Us elders be here designing the shit that does crypto.
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?
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The Bitcoin network initially went online in 2009. Was your friend a time traveller?
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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.
Oh I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a hobby. I tend to believe it’s a method of market manipulation by a few big players and somehow used for money laundering (but that’s my own conspiracy theory 🤣). It’s WAY too volatile for me to “invest” in. I pretty much meant from the techy side like I understand how blockchain works. Like the difference between PoW,PoS,PoA,DPoS… and the math (cryptography,hashing, etc) behind the whole process. I mean I’ve used it before to buy things when I wanted more anonymity (well maybe more obfuscation but now but that’s not even really possible).
And I really didn’t take offense at the whole original statement. I just thought the arbitrary “1990” cut off for elder was just comical. I mean someone born around 1990 is 35/36 and that’s an elder?? Really?? I might have put that number at closer to 1965-1970. There is no way, even when I was in my teens and 20s would I have called a 35 yo an “elder”. That’s just ludicrous.
And I’m a computer nerd and have been since I was single digits. So I understand this kinda stuff way better than my kids.
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.
You think half of any group of zoomers can talk with sophistication about Crypto?
Listen here you little shit: you think you’re superior because you rebranded Ponzi schemes with AI merde?
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…why is he replying to himself?
Character limits and/or not being able to edit the tweet to add more thoughts once posted.
I may be older but I know how to take a selfie without my phone in it.
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.
I got to be alive before mobile phones and social media.
Worth it!
Honestly I understand better now why old people complained about computers so much. We don’t even know what we lost.
I seriously wonder how much brain damage I avoided by squeaking in my teenage years before the invention of smart phones.
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 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
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.
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Reading this made my back and neck hurt lol.
hold up now.
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.
Y’all don’t understand. We had to learn you don’t have to rewind DVDs before returning them. It was stressful.
