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Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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We also need a McDonald’s emoji, Pepsi emoji, Windows emoji and Mastercard emoji. These are also brands that are heavily ingrained in our culture. Probably even more so than Bitcoin.
Or we accept that brands like Bitcoin shouldn’t use emoji as a marketing tool.
These are not public infrastructure
Neither is Bitcoin.
yes, it is. anyone can spin up a node or download the blockchain or make an address.
Anyone can shit their pants. Is that "infrastructure"?
You think you can fool people by using a simple straw man argument technique? Come on, get your shit together. Bitcoin is infrastructure as anyone can submit transactions to the network and they will be seamlessly processed. As simple as that
I know that shouting "straw man!" is the first step of trying to deflect from being wrong on the Internet... But if you're going to do it, at least know what a straw man is.
My argument is that "Infrastructure" != "anyone can do it".
Infrastructure is something that benefits and maintains the general public. Bitcoin benefits a handful of cryptobros, billionaires... and most importantly ransomware rings.
Your straw man is "shit in their pants"
Read your own comments dude
The person I was arguing with was saying that "infrastructure is anything which is something anyone can do". I gave an example of something that anyone can do which isn't infrastructure.
It's absolutely a direct refuation
a counter-example which disproves their original statement. It's not a "straw man", as much as you get mad and scream that it is.
So you were wrong from the beginning. He never said "infrastructure is anything which is something anyone can do". You are the only one who said it. He provided an example of a service provided by the infrastructure in question
the sewer is infrastructure. i don't think you understand the network protocol.
I'm not using the sewer when I shit my pants. I don't think you understand pants.
maybe you should use the public infrastructure.
Should the fediverse get an emoji? How about Matrix?
as was already said elsewhere, advocating for an emoji is silly, and advocating against one might be sillier.
Putting significant energy into campaigning against it? Sure. But what's silly about saying "this is a stupid idea and shouldn't happen"?
that blog post and petition are significantly more than just saying it's stupid
do you know how I know that you didn't read the article?