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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/bruces/statuses/116146850642705134">Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 15:33:23 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bruces" title="bruces@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/80304-48-20230102002853.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Bruce Sterling @bruces" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Bruce Sterling @bruces</a></section><article><p>RE: <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116146812992370345" rel="nofollow">https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116146812992370345</a></p><p>*Is it even technically possible to create a market that's more intensely enshittified than the "crypto market"?</p><p>*Maybe a darknet crypto market entirely owned and run by North Koreans could somehow be worse? I dunno. Concerning</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6193441#notice-12205432">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-02-28T15:33:23+09:00" title="Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 15:33:23 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bruces/116146850642705134" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bruces/116146850642705134">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116146812992370345*Is">Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)</a></h5><div> from <span>Cory Doctorow</span></div></header><div>In related news: yesterday, Block announced it was firing half its engineers to make a "big bet on AI." Block used to be called "Square" and it had a very successful business as a payment processor. It changed its name to Block when it went all in on crypto.Block's mass "AI" layoffs coincide with a *50%* drop in Bitcoin, with concomitant collapses in other cryptos. Crypto market watchers warn that the industry is so overleveraged that this could lead to total collapse.2/</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 15:33:23 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces
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*Is it even technically possible to create a market that's more intensely enshittified than the "crypto market"?
*Maybe a darknet crypto market entirely owned and run by North Koreans could somehow be worse? I dunno. Concerning
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  In related news: yesterday, Block announced it was firing half its engineers to make a "big bet on AI." Block used to be called "Square" and it had a very successful business as a payment processor. It changed its name to Block when it went all in on crypto. Block's mass "AI" layoffs coincide with a *50%* drop in Bitcoin, with concomitant collapses in other cryptos. Crypto market watchers warn that the industry is so overleveraged that this could lead to total collapse. 2/

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