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Having purchased several cryptocurrencies recently, I can attest that I am certainly not acting rationally. But at least I'm having fun!

VVayneTracker 9y ago
It's all fun and games until the switch is flipped and PetroBTC replaces the Petrodollar. /s?
karmajunkie 9y ago
Agreed, for someone with a relatively small amount invested in the crypto market (<1k) I find myself impersonating Gordon Gecko an awful lot. The only thing I can compare it to is my brief obsession with football stats when I used to play fantasy football.
- MoD411 9y ago
  There's a crypto currency for fantasy sports as well: https://nolimitcoin.org/ https://nolimitcoin.org/ Why not combine both? xD
ReverseCold 9y ago
Yup, that's all cryptocurrencies investments are right now, a game. Have fun, but don't bet your life on it. Mabye in the future it can be more than a speculation, but right now it's a game.
wott 9y ago
I should start a business selling thin air. Thin air from France, thin air from Japan, thin air from Mexico, and so on, you can collect them all, it is super fun. Then I could introduce cold captured thin air, warm captured thin air, etc. Wet thin air, dry thin air for year 3. More fun every year. Even better, I should sell just a paper (well, an electronic one) stating you own some thin air. Hey, geeks, how cool can this get? I am sure I could find buyers in the same market as cryptocurrencies. PS: This is not directed at you, but you expressed the level of pointlessness and... void that reigns in this 'market', so I picked your message to place my joke/rant.
- antisthenes 9y ago
  As long as you record the transactions for air in a blockchain, you should be good.
- malikNF 9y ago
  this reminds me of, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/world/fresh-air-britain-china-bottles/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/world/fresh-air-britain-china-...
- tootie 9y ago
  A few years ago, Cards Against Humanity ran a Black Friday campaign where you send them $5 and get absolutely nothing in return. https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/ https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/
  - TheDauthi 9y ago
    I wish they'd run this campaign again so I could buy a second.
    - _pmf_ 9y ago
      Now, now; don't be greedy!
    - jnordwick 9y ago
      I'll sell you mine.
  - jameshart 9y ago
    I wonder what that's worth now? Be interesting to see what you could fetch by putting up the 'nothing' you bought from CAH for sale.
- yeukhon 9y ago
  http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170515-the-entrepreneurs-making-money-out-of-thin-air http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170515-the-entrepreneurs-... Of course, this just shows how bad the air pollution is in China. Then again, water bottle brands like Nestlé's Poland Spring Water are just using "Poland Spring" as a gimmick and a ad-bait. So you definitely can sell thin air at different price based on "where the air was collected."
agumonkey 9y ago
I'm rationally delaying my irrationality. Helped by platform registration bottlenecks

VVayneTracker 9y ago

It's all fun and games until the switch is flipped and PetroBTC replaces the Petrodollar. /s?

karmajunkie 9y ago

Agreed, for someone with a relatively small amount invested in the crypto market (<1k) I find myself impersonating Gordon Gecko an awful lot. The only thing I can compare it to is my brief obsession with football stats when I used to play fantasy football.

MoD411 9y ago
There's a crypto currency for fantasy sports as well: https://nolimitcoin.org/ https://nolimitcoin.org/ Why not combine both? xD

ReverseCold 9y ago

Yup, that's all cryptocurrencies investments are right now, a game. Have fun, but don't bet your life on it. Mabye in the future it can be more than a speculation, but right now it's a game.

wott 9y ago

I should start a business selling thin air. Thin air from France, thin air from Japan, thin air from Mexico, and so on, you can collect them all, it is super fun. Then I could introduce cold captured thin air, warm captured thin air, etc. Wet thin air, dry thin air for year 3. More fun every year. Even better, I should sell just a paper (well, an electronic one) stating you own some thin air. Hey, geeks, how cool can this get? I am sure I could find buyers in the same market as cryptocurrencies. PS: This is not directed at you, but you expressed the level of pointlessness and... void that reigns in this 'market', so I picked your message to place my joke/rant.

antisthenes 9y ago
As long as you record the transactions for air in a blockchain, you should be good.
malikNF 9y ago
this reminds me of, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/world/fresh-air-britain-china-bottles/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/world/fresh-air-britain-china-...
tootie 9y ago
A few years ago, Cards Against Humanity ran a Black Friday campaign where you send them $5 and get absolutely nothing in return. https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/ https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/
- TheDauthi 9y ago
  I wish they'd run this campaign again so I could buy a second.
  - _pmf_ 9y ago
    Now, now; don't be greedy!
  - jnordwick 9y ago
    I'll sell you mine.
- jameshart 9y ago
  I wonder what that's worth now? Be interesting to see what you could fetch by putting up the 'nothing' you bought from CAH for sale.
yeukhon 9y ago
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170515-the-entrepreneurs-making-money-out-of-thin-air http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170515-the-entrepreneurs-... Of course, this just shows how bad the air pollution is in China. Then again, water bottle brands like Nestlé's Poland Spring Water are just using "Poland Spring" as a gimmick and a ad-bait. So you definitely can sell thin air at different price based on "where the air was collected."

agumonkey 9y ago

I'm rationally delaying my irrationality. Helped by platform registration bottlenecks