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embarassingly naive. The only thing Blockchain technology is good at is fleecing people who still havn't realized its a failed technology with no future beyond money laundering and scamming rubes
Actually block chain powers the world's best version control system used by millions of people, it was really revolutionary
I'm going to approach this respectfully and with genuine curiosity.
What's your background in accounting that you're so sure about public ledgers? I have bachelor's and master's degrees in it and was about 3 months away from becoming a fully licensed CPA when I had a heart attack at my desk and was told by my doctors that I had to change everything about my life.
Literally every accountant who I know and respect deeply in this field, from PhDs to CPAs and on down, thinks that blockchain is a joke for business accounting. It can all be gamed even worse with phony transactions and contracts that have no real basis, rather than a genuinely audited financial statement. (That final phrase is a whole other topic for a whole other time... believe that.)
The foundation of blockchain seems to rest on "we can see that it exists, so it must be true." This is really not much further off from "we told you that it exists, so it must be true". The idea of auditing is to prove what REALLY happened and what is REALLY true, not just what a piece of paper or a line on a screen says.
Ok. I'm rather disappointed by that, but okay.
If you'd like to come back around and suggest how the blockchain can prevent things like briefcases full of cash, moving money through several offshore subsidiaries, and outright sham transactions, I'm all ears.
"Many such cases" always seems to be the fallback for anyone when they get challenged on blockchain being the future of the entire world and everything on it. You literally just can't understand it.
I literally don't know what this post is even supposed to mean in relation to mine.
One question for you. Be honest.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a holder of GameStop or AMC stock?
20 quid on yes
You said
Your insistence that blockchain is the future and use of the Extremely SuperStonk term "hedgie circle jerk" has determined....
THAT IS A LIE
Even the equating of (former) accountants who work 80 hour weeks for $60,000 a year with hedge fund tycoons is the funniest thing I've heard all week, thanks, I've really been in a sour mood and needed it.
Comrade Amogus commends you for your excellent sleuthing, surpassing even Comrade Amogus this time around!
Heh. There's a lot of shit I don't know about. There's one or two things I do.
The first "job", the first task I ever had as a professional accountant was to go and bust some super high muckity muck who was violating every rule, every actual law, regarding the use of taxpayer money to get multi-thousand dollar checks for travel reimbursement. It was paying for his literal mansion. Barack Obama was on a first name basis with him, but there's maybe a half dozen people who are on a first name basis with Barack Obama. It's two different things.
And of course, much the same way the blockchain people act, his response was "Who the fuck are you? What the fuck do you know? Don't you know who I am?"
Every accountant, somewhere deep in their heart, wishes they were a half ass lawyer.
I don't like debating and I don't like engaging in the marketplace of ideas.... But I fucking LOVE going down a line of questioning. If someone outside of an official setting actually entertains me long enough to finish it... I usually don't miss.
This is the most unbelievable thing I've heard in a while
Sorry for not including the /s lmfao
They also drastically multiply the amount of wasted electricity and dump a lot more carbon. It's a solution trying to make its own problem to solve that also burns the planet that much faster.
EDIT: NFTs are typically minted with Ethereum, which spends a lot of electricity already. If you want to dream up a magical version of a rent-seeking token that doesn't do that, that's cute, but it's not what's happening with rich techbros trying to get people to buy ledger spaces that are associated with ugly cartoons.
There's a difference between using electricity and using more electricity, especially a lot more.
EDIT: NFTs are typically minted with Ethereum, which spends a lot of electricity already. If you want to dream up a magical version of a rent-seeking token that doesn't do that, that's cute, but it's not what's happening with rich techbros trying to get people to buy ledger spaces that are associated with ugly cartoons.
I get that you want to pull a "how do you do, fellow leftists" and peddle internet funny money and/or rent-seeking magic ledger spaces here. It's not cool. Stop it.
nft aren't actually pictures, they are a hyperlink to a picture that can be changed or removed at any time with no recourse
They are ledger spaces on a database that are often but not necessarily associated with pictures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMjPWOailQ
You're a fucking clown, and the circus isn't selling enough tickets for you to stay in town. Leave.
i'm stealing that line
that's fucking beautifull
You're now playing the "NEW EXCITING GRIFT IS INEVITABLE YOU CAN'T STOP IT" card. Clowns like you were peddling real estate in Zucc's Metaverse(tm)(r) the same way.
At least start juggling or ride a unicycle while you're here, clown.
Once the world is exposed to USA's market manipulation, it's over.
You will experience it and you can't stop it
No market manipulation among NFTs. NEVER EVER!
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22995107/us-arrest-charges-crypto-nft-rug-pull-frosties-ethan-nguyen-andre-llacuna
You're wasting time here when you could be ripping off more credulous people in your home instance. Pack up your crypto-carnival already. Whine all you want that it's pedantically "not crypto" when you don't want it to be, but that's just arguing about whether the shit is liquid or solid after a particularly bad stomach ache.
That's. Not. A. Stock. Exchange.
The ledger does show they purchased it. No fraud there
You're claiming that the answer to capitalism is more capitalism, this time from a shiny newer casino that is already majority owned and operated and pushed by ruling class capitalists and that will somehow topple capitalism and bring about an unspecified utopia that you've been vague about so far but have used techbro language to try to dazzle people with your bullshit.
https://www.wired.com/story/nfts-hot-effect-earth-climate/
I linked that article as an example of the waste emitted from related processes.
I'm certain you're being a bad faith peddler at this point, because again you're sidestepping the energy costs of your magical world saving ledger position sales tokens.
For people watching this comment chain, this is a decent starter summary of the grift that the above grifter is trying to peddle here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMjPWOailQ
The grift is okay because there are magical theoretical grifts that totally bypass those problems, pinkie promise, just around the corner as they always are.
My point is you're a clown and peddling your rent-seeking bullshit here is disgusting.