Notices by Stefanie Schulte (stefanieschulte@mastodon.cloud)

@inthehands What I was trying to allude to was the fact that the blockchain hype was probably orchestrated by people who already owned bitcoins and hoped to drive up their price in this way. So the investment scam came first, and the other use cases were invented afterwards. I guess with AI, the ideas for more solid use cases came first, but people weren't able to make much money with them.

@inthehands I wonder if the difference might be that crypto is at its core a scam for which purported legitimate use cases were invented to hide its true nature, while AI (at the moment) has a few legitimate but boring use cases, which is why scammy tools had to be invented to get people interested in it.

@pettter I guess people have gotten a little smarter. Hopefully.

I think the tacit agreement here is to say as little as possible about Elno's latest action. Still, this feels like an insult to me personally, as I've built a modest Twitter following by pointing out the dangers of moral hazard and financial gambling by shadow banks and too-big-to-fail banks. Now the birdsite brand has been turned into a laughingstock to push one of the sillier cryptocurrencies. Even if nothing worse happens, at least people will lose money again in a meaningless pump & dump ?