The top ten most traded collections last week are all knockoff cryptopunks (ranked 17), which itself is bulk-generated crap from a combination of templates.

It's hard to imagine a more cynical industry.

I mean... I feel like that's almost what good faith is right now in NFTs, but people can still tell when they're being condescended to.

In fact, I'd say the less substance something has the easier it is to tell the attitude of the people making it. As in all things the details matter. Those are the things that set apart genuine attempts from everything else.

The one exception I can think of is a bug in the mssql datetime type (but not date or datetime2) where strings in that format are assumed to be yyyy-dd-mm if the locale dateformat is dmy (e.g. British English).

Cryptocurrency projects have squandered a decade of good faith with no useful product.

They've done a great deal of harm in that period, so I can't see even the current level of mild negative sentiment as sustainable.

Storj is pretty useful. But, it's definitely an exception not the norm.

Storj is genuinely useful. It is however regular cloud storage, except the storage nodes that must be trusted will survive the company somehow. However the authenticated client-side encryption will protect your data, so the safety claim checks out, not sure about liveness.

Slapping a decentralized sticker on and having a cryptocurrency apparently worked out for them. This is how you successfully differentiate a product.

And what's amazing is that the coin has a market cap of $450m (probably still expensive if comped to someone like Dropbox).

If something with that utility is so lowly valued, then imagine the true intrinsic value of BTC!

Maybe it would be simpler at an international level rather than for individual companies?

E.g. based on last year's co2 vs rolling 5 years average, calculated by weather satellites rather than self-reported.

I've got no idea how gdp would be taken into account though. Enclaves and disputed borders are also less clear.

It's not a debate so much as occasional attempts at grifting that get shot down immediately.

GUSD isn't FDIC insured, unless their homepage has it wrong. It's the dollar accounts in Gemini's name that are FDIC insured.

So if there's an exploit where GUSD can be stolen/duplicated, or if Gemini defaults the insurance is meaningless.

What it means is that if a bank where Gemini holds an account defaults, the government will pay Gemini up to $250k.

Sorry for the somewhat sloppy phrasing. GUSD is 1:1 backed by USD, the bank accounts holding that USD are FDIC insured, and this arrangement has regulatory oversight: https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/gusd-stablecoin-gemini-do...

You're right that if you store your GUSD off Gemini and it gets stolen, then you're out of luck. I am not sure what happens if Gemini closes but my impression is that since they are a NYS trust they would have to their customers the 1:1 backing (rather than paying creditors with that money).

If the price goes higher, it only gets worse as a transactional currency. Those are in direct opposition.

Sponsorblock is a similar premise, just crowdsourced rather than ai.

Reddit.com/r/buttcoin

Excessive consumption as fashion has gone the other way for young kids.

Environmentalism seems to be "cool af",to the point where not owning a car is virtue signalling.

I think part of it has to do with the possibility that they are just poorer on average compared to their parents. Circumstances help define the culture so rallying against excessive consumption is more in vogue when you cannot consume in the first place.