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Trolly McTrollface
Personal blog · tr0lly.com · on HN as trollytrollfaceeconomicsculture
Trolly McTrollface's personal blog at tr0lly.com covers economics and culture. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Tether Press and Bitcoin’s Speculative Mania”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Crypto blog by Trolly McTrollface on Bitcoin and Tether, covering speculation, price manipulation and Ponzi comparisons. HN commenters link its Tether and Bitcoin posts when discussing those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Trolly McTrollface’s Blog All the truth, and some other stuff I made up
Most-linked posts?
- The Tether Press and Bitcoin’s Speculative Mania4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-07
- Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-16
- The Great Tether / Bitcoin Collateral Flippening2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-07
- Tether: Heads I win, tails you lose2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-08
- Tether: Unchained Credit on the Blockchain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-15
What Hacker News says?
If you ignore the URL and read the content of this http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/the-tether-press-and-bitcoins-... it's actually a good theory for what may be happening. It's speculation, but then without audits and accounts of the exchanges that use Tether, and Tether itself, speculation seems to be about as good an option as there is.
Comment linking /bitcoin/the-tether-press-and-bitcoins-speculative-mania/
on “Tether price manipulation”Submitted Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50% as a story · 105 points
HN discussionNever short anything cryptocurrency related. There is simply too much counter-party risk. If the wheels fall off the Tether bus, they're going to take Kraken down with it, and you just won't get paid. Plus you're going to have to post collateral for your short position, which simply opens you up to even more loss potential. tr0lly seems to think the market is pricing in a 50% chance of a total systemic collapse on a…
Comment linking /bitcoin/bitcoins-overnight-collapse-probability-is-about-50/
on “Bitfinex, the Italian network behind the boss that makes Bitcoin tremble”Submitted The “Bitcoin Economy” Is Just an Illegal Casino Run by the Mob as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAlways works until it doesn't. Madoff's scheme lasted 20 years and collected $50B, including many multi hundred million dollar checks from institutional investors. Asset-backed commercial paper is another great example. [1] Head's up, btw, nobody's seen their CEO or CFO in about a year now haha. I'm going to screenshot this comment by the way for r/agedlikemilk :) [1] http://www.tr0lly.com/uncategorized/tether-heads…
Comment linking /uncategorized/tether-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose/
on “To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (2018)”Submitted The Tether Press and Bitcoin’s Speculative Mania as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSee The Tether Press and Bitcoin's Speculative Mania [1] TL;DR - Prepare to get filthy rich! In USDT terms. [1] http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/the-tether-press-and-bitcoins-...
Comment linking /bitcoin/the-tether-press-and-bitcoins-speculative-mania/
on “Crypto Market Tops $1T as Bitcoin Breaches $37,000”Submitted The Great Tether / Bitcoin Collateral Flippening as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere's some nice articles linked in the bottom there. I liked this one: http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoin-is-not-a-literal-ponzi... I'm curious why the revelations around Tether hasn't led to Bitcoin crashing yet. I would definitely have sold if I had any (well I did, I mined a bit in the very beginning, but that's lost). Is it that others haven't heard about it, or is it that they don't believe that Tether wil…
Comment linking /bitcoin/bitcoin-is-not-a-literal-ponzi-scheme/
on “Bitcoin Is a Ponzi”Submitted USDT (Tether) Is Just a Fancy Venezuelan Peso as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tether: Unchained Credit on the Blockchain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tether Press and Bitcoin’s Speculative Mania as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Tether / Bitcoin Collateral Flippening as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tether: Unchained Credit on the Blockchain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tether: Heads I win, tails you lose as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nvidia’s Wild Ride on the Crypto Rollercoaster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ripple’s Nostro / Vostro Trick as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online Propaganda Group Tactics, Explained as a story · 1 points
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