Cryptocoin Bullshit (Hilarious!)

Not only do I not comment on crypto-coin articles, I don’t even read the comments. Ever, really.  Why? Cuz it’s all total BULLSHIT. So, I apologize if this is known, or has been covered.

Summary: A crpytocurrency (Dogecoin) that was started as a Total Prank …. just hit a TWO BILLION DOLLAR market cap!

Fuggin Hilarious! Crypto “investors”. They be the world’s biggest MAROONS! Any of you TBPers invested in Dogshitcoin? (Be honest.)

What follows is how it all got started straight from Dogecoin’s inventor.

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My Joke Cryptocurrency Hit $2 Billion and Something Is Very Wrong

Dogecoin’s inventor looks to the past for insight into

Jackson Palmer is an Australian entrepreneur and technologist best known for creating the infamously successful “joke” cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Currently based out of San Francisco, Jackson works as a product manager but is still active in the cryptocurrency space. Jackson has holdings in various cryptocurrencies, including less than $50 worth of Dogecoin. You can follow him on Twitter and YouTube.

When I jokingly tweeted about “investing in Dogecoin” in late 2013, I never imagined that the tongue-in-cheek cryptocurrency I had just brought into the world would still be around in the year 2018, let alone hit a $2 billion market cap like it just did over the weekend.

Last year saw an explosion of interest and investment in cryptocurrencies across the board, so it’s tempting to see 2017 as the best year to date for the industry. But I feel it is shortsighted to mistake this explosive growth as being sustainable—in fact, I feel 2017 was arguably the worst year for cryptocurrencies yet. To understand why, let’s revisit what I learned from the currency I created as a joke.

Dogecoin started as a parody of the multitude of alternative cryptocurrencies, or “altcoins,” flooding the market at the time. As interest in Dogecoin grew through social media and an active Reddit community, it went on to become an educational gateway for many people dipping their toes into the world of cryptocurrencies for the first time, thanks to its low price and welcoming community.

The doge meme is based on an obscure short video (see below) from Homestar Runner, an early internet repository of viral comedy videos, in which a puppet version of Homestar Runner spells dog as “doge.”

 

In 2013, the vision for the future of cryptocurrencies seemed relatively clear: To deliver a peer-to-peer alternative to cash that, through decentralization, did away with the need for trust in financial institutions, which the 2008 crisis showed to be unscrupulous, and often corrupt. Bitcoin, which ignited the cryptocurrency movement in 2009, brought real technical innovation to the table in achieving this vision. Back then, I hoped that through the power of community, a project such as Dogecoin may help drive further awareness of and innovation in that technology.

However, as I quickly learned, a passionate community of people throwing around money is like blood in the water to the shark-like scammers and opportunists who, in late 2014, co-opted the Dogecoin community and fleeced its members for millions of dollars.

By 2015, the energy in the community had changed—those who got burned by the scammers began to disappear and the community’s interest in Dogecoin declined, as did its price in US dollars. At the same time, confidence in Bitcoin was shaken: hacks and scams dominated the news cycle, and merchant adoption failed to grow at forecasted rates. Despite these events, huge sums of venture capital continued to pour into fresh cryptocurrency companies backed only by buzzword-laden websites and lacking any discernible business model.

In light of all this, in 2015 I decided to back away from any involvement in Dogecoin and cryptocurrency in general. I handed development of Dogecoin over to a team of community members that I trusted. I made it clear at the time that any Dogecoin I previously held—the small amount I have now came from people “tipping” me after I left—had been sent to charity drives run by the community, and that I’d made zero profit from my involvement with the project.

I saw the space being overrun by opportunists looking to make a buck, rather than people investing in evolving the technology (which, even back then, we knew was facing real technical issues.) Over the following two years, I monitored the space from afar. What I noticed was a shift away from developing the core technology powering these networks to churning out shiny new projects that shoehorned in “blockchain” wherever possible.

There is a popular saying in financial markets along the lines of, “When your taxi driver is telling you to buy stock, you know it’s time to sell.” Basically, when a stranger with (presumably) little experience in the stock market is giving you tips, it’s an indication that the market is too popular for its own good. Having been out of the cryptocurrency space for two years, in early 2017 when my Uber drivers started talking to me about Ethereum, I knew we were entering a renewed period of speculative crypto-mania.

No trend better exemplified this than the “ICO,” or Initial Coin Offering. In 2017, thousands of fledgling companies collectively raised over one billion dollars (one ICO alone raised $700 million in December) in exchange for virtual “tokens” which buyers could then trade immediately on a secondary market—often for a large profit. I began having flashbacks to the scams from the Dogecoin days. For example, a token called PlexCoin raised nearly $15 million in an ICO last year before Canadian and US regulators froze the creator’s assets and a Canadian court sentenced him to jail.

These concerning observations have led me back into the cryptocurrency space to help educate my co-workers, friends, and family who are asking me if they should pour their money into cryptocurrencies. Hopefully, if I do my job, they will better understand the potential pitfalls of doing so.

Over the past year we’ve seen the collective market cap of all cryptocurrency assets balloon to more than $700 billion USD, largely because of speculative trading. Everyday, it seems there is a fresh news article about the 20 year-old who became a millionaire in Bitcoin. Or in the case of my own creation—Dogecoin—how a currency that hasn’t received a software update since 2015 briefly passed a $2 billion market cap ($1.5 billion at the time of writing).

Dogecoin’s valuation is the result of market mania that has resulted in inexperienced investors buying up low-priced assets on a whim, hoping that they will follow Bitcoin’s meteoric trajectory. This irrational enthusiasm, coupled with large players manipulating largely unregulated markets, has resulted in a weekly cycle of rallies and crashes across just about every crypto asset. While the Dogecoin community on Reddit has seen a recent uptick in participation, the majority of new discussion seems to fixate on the USD price and speculation as to when it will rally once again.

It’s great to see mainstream excitement about cryptocurrency, but the continued focus on price and potential to “get rich quick” distracts from the laudable goals that projects like Bitcoin set out with. Even more importantly, the underlying technology is still facing technical challenges related to scaling that need to be addressed. At the time of writing, it costs an average of of $30 to send any amount of money using the Bitcoin network. At the same time, a token that touts itself as “the blockchain solution for the global dental industry” has just surpassed a $1 billion market cap. Something isn’t right here.

While FOMO-driven amateur investors rush to invest in the next “blockchain for x” ICO hoping for a 100 percent return, merchant adoption of Bitcoin is reportedly decreasing to its lowest level in years. Recently, major players like Microsoft and video game marketplace Steam removed the option to pay in Bitcoin from their online stores.

At the same time, it seems like Bitcoin’s original anti-establishment principles are being diluted even further. We’re seeing money pouring into the industry from large institutional traders, and Bitcoin futures contracts—basically betting on whether Bitcoin’s price will go up or down—have begun trading on Wall Street. Which leaves me asking: what happened to removing the supposedly corrupt financial institutions from the table?

Given the immense price increases and media hype, there’s a tendency to see 2017 as the best year for cryptocurrencies yet, but I would argue the opposite. In many ways, 2017 marked the year that cryptocurrency stopped being about technologically innovative peer-to-peer cash and instead essentially became a new, unregulated penny stock market. 2017 was also the year that the very institutions Bitcoin originally sought to dismantle have begun to co-opt it for profit.

Still, I can’t concede that it’s game over for cryptocurrencies. It’s difficult to predict how much the current crypto bubble will inflate, or when it’ll burst (not if). The burning question on my mind is this: Once the cryptocurrency price bubble pops and takes all the hype with it, will the community be able to recover the energy it needs to build real, innovative technology once again?

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Maggie
Maggie

Here is my investment in dogecoin. Two big piles of fur, placed strategically at my feet to protect and warm me.

The pup, Melissa renamed Missy renamed Little Miss Missy, finally won our hearts after losing the masked Pyr last spring on a sad day. Rest in Peace my JDAWG.

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I looked at the things accumulated on that television stand. A lot of dust, a couple of photos, a candle and a lot of dust.

Ah, JDAWG…May your spirit live on in my Dogecoinage!

Wip
Wip

Video is priceless.

southeuropean c.
southeuropean c.

“The North American Bitcoin Conference, held in Miami next week, said it has stopped accepting last-minute ticket payments in bitcoin”
(he, he,)

bigfoot loves a good crypto
bigfoot loves a good crypto

One thing we can be sure of is the “madness of crowds.” Examples: tulips; South Sea Bubble; Coonskin hats; spinners; Japanese real estate; pet rocks; democracy; communism; witches; the integrity of the Vatican; honorable Clintons; trust in the FDA, the AMA, public schools, generals, the glory of war, bloodletting, punishment by plague, and a jillion other things. It seems that people will believe anything, for awhile.

Another sure thing with humans is the existence of “runaway doubt.” Examples: the germ theory of disease; flight; trains; metal ships; the usefulness of computers to individuals; the value of the Internet; rampant pedophilia in high places; a spinning earth; chimp ancestors; animal emotion and altruism; the U.S. dollar will not become worthless like every single other fiat currency has done in the history of the world.

But you know what is shameful right here and now? The comparison between dogecoin and coins such as Bitcoin as being similar to the comparison between CNN and The New York Times when the proper comparison is between the trillion dollar Zimbabwe Note and a Gold Eagle. Generations of “money” have come and gone. Wampum was used by 60 million people at one time. It was clam shells from the Northwest coast. Rome produced silver coins that in time became silverless brass and copper coins. Stones have been used as money along with salt, bronze, barley, cocoa beans, paper and much more. Each has its problems.

Now along comes cryptocurrencies. What is the value proposition? Only about a thousand years of technological advancement that has yielded the blockchain, something that is not centrally administered but which is a distributed network so that money cannot be inflated by any government. The value is everywhere now and more is coming: No worry about inflation, no worry about moving it from place to place, low cost transactions sans VISA skimming, peer to peer transactions sans bank charges, trustless transactions, ease of use, removes incentive for street, store, and bank robbery, cross border transactions easily made and much faster than possible at present, and its a whole lot of fun to be flipping off TPTB as they struggle to save themselves and their profitable and corrupt activities that have put a boot on all our necks for countless generations.

kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon
kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon

Gov’ts won’t allow crypto to invalidate other fiat currencies.
Gov’ts won’t take over ownership of crypto as it is not inflationary.

There are about 1400 crypto currency symbols (like BTC), all owners of which are looking for Gold.

Arc
Arc

Governments don’t get a choice in the matter.

Monero (XMR) has built in inflation after all the coins are mined. I forget how much specifically, but its an acceptable rate that will keep the miners (infrastructure) going, but not so much that it will devalue the currency.

Other coins put transaction fees into the blocks and the miners then get those fees as a part of validating the transactions. I think XRB (raiblocks) has the sender validate the previous two transactions in order to send their own transaction, in this case, there are no fees for sending money.

The best part is, if you don’t like the currency you are using, you can exchange it for another. If enough people like it but want different rules, they fork it. The original currency exists beside the new one and the one people want to use more will win out.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

Let me put on my tin-foil hat and offer a theory of crypto-currencies.

Assume you are a central bank and the public’s confidence in your abilities is starting to wane. One solution is to allow an alternative (Bitcoin and friends) to your product to become insanely popular and grow exponentially. In fact, maybe you or some of your team in the government even creates this alternative to get the ball rolling.

Of course you know this alternative has no future primarily because it doesn’t scale. Plus, its value is only based on people’s confidence that it, just like something in our wallets today. But that’s the whole beauty of the plan, you know the alternative is destined to fail and fail spectacularly.

In fact, when the alternative goes up in smoke, like tulips before, many, many people who invested in it will lose everything. Plus, and this is the brilliant part, people will flock back to your product, the national currency, because they believe it is the only form of currency they can trust.

But don’t listen to me, I’m just a tin-foil hat wearing guy who doesn’t trust our government. I’m sure everything will work out fine.

Martin brundlefly
Martin brundlefly

Nice theory. Blockchain is an nsa product and i have mused on that fact. Your theory dovetails quite nice.

Gator
Gator

An add on to your thought. After they lose a bunch of money on cryptos, its not just back to the USD, its back to the stock market with whatever money they have left. Perhaps just in time to get the rug pulled out from under them for the second time.

I own some cryptos. I have no idea what the future holds for this space, but I do think its going to run a good bit higher. I don’t have anything on the table I can’t afford to lose. Will be interesting to see what happens.

Hollywood Rob

Think back to those halcyon days of yesteryear. Back into the fog of the dotcom bubble when every company that had dotcom in it’s name was hot hot hot. Your investment adviser promised more money than god because the internet was the “next great thing.” Incredibly stupid people threw incredibly large amounts of money into stocks in companies that made nothing. The kids who ran the companies paid themselves great huge salaries cause they were so smart, and could you begrudge them their due? Of course not. You and your buddies didn’t know the internet from a hole in the ground. It just sounded like a deal so you threw money at it. Real money that you had in the bank. Real money that you worked hard for. They took it, bought a big house and a boat and what did they give you back for it? Nothing. Because you bet your money on a loser and it was your fault. CNBC was touting these companies as great. Your broker was touting these companies as great. Your buddy at the club was touting these companies as great. And you lost a big wad of real money.

Bitcoin is just dotcom without the investment in buildings and furniture or jobs. The scammers have figured out that you will buy absolutely nothing in the blind hope that it will increase in value. And you will because you don’t have even one clue as to how this scam is operated.

Keiser hyped bitcoin all this week and it was sickening. It was bad because he actually knows that it is a scam. He knows that it is the purest from of a ponzi. So when he says that everything else is a ponzi and bitcoin is not, he knows he is lying. Stacy is warning you. In spite of Max’s protestations she has jumped into gold. And she didn’t tell him and she didn’t ask him.

Thanks Stucky. This insane selling of nothing to morons has got to stop.

steve
steve

HR,
please learn to spell. It’s M-O-R-A-N-S, as I recently found out.

Maggie
Maggie

I think it is time for me to Publish the TBP Lexicon. It’s what I get paid for around here.

Rdawg
Rdawg

You get paid?

Maggie
Maggie

In Bunnecoyn, as soon as we get it up and operational. Problem is, I have to produce it and process it, so I stay really busy most of the time cleaning bunny cages and redistributing the fertilizer… I don’t have time to put much out here anymore now, so that cuts into my profits mining Bunnecoyn.

I’m probably going to lose more Bunnecoyn on this venture than Scrapper and Shirley can create.

I actually am a retired hillbilly land baron in the Missouri Ozarks with no taxable income. Who needs to be paid?

Francis Marion

We all do. Don’t you??

nkit
nkit

If you go big game hunting in Africa and you shoot a Giraffe, how much neck do you include on the head mount ? Six inches? 12 inches? 36 inches?… Ears down or ears alert? What is considered humane and sporting as far as a mount? Just asking… Is it suitable to place the mount over the fireplace regardless of neck length? Would that be bothersome? I don’t want to know what happened to the rest of that Giraffe..I’ll take your Giraffe mount if it haunts you… :~)

Francis Marion

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I’ll send it your way when I’m finished with it. 🙂

nkit
nkit

I want that…

Maggie
Maggie

And, sometimes Maroon, IF you are obviously aware of the difference in a Moran and a Maroon.

BL
BL

You and I have something in common Stucky, I no longer comment on cryptocurrencies. Some people here will have to find someone else to demonize.

Maggie
Maggie

I refuse to buy any Bitcoin.

I bought metals and all of it sank in the pond. I bought ammo and weapons and misplaced them somewhere during the move. I bought dried food and am ready for a famine. Burkee water filters and military water storage and iodine tabs and boric acid and sea salt from the North Seas PRIOR to Fukushima. I have enough toilet paper to support a small invasion of Branson (no bidets in that neck of the woods) and have stockpiled enough herbal remedies and high quality vodka for tinctures in case of illness. I know how to grow, can and store my own food and how to distill medicines from plant material. I know how to tell an herb from a weed and how to smell it to judge it to be edible or useful.

I can milk a cow or a goat, though I would prefer to NOT milk a pygmy goat ever again. I am as prepared for the end of the world as we know it as I ever plan to be.

I am not buying any fucking Bitcoin. You cannot make me.

bigfoot loves a good crypto
bigfoot loves a good crypto

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Mark Twain told us about the cat that sat on a hot stove. It never sat on a hot stove again, nor did it ever sit on a cold one.

I can’t figure why so many otherwise intelligent people on this site are squirrels watching a bank robbery, seeing everything and understanding nothing.

It’s not that Bitcoin is in a bubble, it’s that the dollar is in a bubble. Bitcoin has no debt, doesn’t even know what it is. The dollar IS debt. All dollars now are “notes.” They appear because the Fed creates them upon which the banks get them and go about lending against this new “money,” which is just debt and nothing else. Now the debt just for this country is over $20 trillion and climbing like monkeys chased by chimps. Interest rates are next to nothing. If they go up, this country will go bankrupt. Now there is a bubble to be afraid of.

But cryptocurrencies might save us when the dollar goes to zero. Transactions can still occur between producers, sellers, and consumers without the dollar. Without cryptos, the just-in-time delivery system we have now will stop flat out and millions will die. Why not take out a little more insurance even though the insurance you had and maybe won’t use was kind of a dead end. All that does not mean that insurance is useless. Don’t be a squirrel or a cat. Be a courageous human bean and help bring down the evil cartels.

Maggie
Maggie

I will sell you toilet paper or jars of rabbit meat for bitcoin.

bigfoot loves a good crypto
bigfoot loves a good crypto

I actually have two bidets in my house. Not that toilet paper is not used just the same, just way less. I cannot fathom why bidets are not more popular. Maybe bidets and Bitcoin have some kind of corollary? Like not being resistant to the new in spite of having to let go of comfortable habits that no longer make sense. Rabbit meat in jars reminds me of a biology lab rather than a pantry. Sorry!

I’m sure you will do well whatever happens.

Maggie
Maggie

It is really very good. A friend said he would buy them all if I would can them. Best rabbit he ever had, he said… and he loves rabbit.

Well, if he’s never had domesticated meat rabbits, he’s never really had rabbit. These rabbits cook up and the meat falls off the bone on a grill or in a skillet. Yum. Then, I pressure can it for storage. (Cooked to kill bacteria and then pressured to seal it under pressure. A process that works.)

Rdawg
Rdawg

I am interested to know – in a practical sense – how a bidet works. I understand that it shoots water on to your dirty bits, but I honestly cannot imagine that being sufficient in and of itself to get that area clean. Is the water a sort of “pre-wash”, to be followed by follow-up with the toilet paper?

Maggie
Maggie

“It’s better if you relax.”

Gotta be the best line in this how to video.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The bidet video triggered a memory of an old NASA testing lab spoof. Funny

BL
BL

Dawg- I am pretty sure that is a women’s toilet made to shoot a jet of water into the vajay-jay area to get it squeaky clean. I would think it would require a TP drying process.

nkit
nkit

You could just get up off the terlot and get into the shower and use the hand held device to clean the green beans and collards off the afflicted area…

Grog
Grog

Yes, you still need TP if you want a dry ass.
Seats are an option, not of the original variety.
Some have heated water and ‘jet’ selection.
Quality, comfort and speed are rarely mates, it seems.
French word for “small pet pony”.
First uses were for birthing.
In Europe the bidet became associated with houses of ill repute.
Apparently, the Puritans had no appreciation of such a device.

i forget
i forget

Yes. Bidets wash away bitcoinberries. Bid day’s comin’ when last great, greater, greatest fool will fold, spindle & mutilate the plot. Bid-ask spread will thin out to homeopathic memory levels.

Or not.

Meantime, plenty of actual physical tradeables. Which also had earlier booms of amateur efforts at speculative riches quick, too. And will again.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Bigfoot, that’s what gold and silver and stored barter items are for. If the dollar goes kaput, who will have Internet access? Will it still be there? No electricity or no internet equals no crypto.

bigfoot loves a good crypto
bigfoot loves a good crypto

Vixen Vix, if the electricity goes out, we will have bigger problems than what gold and silver would solve. When food goes scarce, who will sell it for metal coins? In a month or two 90% of the population will be dead.

If we all adopt cryptocurrencies we have a good shot at avoiding the catastrophe that awaits us by depending on the survival of gov’t money, which isn’t money at all but debt. Money is something that stores your excess labor. Fiat currencies destroy your savings through inflation. Isn’t it better to work with something that might save us as opposed to socking away silver and gold and almost hoping for something bad to happen? Why not hold precious metals and cryptocurrencies both? Remember, its what you “know” that is not true is what can really bite you in the fanny.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

I don’t invest in cryptos for the same reason I don’t invest in the stock market. In my opinion, it’s like playing the lottery, which I also don’t do. I don’t like basing my wealth on luck. And I know the dollars are fiat and will be reduced to zero at some point as well, but everyone accepts them at this point, so good to have for the time being.

Yes, if we lose electricity, our whole lives will be in chaos and, yes, probably 90% of the people die, probably within the first month. But the barter items could help bring in more food or coffee or an animal product to help you survive by trading with someone you know. Or you simply use them to help you survive the chaotic difficult times longer.

The gold and silver are more for you (or your children) to start over again, if you and your children survive, when an economy starts back up. That’s what gold and silver do, they store wealth for future generations. But I do believe gold and silver are the last things you should stockpile, after food, guns, ammo, etc.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

On the other hand, if you have plenty of money and wouldn’t miss a certain amount if lost, there’s no reason you can’t or shouldn’t invest in cryptos. Same with the stock market. I just don’t trust them myself. And I don’t have any extra money to lose in an investment like this, so I don’t want to take that chance. But good luck to any that have or will decide to invest. I hope it works out for you. But like the market, you have to time getting out in time, I think.

LGR
LGR

Off the Bit topic, but curious about something.
You seem exceptionally well prepared Maggie. Just wondering. Do you and N have a coop full of hens producing eggs? I’ve heard of the dangers of loss from predators like coyotes and such, but I would think you and your hub know a thing or two about constructing a reasonably secure place for them.
And how well do your pups patrol your territory from the scavenger / predator critters?
BTW…ya made me laugh with the comment about no bidets. Bad visual, but still humorous.

Maggie
Maggie

We had chickens and will again. Last year, a storm knocked over my frame for bunny cages and I moved rabbits in with chickens.

I discovered that some domesticated animals are not equal to others. The chickens refused to go back into their coop, even after I moved the rabbits out. Apparently, chickens think they are better than rabbits.

Some died of coyote; others of gunshot. Once they started roosting under our front porch, their days were numbered.

We had a mountain lion in the area at that time anyway… stupid chickens.

Maggie
Maggie

By the way, I have four rabbits ready for final fattening. We shall call them snowball, snowball, snowball and whitey. These may be the last of Scrapper’s progeny, making them genetically unique and cryptocurrency perfect! Bunnecoyn for TBP.

There will be NO MORE THAN FOUR Bunnecoyn (cutesy names are bound to take off soon in a world hunting Pokemon or whatever at Pizza Hut) in this Initial Platform Offering and “investment” in Bunnecoyn via donation PLEDGE to Admin’s fine cause, shown below. We’ll figure out the rules as we go, but here’s my cray cray proposition.

When Admin receives a pledge via email making it worth anyone’s (um, mine) while to fatten, slaughter and process the Bunnecoyn OR, should the new owner of a whole Bunnecoyn want it on the hoof and “undressed” … I tried to find “dressed game animal” and no kidding this is what I got.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRezxQX9xCga00sr2U2Yk3i32JEuM3ZPXJlubJiBStT7eWeTH0_Ew

Anyway, you can have your Bunnecoyn alive and well in a decent cage my friend bequeathed me when her Felicity Princess bunny exceeded ten pounds and outgrew the cage which will be fine for a while. Of course, if you opt to have me send you a live Bunnecoyn and it dies in transit and you can’t freeze it fast enough, I can’t guarantee my ability to pressure can the remaining carcass of your Bunnecoyn in any way that might retain the value of said Bunnecoyn. However, if Snapper is agreeable, we might be able to make another issue of Bunnecoyn within 29 to 32 days, Shirley Godbunny permitting. (Seriously, if that female does NOT want that male to penetrate, she will squat down and plant that fat butt in such a way the buck is liable to DIE TRYING. I’ve had to take does out of the cage and clean them up when I still had Brer Rabbit and he got the wonky neck and he would try and try and try and the does would be covered with slime and it was disgusting. We made Hassenpfeffer of him, but I didn’t care for it. I will stick with plan old American rabbit on the barbeeQ.) So, the first transportation cost will be on ME as a donation to Admin as well (Within reason… I will not be sending five pounds of canned rabbit to Australia or Mexico. Or anywhere outside the continental U.S. Preferably, we will find a better way to ferry the Bunnecoyn safely to your vault.) If you have to mail a frozen rabbit back to me for processing into stored Bunnecoyn, then you will need to absorb that cost. Only fair.

So, if the initial offering of TBP Bunnecoyn sparks an interest that requires old Scrapper to step up one more time before I purchase a new buck for the new young does. (You Scrapper fans need not worry; I do not eat what I’ve named and I don’t slaughter animals I’ve made pets. Unless I have to.) Shirley is still available for him, but he can’t breed his daughters. I need some color in my furs anyway. Not everyone wants white coats or muffs.

Haha… that is JUST GRUESOME ENOUGH to get some offers.

Of course, I will take photos and name them. I’ll tattoo their ears with names and then, depending upon the condition of the Bunnecoyn after purchase transaction (the remittance to Admin of the Pledged amount will initiate “processing” for delivery), I can cure and send the ear and feet. How’s that for a fine little fundraiser, Stucky?

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Ghost

By the way…I suspect llpoh sent some bizarre currency that made the total over by 2 dollars.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Brilliant.

TC
TC

No crypto currency for me for various reasons I’ve gone into before. I will say that back in ’99 when every other person had an E-trade account to start making a killing like the moron IT guy, there was a certain insanity about it. People who had no inkling of the stock market, charting, fundamental analysis, etc. were getting in to various degrees. I’m seeing the *exact* same thing today at my workplace. People who have no fucking clue what they are doing are buying, selling and moving from one coin to another. Trading crypto is *expensive* as well. These folks would be much better off satisfying their urge to gamble by betting on penny stocks. There’s going to be a lot of crushed egos; it’s just a matter of time.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

My thoughts exactly, TC. No cryptos for me.

Maggie
Maggie

I think it is a right place and right time thing. The real money is probably already made and will be miserly distributed to a few lucky winners.

bigfoot loves a good crypto
bigfoot loves a good crypto

Do any of you know that there are only a few actual cryptocurrencies? The thousands in the space are potential businesses. Many of these will be successful and many more will fail. These are not tulips distinguishable from one another by color or whatever. The difference are like the difference between Microsoft and Costco. Completely different business segments. What they have in common is the attempt to supplant inefficient, possibly corrupt businesses, like banks and whatever requires a contract with a middleman.

i forget
i forget

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“T(oxoplasma). gondii is a parasitic germ whose primary hosts are cats. However, it can be found in most warm-blooded animals, including an estimated 50 million people in the United States. One study suggests the parasite has altered human behavior enough to shape entire cultures.”

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