I’m trying to envision the panic as crypto bros can’t get into their online wallets.
I’m going to stick with my strategy of growing barley and running a still. Pretty sure I’ll have something men will give me their firstborn to obtain. Then I’ll use my army of drunken, mutated postwar babies to take over the tampon factories, and gain the support of the other half of humanity.
Do you think you could expand into corn mash? Asking for a friend.
I’ll need 3 nights a week with his wife.
You know what I’m going to make my own plantation with blackjack and hookers
Corn is an absolute b*stard to mash compared to malted barley.
Id stick with the barley. But you’ll need time for that to grow and harvesting without technology would be a lot of work, so actually stockpile a few tonnes of sugar so you can make neutral spirit for gin and Molotov cocktails in the meantime
That’s why you have local wallets…
You still need the network to process transactions; if the internet is down then your local wallet is unspendable unless you create a local side chain with your own nodes and get everyone who wants to transact with you on board.
Then the apocalypse must continue because you’d never be able to reattach to the main chain
Ferengi rule of acquisition #34: War is good for business
Business yes, but crypto? I struggle to imagine anything that could be of less value in times of war.
Pseudo-anonymous store of value that doesn’t require a central institution for transmission?
And actually has no mechanism to store value… so called value is based on a pure speculation
You do know that value is a subjective form of perception right? Value is created because of a belief in a thing. Its all pure speculation.
I know its fun to punch down on crypto but its not like literally all currencies and modern stores of value that aren’t actual physical good (and even some of them) suffer from the exact some issue.
So crypto is worthless then because most people perceive crypto as a joke.
Sure. If you perceive crypto as worthless, don’t buy it. Poof! Its value is gone. I don’t hold crypto nor do I have any use for it. I would guess that similarly to you, it has no value to me either.
But someone else out there has a different perception of things than us. They do see it as valuable. And they are willing to pay, whatever it is that they are willing to pay to get access to it. And poof! It has value.
Dude, please stop spreading misleading information about value creation, made up value definitions and hiddenly legitimate crypto claiming out of thin air that people holding it were not scammed/manipulated/fooled, but acquire crypto because of some “value” they see in it
You do know that value is a subjective form of perception right?
No, I don’t. Who told you this crap? Read this, seems you need this right now -> https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Value. You are welcome
I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be some kind of a gotcha or something but it isn’t.
Are actually citing the prolewiki unironically? And even then, those sources and thinkers agree with what I just said.
Value is based on based on perception. Its a made up human thing. And made up human things can be useful, just like dollars or stocks and bonds or dividends, or property deeds, or an exchange rate between precious metals and various goods and services.
Value is all made up and purely subjective. And thats fine. Made up fictional things can still have utility.
Super handy without electricity. You and 500 of your best friends just need to sit down and do a little math.
Sure, you might lose connection for a while, but its not like your bitcoin goes away because wherever you are lost electricity. If you make it out alive, your coins are still yours when you can get back on the internet.
Funny sentiment here. People seem really dedicated to hating on something for all the wrong reasons.
Gold?
Its heavy and can be stolen from you.
And crypto can’t?
Whats your point? If you are a teenager and your parents gave you their wedding rings as you are off to become a refugee, versus getting given a note with a string of letters and numbers on it, whats more likely to get stolen in a refugee camp?
Like if you think you are dunking on crypto bros and thats what you want to be doing, you should make sure you are actually dunking on them. There is plenty to pick on, plenty of stupidity and criticism to be made fun of around crypto like monkey pictures and the environmental impact, but brah, this ain’t it.
Put yourself in this situation. You are in Gaza. Your entire family is getting bombed. You’ve been putting whatever meager savings you have into crypto for years. You give your kids a note that has the key’s they’ll need to get into the wallets, and have them pin it inside their jackets, or better yet make them memorize it. Maybe you as a parent die, but your kids make it out. Someday, maybe they get to some where more peaceful, and when they get there, they can access what you were able to put aside for them.
In that way, crypto actually represents an excellent way of dealing with many of the issues one might expect to encounter in a war torn area.
You could do the same thing with basically any online bankaccount?
Business, as in, selling goods and services.
Cryptocurrency is the only thing to save you from the very specific apocalypse in which society crumbles but somehow the internet and the electrical grid keeps working.
Which is why they are all in on space internet. The world may have crumbled away, but at least the Whales and bots can make number go up.
Egg Helms looks odd in this pic
