156 sats \ 15 replies \ @Bear 2 Oct 2023 \ on: The term "shitcoin" makes me sort of embarrased. bitcoin
99% are indeed shitcoins.
human nature tends to group things together, we have pink sheets and S&P 500 etc long before shitcoins.
I would argue that, as long as the fight for a sound monetary base layer is ongoing, 100% are indeed shitcoins.
Once the fight for sound money has been won we can relax this filter, but until then, everything distracts focus from winning the race / fighting the war
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Undervalued comment right here.
Reminds me of Cory Klippsten's blog post: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/the-race-to-avoid-the-war/
Until the war against fiat is over, anyone shilling other cRypTos should be charged with treason.
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War? It's a competition. Thinking that it's a war means thinking "it doesn't matter who is best, my side must win". But obviously the best tech should and will win. Competition begets quality. War begets zealotry.
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"Winning the race" == competition
Then I said "fighting the war" which will be the mode if we lose the competition
Regardless, I doubt the existing rulers of the fiat system will approach this from a merit / best tech basis. They have too much to loose. So war likely IMO as we have seen in many other countries busy subverting / banning BTC.
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Ah ok I get you. Yeah when I consider the central banks, I definitely stop thinking about fair competition; those guys need to be taken down. I think I see what you mean now. Divided we fall, united we stand. Against the british, a united bitcoin will prevail.
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Distant drums of war
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There are 10,000+ shitcoins
Name the 100 you claim are not shitcoins
How about just 1?
Ok, now shut the fuck up
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Monero, Ethereum, Litecoin, ALEPH, MATIC (in descending order of quality) are ones I use on a regular basis, for completely different purposes. I certainly can't think of 100 though, but I'm guessing @Bear didn't mean 99% literally.
Bitcoin is gold. Is everything that isn't gold shit? Of course not. Your anger blinds you to silver, copper, bananas, kittens.
Why do you get angry about it? Saying shut the fuck up to strangers who actually agree with you? I'm not trying to argue with you. Shake your head, take a walk in a forest. That's what I do.
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See noobs -- this is why bully these arrogant idiotic pieces of shit.
They try to insert themselves as if they are like you, sounding "reasonable", but they are very sick "people", if you can even call them that.
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@DiracDelta, I've spoken amicably with you before. I don't understand this sudden vitriol. You still haven't even explained a single part of your argument, nor answered any questions asked.
Are you here to rally people into a nazi-fervor, chanting about how disagreers are not even people? I'm disappointed. Good luck with your life, I can't imagine it is going well at the moment.
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I am someone who actually does things. And THINGS are the thing that Bitcoin fixes, all of them. So every serious person doing a THING realizes how fiat is in their way.
Happy for you that your life is simple and easy enough, you have the time and interest to become engrossed in contrived nonsense -- I have no interest in conversing with shitcoiners about their shitcoin of interest, though I'm sure you will find someone more patient than me who thinks that is a good use of their time.
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You're totally right about that, and of course reality is incomprehensible unless you have the ability to segment it into representative symbols. Autistic people have that deficiency, which means that e.g. moving a chair slightly in their room, causes them to see a completely new room, fairly terrifying id guess.
But on the other hand, (and this is a loaded word but i'm using it very literally), what you are describing is racism. Racism against shitcoins. I don't mean that "that's evil", I mean that, as a strategy, racism is inefficient because it blinds you to potential value.
To give another example, in my field (engineering, in scandinavia), if someone is a russian (and especially if they give ANY sign of being pro-putin), they are discarded outright from employment. This means that there is an enormous pool of talent that can be obtained cheaply, for those who care about value. Of course the tyrant putin deserves death. But a good engineer is a good engineer.
See what I mean?
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It's racism if you discriminate according to it. and sure we're all racists to some level and it's good to be aware of and be careful to not hurt others.
btw I have opinion about Scandinavian people as well, can't help it :)
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Oh for sure! It's hard to use the word racism because it's become a synonym for "evil", but when I say it I mean it without any value judgement— For instance, my dad doesn't like Toyotas. He is "racist" against the value (i they have any) a Toyota might have. I think I'm just being a confusing idiot by using that word publicly, but it's what I think in my head X)
And I'm definitely bigoted as well, in much worse, much more embarrassing ways. I'm biased against women in many ways, I think. It's hard to write, and I can't justify it. I wouldn't readily vote a woman into office. Because men don't compete with women, it's very fundamental taboo. So that's power unchecked.
What else.. it's really hard to confront these things! Trans-activists, not my favorite people. I've been banned twice on reddit for (with zero other context) writing "trans women are trans women". I'm sick of lying about it, makes me upset. But i hired a programmer a few years ago who was trans, he/she was the best applicant. Who cares if they want to dress like a lady, for real. Just don't force me to lie.
lol confession over. What do you think about scandinavians? Probably that we're pretty neat, right
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I'm talking about Swedes particularity as I work with them a lot, they are the best.
the most professional nice and most honest people.
it's sad though to see Scandinavian countries change to the worse as they are too polite towards immigrants that don't share the same values.
also the housing prices controls are socialist af, whats up with that?
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