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"Crypto is real."

- Billboards all over Austin, TX right now



Ohio has a somewhat notorious billboard that reads "Hell is real."


Crypto is real. Hell is real. Therefore, crypto is hell.

This is the one time I'll accept the fallacy of the undistributed middle without question.


indiana has one too with jesus is real on the other side.


I drive past that billboard between Columbus and Cincinnati all the time! FC Cincinnati and Columbus Crew have coopted it for their rivalry games, calling it the "Hell is Real derby". Seems like this week maybe hell and crypto are the same thing?


I believe in that case it's pronounced "reál".


>Ohio has a somewhat notorious billboard that reads "Hell is real."

What an odd way to welcome people to Ohio, surely they already know where they are? /s


I've seen fly posters recently for a coin with an expletive as its name.

When financial instruments get named after vulgarities, it shows the kind of people who are running this space.


There was another billboard in Austin promoted by the same company that read "Crypto is a revolution disguised as a Casino." Feels like the opposite...


IMO part of the issue is that 'crytocurrency' refers to two things: the first is the technology to do things without trust, the second is the social movement.

The social movement is bananas but gets defended with arguments for the technology.

It was no secret that the banks could run. Not being on-board with the vices of the social movement is decried as FUD.




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