• Sailor Sega Saturn
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    11 months ago

    If anyone here lives in a cave and missed this somehow: SEC twitter was hacked yesterday and tweeted a fake ETF approval tweet (edit: mentioned in the post I really should read before commenting but I’m sick so blargh).

    This lead to a surprising amount of conspiratorial thinking including that:

    • An intern did it, despite the SEC saying they were compromised
    • They just oopsied and posted it a bit early, despite saying they were compromised
    • They did it themselves on purpose just to mess with bitcoiners or pump-and-dump or something
    • They did it themselves because twitter restored the account suspiciously fast.

    With the actual approval everyone’ll probably move on. But bitcoiners are doomed to chronic dissatisfaction so they’ll probably find something new to hate the SEC for sooner or later.

    • @swlabr
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      711 months ago

      I missed it and don’t live in a cave, unless you count Australia, which I guess isn’t not a cave

      • Sailor Sega Saturn
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        911 months ago

        Evidence for cave:

        1. Southern hemisphere is beneath northern hemisphere.
        2. Spiders
        3. Controversies around mining
        4. Somewhat close to ant-artica, the ant kingdom.
        5. The 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident

        Evidence against cave:

        1. Kangaroos
        2. Sunshine
        3. “The outback”
        4. New Zealand is nearby??
        5. Koalas

        It could go either way honestly.

        • @gerikson
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          811 months ago

          Australia, unlike Finland, exists, but is a cave.

          • @swlabr
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            511 months ago

            It’s plato’s cave, we’re just living in it

            (Probably a joke someone has tweeted already)

        • @swlabr
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          11 months ago

          Additional evidence for cave:

          • many places are referred to as “holes”
          • many people are referred to as “moles”
          • Peter dutton looks like a cave troll/gollum
          • one of most internationally famous musicians is nick cave
          • coober pedy
          • very humid, like a cave
          • white english people, who have perfectly adapted to live in cave-like conditions, wanted to colonise it

          Additional evidence against:

          • high real estate costs
          • hot
          • weather patterns
      • @Soyweiser
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        11 months ago

        The cryptocurrency people I spoke to in .nl talked about this ETF as a holy grail, the moment of moon, in Dutch news this news was reported when it happened (deep in the night) and this morning wasn’t even on front page of the recent news site anymore. So do wonder if this will bring in more money into the crypto ecosystem (Sure it will drive the price up, or stop a crash, but that might not change the liquidity).

        So yeah it is very much not a big news item.

        E: scratch that, there is now an explainer about it, 15 hours later.

        • David GerardOPMA
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          511 months ago

          the dog that caught the parked car

          • @Soyweiser
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            411 months ago

            We will have to see if this will cause the cars to buy more dogs in the future and not just increase the price of the one dog.