This reads slightly different to me from "I f***ing love going to court."
Note, both of the above censoring is mine. I'm not sure why I've been censoring lately. The only time I didn't in recent memory was to show my disgust for crypto lobbyists (and I now regret it, I might edit it). I think I saw the trend around me of censoring because others want to monetize for tiktok or whatever, but I liked the way censoring per simple character substition looked, if not the reason behind it. Because it looks civil. Civil compared to, say, the kind of tweets by someone that is "accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970s" and definitely needs to go to f***ing court.
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But who cares about that nerd shit, because the price of this coin was only ever driven by hype and community and rizz.
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Honestly the tax angle hadn't really be done before that in crypto. Of course we later find out it wasn't even a guarantee, it only really worked when the participating exchanges wanted it to (and it was a fork). Now, is as good a time as any to point out that I know these things as I am reading this substack the day after just accidentally finding and reading the protos article on the result of this trial: https://protos.com/long-read-how-john-karony-went-from-visionary-to-convicted-fraudster/ I didn't even know it was David Z Morris article until I openned it.
It was great, as expected. Highly recommend the read.
It's interesting how reading this substack now shows that DZM eventually softens a bit on his opinion of Karony, having seen his delusional joviality for weeks now. He doesn't soften a lot, he clearly still sees that this could be a carefully created persona of a nice guy. You can tell per the end of the article. It shows that despite some sympathy for the convicted fraudster, DZM has his conviction of ethics. But there is definitely sympathy--not excusing, but sympathy--in the article. Which is striking as you basically never read that from DZM about fraudsters.
But, anyway, the "nerd s***" is that the tax was pretty much a new thing for crypto followers. If you look really deeply at money, you start to lose grasp on reality. Like, wait, is the US Dollar really only backed by US military power? Then you think, well, anything could be money then. (I almost wrote "well, shoot, anything could be money" but Americans have too many guns and too lacking in critical thinking for me to write anything so flippantly.) The tax seemed like wizardry and definitely unique, so I can't blame too many people for being somewhat interested in at least experimenting with it.
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I love going to f***ing court.
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This reads slightly different to me from "I f***ing love going to court."
Note, both of the above censoring is mine. I'm not sure why I've been censoring lately. The only time I didn't in recent memory was to show my disgust for crypto lobbyists (and I now regret it, I might edit it). I think I saw the trend around me of censoring because others want to monetize for tiktok or whatever, but I liked the way censoring per simple character substition looked, if not the reason behind it. Because it looks civil. Civil compared to, say, the kind of tweets by someone that is "accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970s" and definitely needs to go to f***ing court.
"
But who cares about that nerd shit, because the price of this coin was only ever driven by hype and community and rizz.
"
Honestly the tax angle hadn't really be done before that in crypto. Of course we later find out it wasn't even a guarantee, it only really worked when the participating exchanges wanted it to (and it was a fork). Now, is as good a time as any to point out that I know these things as I am reading this substack the day after just accidentally finding and reading the protos article on the result of this trial: https://protos.com/long-read-how-john-karony-went-from-visionary-to-convicted-fraudster/ I didn't even know it was David Z Morris article until I openned it.
It was great, as expected. Highly recommend the read.
It's interesting how reading this substack now shows that DZM eventually softens a bit on his opinion of Karony, having seen his delusional joviality for weeks now. He doesn't soften a lot, he clearly still sees that this could be a carefully created persona of a nice guy. You can tell per the end of the article. It shows that despite some sympathy for the convicted fraudster, DZM has his conviction of ethics. But there is definitely sympathy--not excusing, but sympathy--in the article. Which is striking as you basically never read that from DZM about fraudsters.
But, anyway, the "nerd s***" is that the tax was pretty much a new thing for crypto followers. If you look really deeply at money, you start to lose grasp on reality. Like, wait, is the US Dollar really only backed by US military power? Then you think, well, anything could be money then. (I almost wrote "well, shoot, anything could be money" but Americans have too many guns and too lacking in critical thinking for me to write anything so flippantly.) The tax seemed like wizardry and definitely unique, so I can't blame too many people for being somewhat interested in at least experimenting with it.