Good morning Bitcoinland.
Still bouncing along in the $5xxxx range... currently $58402USD/$74455CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Time for a serious move upward.
It's like I told ya dude. Jack was the face man of Twitter, but he was ultimately beholden to the board and the investors. They were the ones pulling the strings. Often he got pushback when he stood his ground on things, or got overruled.
I'm sure that the pressure to implement policies and practices that he was not happy about, and went against his moral compass, ultimately lead to his ouster.
Or maybe he just wanted to retire and live happily ever after.
Look at Microsoft. Gates went on to face senate subcommittees and live his life with the suits.
Paul Allen retired as a multi-billionaire, bought the world's biggest yacht and private submarine, started theme parks and museums, and spent $20m to help Bert Rutan win the $10m Ansara X Prize.
Who was smarter?
When you put in even 5 minutes of research into shitEthereum to find out that it's a giant scam platform with zero redeeming humanitarian value long term, then you realize that investing in shitEthereum is both immoral and antithetical to the goals of Bitcoin. The only people that are going to get wealthy with shitEthereum are Vitalik and all the other scammers who he sold his pre-mined coins to.
Also, beware the so-called "crypto experts" who start off evangelizing Bitcoin, only to pivot away to some shitcoin after they have gained their followers' trust. They were a bullshit wolf-in-sheeps-clothing all along who never truly believed in the ideology and goals of Bitcoin.
Post of the day (year?).
I was present when Vitalik unveiled his plan to create Ethereum at Anthony DiIorio's Bitcoin Decentral (as it was called then) on Spadina Ave., Toronto in January 2014.
We were all offered the chance to buy in cheap in the pre-sale, but he only accepted real Bitcoin, not dollars.
While I was fascinated by his concept of smart contracts and liked his idea of multiple mining algorithms, I was appalled at the pre-mining, unlimited supply, and general lack of decentralization. My alarm bells started ringing. I smelled scam. I took a pass.
Sure, I could have made a lot of money. It made a multi-billionaire out of Anthony.
I wasn't into Bitcoin to try to make money though. That just happened. I was originally attracted by the decentralization and peer-to-peer networking. When I'd first discovered Napster, it wasn't, "oh boy, free music", it was "oh wow, p2p file sharing". I watched as it morphed from fully centralized Napster, through Gnutella, to Bittorrent, and then to Magnet Links, becoming more and more decentralized as it went. When I saw that Bitcoin combined that with the monetary system, I was sold. I saw Bitcoin as doing for wealth what the internet did for information.
Within a year, DiIorio had dropped the word "Bitcoin" from Decentral and turned it into a for-profit business. Sorry Anthony, your shearling coat doesn't cover up your wolfishness.
Precisely. Dude, you're on a roll today.
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