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wait this community has been shilling a meme coin this whole time I thought were were larping as leftists is that shtick over?

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly Hexbear sharing the name with a crypto is funny as hell.

Imagine a techbro looking up Hexbear coin and stumbling across our little clown show

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

We're not in the circus with them.

They're in the circus with us joker-dancing

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least our HB name has some backstory. The shitcoin feels like the name was just some madlib generator spat it out.

[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As much as I hate to give them credit, it sounds like the name from the Hex block chain and Bear markets.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I refuse to learn what that means (okay, I'll admit I know what a bear market is, but I refuse to learn what the Hex block chain is).

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Crypto is Chuck e cheez coins on the internet, and I refuse to ever take a deeper analysis on that.

[–] Parenti_stan46@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

A bear market is a market exclusively for A) bears (gay) B) bears (the animal). What is sold at them depends on which type of bear we're talking about.

Check out this dope ass shitcoin

[–] Parenti_stan46@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You laugh but getting into crypto for like a month was the catalyst into me becoming a communist.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Parenti_stan46@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. I got into crypto

  2. I realized it was BS.

  3. Then realized it was all bs

  4. I then went and listened to a podcast about Marxism.

  5. lenin-shining

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah. Nothing like the glaring contradictions of capitalism to radicalize a person.

party-cat

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly we shoulda got in on the grift.

Wish I had known this was all gonna happen 10 years ago when I first heard about crypto and immediately was like "Huh that sounds interesting but impractical, there's no way anyone is ever going to take this stuff seriously as a currency/asset" and here we are lol.

[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used it to buy drugs and never touched it again. High quality drugs though

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh yeah it was sure good for that for a minute, but I meant it's only possible use cases are shit like that or grifting and only because of capitalism/war on drugs.

It's a novelty in search of a use case.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a novelty in search of a use case.

True, but I think blockchain technology in of itself has use cases. Bitcoin, Ethereum and co. can go ahead and die because they're useless but the underlying technology is essentially a distributed database with built-in transparency mechanisms, meaning it could be used to facilitate for example state bureaucracy. You'd also make looking up and validating info etc way easier. I don't think it's an absolute necessity for a well-functioning state but it could have its uses.

What most cryptobros are peddling unfortunately is not that but rather pyramid schemes.

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fortunately don't have any regrets since I was too young and poor to do anything when this stuff was new where I could have made lots of money. Also between then and now I definitely would have lost my wallet since I wasn't intelligent enough to back things up.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I had just built a new desktop and happened to have bought one of the first cards people were recommending for it. I just bought it cuz I was a g*mer though lol.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think those regrets will always happen with speculation or gambling e.g. "I wish I'd bet on a Trump victory", "I wish I'd bought Apple shares", "I wish I'd never given my first gen Pokemon cards to my cousin". Hindsight is always a kick in the arse.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah if you'd have bought in your material conditions would have made you a crypto bro

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not talking buying in lol, I mean I thought about mining it just for fun as a hobby thing in the early days when it didn't take a whole server farm.

I got 10 Dogecoin for free ages ago, which made the Elon crypto grift 10x funnier watching my fractions of a cent turn into many whole dollars sicko-wistful I should have somehow got more so I could have taken money from Elon fanboys sadness

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] KimJongGoku@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

But I read that we all agreed to just go with #cryptofascist on another instance

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've put my entire savings into hexcoin

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

can we use slurp juice on upbears?

[–] pillow@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

they took my bears, odo

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sssshh shut up we're stealing from the crypto bros to fund the revolution

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

geordi-no Crypt of the NecroDancer

geordi-yes Neck of the CryptoDancer

I remember the first time I looked at the website for that coin it took so long to load I thought the page was broken or left blank.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reposting the time I worked at the Hexcoin launch event:

Hex Coin. I catered and waitered one of their events in a huge team in a super fancy building in central London last year. The event lasted about 12 hours and got increasingly out of hand with every hour that went by.

They made us make this ENORMOUS cake. I'm talking like, one square meter at least. But hex shaped and coloured. Later in the night I carried it onto the stage with a colleague (with a procession of cyborg strippers - more on that later) for the CEO to cut. He cut one slice and then told us to take the cake back to the kitchen because he didn't need it for more than that. An entire cake wasted. Me and my friends did our best to take as much of it home with us as we could, but there was still loads left that just got binned.

After prepping the food I went to do the meet and greet plus coats and bags rack. I'm on the door and everyone who comes through it gives me a spiel about why I should get into crypto. One guy asks me to make sure his bag is secure because he's got hard terabytes of sensitive information on his hard drives in his bag. The ones who didn't give me a spiel just ignored me. The only thank yous I got were from the programmer looking blokes - you know, the khaki shorts and stained olive drab t shirt look. They were generally quite shy so I guess just appreciated a friendly hello and reciprocated.

Anyway, the night goes on, im serving platters and carrying bags of ice to the VIP bar. Everything seems normal ish for a corporate event so far.

Then a guy wearing a suit (and top hat) covered in silver reflective plastic walks in to some knock-off daft punk sounding music. He's followed by about 10 women who are also dressed in this reflective stuff, but only in teeny bikinis. They come out and put on a crypto themed strip show, where the the main guy controls them with a remote, at which point I was called back to the kitchen to bring the cake on.

After that, the girls go to the VIP bar, and every time I go in there, there's a new slobbering cryptohead Andrew Tate prototype telling the girls how much money they make. By this point, most people are blind drunk.

I head to the bathroom that was pristine earlier, and it's trashed. It's full of dudes doing coke. A group of scousers are all throwing up all over the sink and floor. One guy is on the toilet doing hilariously loud fart/shits/sharts. The smell in there is ungodly. I do my business and exit as soon as possible.

From there it just gets continually lary, lots of glasses smashed, general rich dickery. Many of the odd things I saw that night have probably faded from my memory by now and been replaced by new stories of rich creeps. Like the time I catered and waitered for an old Etonian gentlemen's cravat/cognac club, or the russian tennis oligarchs, or the diamond auction golf dinner.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

After that, the girls go to the VIP bar, and every time I go in there, there's a new slobbering cryptohead Andrew Tate prototype telling the girls how much money they make.

This makes me laugh like every single time. I do not understand where people get the idea that this shit actually works but it is completely pervasive among these types of guys. Among the rich horse-girls the response is an eyeroll because it's less than daddy, among the average it comes off as replacing personality with a wallet and only the women that see free shit in it for them go along with it, everyone else is repulsed.

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

One guy is on the toilet doing hilariously loud fart/shits/sharts. 

o7

Death to America

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Who keeps falling for this bullshit? I know people must be falling for it, but who the fuck are they?

[–] ComradeCmdrPiggy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Hexbear is when you tankie and the more you tankie the more Hexbearer it is

[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beyond the name, it's funny how she clearly knows absolutely fucking nothing about this but:

-tries to inform people about it

-plans to spend money on it

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every "not a financial advisor" grifter shilling crypto on Youtube ever.

[–] punk_punk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

what is a Hexbear but a miserable pile of secrets?

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I am not a financial advisor. This is not financial advice.

they said the thing

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

hexbear is the feeling you get inside you when you look out into the world and see nothing but horrors beyond your wildest reckoning, and then the subsequent act of posting about owls with ibs online

it's that exact thing and nothing else

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They never ask how is Hexbear, cause my sinus is kinda inflamed deeper-sadness

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Can you put your sinuses on the blockchain? Didn't think so

[–] BGDelirium@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Get your hexbears for the low, low price of 1/120,000th of a cent

https://www.geckoterminal.com/eth/pools/0x2476b4670879aaf7b17341e04b928cc9aed04a52