I aspire to be like this lmao View quoted note →

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People who do this are typically thinking of pumping bags much more than adoption. They will even say its for adoption, but of a kind that involves not adopting Bitcoin. Not holding Bitcoin is not owning Bitcoin, not using Bitcoin is not using Bitcoin. There are many people who would suggest that custodians (not holding or using Bitcoin) such as ETFs, custodial wallets, exchanges with intentionally obscure methods to withdraw are all "good for Bitcoin adoption" We aren't often seeing the same world around us, somehow. View quoted note →

I want to get to a point where I can say something ridiculous and people laugh instead of taking me seriously. I want to laugh along with you and pretend to apply the ridiculous thing seriously so that the laughs can continue until we're done with it. We live in a world were ridiculous things are too often taken too seriously which results in real world problems. This style of humor is how we can fix that. I hope its just a matter of working on my delivery. It doesn't help that I read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and now love the British style of saying something ridiculous in monotone as a form of humor.

jack mallers

hey nostr. currently eating dinner and trying to wrap my head around this exchange I had with "Altcoin Daily"

if the truth makes people fe...

It was fud in the sense that it instilled (or could) a sense of fear, uncertainty, &/or doubt about (a shitcoin (& shitcoins at large)). I didn't say that it was untrue. This is the comment that has Jack Mallers scratching his head. The argument being made against him is that what he said fits what the acronym FUD stands for. However, as Jack points out, "FUD" has colloquially come to be synonymous with "misinformation". If it didn't mean misinformation, it would be strange to complain about. "Hey you're causing people to fear and doubt this thing" is a complaint someone who wants to control people would make, but "hey this is misinformation" is a much different complaint. I'd be a fool not to mention once again GiGi's article about "The words we use in Bitcoin":

dergigi.com

The Words We Use In Bitcoin - Words, Language, Terminology, and Linguistic Attacks | dergigi.com

How Bitcoin's detractors lie through their teeth with no regard for language or the truth.

The words we use to describe things matter because the scammers will twist them and present them with wildly different meaning than what we intended. I want to encourage my peers to stop saying FUD. To decry people who use the word FUD to complain about articles and to instead use the word that we actually mean to say: Misinformation or misconstrued. Precision is the weapon of truth against scammers and FUD has come to be a shitty blunt force descriptor.