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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
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Bitcoin bois b like (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

I can’t get into the heads of it’s creators

That wouldn't be necessary anyway. A lot of that history is still on the internet today. You can even go all the way back to when the original creator first introduced it in some old newsgroup/mailing list.

addresses the wrong problems incorrectly, to the detriment of what needs to be addressed

Maybe it wasn't intended to address the problems that you have in mind? (Care to share?)

zero error-protection

I'm curious what you mean by this. I mean, taken literally, it's just simply false; there is a non-zero amount of error protection. Are you thinking of like a specific type of error or protection?

For criminal usage those cons are outweigh by the fact that it’s anonymous and is outside of the laws. For running scams you couldn’t create better environment.

It's very traceable... because of the way that it is (it's a public ledger). You could absolutely create better environments for nefarious activity. Don't use Bitcoin if you want privacy.

You can also gamble on it’s volatility.

Yeahhh... Not like it used to be though. It was WILDLY volatile, years ago. I don't think we'll see any more people going from middle class to having hundreds of millions of dollars worth of old bitcoin they mined years ago. (Though I'm sure people will still continue to lose plenty when the value spikes then crashes again.)

Whether or not it was created with crimes in mind or not is not even that relevant.

Oh. Maybe I misunderstood your analogy then.

Just to clarify: I don't even want to defend Bitcoin. I'm not a fan of it, it's environmentally nasty, and I really don't know why the Nostr people love it so much (though I'm sure they'll happily explain if asked). I just prefer information to be accurate. It kinda bums me out how much info on the internet is inaccurate due to people who aren't an authority on a topic, speaking with authority on the topic. It's perfectly fine not to know stuff. We were born not knowing stuff.