Buttcoin

bullish on USD, this is the time to get into currency

This could have been buttcoin, sneerclub or techtakes, but y'know pick one.

‪Lightcone is the rationalist org that runs LessWrong these days and runs totally not race science conferences.

SBF donated $6m to Lightcone. Then FTX in ch 11 wrote demanding a clawback (cos it was stolen customer funds). Lightcone ignored it. This went badly for Lightcone. They had to sell a building and their funding has dried right up.

this is Oliver Habryka, CEO of Lightcone:

"Oh man, we are being sued by FTX. I should hire a bankruptcy lawyer to prepare our defense." WRONG. I mean yes, of course go ahead and hire a bankruptcy lawyer to prepare the defense. But in-parallel use language models to prepare a defense yourself, then run the defense by the lawyer you hired until you think you understand reasonably well what the core constraints are. Then work together with the bankruptcy lawyer on the defense.

Habryka wrote this a few years after Lightcone completely fucked this one. Well done, Oliver.

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/cegJvyiP2dBkhDh2K/p/rSCxviHtiWrG5pudv

Cross-posted from "Marxist Kitties" by @pastermil@sh.itjust.works in !microblogmemes@lemmy.world

strongly recommend giving this one a read to the end

archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20251018152548/https://defector.com/what-world-does-bitcoin-want-to-build-for-itself?giftLink=652b421e2ad5368e496e978045e2337a

I chose this screenshot from the introduction rounds (4 men and 1 woman iirc). The men are tough and evil overlords, and this is the woman. Clearly still aiming at an all male audience.

Inspired by an older post here. I couldn't stand the youtubers commentary so looked for the original. It seems the first season isn't up anymore, so I watched S02E01: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my34dTvLtLk

It's every second as dumb as you'd imagine.

Buttcoin is a safe haven investment for troubled waters.

video version - yes i did one for this too

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/168863

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On Friday, thousands of NFTs that had once sold collectively for millions of dollars vanished from the internet and were replaced with the phrase “This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare’s basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service.” The pictures eventually returned but their brief loss, as a result of one of the services that served the NFTs being migrated to a free account, is a reminder of the ephemeral nature of digital goods as well as the craze for crypto-backed pictures that dominated the internet for a few years.

The pictures were part of a CloneX RTFKT (pronounced “artifact”) collection, a Nike-backed NFT project done in collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. They disappeared because the corporate overlord that acquired them was no longer investing the time or capital into the project it once had.

At around 5 a.m. EST on the morning of April 24, more than 19,000 NFTs in the CloneX RTFKT (pronounced “artifact”) collection vanished. In their place was white text on a black background that said: “This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare’s basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service.”

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introducing speculative assets into the housing market has caused some problems before.

it's for corrupt purposes, of course:

The blockchain idea is being pushed, a HUD official told colleagues, by Irving Dennis. Dennis, the agency’s new principal deputy chief financial officer, is a former partner at the global consulting giant EY, also commonly known by its original name, Ernst & Young. EY itself is involved in the proposal as well: An executive of the firm discussed the idea with HUD officials last month.

a followup story: https://www.propublica.org/article/hud-cryptocurrency-blockchain-democrats-maxine-waters

archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250329193844/https://www.propublica.org/article/hud-considers-crypto-blockchain-stablecoin-housing-urban-development

In a gesture blending art, technology and homage to innovation, the city of Lugano, Switzerland, has unveiled a striking statue celebrating the anonymity of the mysterious creator of Buttcoin.

The grand reveal took place at the third annual Plan Nocoin Forum, with the sleekly designed figure aiming to capture Buttcoin’s enigmatic legacy.

At the unveiling, the Mayor of Lugano, Kill Hamster, lauded the statue as a symbol of the city’s bold embrace of fiat progress, underscoring Lugano’s rise as a premier hub for actual money.

The sculpture honours the far-reaching impact of Buttcoin on the global financial landscape.

The artist, Buttcoin Thread, says “the sculpture shows the Butt from all possible angles, and vibrates with such energy that it can barely stay fixed in this plane of existence.”

By paying tribute to Buttcoin, Lugano not only honours the past but also paves the way for future generations to pursue breakthroughs in actual money you can spend on things.

with the fabulous sound of the new microphone

yeah there'll be a normal Pivot to AI post and video later

Is it going to be of real value to us taxpayers in any way? At best, no. At worst, if the government starts acquiring crypto and then the price falls, that’s going to be a hit on the valuations of the crypto. So I don’t see this ending well in any way, but it is going to happen.

Sorry gents, can’t un-ring the bell

EDIT: Upon further inspection the OP is a crypto proponent too