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Immediate feedback today (#996231).

A lot of people told me Vegas Bitcoin 2025 was just for political shills, for shitcoinery, for NFT/ordinals crap.
I saw a lot of that. But I also saw a lot of meaning (hate the overused word "signal" but you know what I mean). Any sufficiently successful movement is gonna have parasites drawn to it!

You can just do good stuff, instead

With the glamor of the Strip itself and its sensory overload, it’d be easy to be dazzled — plus, it was the first time I had left Fort Europa for the land of the free in years, first time in Vegas, and first time at an American Bitcoin event. It’d be easy for me to simply dismiss the haters by paraphrasing Taylor (“haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate…”).
(psst, @realBitcoinDog, I used Taylor again!)

"To make an obvious analogy: The internet is littered with porn, gambling, and cat videos, and it’s the most successful technology in a generation."

Here’s an underappreciated order to the known universe: To each successful movement or phenomenon, parasites and fraudsters are drawn. It’s why the shitcoin guys are around Bitcoin events and why the politicians are pandering to our cause. Vegas itself is the center of gravity for that sort of thing — gambling, nudity, alcohol, prostitution, and other dopamine-inducing stimulants. I first titled this take What Hookers in Vegas Can Teach Us About Politicians at Bitcoin 2025; the simple observation is that fraudsters, grifters, and scammers go to where the value is. Parasites feed off healthy, growing, flourishing organisms.
So yeah: the grifters, the parasites, the politicians, and the financial engineers are here. Good for them. That they’re here is a sign of victory.
Knock me over with a feather, haters.
Tell me I'm wrong, Stackers.
80 sats \ 5 replies \ @mab 3 Jun
Do NOT pay for the hookers. You're better than that. 😂
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Do NOT pay for the shitcoiners. You're better than that.
Jokes. I did talk to the hookers, that was interesting
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Sex work is real work. Selling shitcoins is scammery, it’s not real work. We are all about proof of work here. The hooker is the honest party in this equation.
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mmm, "real" work. Nah
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And? Do tell...
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what happens in Vegas, um, stays in Vegas
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Feather to knock you over. 🤣 Nothing wrong in what you said, just keep it casual. Use charm, not money for the hookers. Your job is stacking. Their job is is ripping your stack... or better said, you are their job. Just saying.
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Their job is is ripping your stack... or better said, you are their job.
EXCELLENT phrasing!
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 3 Jun
Funny story. One of the first times I went to Vegas my buddy and I had gone out to a club and when we were walking back through the casino afterwards a couple ladies approached us and started chatting with us. They were clearly prostitutes but my buddy had no clue and he is chatting with them and said something to the effect of “what brings you here tonight” and one of them said “we are working” and my buddy goes “oh, are you on break”. Haha
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my god! Yeah, easy mistake
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Great article, and welcome back from being missed! <3
I do get what you're saying re: the price of success, but what if it's merely the appearance of success while in the background I can't help but see structural issues growing like shrooms on a wet piece of wood?
I worry.
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Lol if you come to bitcoin for the wrong reasons or have high time preference you'll likley get rekt anyway. Just another cycle just another cohort going to learn their lesson first time around, some will be minted into maxis by the experience
That's just the user churn rate
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Taylor forever!!
You’re not wrong being successful means filtering out noise
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use a sheath and no kissing
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