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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social

Yeah...I know it's not technically a "stock." But...not everyone knows what "crypto" is at this point.

aug 23, 2025, 6:27 pm • 92 9

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shibajoy.bsky.social @shibajoy.bsky.social

Crypto seems very Bernie Madoff-y to me.

aug 23, 2025, 6:46 pm • 11 2 • view
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Elizabeth Korevaar @ejk415.bsky.social

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aug 23, 2025, 7:06 pm • 10 1 • view
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₿Itcoin ₿ro @bitcoinbro.bsky.social

Everyone NEEDS to know the different between “crypto” (40 million various affinity scams to bitcoin) Annnnnd Bitcoin

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aug 24, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Paul Gustafson @paulgus.bsky.social

Waiting…..

aug 23, 2025, 8:50 pm • 4 1 • view
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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social

I always say "crypto is just stock without the company" The reply is always something like "what's it investing in then" or "what's it backed by" The answer is nothing. It's just a fabricated digital financial fluid, basically digital monopoly money with agreed-upon printing rules.

aug 23, 2025, 6:46 pm • 4 1 • view
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Trumpismus delendus est 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 @eltoninatlanta.bsky.social

Crypto has two uses: “Greater fool” “investing” and facilitating crime.

aug 23, 2025, 6:50 pm • 4 0 • view
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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social

Aren't those the same thing though? Greater fool investing is just financial fraud with a clown nose.

aug 23, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Trumpismus delendus est 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 @eltoninatlanta.bsky.social

As to facilitating crime, it’s the key enabling technology of crypto locking. The preferred method of giving trump payoffs. The easiest way to launder money. Etc.

aug 23, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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Trumpismus delendus est 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 @eltoninatlanta.bsky.social

“Greater fool” is more a fraud on yourself. You’re betting it’s ok to buy junk because there’s going to be someone who will pay even more for junk. But such investors delude themselves about the risk of being the last fool willing to buy.

aug 23, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social

Well, it's not a fraud on yourself if you're on the ground floor, that is. Then you're just a fraudster. Everyone talks about the "last" investors when really we should blame the first investors since they're the ones perpetuating and profiting from it.

aug 23, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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Xavier Onassis @xavieronassis.bsky.social

Hmmm. "Crypt" = a chamber in a mausoleum or tomb; "o" = diminutive of "of"; "Currency" = coins, etc., circulating as a means of exchange; "Cryptocurrency" = a chamber for dead money

aug 23, 2025, 8:40 pm • 1 0 • view