Slashdot moves into full silly mode with "Hottest Day on Earth" headline. When people shift into religious thinking, they usually don't notice because the religious proposition gets labeled in their brain as "new truth".

Global peer-to-peer currencies are desirable, unless you're a fan of banks and what they do. In my view, banks are close to pure evil and definitely a leech on the monetary system, especially homeowners and potential homeowners. A future without banks is the future we want. Something like Bitcoin does that. The stock market is FAR more rigged and fraudulent than any crypto exchanges, they just hide it all and buy politician complicity, like FTX tried to do.

They only do these dog-and-pony shows when they've been really bad (and will continue to do so because now they have something to point to as "the fix").

Absolutely disgusting. Big Pharma used lobbying pressure on pols to mandate dangerous, untested vax on population so they could reap billions, using a concoction which even very-pro-vax Bill Gates now admits was ineffective....and you say "good for them". How utterly apalling. Just shows what a high percentage of sheeple will remain forever blinkered.

The comments are going to be filled with folks who say cRyPtO bAd and have no idea how backwards it is for there NOT to be a global peer-to-peer currency that doesn't get skimmed by banks. Why do banks keep getting a piece of everything you do with money? Because they can keep you scared of alternate currencies, that's how. Anti-crypto people really can't see how much they are like the guy who says, "I don't need to buy a computer, I can send mail easy, there's a mailbox right down the street." Just because (some) central exchanges have been (utterly) corrupt doesn't reflect on the tech.

"ChatGPT, write a novel......hey everyone, look, I wrote a novel" - etc. - is going such an insufferable world. Those who do not learn from Black Mirror are bound to live it.

...where they interview people who say, "we can't believe they bought the staffer story."

Anyone can show a profit if you sold a lot of thing without buying them first. He owes over 65 Billion in unpurchased secuities. Bascially Madoff on steroids and out in the open, it's just that the market has gotten more corrupt, unpurchased securities are now routine. Hedge funds are selling billions and billions that they don't own, and just leaving a little I.O.U. at the DTCC and then declaring record profits. And the econo journos eat it up without questioning so they can keep their snout in the trough. Remember, the SEC is actually funded by the comapnies. They use all the little fines as a funding mechanism.

It will allow people to actually own unique in-game items. And other unique digital assets. Actually OWN them, not just temporarily use them (until you can't). It's like trying to explain VOD to my grandfather, sheesh....

For people to not see the difference between the blockchain and the usual stocks-are-fine-don't-worry-where-your-stock-IOU-is-being-held, is just hutns. Also, the selling of virtual game items before? That was actually leasing. The game devs have ownership of all assets used in their games. Read the fine print.

....syphon money from some rich folks to other rich folks. It's the club you ain't a part of....

...and wow, a long lost Dickens novel he never wrote, generated in seconds. We have now reached the nadir of culture, when people publicicize how proud they are of the simple command they gave to A.I. software.

Exactly how big pharma shaped COVID policy through lobbying,

This is just clickbait. It's about people giving away access to their funds, bank account, personal info, etc. The usual internet scams. But it's intended for kneejrks to go "SeE? CRyPtO bAd!"

"Earlier that week, Mr. Zhao had agreed to buy FTX and save the exchange, before backing out of the deal." He never agreed to buy FTX. He said he'd look into it. What he found was too much of a mess, and he declined.