I was chatting with the fiber internet installer the other day, I mentioned how crazy inflation was, he agreed and started talking about the government printing money and how the fiat dollar was done.
I was like, he gets it!! And then he said, ‘yeah it’s all going to crypto, do you know how fast XRP does transfers’. I said, XRP is not centralized, it is a security. He said, ‘no, it’s decentralized but the government wants it centralized.’ I said, no, it has a group of people, a foundation and pre-minted coins, the code can be changed, etc.. Bitcoin is the only truly decentralized digital asset.
He said, ‘Bitcoin was created by the CIA, so it’s government owned already’…. I said, ‘that is not a fact, that is a conspiracy theory’. He went back to how Ripple had faster transaction times… I said ‘Thank You, bye 👋’…


At least he was semi Enlightened


It’s hard to argue with know it alls


:PepeWhy:


Poor guy NGMI


He’ll get there one day.


I’ve had many similar conversations.


Interesting how fud like "CIA created Bitcoin" , "Elon created Bitcoin" spreads around Normie world. It's like someone telling you he is mentally lazy without saying that. Pathetic mental laziness is killing society.


So close...yet so far.


I tried to explain to him, he wouldn’t have it..


You tried to give him the shortcut.
But most people have to go through the Shitcoin pain to fully appreciate and get Bitcoin.


Open source, heavily audited, run on nodes distributed to every part of the world, no CEO, no pre-mine, protocol level cap of 21 million.
Damn the beauty of this thing called #bitcoin is so obvious. It truly is an IQ test.
Sometimes better not to mention it with people you like, their response might be plain idiotic. 🤪
Happened to me and I can't look at this people in the same way.


In politics as well, health and almost every turn you take


Willful ignorance is a sin.


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The pain and simplicity of this statement is crushing.


Isn’t lightning fast enough lmao


Of course if Bitcoin is government CIA created, lightning is also!


We are still so early

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Damn maybe it’s time to pack it up


:fancy:


Also they are the People's Front of Judea, we on the other hand are the Judean People's Front.


The CIA thing has really been spreading lately.  Somebody is pushing that out there to deter people from Bitcoin.  It’s effective in part because people without Bitcoin are looking for any excuse to justify their poor choice of being a no coiner.


The CIA theory is being pushed by Tucker Carlson. 😕


He will get rug pulled and understand eventually 🤷♂


It's David Bailey. He's the Jeffery Epstein of Bitcoin.


You almost have to respect XRP’s staying power despite how poorly the asset has performed and how few people actually use it. The clowns at Ripple must have actual mind control powers or something.


:pumpitup:


This right here.


Thats gold ! Actually can you still say that in the Bitcoin space we may have to come up with something else!


The CIA thing is as old as Bitcoin itself.


We are still really early, few
Bitcoin is open source technology, anybody can and have audit and reuse the code.


The guy is on top of the bell curve


Bitcoin was created by a government NPO /h


Raspberry ripple > ripple


I was chatting with the fiber internet installer the other day, I mentioned how crazy inflation was, he agreed and started talking about the government printing money and how the fiat dollar was done.
I was like, he gets it!! And then he said, ‘yeah it’s all going to crypto, do you know how fast XRP does transfers’. I said, XRP is not centralized, it is a security. He said, ‘no, it’s decentralized but the government wants it centralized.’ I said, no, it has a group of people, a foundation and pre-minted coins, the code can be changed, etc.. Bitcoin is the only truly decentralized digital asset.
He said, ‘Bitcoin was created by the CIA, so it’s government owned already’…. I said, ‘that is not a fact, that is a conspiracy theory’. He went back to how Ripple had faster transaction times… I said ‘Thank You, bye 👋’…


Most people have to learn the hard way, because most people are retarded


A "conspiracy theory" in such cases is properly called a conspiracy hypothesis.


I think the XRP thing is making the rounds on TikTok too.  If my father brings it up, I know it's because he saw it there after drooling over some bouncing boobies.


Well, at leat he can make good money installing fiber.  Eventually, he'll be able to save in Bitcoin.


Dude, yeah I had almost the same interaction with a guy trying to sell me a restaurant POS system. XRP ppl are nuts.


You just have to read some of the Satoshi emails to realize he was "just a guy"...


And now Tim Pool. https://image.nostr.build/814fcc6cafba9f7501261ef02dd13e0735b35593e8663b51100d2a0b30640f8f.jpg


But, you agree on inflation and the fate of fiat.  High Five him on that, meet for coffee in five years and see what has happened.


Semi Understanding is sometimes worse than not understanding at all…


reminds me of the Twain quote that's something like - it's not what you don't know that gets ya, it's the things you know to be true that just ain't so 🙈


I saw that..


XRP is endorsed by the WEF.
Its openly verifiable. Its on the WEF website.

I am no cia fan, call me crazy maybe but id take cia programs before I touch anything associated with the wef.


Even if it was created by the cia, it’s all open source and decentralized and distributed now..


TRUE

Encryption was created by the NSA and Tor was created by the US Navy to support suppressed people in foreign lands.

But all open source


encryption was not created by the NSA

don't think David Chaum was NSA

i don't think that Boneh was NSA

pretty sure that Kobitz wasn't NSA

also, who else, let me list the names of the cryptographers who contributed to cryptography and elliptic curve and RSA signatures and hash functions shall I?

anyone who thinks governments do anything except limit human flourishing are unlikely to talk about actual human beings who discovered new scientific principles that matter

satoshi, number one, non-government, antigovernment, fucking legend


Everybody is at their own step in the journey. It's hard though, i had many of the same experiences.


:OMEGALUL:


Ripple is what your anus does when it sprays out diarrhea


Government Non-Profit Organization you say?


The impending lawsuit legally tells you it’s centralized because you can’t sue btc👌


Period. End of story. No argument. Checkmate.