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 People have been predicting doom for Twitter for whole 2 years. Some left (mostly for Threads) but most stayed. Twitter is doing fine. Its biggest threat is probably substack and bluesky, but not fedi, and definitely not nostr. 

Similarly bitcoin is absolutely no threat to USD or even EUR (or any real money one can use to buy food and pay bills). 

It's bizarre to see so many clever people sniffing their own farts believing that "centralized platforms will be destroyed by decentralized magic".  
 Member  MySpace?

https://myspace.com/

 
 Yeah, they pivoted into music instead of targeting boomers. Not sure which one ended up worse.  
 For a second I thought you were saying someone had hacked Doom into the Twitter interface. That would’ve taken things to a whole new level. 
 Even geohot can't do it 
 Also self fart sniffing is big round these parts. 
 If we could capture the gas, bitcoin electricity consumption would be solved 
 I've yet to discover in the code what forces people into making profound, definitive statements. It must be in there somewhere. 
 It's just a chatroom about bitcoin as you said 
 #Facts