.

I Looked Into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To

TL;DR: The top #1 Google result for “blockchain production users” (and related queries) lists 34 individual “real world blockchain” projects. One would expect some actual functioning projects that have an impact on every-day consumers — outside of cryptocurrency & NFTs. Looking into all 34, I found that 13 are already dead (including one that has been killed by the SEC), 6 are only useful within the crypto & NFT ecosystems and not in the “real world” and 14 use Blockchain in a way where removing the blockchain would not impact functionality at all, or make the product better. The remaining project is Chainalysis, which has real-world impact by helping law enforcement de-anonymizing blockchain users.


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Gatewayredbirds.com

Blockchain use case yay or nay?

Can we gamify GRB so that every time you make a post you get part of an Ethereum token or something?

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G. Keenan wrote:
August 19 22, 1:43 pm
Gatewayredbirds.com

Blockchain use case yay or nay?

Can we gamify GRB so that every time you make a post you get part of an Ethereum token or something?
Right now is dead but don't now the future.

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I bought some bitcoin and ethereum along with some USDC on Voyager. Only about 1% of my net worth but it's been locked up for almost 2 months now. Part of the reason motivating me was the Mark Cuban promotion of Voyager (figured it would be legitimate) but it looks like Voyager made a stupid non collateralized loan of 650 million to 3AC (who the hell makes a loan of 650 million and doesn't require any collateral?). Anyway, I still have about 17k in there waiting for the bankruptcy process to complete.

Anyone else have crypto on Voyager?

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BrntOrngStud wrote:
August 22 22, 9:29 pm
I bought some bitcoin and ethereum along with some USDC on Voyager. Only about 1% of my net worth but it's been locked up for almost 2 months now. Part of the reason motivating me was the Mark Cuban promotion of Voyager (figured it would be legitimate) but it looks like Voyager made a stupid non collateralized loan of 650 million to 3AC (who the hell makes a loan of 650 million and doesn't require any collateral?). Anyway, I still have about 17k in there waiting for the bankruptcy process to complete.

Anyone else have crypto on Voyager?
All my money is tied up in 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. cards.

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heyzeus wrote:
August 23 22, 8:18 am
BrntOrngStud wrote:
August 22 22, 9:29 pm
I bought some bitcoin and ethereum along with some USDC on Voyager. Only about 1% of my net worth but it's been locked up for almost 2 months now. Part of the reason motivating me was the Mark Cuban promotion of Voyager (figured it would be legitimate) but it looks like Voyager made a stupid non collateralized loan of 650 million to 3AC (who the hell makes a loan of 650 million and doesn't require any collateral?). Anyway, I still have about 17k in there waiting for the bankruptcy process to complete.

Anyone else have crypto on Voyager?
All my money is tied up in 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. cards.
All my money is going to be tied up on Albert's 697 HR ball.

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