It’s funny that he wanted to say something everybody knows about bitcoins, but, writing for the Spectator, he had to say something stupid about Macron and about Brexit.
Yawn. Quite unsurprising [0]. But we're still waiting 13 years, for <i>all</i> of it to completely die and go away forever. Maybe is that why Meta [1], Stripe [2], Signal [3] and others [4], [5] are <i>still</i> using them?<p>This is just another wiping out of the speculators and the crypto maximalists again. Sorry, but it's going to take more than that to <i>'get rid of it all'</i>.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29752372" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29752372</a><p>[1] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/09/instagram-testing-nfts-select-creators" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/09/instagram-testing-nfts-sel...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto</a><p>[3] <a href="https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In-app-Payments" rel="nofollow">https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ukraine-electronic-hryvnia-pilot-launched-by-tascombank-and-bitt-on-stellar-301443773.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ukraine-electronic-...</a><p>[5] <a href="https://ir.moneygram.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moneygram-announces-innovative-partnership-stellar-development" rel="nofollow">https://ir.moneygram.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...</a>
Ah yes the "crypto is dead" take again. It has been "dying" since 2013 and it always come back stronger and crazier than ever. This wipeout is good to get rid off all the shit projects out there. The stronger will survive as usual.
I read today that 40% of crypto “investors” (aka gamblers) are underwater now.<p>Edit: LOL. Downvoted. Here’s the news item, bro. Try to cope! <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/09/40percent-of-bitcoin-investors-underwater-glassnode-data.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/09/40percent-of-bitcoin-investo...</a>