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 My favourite question from the NEARcon crypto conference this week. 

Audience question:

“Why do the blockchains always have tokens? Can you do it without a token?”


Speaker:
“They don’t have to have tokens but it’s in my interest that there’s a token”. 


Naturally I’ve been spamming bitcoin 😃 
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7898221734952912031699600822.webp  
 whats a "tolkien"? 
 https://image.nostr.build/3084be83c1837b65f3c91a79328a48a9d504b4a6e636df59516c206dad94c432.jpg

the thing the shitcoin scammer didn't say:

we are burning all your resources paying absurd management, marketing and developer wages to produce our hypothetical product, and we must have luxury.

nostr:nevent1qqsruamz7y6m30r2enuj3t5kg9gyp3r35r20mn60keeuzdg67ygq0esppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgdwaehxw309a38yc3wd9hj7qg6waehxw309ahx7um5wgh85etzv4jx2efwvdkx7aty9uq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3vamnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshszyrhwden5te0vyhxummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep009vuym 
  Thats so messed up! There is only one Bitcoin!! If people just realised that USD is a shitcoin and btc is the real 'game'.  I'm a bit like a bee at the moment. 

https://i.nostr.build/3nlZ.jpg 
 LoL… they got busted! 
 Would’ve been nicer if he’d been even more honest and said: “because registering a security is way too much hassle, plus this way I don’t need to wait to be bought out by Google, I can just dump my bags when the time is right.” 
 Wow, so openly admitting it, but also not even smart enough to realise that they DO need a token because how else do you incentivise honest actors (fees) to create verify, and uphold the integrity of blocks?!