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Ha! I'd love to say I've been 100% consistent and always posted archive links, but I've also done it your way, and in some cases probably posted without archive links at all! Just got things right today.
Straight out of Black Mirror, and just as awful (and unnecessary; if the judge needed to hear from an AI, he's not a good judge).
I spend a decent amount of time in a few discords dedicated to online "social" casinos (the ones that basically get around most gambling laws), and there's some crypto talk there, all of which is around either investment strategies like this, or in the cases of the casinos that payout in btc or crypto, how to get it to an exchange to sell it. I long ago gave up trying to convince folks there otherwise.
Sorry about that weekend -- losing folks you've known that long is tough.
Going to go down as one of the greatest grifters of all time. Amazing, considering that most of the tools I associate with good grifters in fiction -- subtlety, elegance, quick wits -- just aren't there. Danny Ocean and Tom Ripley could learn from him.
"I don't have a specific timeline on you for that, but I do know that they're working on it over there."
By "working on it," I assume she means they're trying to figure out how to keep this going for just under four more years.
For the most part, in any of the btc spaces online (as well as the crypto ones from when I was looking more broadly), most of what I've seen in terms of SF interest has been hard SF like cyberpunk, space exploration, some military SF, etc. Softer, more human interest-focused stuff (as well as genres like fantasy) just hasn't seemed as popular.
(This is entire my perception, not anything I've done any sort of serious analysis of.)
So for the most part, I haven't posted about soft SF that I've read (or about most of the crime novels or other things), just because I try to keep my signal/noise ration decent (and if folks don't care about something, even if I do, that post is effectively noise.)