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Public discussion and media coverage of Bitcoin assumes certain things about Bitcoin: • Bitcoin has a price, that you could expect to buy or sell it around. • Bitcoin is like buying a share in a co…
If you look at a “Web3” offering and just think of it as a pump-and-dump onto retail investors, everything will make much more sense.
Maybe Libra was just very stupid. Because it was a blockchain project started by bitcoiners. Maybe it was always just dumb as hell.
A huge Rube Goldberg machine slapstick custard pie clown car, where each custard pie triggers three more custard pies.
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.