Goddamn I'm not that elder! But also true
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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I understand crypto... and it is utter shit.
People used to enjoy anime and MST3k episodes on fifth generation VHS copies. Crypto is worse than that.
MST3K was great, and anime is good.
i remember standing in line for dvds. we were hacking regionlocked discs before nft was just a scammer's wet dream. we were moulded by early modern technology.
Crypto? Yes, I know what a pyrimid scheme is.
Who is expecting them to understand cryptography?
A yes the RS encryption, public key, private key ...
I vaguely remember
- Fuck you
- Who the fuck do you think you are?
- crypto is a fucking scam
Crypto isn't a scam. It's a fantastic way to protect yourself online and HTTPS has been a game changer. Crypto currency is a scam though.
So people who 35years old are elder now.
I'm 37, I'm not old!
Yes.
The shift was 9/11 happening and everything that happened after.
For the US maybe. For my area it was the Russians finally going home and now they want to come back
Fuck, I'm considered an ELDER now?
Your elders refers to people older than you, not necessarily elderly people
Dispense your wisdom, o my elder. I'm just a nineties boy, what do I know of the world before ?
I was born i 85. Not much more wisdom I can give I'm afraid. I am a tech early adopter and a coder so I understand crypto it's just too volatile a market for me to care about. Wish I had invested in Bitcoin when someone asked me if I wanted to in 2012 though. Mostly my driving force for new tech adoption was my gaming habit. I had a colecovision, NES, Genesis, Playstation, Playstation 2, and all the systems from the next gen onward once I had job money.
Fr. I just turned 40. Give me my senior discount card.
Yeha I turn 40 at the end of the year. Over the hill buddies.
Before 1990?… fuck you.. I have kids born before 1990… elder my ass … I probably understand crypto better than you do…
I’m not bitter. Not at all.
...Dad? Haha I'm about to hit 40 and shitcoins are my brainy boomer dad's hobby.
Ok. Before you get mad. Do you think you are a normal representative of your age group?
If you walk into a room of people you don't know but who are all likely born within +/-5yrs of you, would you expect to be able to talk about crypto with any sophistication and at least half would be able to follow?
If not, then the generalization is true even if it doesn't apply to you specifically.
To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.
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SMH. Dear boy. We elders were taking it to the streets in the 60’s and 70’s—in huge numbers. We organized without social media, were willing to face danger and arrest, and got shit done. We were using DOS before you were probably even born (do you know what that is?). While many of us are, in fact, fading, there are legions of us with knowledge and experience you will never understand until YOU are an elder.
I got to be alive before mobile phones and social media.
Worth it!
I am immeasurably grateful that the entirety of my youth is not on record.
Right? AFAIK there's about 5 pictures of me between the ages of 8 and 25. A couple of those are driver's licenses.
I seriously wonder how much brain damage I avoided by squeaking in my teenage years before the invention of smart phones.
Honestly I understand better now why old people complained about computers so much. We don't even know what we lost.
I feel like its an advantage to know the analog way to do things in addition to the current norms. For example, navigating by paper map and direction of the sun, like some kind of land pirate.
I understand that crypto is a scam that will rob millions of people of money they desperately need.
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FUCK YOU! I understand crypto and STILL have a VHS tape I never returned. pfft. arrogant youth. now where do i push to send this to reddit?
Listen here you little shit: you think you’re superior because you rebranded Ponzi schemes with AI merde?
I was born in 1983 and I’m old enough to remember having only 5 tv channels, vcr’s, and you couldn’t get on the internet if your mom was in the phone.
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Y'all don't understand. We had to learn you don't have to rewind DVDs before returning them. It was stressful.
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