The bears at Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki

apparently after seeing the dip in the markets. According to the reports they said, "Fuck this shit", ate some honeycomb and passed out on a sugar high in their bunker.

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I wish I could hibernate.

Wouldn't it be nice to just sleep through all the crappy bits of life? Country at war? Time for a nap. Long-term unemployed? Catch forty winks. Between four year cycles? Set a few lowball buys and turn in for 1200 days and nights. Set an alarm and wake up just in time for the start of a bullrun.

Just 5 more minutes, mummy....

I'm too tired to stay awake any longer. I was looking forward to a far better end to the year than what it is shaping up to be. Though, things can always change if some surprise random thing drives the markets. As I mentioned to someone the other day, if Putin was assassinated it might trigger a recovery.

🤞

Kill the bear.

I have been attempting to get a big piece of work that I have no business in doing, but giving it a go anyway. It is highly unlikely that it will happen, but I may as well swing for the fences and see if I can land it. If it comes through, it would be about a year of consistent consulting work, which would definitely take a lot of financial pressure off the family, and me in general.

About as likely as Putin getting assassinated.

Will the real Putin please stand up?

Really though, markets can turn, though at the moment it looks pretty bleak. While BTC and ETH did okay this year, there was fuckall of a run on the majority of alts. Nothing to write home about anyway. Just another disappointing period of life that should have been slept through.

Perhaps if I get disappointed and depressed enough, the market gods will take pity. Maybe everyone just needs to get collectively depressed and start screaming and shouting about unmet expectations to shift the market sentiment. It has worked in previous years, but maybe now we are all too used to putting up with this shit and waiting, that we are no longer getting frustrated enough.

We need some rage quitters!!

It used to be diamond hands for the holders, but now I think it has shifted to diamond dildos, because at least while getting fucked by the markets, you can fuck yourself with your holdings while waiting for the next run.

Built in pearl necklace.

Anyone still wondering what is wrong with this world?

Us.

We need to do something useful with our lives, and that includes crypto lives. Too many of the projects out there do absolutely nothing, let alone anything even remotely useful. Most of them are screaming for decentralisation, while spending their scream energy supporting centralised platforms.

We are going to replace the banks!!
Hey bank, can we please get an off ramp?

At least on Hive we are consistently doing stuff on blockchains and with crypto daily, even if it isn't valued as a project and people aren't interested. And that is part of the problem with the whole cryptosphere - people aren't interested in innovating away from the status quo, they are interested in buying themselves a higher position in the current environment.

Me too?

To some degree. Because I also think that in order for crypto to have real impact, it has to be part of our daily lives. For me currently, that is largely on-chain theoretical life and social transactions on blockchains like posts and comments, but it isn't used outside of this screen. At some point though, I think that we have to revaluate all of the things we value in this world and then, work out how to incentivise the types of behaviours we want to encourage, and then use tokenisation to add value to those types of behaviours. Hive is actually a pretty good role model for this in some way, because it was a project to encourage blogging and social interaction for a tokenised return, and there are people here doing just that. Not enough, but it is far better than circlejerking on X and TikTok.

If only people realised that life is better decentralised.

But they won't. So, we will keep living under the dictatorship of an economy that is designed to monopolise resources, wealth and control into very few hands, where we bend over and take it, in the hope we will work our way up the financial hierarchy.

At least we should be able to sleep through the abuse.

Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]

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