By popular local demand, we've started a Buttcoin over at awful.systems. I'm not sure federation to/from kbin.social works without glitches yet, but here's hoping, cross fingers etc. We do know it federates OK to other Lemmy instances and some Mastodon instances.

Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified, an eye-watering 69,795 of them have a market cap of 0 Ether (ETH).

This statistic effectively means that 95% of people holding NFT collections are currently holding onto worthless investments. Having looked into those figures, we would estimate that 95% to include over 23 million people who’s investments are now worthless.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3351001

The Sotheby's auction house has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by investors who regret buying Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs that sold for highly inflated prices during the NFT craze in 2021.

• Sam Bankman-Fried is back in a cell.
• The SEC asks permission to appeal the very dumb and bad Ripple ruling.
• Prime Trust files for Chapter 11.
• Who owns TrueUSD, who’s suing who.
• Worldcoin falls afoul of data protection.
• Richard Heart’s Hex falls to the SEC.
• Another US bank fails — but it’s okay, it was just scammed!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3201243

Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail::Judge also denied SBF's request to delay jail time.

Ivermectin, it's a hell of a drug

This is the official unofficial Bitcoin Miami 2023 Conference Hilight Reel.Be sure to watch to the end and see what Michael Lewis, "Moneyball" author and the...

This is good for Bitcoin for... Reasons.

I keep posting the blogs I get from the email list. I'm still trying to make sure I don't double post or spam the /c/. If I'm doing anything wrong/incorrect, please let me know.

A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.

First, let me say please don't be harassing this person or anything.

But it just seems like nothing remains untainted by cryptobros.

If you want to get a sense of scale of the bot problem at #twitter, check this out what I found. TLDR: someone has a (malfunctioning) bot army that can give posts at least 64000 likes in an instant, without triggering any serious spam detection or bot removal. The problem is in this tweet: https://twitter.com/stretchmikep/status/1671942731571273729 A few things stand out: - when i first noticed this, the tweet was at 64k likes, 64k retweets and 2k views. Which, well, lol. - reading the context of the thread is even more amazing, since it is quite deep into a conversation, where all the previous tweets have 0 likes - Originally the tweet had 64k likes, now it has 63k. This suggests that some minor amount of spam removal happens - the account to which it happened seemed completely unfazed by this?? My guess is that a crypto spam network has a trigger to boost pro crypto tweets, and that it triggered on the 'long BTC' part. However, it probably malfunctioned at had the entire network boost the post, instead of just a few accounts for plausible deniability. So if you see high engagement numbers on twitter, remember that someone has the ability to add at least 64k likes to any tweet, without it being detected. If you can get away with doing it so blatantly, imagine how easy it is to get away with adding a few thousand likes to a post that is already gaining traction organically. 📎

We "Reality Check" Robert F. Kennedy Jr's keynote speech at the Bitcoin Miami 2023 Conference. This presidential candidate constructs some absurd slippery s...

Plus, was 2-day champ Ben Goldstein able to secure a victory?