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Let's talk about what type of financial products crypto tokens are most comparable to in traditional markets. (1/) As most people have notied crypto"currencies" aren't currencies for very obvious reasons.

Let's talk about the similarities between QAnon and #Bitcoin . (1/) Both movements fall into the category of "conspiracy cults". Their pattern of enticement is similar to religious cults

Lets talk about how pyramid schemes like #bitcoin have historically exploded and the public damage that happens when they do. (1/) A pyramid scheme is a type of

It's a simple narrative:The internet was big.It changed the world.So this is just like that.Just don't ask too many questions.(12/) This is the essence of the mathcoin scam. The pretense

Let's talk about the phenomenon of "mathcoins" and how fancy tech and academic obscurantism is used to defraud the public into buying scam crypto investments. (1/) Cryptocurrencies are nothing

Some pundits compare blockchain to the dot-com bubble or the early internet. This is complete nonsense. (1/) You work in tech long enough, you start to understand the bubbly

Lots of people outside of the tech industry follow me now, so figured I'd let you in an open secret that may not be public knowledge.Inside of serious developer circles

Let's talk about why the #bitcoin narrative is intellectually incoherent and why the emperor has no clothes. (1/) Bitcoiners are deeply confused people. In particular they are duplicitous

Let's have a frank discussion about bitcoin hype. Bitcoin is really an symptom of the problems of our era, of a post-truth world awash in crackpottery and of a breakdown

Sometimes I pour a stiff drink and read through the whole LinkedIn, Gartner, Webinar enterprise software literature and it has a kind of weird inebriated internal consistency to it. (1/)