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 Oh, bloody hell. The fiat maximalists are nominating vitalik for a Nobel Prize.

https://decrypt.co/285379/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-nobel-prize 
 Don’t forget Ben Bernake won one so it’s a fuckin joke and meaningless 
 They gave one for pseudouridine ffs! Its definitely a joke but rewards bad actors which is much worse than meaningless 
 I agree, I was wrong to say its meaningless.  That's a great point.  It's meaningful because its perpetuating this fiat psyop. 
 The glorification of psychopathic behaviour. I lost any respect a long time ago but the pseudouridine actually did shock me. If I were in the sciences and wanted to consider any prize as having prestige now, I think I'd only consider the Kyoto prize. Moral corruption seems to be spreading at the speed of rumour these days! 
 Can you link me to an article that describes the issue with pseudouridine. I’d like to look at something more than the Wikipediapage if possible. 
 I actually read a whole bunch of papers. You could starts with things like this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8600071/ and look through some of the citations but to be honest, they're written in such a dry manner that the potential dangers and harms are essentially glossed over using lots of over the top unnecessary explanations. If you want something more digestible, I'd recommend looking up some good substacks. I'd start with Jessica Rose, she's awesome at working through things and explaining and tying issues together. Here's a good start recommendation: https://jessicar.substack.com/p/review-n1-methyl-pseudouridine-m1 
 I would throw a little comment in too. Am no biologist but if one of the things celebrated is that is stops an immune response to the RNA, should one not ask whether or not the body should have genetic alien material it would normally attack present in a form that is pervasive (the pseudouridine stops rapid RNA breakdown apparently). 
 Thank you for this I’ll read. 
 HahahahHahHhHHhhAaaa 
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 What more proof do you need to know that Ethereum is a fiat shitcoin?

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 He will win it, and he will announce a global CBDC built on ETH at the same time. 
 Its hard to pin pint exactly when the Nobel got completely captured but if anyone takes itseriously after Obama got one, there's an obvious lack of grey matter action. Wait a couple of years and they'll posthumously nominate Genghis Khan for the Nobel for peace  
 The Nobel prizes were established in the will of DYNAMITE (WMD) inventor and wealthy businessman Alfred Nobel and first handed out in 1901. 
 Mega oof!