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Olly H's avatar

Refreshing to see Pomp not take a slavishly pro-Trump position for a change. I was starting to think he’d been orange pilled

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SaulyAries's avatar

I'm not afraid to give credit when credit is due. I agree with that statement he has been sucking on those balls pretty hard

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Drew Who?'s avatar

LMAO i was just coming to say what a great objective article for a change

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RaShane's avatar

I agree with you on this one.

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Daniel Cogzell's avatar

Short-sighted and dissapointing take.

Clearly a bitcoin maxi and as usual cult-like behaviour. If the bitcoin community keeps ignoring bitcoins flaws and the advantages of other L1s, they will be nothing but the gold maxis of today but in the future. You have to recognise the full potential of blockchain technologies and changing the system as a whole. Gold is a small piece of the puzzle and unfortunately for you a small piece of the pie too.

I also find it laughable at the lack of nuance and discussion trying to dismiss Cardano. It is everything bitcoin's founding community aspired to be and more.

Sure it lacks adoption, but so did bitcoin when it was first created. Making that an arguement for why the world won't run on Cardano's infrastructure is the same as making that arguement against bitcoin a few years ago. Except it is even more dumb due to Cardano being more energy efficient, cost efficient, deterministic, decentralised, scalable and able to handle programmability today. Not in the future, today.

Not to mention that Cardano already has or is busy implementing basic elements to replace the systems of today. Constitutional committees, a treasury, delegated representatives, "tax rates" through transactional fees that can be voted on or changed by the ecosystem through voting, decentralised identities, babel fees to allow individual users to still operate in the 'currency' of their choice rather than being forced to use something like gas for Ethereum transactions etc.

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Joe's avatar

You saved me a reply! I may have missed it, but I didn't see a mention of ADA being deflationary and provably at least as secure as Bitcoin. I really like Pomp most of the time, but he has the Bitcoiner blindspot for ADA. We even use (e)UTXOs like Bitcoin does.

I agree with him about our old buddies SOL and ETH and have my doubts about XRP.

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Jose Guerreiro's avatar

Thanks for the update Pomp 👍

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some guy's avatar

i feel like this is hard for you becuz u are a veteran.

bitcoin was invented... to destroy america

because america... is an evil bully

america will not be saved by crypto

"This begs the question — how did we get here? How did the President of the United States get swindled into announcing a shitcoin fund?"

because the president is an idiot, and a scammer, and he does whatever jared kushner tells him to do... and jared kushner

believes that jesus was a liar and the virgin mary was a whore

and they are very pissed that somehow... "their" GOD decided the world would be full of christians and muslims who believe in "their" GOD... while simultaneously rejecting their racist religious ideology.

so they have decided to destroy our civilizations. and get us to fight each other. and borrow money from their banks. this is how the world wars happened. this is why we are in 36 trillion in debt and europe has been in debt since WWI.

this is why we spend trillions on wars that only benefit jared kushner's tribe and the small group of american atheist billionaires who are too busy trying to get richer from stealing oil or blowing up children and stealing land or getting contracts to sell weapons or rebuild a region that has just been destroyed... by their weapons

this is why the president is a guy whose political career began with lies about obama being born in kenya.

because the israelis need racist rednecks in charge in order to keep stealing land from muslims. they need racist rednecks in charge to keep getting billions of dollars from america even though we dont have fucking healthcare. (israel does... but ben shapiro insists its a dumb idea for america and will make us lazy and we will eat worse and not wear helmets when riding motorcycles)

this is why putin can do what he wants in ukraine... because ukrainians arent jews... they are goyim... and russians arent muslim... and the jews dont want the russians dead... yet.

and theres nothing better than greedy immoral atheist white racists in charge of america. printing money to fight wars and bail out whatever companies need bailing out so that the jew banks can get their interest and israel can get her bombs.

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Denis's avatar

Wow some guy! I would actually like to have a conversation with you and have you educate me!

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SaulyAries's avatar

okay I agree Ada can suck it and xrp

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SaulyAries's avatar

what a little bitch!

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SaulyAries's avatar

it's always something with you fucking maxi pads

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