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True story, about a month ago I was going through BWI airport security check wearing a token conference Tshirt. The TSA guy at the check patting me asked me "Do

by asenna 8y ago

True story, about a month ago I was going through BWI airport security check wearing a token conference Tshirt. The TSA guy at the check patting me asked me "Do you hold cryptocurrencies"? That took me by surprise and my paranoid immigrant-brain thought I might get in trouble about carrying cryptos undisclosed in my ledger wallet or something. He repeated again and asked what I hold. That's when I realized he was just an enthusiast and an amateur investor himself. His follow up question was "What do you think of Tron". I tried explaining to him how the project seems like just marketing and that he should be careful. He didn't seem convinced. But that's when I realized. Random non-tech people are heavily invested and rooting for random scam projects. That's not good.

aphextron 8y ago
>But that's when I realized. Random non-tech people are heavily invested and rooting for random scam projects. That's not good. Dennis Rodman was literally at the Singapaore Summit with Trump and Kim Jong Un wearing a t-shirt for his "Pot Coin" [0]. I'm not sure I even want to live in this world anymore. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/12/17453080/dennis-rodman-potcoin-bitcoin-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-north-korea https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/12/17453080/dennis-rodman-po...
sitepodmatt 8y ago
Exactly. Same with EOS, Iota, NEM and the other 1497 shitcoins. A themeforest logo, someone else's whitepaper through google translate to some language then back to english exported to PDF, pull some random linkedin profiles, a fiverr.com cartoon video, throw $10k at mcafee for a tweet (stick it on a credit card), and your practically at the ICO presale launch stage - on your way to $50m+ scam ICO club... Don't worry about infrastructure or a testnet there are w3schools tutorials on launching a coin on eth, or stellar..
- throwawaylolx 8y ago
  Nothing of what you said applies to EOS
- rootsudo 8y ago
  Fuck, this sounds like something I had in an office day dream. So it is that easy...

by asenna 8y ago

aphextron 8y ago

>But that's when I realized. Random non-tech people are heavily invested and rooting for random scam projects. That's not good. Dennis Rodman was literally at the Singapaore Summit with Trump and Kim Jong Un wearing a t-shirt for his "Pot Coin" [0]. I'm not sure I even want to live in this world anymore. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/12/17453080/dennis-rodman-potcoin-bitcoin-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-north-korea https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/12/17453080/dennis-rodman-po...

sitepodmatt 8y ago

Exactly. Same with EOS, Iota, NEM and the other 1497 shitcoins. A themeforest logo, someone else's whitepaper through google translate to some language then back to english exported to PDF, pull some random linkedin profiles, a fiverr.com cartoon video, throw $10k at mcafee for a tweet (stick it on a credit card), and your practically at the ICO presale launch stage - on your way to $50m+ scam ICO club... Don't worry about infrastructure or a testnet there are w3schools tutorials on launching a coin on eth, or stellar..

throwawaylolx 8y ago
Nothing of what you said applies to EOS
rootsudo 8y ago
Fuck, this sounds like something I had in an office day dream. So it is that easy...