Crypto really is low status and trashy. It has afforded me a lot of opportunity but it’s also embarrassing and not something I am excited to tell people about

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I have been here long enough to accept that I'll probably disappear once I make my lucrative sum of money with little to no work.

I feel like we all want to extract but the ones who "make it" and can quit but don't just want to extract even more or go broke trying 🤑

I’ve been patient tbh 
Every year the industry deploys some thot leader to   try and say it’s more than extraction and that gives people the moral cover to go launch the nth iteration of shitters

What’s worse is that everyone involved is a sheeple to the max 

No new ideas 
No creativity 
Just another token launcher to round trip our wealth on cause that guy over there did it and is raking it in

Retardio

"Please be patient I'm in crypto" hat feels unironically appropriate

teddit

hard truths:

1. crypto isn’t growing, in fact it’s more cringe than ever because of the new admin embracing it / $trump

2. it’s not realistic to generate a full-time sustainable income on farcaster, $degen and $higher were anomaly wealth events

3. majority of the world doesn’t think in terms of markets 24/7

building @privy | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud” 🤠

even cypherpunk is a shell of its former selves at large

Ur right 

It’s so disgusting 🤢 

When I bought my first crypto it had rebellious prestige 

For cypherpunks and insiders 

Now it’s unserious and ugly

see 1

https://warpcast.com/ted/0x348171cb

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Have you ever taken a payday loan? Or had to remit money to another country? Or held physical dollars to hedge against inflation?

I think incumbents are good for you because you’re in the top 10% in the world when it comes to financial access

The incumbents honestly are the better players sorry not sorry

No one here myself included is all that great 

Crypto afaik uses a revolutionary posture to take all the worst parts of the incumbent culture and KEEP those while being worse in every other way and hoping you don’t notice because you’re distracted by ideals no one lives up to 

Ie why is Coinbase so shitty at providing reasonable customer support while allowing company insiders to snipe every single new token listing of the year? 

Sure tradfi insider trades too but at least they give me a fucking person on the phone when I have a problem with my scraps

Feature not a bug 

Most powerful financial technology ever created — would be a real shame if incumbents could coopt it

Good thing they won’t touch it

Artist from the future.

NFTs since 1998.

Bitcoin since 1985.

Your second favorite artist's second favorite artist.

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Exactly. There's no upside to talking about it.

If they don’t think you’re scum they’ll be plotting to kidnap ur relatives for ransom to extract your pkeys

I don't tell anyone irl that I'm into crypto.

But in the protocol layer- 

you have an excuse to not make money!

And there is some cool research/harder software development

It’s pretty cool to be the guy responsible for the bedrock Vegas sits on, even if it’s Vegas?

If it was regulated gambling then it would at least be calling a spade a spade. But gambling is trashy too 

Protocol layer … meh. Sounds cool and often is but only theoretically. all you are doing is building a better foundation for the trashy

How would you feel if it was a regulated gambling industry?

Or working for the protocol layer?

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Lol, at least he stopped with only two and not tokenizing everything - his fiends, posts, kids etc

It’s TOO friendly Nastya 😂 
It took Trump all of 2 minutes to get there too. Like I think the ink was barely dry on the ballots before $TRUMP and $MELANIA were launched 😂 😂

Scrolling through the replies, I’m quite surprised how many people can relate to this! Also, seems like Trump has influenced how Americans feel about crypto now. But I thought a crypto-friendly US government was what the industry always wanted.

Im a self taught visually impaired artist chasing that dream and inspiring others. 
Creator of $CRITTER and Geo Critters

Well it’s almost a month old now, still in the community building stage. Showing people the vision of it. I earn from buy and sells so I stack supply from that to hold for giveaways and community projects. 
Coloring contest prizes! 
People who hold $CRITTER become part of the story they can vote on places we can visit different cultures to explore. 
Come up with new characters that the Geo Critters may meet. 
Critter helps fund the dream. Merch, plushies, kids books. Making art and travel accessible for people like me. Disabilities people who can’t afford to travel or can’t because of anxiety or depression. 
We explore the world together sharing kindness and wholesome pawsitive reinforcement.

How do you use $CRITTER in your own ecosystem?

Do you make any effort to maintain a minimum value of the token?

I created $CRITTER yeah it’s a token but I don’t call it a memecoin it’s more a story telling coin. I wanted to create something different than anything anyone has seen here before. A project with stories and wholesome feel good vibes. Irl utility. Coloring books and plushies. Learning different cultures making art and travel accessible for people like me. Visually impaired social anxiety but who still want to see the world. Cut out the negativity and focus on wholesome

Co-founder @ponder | Ex  | colinjohnson.io

Does not surprise me. I’ve actually never been more into crypto for the “tech” than since Trump took over. 

Black Swan events have never felt so palpable.

I have seen people hypothesizing TIPS are no longer a safe buy because they do not trust the admin to honestly report inflation AT ALL 🤢 like just straight up say it’s 0 and in turn render the TIPS useless

At least when Trump completely dissolves the integrity of legacy financial systems this one will have some defense thanks to decentralization.

These are my principles. If you don't like them, well, I have others

A close second is like talking about it like “chemtrails” truthers

Yeah it’s a really toxic brand in general. It’s like the tech equivalent of being a flat earther

backend eng; full-stack curious

writer, icon, retired rave queen

The less they know about that the BETTER makes perfect sense to me

i get hassled at the border a lot less if i just say software engineer vs working in crypto

Crypto enthusiast, community manager and growth hacker

I agree, but also, you'll agree that crypto has not always been like this. I mean, let's take a trip down the memory lane, back to 2016-17,18,19,20. From the ICO era, to the onset of DeFi etc. Before the era of Uniswap, dex launchpads/IDOs and the apparent existence of memecoins. 
Crypto has always been beautiful, what we believed to be a wealth redistribution platform. 

You know what happened? Evolution! 
crypto has evolved, not positively, but it has.

It’s embarrassing because it’s so trashy idk 

Even when it’s not explicitly a scam or a rug pull it’s just got a veneer of ick

really? how so? I mean, how is it embarassing that you can't tell people about it? I'd like to know

Same

Most folks I know likely think I’m delulu but just don’t wanna start beef with me

I talk to some ppl willing to listen but I don’t even try to onboard normies

Yup and I refuse to invite my friends to the casino. Patiently waiting for the real utility to kick in 

When I got engaged, instead of closing my Bumble account, I just added “crypto bro” to my profile

This is why I usually say I'm a writer for tech startups which technically is not wrong

A funny thing is that I do empathize with you and feel similarly for likely similar reasons, but when I do have the fact I’m in crypto dragged out of me on social settings, many people are oblivious of all the things I find so embarrassing about crypto. Like they haven’t heard about it at all in the past few years. I find this reaction has been pretty common.

Tell them about all the opportunities it has afforded you. They might find that to be of some value.

See this reply here: 

“We can change! So far we have only done this for the worse!”

💀

See this reply here: 

“We can change! So far we have only done this for the worse!”

💀 https://warpcast.com/beebeehem/0x39298c6e

Now imagine making crypto your entire personality since 2015. Maybe you can now understand my extreme frustration at times with this space. And this has become particularly bad since 2020, when it went really downhill and scammy as fuck.