The Discovery appears to have approximately a dozen crewmembers.

I guess I don’t get why someone has to be hurt by a law before the court will have any hearings on fixing it.

Importantly is WHY they refused to hear the cases, and that is because they ruled that those bringing the suit had no standing to do so. Once someone is actually denied services, they will have standing for the suit, and the SC may hear the case.

I said Case Closed. GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR.

I also like that he began with an anecdote about a weed-related DUI. My friends this is not a guy who has never driven home after a couple too many martinis:

Ughhhh nope.

Fun Fact: Marijuana used to be formally spelled “Marihuana”, but the government decided to change the spelling in order to associate the drug with Mexican migrants.

When n-percentage (n varies based on a number of factors) of participants are utilizing credit (or margin...) to participate in a market, it has a compounding effect on inflation within that market.

And arguing that it’s not a very risky ‘investment’ because you happened to realize money over the short-term doesn’t…

Oh wow!

“I’m about as far from being a racist as I can get,”

He said “I hate to say it” - that makes him not racist. If he was racist, he would enjoy saying it. CASE CLOSED.

I wish more people talked about this. The fact that a “currency” was designed to require massive computation on computers - thus electricity, meaning using energy that could otherwise be conserved or spent on something necessary like lighting or heating homes or powering subways or cars or... idk, almost literally…

Nope. All of those computers are solving an arbitrary math problem to see who gets the answer first.

GT: Okay, we’re done. Thank you.

Given how much electricity (and correspondingly, fossil fuels!) are being sunk into mining this bullshit, it’s worse than simply being nothing. It’s liquid-fucking-climate-change. You don’t get hamburgers out of it. It can’t drive you anywhere.

It would have to be called Hamblockchainbucks.

Yeah but some Susie Homemaker pyramid scheme swag is actually kinda useful, if not a bit overpriced (tubberware!). Crypto is baisically millions of computers the world over pushing digital boulders up digital hills, only to have the boulders come rolling down every ten minutes.

At least the Dutch had some pretty flowers to put in a vase when their bout of investing mania crashed.