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Mar 3Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Barnum would be proud! A sucker born every minute! If I had tons of cash and got bored(not likely with tons of cash) I would plunk a few quatloos into the pot for snicks and grins!

Why am I thinking of a scheme that rhymes with Fonzi? Heeey!👍

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Mar 3Liked by Alistair Dabbs

I'm afraid I am not bright enough to understand what value a cryptocurrency has. I just cannot understand why someone would accept payment of a bitcoin for a bag of flour. A government backed currency is accepted by every one until the nation goes bankrupt (Zimbabwe for one) but what triggers a cryptocurrency to be valued by a group of people? As I said, I'm just not bright enough.

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Mar 3Liked by Alistair Dabbs

I thought I'd just walked into a parallel dimension. The first half of that was actually quite informative and interesting, even technical.

I came here for the innuendo.

I mean, I've seen your column before. Ewww.

Sorry, I can see your point. No that just won't do at all.

Just kidding. Keep it up. No, really. Oh dear. I mean keep up the good work.

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Mar 3Liked by Alistair Dabbs

If this works, you'll single-handedly have wiped out the whole cryptocurrency market.

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Mar 3Liked by Alistair Dabbs

The only time I worked in a bank, it wasn't that fun... Damn, I probably was at a floor too low. There no joy being a coal-trimmer.

Great digest of that piece of history. Mr Dabbs, you're the War Nerd of IT.

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Mar 3Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Is 'barista bating' anything like 'masturbating'?

Or did you just toss that piece of bait out intentionally? 😁

(I'm only joking, Mr D. I don't usually pick people up on typos, but I couldn't resist)

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Mar 3Liked by Alistair Dabbs

It reminds me of that geezer who was trying to persuade the council to let him dig up a landfill because he threw out a hard drive with £150 million in bitcoin on it ten years ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62381682

Somehow, I can't imagine accidentally throwing £150 million in bank notes away so easily.

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Mar 3Liked by Alistair Dabbs

I can think of a standards organisation that works peer to peer, but at least it has a steering group and grown ups to take things in hand when the shouting starts. But it takes 3 to 5 YEARS to get to consensus, and can often be longer. Certainly any small group forking would be seriously frowned upon. Nobody is going to make any money, though.

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Mar 4Liked by Alistair Dabbs

Poop isn't real until you can hold it in your hands...

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Mar 4Liked by Alistair Dabbs

"Bitcoin was the Hula Hoop of the last decade. "

More like a Scampi 'n' Lemon NikNak, I'd say.

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At least poopcoin is clearly a load of BS.

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