Anyone want to place bets on what the cat would think? LOL.
O.k. I will bite.. but maybe not place any bets.
Wise investment strategy: TA predicts that I would win such a bet. ;-)
By the way, I am thinking that kitty, kitty is NOT very favorably disposed towards any kinds of shitcoin pumpenings.. just a hunch.
I myself was once raked bloody with sharp claws for my having started in Zcash. I was left pleading that it’s made by Real Cryptographers, that my crypto-idols
Greg Maxwell and Pieter Wuille had cordially collaborated with Zcash people on some zero-knowledge cryptography stuff (
on the Bitcoin blockchain), that Peter Todd was one of the trusted parties in the original Zcash Trusted Setup (per the
blog post that he repudiated and defaced (
archival link) when he unleashed a
tweetstorm against Zcash), etc., etc. At least technology-wise, it is not a typical shitcoin!
The cat’s reply:
Hiss.Lauda is a Maximal Maximalist.
My personal experience HODLing Zcash :-(, plus their horrid handling of
an unlimited inflation bug, their backpedalling on their promise to prioritize ASIC-resistance (just when XMR started fighting hard there), and many other stupidities, indicate that
Zcash is an atypical shitcoin. Technology alone does not produce the
Bitcoin Social Phenomenon; and worse is good technology poorly executed. I still say that Zcash is one of the best altcoins; but that is damning with faint praise: Just saying that it has innovative technology instead of being a dumb clone of Bitcoin sources, and it’s not an outright scam.
Kitty: 1; Nully: NULL.Hmmm. Laura has been addressing me as “Nully”, which seems quite close to the grammatically correct Latin vocative.
Does the cat speak enciphered Latin?Whilst travelling on business in Carpathia,
I doxed Lauda:
I am thinking that a decent number of peeps in this particular thread do not give as many as two shits about what the cat thinks,
Though your point is well-taken, my mention of Lauda
was a one-line off-hand remark about someone whom I am honoured to consider my friend, amidst a post about some WO regulars.
Furthermore, I am thinking that the cat does not give
any shits about what those particular peeps think. As for me—eh. I am not a cat: I am a man.
Upon his arrival in Latium, Aeneas, blessed for victory by his goddess-of-sex mother, won himself a wife the old-fashioned way: Killing his rival. He then became the Latin king.
Protip: When a nice guy wants a princess, he buys her diamonds—
#ToxicMasculinity ♂ #MakeLoveNotWar ♂ #CodeOfConduct
I personally will toast you on that: Some of the trolls in Reputation perpetually accuse me of being Lauda’s alt. I take that as a compliment, for I compete with her for the title of
most principled and uncompromising. :-)
As for philosophy, although the discussion itself is as ancient as organized society, I believe that perhaps the relevant reference would be Machiavelli—who actually said that it is easier to rule by being feared, but more powerful to rule by being loved.
I love Lauda (don’t take that the wrong way: our relation is amicably professional). So do many others. And is she fearsome? Frankly,
I love the cat because she’s not a pussy (so to speak).
All good things must be dangerous, and therefore widely feared and hated: As fire and Lightning, mathematics and cryptography,
freedom, and Bitcoin itself.
In keeping with my (in)famous “theme” of quoting things that will upset idiots less if left untranslated:Hier ist der Herd für die Entstehung jenes berühmten Gegensatzes „gut“ und „böse“: — in’s Böse wird die Macht und Gefährlichkeit hinein empfunden, eine gewisse Furchtbarkeit, Feinheit und Stärke, welche die Verachtung nicht aufkommen lässt. Nach der Sklaven-Moral erregt also der „Böse“ Furcht; nach der Herren-Moral ist es gerade der „Gute“, der Furcht erregt und erregen will, während der „schlechte“ Mensch als der verächtliche empfunden wird.
and some folks here hate that fury beast.
I know. ;-)
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Man you talk about lauda an awfull lot..
http://HowManyTimesHasNulliusPostedLaudaToday.tk/ ??
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I also find it very funny that you try to come off as some cypherpunk anonymous anarchistic idealist but can't stop blabbering you unwavering support of
the greatest current authoritarian threat who would crush the liberty you portray to protect..Shit don't add up bro..
I am not particularly inclined to take up an extended discussion about this here in WO. But you see, I have been running far behind in my quota for talking about
Lauda: The cypherpunk nym who is so powerful that she is a greater threat to liberty than governments, banks, and all the armies of the world combined!Such wow.
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