@Rasp @billstclair
What you say is not making sense. Bitcoin is “vault money”, the vault is , on many thousands of computers running software. Encryption and secure it via solving impossible to guess and very difficult problems.

On linux, the blocker, Digital Feudalism Counter Action (DFCA), helps one avoid CAGEMAFIA-servers (ie. many banksters) while using bitcoin:
notabug.org/dfca/dfca

The whole narrative is so 2017.

#resilient #bitcoincore #proofofwork #bigtech #tulipmania

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
795 followers · 1072 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Just read and enjoyed The Black Tulip by , set in in 1672. It’s remarkably short by his standards, but I found it compelling and tightly written. The tale of a mild mannered tulip grower who gets caught in the fallout from violent real life Dutch political events (this bit is very gruesome: be warned), while trying to grow a fabled black tulip. There’s also , and intrigue galore.

#flowers #tulips #historicalfiction #tulipmania #netherlands #fiction #reading #books #romance #holland #alexandredumas

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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kms✍🏻 · @karmaso
383 followers · 502 posts · Server toot.community

Tulips at Mass Horticulture to brighten your day. More than 50,000 will peak over the next 10 days.

#tulips #tulipmania #mass #horticulture

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Audreyanne · @VeryAud
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Bornach · @bornach
87 followers · 548 posts · Server masto.ai

@cstross @michael_w_busch
That's like saying the British railway mania left behind a transport backbone that has since served the public good unlike the Dutch tulip bubble, yet it was the former that bankrupted and destroyed the lives of many more people when the bubble inevitably burst
youtu.be/D8d6cffG5kk

#tulipmania #railwaymania #bubble #boombust

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RobertJackson · @RobertJackson58585858
110 followers · 852 posts · Server masto.ai

Hold my beer!


#tomato #tulipmania

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CryptoNewsBot · @cryptonewsbot
344 followers · 12361 posts · Server schleuss.online

5 biggest economic bubbles in history - Economic bubbles occur when the price of an asset, such as stocks... - cointelegraph.com/news/5-bigge -com

#dot #tulipmania #railroadmania #financialbubbles

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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aLFRe‍ · @aLFRe
9 followers · 432 posts · Server mastodon.social

First tulips arrived in in 1554 Social made their presence mandatory in any garden of a rich men took place in Holland around 1634
Bulbs were bought on credit hoping to sell them for profit
By 1636 transactions came to have some regulation on the .
In 1637 Feb. prices wildy fall and there were people who could not meet their purchase commitmens
In 1638 all over was just a small futures market but uined people and was reflected in satirical

#vienna #tulipmania #amsterdam #stockexchange

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Mazal ​:blobcatpeek: · @mazal
94 followers · 930 posts · Server infosec.exchange

@sean @davidgerard I know what you mean, but—

Did you know, during World War II, tulips helped save the Dutch from starvation? "Most bulbs such as hyacinths and daffodils are toxic to humans. Tulip bulbs, however, are edible if they are carefully prepared."

The Year Tulips Saved the Dutch from Starvation - Laidback Gardener


laidbackgardener.blog/2021/10/

#tulipmania

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SeanBurlington · @sean
10 followers · 70 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

@davidgerard tulips weren't very useful either

#tulipmania

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Frederik Borgesius · @Frederik_Borgesius
1439 followers · 428 posts · Server akademienl.social

‘the appetite for NFTs is so diminished that a specialized market has sprung up for collectors looking to sell off their once-valuable “digital collectibles” as tax losses to offset their income tax bills. A recently launched service, Unsellable, aims to help collectors do exactly that. Think of it as a distressed asset fire sale.’ theguardian.com/technology/202

#NFT #NFTart #crypto #bitcoin #tulipmania #environment

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Dakki Reads · @DakkiReads
24 followers · 88 posts · Server masto.ai

As the FTX debacle has slowly revealed its salacious side, I want to remind everyone that the problems with crypto are not about a handful of bad actors in an unregulated space but a gray economy built entirely upon a Greater Fool scheme.

The Tulip Mania, by William R. Hooper

youtu.be/RRjhxwByJvs

#audiobook #history #crypto #scam #tulipmania

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Global Investor :) · @InvestoGlobe
4 followers · 16 posts · Server universeodon.com

All these noobs panicking at market collapse haven't read a bit about 1927 , or South sea Bubble..

#crypto #marketcrash #tulipmania

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kms✍🏻 · @karmaso
54 followers · 86 posts · Server toot.community

I am addicted to plants, and bulbs have me especially entranced. Today I planted hundreds of tulips. My back aches and fingers are chilled, but I know the wonder of what is to come from the cream-skinned, chestnut-papered knobs that I nestled into the damp, almost-winter soil.
A few treasures from past springs…

#bulbs #tulips #tulipmania #gardening #soil #flowers #payingattention

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kms✍🏻 · @karmaso
52 followers · 85 posts · Server toot.community

I am addicted to plants, and bulbs have me especially entranced. Today I planted hundreds of tulips. My back aches and fingers are chilled, but I know the wonder of what is to come from the cream-skinned, chestnut-papered knobs that I nestled into the damp, almost-winter soil.
A few treasures from past springs…

#flowers

#bulbs #tulips #tulipmania #gardening #soil #payingattention

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NancyWallaceGA · @NancyWallaceGA
6 followers · 2 posts · Server mastodon.social

I know this will likely get lost in the feed, but after planting hundreds of tulips the past couple of weeks, sometimes when I'm alone I go out to my garden and cover myself with dirt and leaves and pretend I'm a tulip.

#tulipmania #gardening #gardendesigner #bulbseason

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alex · @puer_robustus
10 followers · 133 posts · Server fosstodon.org

@jwildeboer @im IMHO there is a commonality between the and : the greater fool's pricing mechanism as the speculated on goods had no real life value (or at least use case which would warrant an exorbitant price).

This holds regardless of how widespread the trade of tulip futures was or whether the subsequent depiction of this episode in Dutch history was an anti-capitalist plot of some calvinists.

#cryptocraze #tulipmania

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