Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 02, 2024

Alex Jones.

Ponzi scheme by any other name…

But hey, on the plus side, you’re not in jail (unlike SBF)

There’s your problem. Cryptocurrency requires a virtual stocking, not a real one.

Bitcoin is up this week, so if he checked the internet, he might find Santa Claus.

I’ve been trying to figure out what motivates the fools who pay real money for crypto. I now think it is mostly hatred of bankers. Evidently I just don’t dislike them strongly enough to buy into the absurdity of cryptocurrency.

The Crypto-Clause.

No one is irrevocably naughty. Desperate crypto brokers could be washed clean of their sins by crypto tele-evangelists.

It’s a scam

Too many others who deserve to be on that list.

He should check his stocking again. It could be full of NFTs.

He’s passed his myth limit.

Maybe Santa put a crypto-present in a crypto-stocking for him.

Crypto-nite

Caught in the Block Chain. Virtual gifting… or grifting.

Should people be allowed to run really, really complex pyramid schemes?:

If you buy an NFT with cryptocurrency, nothing actually happened.

Sounds like a good place to dump counterfeit money. One’s as good as the other.

We hope each of you has a wonderful New Year and pray that you will find peace and friendship wherever and whoever you are.

And, as this is my 88th new year, my sweet blue-eyed girl’s 83rd and our 61st anniversary, I will add this that we have learned.

One sure pattern for life is to hold tight to your families and loved ones, your deepest beliefs, and your sense of what is right.

Hold tight to your self-respect, your respect for others, and your love of your country

Hold tight to the truth that, while no one is your better, no one is less.

Hold tight – as bad as your pain is, others suffer more.

Know it is up to you – always was and always will be.

Hold Tight!

No crypto lumps of coal?

I just read an article about how they pay crypto miners big bucks NOT to use electricity during grid failures.

Maybe try to use crypto to buy Santa off…

Awww, so sad.

To everyone who sent me money for PandaCoins thank you, you helped me have a really great Christmas. The Red McLaren in the driveway? Yup! You bought that and she’s a beauty! No speeding tickets, yet.

Tinkerbell Effect: If everyone believes it’s worth something then it’s worth it. But if one person thinks it’s worth less – then it’s worthless

Cryptobrokers don’t look like that – they are all much younger (sometimes much, much younger)

Gamble somewhere else. Don’t go crypto-broke.

It’s always coalcoin.

“He’ll seize you when you’re sleeping and throw you in the lake…”

Well, the stocking won’t get filled if you just keep staring at it. And do crypto brokers really believe in Santa Claus? Oh, wait – that’s why they’re crypto brokers …

Well deserved he is…

Crypto is like baseball cards. It’s only worth something if people think it’s cool.

That’s Jill Biden telling Quid Pro Joe that he’s SOL again.

So, um, Bitcoin was going to be “an electronic cash system” (said the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto). It would replace government-issued currencies, as a standard of value, right? Instead, cryptocurrencies are gambling on the value of individually-identifiable nothings. By the way, what’s the point of there being more than one cryptocurrency, if only to get people to gamble on more sorts of nothing?.

Crypto is, even more than marriage, the triumph of hope over experience.