What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

ineffablebob · 2021-08-27T16:41:40.540Z

WSJ

El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment

In less than two weeks, the impoverished nation will become the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency. No one knows what comes next.

It’s not like Bitcoin is volatile with no central control or anything. Exactly what you want your economy to rely upon!

Mark_Asher · 2021-08-27T16:55:47.040Z

Hmm…so the current market cap for bitcoin is 907B. That’s more than any single rich dude has, but a cabal of rich dudes could really manipulate the market. I take it since there’s no central authority anything goes with bitcoin? Market manipulation is not illegal?

jpinard · 2021-08-27T17:37:56.560Z

ineffablebob:

El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment - WSJ

It’s not like Bitcoin is volatile with no central control or anything. Exactly what you want your economy to rely upon!

Unbelievable stupid. If they needed stable currency they should have just adopted the American Dollar or the Euro. That country is only going to get more despair as corruption gets worse.

ShivaX · 2021-08-28T06:46:38.114Z

ineffablebob:

It’s not like Bitcoin is volatile with no central control or anything. Exactly what you want your economy to rely upon!

Making your money a volatile commodity that isn’t regulated.

Woolen_Horde · 2021-08-30T20:27:06.352Z

twitter.com

Ed's Manifesto

@eds_manifesto

You aren't doing anything wrong if no one knows what you're doing. https://t.co/6x31W9dJP1

7:09 PM - 30 Aug 2021 1.1K 210

Giles_Habibula · 2021-08-31T01:16:54.387Z

Best laugh I’ve had in a while. Thanks.

Alistair · 2021-08-31T02:20:04.142Z

That’s why you keep both eyes open.

jpinard · 2021-08-31T22:03:47.402Z

I love how they’re using each other as meatbag shields.

BennyProfane · 2021-09-02T12:21:52.146Z

CNN

Say hello to handstanding spotted skunks, 'the acrobats of the skunk world'

Elusive spotted skunks, which perform intimidating and impressive handstands, are known as "the acrobats of the skunk world." Scientists have discovered there are more of these species than they thought, according to new research.

I for one welcome our upright spotted overlords!

ineffablebob · 2021-09-19T04:21:12.245Z

ineffablebob:

El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment - WSJ

It’s not like Bitcoin is volatile with no central control or anything. Exactly what you want your economy to rely upon!

Welp…it did not go smoothly.

yro.slashdot.org

What Happened After El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin as Legal Currency? - Slashdot

Foreign Policy magazine explores just what happened after El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal currency and launched its official government-approved bitcoin wallet Chivo: Chivo launched just after midnight on Sept. 7. The system started failing at...

Technical issues, merchants refusing to accept crypto payments, huge volatility, protests…pretty much what all the doomsayers were saying. It hasn’t been scrapped yet, so maybe they’ll yet make it work, but this kind of early experience is gonna make it very hard to get public acceptance.

jpinard · 2021-09-19T17:21:00.068Z

It just amazes me how many stupid people are running countries. Awful.

KristiGaines · 2021-09-20T04:54:32.305Z

Well I have a 12 week trial starting in march, Im thinking everything can go wrong. But I know one thing: (and its rare), i have an innocent client. Sigh no pressure.

arrendek · 2021-09-20T05:33:17.089Z

Holy crap I haven’t seen slashdot in like a decade so I brought it up on the way back machine and wow, memories:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050113052052/http://slashdot.org/

schurem · 2021-09-20T06:43:47.812Z

Good luck and we’re rooting for ya (and your client)!

Mark_Asher · 2021-09-20T15:55:03.537Z

Twelve weeks seems like a really long trial, like O.J. long. Good luck with it!

lordkosc · 2021-09-20T17:08:33.018Z

I don’t know much about law, but I’ve watched enough Boston Legal to know just shouting your name in court will help a case.

Denny Crane!

ReptileHouse · 2021-09-20T18:40:06.156Z

Good luck!

Giles_Habibula · 2021-09-22T00:22:57.014Z

Irish Mirror – 21 Sep 21

Teenage boy gets USB cable stuck in urethra while trying to measure himself

This is making us squirm even writing it

Mark_Asher · 2021-09-22T00:30:46.386Z

He wasn’t doing it to measure his cock. He did it because he thought it would give him a good orgasm. At least he didn’t try that thing where he chokes himself out while stroking off, like David Carridine did.

Giles_Habibula · 2021-09-22T00:34:20.350Z

Yeah, the headline says one thing, and the article says the other.
I picked that article because pretty much all of them were the same, and this one had the best X-Ray photo!