Who is expecting them to understand cryptography?
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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- crypto is a fucking scam
So people who 35years old are elder now.
Yes.
The shift was 9/11 happening and everything that happened after.
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.
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.
...Dad? Haha I'm about to hit 40 and shitcoins are my brainy boomer dad's hobby.
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 ?
Fr. I just turned 40. Give me my senior discount card.
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.
To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.
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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.
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?
Who do you think built Crypto? The millennials were the ones building everything in the last 10-20 years. Be sorry for the boomers. They built the infrastructure we stand on but tech has completely changed since they left the workforce.
And at least when the chase check glitch fad went around we recognized it immediately as a felony. Gen Z jumped right on that grenade.
And Gen X continues to disappear between the cracks. If it weren’t for movies made about us by Baby Boomers, nobody would even know we were here.
I thought about including Gen X but decided I wanted to continue the tradition. :)-
Boomers didn't build shit, they just pulled up ladders.
Don't confuse the politicians with the makers. They literally invented the entire backbone of the Internet.
Y'all don't understand. We had to learn you don't have to rewind DVDs before returning them. It was stressful.
Us elders be here designing the shit that does crypto.
OK, this one kind of hurt a bit. I can't be the only one with a functioning VCR in the room with them right now...
Nope.
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I'm a xennial and I'd say I'm doing pretty good at keeping up, but I'm also a software dev so that probably skews things a bit.
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.
I can remember only having 3 TV channels, and they closed down sometime around midnight until the morning. You got the fuzzy black and white bits of CBR on the screen when they turned the signal off
When videos came out, only my richer friends had them and they were few and far between, we used to have an after school video club where we'd pay 10p to watch a film in the AV room (sat on a carpet of old piss stains)
The internet didn't exist, and I saw my first computer while at secondary school in the late 80's (I'm thinking BBC commodore or something, I can't really remember)
I feel so fucking old right now lol
I remember getting up early and trying to watch TV, there would just be a high pitched sound and a photo of a girl and a puppet I think. There was an urban myth that the girl was slowly moving but no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't see it.
The TV was heavy and cube shaped, it hummed and had a picture that was grainy and flickered. It had an aerial and had to be tuned with a dial on the front, like a radio. The channels were tuned to buttons which clicked in, on the front of the TV.
We didn't have a VHS for ages either. We had a local video rental shop (not blockbuster) and we'd go rent a couple of films every week, which was an event which we'd get excited about.
Later I was the only one who could work out how to do the timed record function on the VHS player, so I was in demand as that was the only way to do 'catch up' for most things on TV. You would just miss whatever it was you wanted to watch and not be able to do anything about it. :o
Sometimes they did put on replays of programs, even regular ones, but people were crazy about 'their soaps' or whatever program they liked and planned their lives around being at home to watch them.
...there would just be a high pitched sound and a photo of a girl and a puppet...
That'll be the test card
Also there was 'the interludes' when they had to fill in a mini gap between programs, including, my personal favourite 'the potters wheel'
https://www.bbc.com/videos/cv2z0v03n64o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzGF401vLc&themeRefresh=1
Also do you remember the public safety films? The don't go near deep water Content Warning- includes Jimmy Saville, stay away from the slurry pit, how to survive the bomb and the one that gave me nightmares broken glass (I can never frolic barefoot on the beach because of this film)
If my generation has emotional scaring it's because of these films..
edit- for those that want a nightmare fueled trip down memory lane the bfi Public Information Film archives
As a kid we had four channels in the rural US. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS had really good coverage and all shut down at midnight. Then a Fox station started up just close enough that I could pick it up clearly at night to watch Babylon 5!
It was happier times.
Reading this made my back and neck hurt lol.
I understand that crypto is a scam that will rob millions of people of money they desperately need.
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Listen here you little shit: you think you’re superior because you rebranded Ponzi schemes with AI merde?
I may be older but I know how to take a selfie without my phone in it.
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