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"You spent $200 on that? I would literally rather buy anything else."

- Diane, Co-Worker
January 2018

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Punk 6218 bought for 0.18 ETH ($207.75 USD) by 0x73e788 from 0x53ede7. https://t.co/eigeQRvxdM #cryptopunks #ethereum

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@spliffymagoo @Jebus Can you name one?

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Regarding the “Monero is what the criminals use, not Zcash” argument

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@gainzy222 Capital seeking privacy won't park its value in a coin heavily associated with illicit activity. The true giant market is grey area offshore capital, not blatant fraud or stolen funds. That money is gonna want an umbrella of legitimacy.

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@gainzy222 Capital seeking privacy won't park its value in a coin heavily associated with illicit activity. The true giant market is grey area offshore capital, not blatant fraud or stolen funds. That money is gonna want an umbrella of legitimacy.

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@yungdoteth very gracious to make room for new community members

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@valueandtime Because it’s easier to create delusional belief when there’s a shred of truth to the product creating value

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@yungdoteth This is literally how I buy coins. Is there some other method I should be aware of?

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@vydamo_ What’s Salazar up to these days?

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@sterlingcrispin @PolymarketStory Have you considered polymarket is a tool for traders managing lots of assets to construct complex positions?

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@cathsimard_ @DeeZe Cookie dough/Brownie + 7-8 second in the microwave

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@ogdouble_d @dtrain22k @spliffymagoo What if I told you capital markets predict models that can have future free cash flows

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@dtrain22k 🕹️

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@yungdoteth What’s not to like about this

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@DeeZe @mendezmendez I don’t understand how ~20% interest rates + security risk is the best marginal cost of capital for people.. and that it’s worth tapping into

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@0xDawud @DipWheeler @michaeljburry and

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@androolloyd @gmoneyNFT Ya, I don’t understand the value of it being stored onchain. That being said I believe in the creativity of the crypto world to dream up stories of why this is valuable in order to sell a token

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@AriDavidPaul @RaoulGMI Mogged

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@buccocapital Think we’ll see biblical headcount chops and profitability surges this year

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@dannycharts @DeeZe I’d say there will be a 10 year time horizon where 5% of the most AI adept population will be paid well to implement the AI systems

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@valueandtime @kick_clips No

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Thus far each cycle has burned categories of possibilities, which the market will have trouble dreaming about again.

In 2017 we said “the infrastructure is just getting built. Once we have cheap block space and other infra the blockchain will take over the world.”

In 2021 we said “once we get past an incredibly hostile admin that’ll allow crypto use cases to flourish.”

Will there be new reasons to believe crypto has a future? Probably, but each cycle of unfulfilled promises it gets harder I think.