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Invest in hwat? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 8 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 130 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Crypto-whatsit? Is that something from one of Bobby's vid'ya games?

It's a new form of money, Hank. VIRTUAL MONEY.

Well, excuse me, Dale, but here where I live, in the REAL WORLD, we already have a perfectly fine money. It's called AMERICAN DOLLARS and it works just fine, I tell ya h'wat.

You say that now, Hank, but wait until the cyber-swarm-uprising of 2034 comes and replaces your precious "real world" with a virtualsphere so indiscernible from what you think you know as real! Wake up and see what's coming on the horizon!

Can you see me kicking your ass on the horizon?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 57 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cryptocurrency, man! Money on the computer man, dang ol' ones and zeros, onna internet y'know, pew pew pew, zippin' on them wires..

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Boomhauer, for once in my life, I have no idea what you're talkin' about.

pops another beer

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

Crypto and crypto accessories.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Rip dale you're missed

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I like how we don't need to be told which character is saying what. What a great show. What great characters.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you one of the writers for the revival?

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wish.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dude, i was also going to ask if you're a writer on the show....

i read your post and heard hank's voice perfectly in my head. You have talent, son.

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Aw, shucks... 🙂

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

This is perfect!

[–] glouriousgouda@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Catch the new dystopian thriller, "Cyber-swarm-uprising. 2034: Book one" in theaters August 23rd, 2024!

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tell y'what man, you talk'n bout ol' crypto, man, I don't want none-a that ol' bitcoin, none-a that ethereum, man, that ain't money, y'know, talkin' bout dang ol' dogecoin, man.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 8 months ago

"Do I look like I know what a bitcoin is?"

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Top Left – More or less the default position, sensible enough, if a bit naive. Nothing wrong with this.

Top Right – Having knowledge is a good thing, and so is making decisions based on sound risk-benefit analysis.

Bottom Right – Well, at least it's an informed decision. Just don't try to pass off the risk on someone else if it backfires.

Bottom Left – Oooouuuuh, you don't want to be in this quadrant, trust me…

[–] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Everyone who thinks they are in the bottom right, is in the bottom left.

[–] worldofbirths@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I think the show does a good job at showing how easy it is for Dale and Bill to swap too. Just recently watched the episode where they basically end up in a ditch because they didn't really know how to use a digger - it's hard to tell who is dragging down who.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

This made me laugh an inappropriate amount for what it is.

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Maybe, but I kinda think Dale wouldn't bother with crypto thinking it's some kinda government psyops or some conspiracy lol

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

So he would invent his own cryptocurrency

[–] Omnimater@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry, you want me to pay you in hwatcoin?! We don't accept your silly Canada dollars here, this is Texas.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Spot on! 😂

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

No the right guy didn’t invest in crypto because he knows it’s too risky

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That coin ain't right!

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Bitcoin isn't going anywhere unless someone figures out how to successfully hack it. All the other crypto currencies can get fucked.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Bitcoin and all of its energy and storage wasting.

If we had nuclear fission/fusion creating all of our power, I wouldn't care but we are still using oils and coal to produce electricity.

The world is seeing this effect, We didn't even have a fucking winter in Canada. Shit what tends to be the coldest month of the year we have already seen positive double digits (please join the rest of the world in using real units murika), hell I've biked to work WEARING SHORTS last week

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'm not saying I'm for bitcoin (though I am for a form a currency outside the control of any one government). It's just not going anywhere unless/until it's compromised.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Once someone hacked Bitcoin to give himself a bazillion bitcoin for free. Everyone else could see that - so they just patched the vulnerability - but Bitcoin was hacked.

That's why it ended up going here.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Which means it's probably still being hacked but if someone was smart they would steal small amounts from everywhere. Fly under the radar and because it's "decentralized" if it's small enough and random enough no voice would be loud enough to silence it.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 1 points 8 months ago

I'd rather just take the one time lump sum payout of shorting it and flying over the radar. (Which that dude probably did) If you patiently exploit the vulnerability, then someone else might figure it out or notice.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sssshhhh, you're going to break their fragile reality

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

You know what's hilarious is that this is another problem that was long solved with the traditional centralized systems.

I will continue to laugh at the response of SWIFT after investigating the viability of block chain and crypto currency. I'm paraphrasing but it was basically "ya, nah".

For anyone who knows SWIFT is the largest network of financial transfers in the world and not owned by any one company.

[–] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kek shitty finite currencies with transparent transactions promoting hoarding can get fucked monero all the way

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

HODL mean anything to you? LMFAO

[–] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You seem to agree with me that a cryptocurrency without purpose is garbage bloat damaging the environment however monero has taken up a majority of darknet purchases I'm not advising anyone to use crypto as a medium other than anonymous purchase and holding any for longer than necessary may f*ck you because of its volatility sry if my point came across badly in my ONE SENTENCE which made no statements about holding IN ANY WAY