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  • It’s essentially a payment plan here in the US. Switch to a new carrier, get an iPhone for free as long as you stay subscribed to their most expensive tier for a year. How it usually works is that the phone is sold to you on an installment plan, say $80 per month, and the “free” part of that is where they also give you an $80 bill credit each month. If you cancel early then you have to pay off the remaining balance of the phone in a lump sum.





  • You don’t seem to know the meaning of the word “spend”.

    How much have I bought in crypto to hold myself? I don’t hold any crypto. The answer is zero.

    The figure that appears in column E of Form 8949? Over a million USD.

    You answers seethe of jealousy. You keep trying to pin the label “crypto bro” on me because you want to dismiss me as someone not worth listening to, and the money I earned as illegitimate and fake. You argue not because you think you’re right, but because you can’t bear to be wrong. To you, crypto is a scam with no use and everything it touches turns to shit, and everyone who says otherwise must therefore hold the opposite opinion and think everything it touches turns to gold. Binary thinking at its worst.

    Your thinking is simplistic and devoid of nuance. You’re right about one thing though. I am condescending. Because you deserve it.

    Reply if you desperately need to put in the last word with a feigned aura of coolness, and laugh it off, because there are no more arguments to be made. Only insults left. You won’t receive a response, and I won’t even read whatever you write, because this conversation is over.

    Go buy a Cybertruck or something.



  • Read carefully, because it seems that reading comprehension is not your strong suit.

    Wiktionary defines “crypto bro” as “an enthusiastic cryptocurrency supporter, usually male, especially a dogmatic and condescending one”.

    You may notice I do not fit any of those categories, besides perhaps being male.

    For the adoption of cryptocurrency by businesses and states, I am apathetic, even mildly in opposition. As for being dogmatic, I entirely am not, because I don’t give a shit.

    But I will admit, you have successfully tempted me into being condescending towards you.



  • (past tense)

    But how do you define “crypto bro”? Sure not “any person who’s ever held cryptocurrency”, right? Because that would make 25% of the US population crypto bros.

    I absolutely reject this categorisation. I don’t give a shit about crypto or any of the ideas behind it. It’s interesting from a technical perspective as a person who holds a computer science degree, but I’m in it for the money. Holding crypto is gambling, and nothing more.

    The only crypto I hold now is for online poker sites and for buying precious metals on r/pmsforsale on Reddit.






  • The effectiveness of bans has always hinged on two factors:

    • The likelihood of being caught
    • The severity of punishment if caught

    For example, everyone knows that the odds of being caught speeding are pretty low, but if the punishment for speeding is ten years imprisonment, then very few people will risk speeding.

    Similarly, even if the odds of getting caught violating this law is only 1%, if the punishment is banning the platform and shutting down the company along with a fine equal to a year’s worth of revenue, then companies will probably not want to risk it.