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 Can’t imagine how insufferable farcaster must be with their culture of tokens scams. Some are even running X ads for “Fan Tokens”, whatever nonsense that is. https://i.nostr.build/J6TmNDtaj1M1pGpE.jpg  
 I'm around there too, there is an atmosphere of innovation, like it or not, they are people building and developing things. 

I don't know if they are scams or not and the truth is that I don't care, but I like technology and I have nothing bad to say about farcaster. There are scammers just like there are scammers in bitcoin. 
 If they’re constantly promoting some new token or investment, then it’s a culture of scammers.

I don’t know much about Farcaster, but Ethereum has a long culture of slimy hustlers going back to its presale, ICO mania (2017), DeFi mania (2019-?), NFT mania (2021), etc. They’re always selling get-rich-quick scheme. 
 Thank you for your opinion, I respect it but I do not agree. I find the eternal debate and confrontation between extremists of both "worlds" overwhelming.

My aunt says the same thing about Bitcoin, that it is a scam. is she right, why?

Scammers are everywhere, just like people eager to build and develop things on some or other technologies and that doesn't make them scammers.

In fact, there is a Bitcoin channel there, where people who are not so prejudiced also talk about Bitcoin. 

Here I only hear about farcaster and anything other than Bitcoin with contempt, and I think that's not healthy or constructive. 
 Bitcoin’s history is fundamentally different.

-Ethereum started off with a presale/premine. Bitcoin did not.

-Ethereum abandoned POW for POS, which is much more beneficial to insiders.

-Ethereum has a history of chain rollbacks in response to a security compromise (DAO hack)

-Ethereum has a centralized foundation and clear leaders (Vitalik) controlling development. Bitcoin does not. Satoshi disappeared ages ago, and the Bitcoin Foundation long since disbanded.

-The Ethereum community has a long history of slimy pump and dumps. ICOs, DeFi, DAOs, NFTs. Literally thousands of scams launched on top of ETH.

-Ethereum has had countless hard forks (consensus changes). Bitcoin is almost impossible to change. 
 I haber been here since 2017, I know the history, i develop bitcoin only software and work in the industry, thank you.

 
 Don't worry it's drying up, theres only so much exit liquidity to go around, Freinds.tech is already rinised and is down 96% lol 
 They tokenized your cat nostr:nprofile1qqsyawyrzrttfmv4cmtx5w2m85702kdct7hv3amfrkhagpdf9cz46mgprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpydmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef08ankcmmzv9kr6ctvds20l3q3 
 Crypto bros cannot help themselves 
 I used Farcaster for awhile and now won’t touch it at all. They embrace reply guys there, says it all really.  
 Most of my twitter ads are scam tokens anyway. 
 "since end August" lol 
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