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Buttcoin is the future of online butts. Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks butts.

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Bitcoin goes up, so it must come down. What goes into the price of BTC? (amycastor.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile, Tether has printed 11 billion tethers just since the start of 2024. It’s at 103 billion tethers and counting.

We suspect the tethers are being printed out of thin air and accounted as loans — the fresh USDT is “backed” by the loan itself.

I am not a financial expert by any means, so maybe I'm totally missing something here, but I really do not understand how Tether isn't the most obvious scam of all time.

It feels like the type of scheme a high schooler would come up with and call it an "infinite money glitch" while patting themselves on the back for just outsmarting Warren Buffett.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

It feels like the type of scheme a high schooler would come up with and call it an “infinite money glitch” while patting themselves on the back for just outsmarting Warren Buffett.

having met far too many bitcoiners: yes, it’s exactly this