I got into programming as a kid too. My first real programming language was QBasic Oh man that makes me feel super old :D You definitely should check out QB64 if you started out with QBasic :)

I understood some of those words 😆 100% APR seems outlandishly high, but super appealing - how long can that last?

I’ve been a developer a long time, I’m old enough to have worked with COBOL 🤣 Day job stuff is WordPress so PHP and React/Next/GraphQL, and side stuff and automation is Python. Retro game stuff is all

No doubt, would have been nice to link to the specific products though for folks who wanted to check out the specific item.

Where are the links? :)

One wrinkle is even with a staff behind them, it’s still partly a popularity contest so other than “to use our app you must vote us as witness” they’ll not get a top 20 spot just through investing in a

Same reason I learned how to code for blockchain stuff. I do have money in the bank and a well-paying day job but since my wife had to quit her job due to it wrecking her with RSI then the pandemic hitting,

Oh to have a time machine. Can you imagine buying bitcoin when it was worth pennies? But we all were afraid to go all in. BRB, gonna hail an alien and see if they can send me back 10 years 🛸

I went all in on steem when it was ~$6 so I’m much more a developer than an investor

I am patient (mostly), I wonder if the market will make moves before our patience pays off, that is all. It's already evident that winners are being picked by the big money interests (see DeSo, Rally,

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the elites are suppressing prices so they can buy at a discount plus oligarchs will be very heavily invested in crypto to avoid personal sanctions - word is North Korea

If you are aiming to persuade you would be better using good faith arguments based on reason and proven facts rather than badly crafted straw men.

Oh I like that 🤔

dubious steps in their reasoning. Ironic considering your post lacks logic

You don't think thousands of people as generally agreed? No, that’s probably fewer people than bought things with Alf Pogs

Let's say we had 5 people playing D&D. Among us, we decide to use bottles of Coke as a barter Collectively deciding is very different from "generally agreed", no? Just because people could

How is that different to "for my lambo would you give me an iphone 13 max", except more people can agree the value of a lambo over hive? Does that make a lambo currency too? In my view, to be

I myself have used hive to buy things a couple of times What did you buy?

My thoughts on most things politics is "if voting changed anything they would make it illegal" ;)

Agreed. In most cases crypto "coins" are more like casino chips or arcade tokens than actual coins. Yes, you can spend them, but only at that specific establishment.