Posts contrast scarce Bitcoin jobs with thousands of crypto roles and millions of projects; note USDC on Base as common for “402 payments” and call it a “centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain.” Authors ask “Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users?”, reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative, mention “scam coins,” influencer drama, and departing devs, and urge entrepreneurs to build real-world Bitcoin products.
Created 1 days ago • 15 documents • Range: 2/13 10:48am – 2/13 2:07pm
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
Indeed makes sense. Calle is mosty sponsored in bitcoin by those millionaires who throw a few peanuts around to feel good about themselves. "Don't bite the hand that feeds you". I guess someone here has to become a millionaire and then shill for monero so we can rescue the best crypto talent of the newer generations.
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
Tokens. Tokens explain everything.
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
Your post absolutely drips with sneering contempt for intelligent, good, and idealistic users who want bitcoin to utterly defeat the bankers.
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
27% tax on stablecoins will end this in the EU before it even becomes relevant
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
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The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk [A commercial for crypto during the Super Bowl LX broadcast on a television at a bar in Los Angeles California, US, on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Super Bowl viewers can expect to see more ads from the technology, pharmaceutical and wellness industries as they watch the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots during the broadcast on NBC. Photographer: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images] A commercial for crypto during the Super Bowl LX broadcast on televisions at a bar in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Photo: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images During the Super Bowl, [Anthropic][1] ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, [Amazon ][2]ran a commercial for its AI assistant [Alexa+][3] in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company [Hims & Hers][4] ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a [multibillion][5]-dollar healthcare company. Turn on the TV today, and you will drown in a sea of ads in which capitalists denounce capitalism. Think of the [PNC Bank ads][6] where parents sell their children’s naming rights a la sports stadiums for the money to raise them or the [Robinhood ads][7] where a white-haired older man, perhaps meant to evoke Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, curses the “men of means with their silver spoons eating up the financial favors of the one percent” from the deck of a yacht. After years of ingesting the mainstream discourse around surveillance capitalism, Occupy Wall Street, and democratic socialism, corporations are regurgitating and even surpassing the rhetoric of the modern left. Naturally, it’s all a winking sleight of hand meant to corral us back into engaging with the same capitalism they portray as a hellscape — but with new and improved privatized solutions. In another widely reviled Super Bowl ad, the video [doorbell company Ring][8] tells us that every year, 10 million family pets go missing, and by opting into a web of mass surveillance, the company has reunited “more than a dog a day” with their families. Modern advertisers descend from those ad men of the 1960s who first perfected the art of channeling our angst with society writ large into buying more junk. As historian Thomas Frank [wrote in his book “The Conquest of Cool,”][9] midcentury advertisers constructed “a cultural perpetual motion machine in which disgust with the … everyday oppressions of consumer society could be enlisted to drive the ever-accelerating wheels of consumption.” The machine has hummed on ever since, retrofitting capitalism’s reprimands into its rationales. It churns out commercials reframing the precariat’s pain not as the product of plutocracy but as the product of buying the wrong products. Advertisements pitch that the good life is to be secured by procuring high quality goods, by curating the right combination of AI assistants, locally crafted beer, paraben-free dryer sheets, Jimmy Dean breakfast biscuits, Capital One Venture X points, BetMGM spreads, Coinbase crypto wallets, on and on. It’s lunacy. Buying Levi’s won’t give you deep pockets. Brand promises, like all promises, are made to be broken. As AI anxiety fueled fears of mass layoffs, [Coca-Cola][10] soothed American workers’ worries about “AI coming for everything” with a glossy 2025 Super Bowl ad, featuring Lauren London, where the gleaming actress flexed her dimples and told us everything would be all right. Ten months later, Coke automated its advertising [with generative videos][11], replacing the actors they’d paid to soothe our worries about being replaced by AI with AI itself. This cynicism undergirds all modern advertising. Commercials clinically diagnose the painful side effects of living under a despotic capitalist regime, only to prescribe meaningless placebos of Doritos and Pepto-Bismol. And should those cheap calories and antacids fail to placate us, should we find homelessness and hunger so revolting that we crave revolution, then conglomerates will sell rebellion, too. As Frank wrote almost 30 years ago, “commercial fantasies of rebellion, liberation, and outright ‘revolution’ against the stultifying demands of mass society are commonplace almost to the point of invisibility in advertising, movies, and television programming.” As economic angst threatens to boil over, production only ramps up. Corporate creatives feverishly manufacture transgression to keep up with populist-fueled demands for prepackaged dissent. > No matter how disingenuous or cynical, there is a secret wish expressed in these ads and the ways they resonate with consumers. Day by day, Hulu and Netflix roll out new swashbuckling tales of scrappy revolutionary insurgencies to enrich their IP regimes. In 2026, trailers for Rachel McAdams’s “Send Help” fulfill employees’ dark fantasies of murdering their boss on a deserted island, as [Carnival][12] ads show weary lumber workers hammering their phone in a fit of fury. Promotions for [smash rooms][13], axe-throwing alleys, and gun ranges generate billions, as big business charges pent-up proletariats to “unleash” in rage rooms and “[throw, hit, punch, and swing at inanimate objects][14] as a means to release your pent up frustrations and anger.” It might seem cringe to invoke “1984” and its “Two Minutes Hate,” where subjects of the totalitarian regime yell for two minutes, if businesses weren’t doing it for us. Yet, no matter how thin, one can see cracks in this hulking machine. No matter how disingenuous or cynical, there is a secret wish expressed in these ads and the ways they resonate with consumers. Rituals are funny like that. Repeat them enough, and they sprout roots. In America, sedition is now a mantra. Mutiny, a popular sentiment. Populism is winning the war for hearts and minds. Billionaires who once spurned talk of class war now finance fiction about eating the rich. Just as advertisers who once fashioned consumerism as orgasmic fantasies now portray shopping in a dreaded wasteland. What are we to make of this capitalism forced to confess its contradictions? At its core, today’s advertising offers a repressed radicalism, a strange plea to revolt against the indignities corporations impress upon us. After all, aren’t Heineken’s reminders to “drink responsibly” just bids for public transportation? Aren’t E*Trade ads with [octogenarian wage slaves][15] a rallying cry for a robust social safety net? Coinbase is right, on some level, that the financial system is broken. But what if instead of more speculative crypto scams, they were boosting public banking? And Isn’t Uber partially right, too? We should be our own bosses. But instead of shackling drivers as gig serfs, what if Uber’s sharing economy gave drivers their share of the company’s profits? What if we didn’t have to shop at places we didn’t get to own and didn’t have to work at places where we couldn’t afford the shop? What if we weren’t so beat up and knocked down that [E*Trade][16] ads had to remind us that “THERE ARE DOGS WITH BETTER LIVES THAN YOU”? Advertisers always stop one step short, never allowing themselves to say the quiet part aloud, always walking us right up to the edge of a radical insight, yet remaining too afraid to incite working people to rise up. There are, of course, other places one could find truly revolutionary art. There are the Adbusters McDonald’s spoofs [reading][17]* “EAT FAST, DIE YOUNG*.” There are the Black Workers Congress vintage 1971 [labor posters ][18]with Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture rallying Black autoworkers in Detroit to strike at Dodge. There are the Paul Beatty [satires][19] where characters wore “Nike Cortez sneakers so fucking new that if they had taken one shoe off and placed it to their ear like a conch shell, they’d hear the roar of an ocean of sweatshop labor.” Yet these auteurs all feel niche compared to the pop art of Super Bowl and NCAA tournament ads. No matter how ridiculous it may seem, I’ve long yearned for America’s prime-time advertisements, already dripping with populist contempt, to finally fulfill their revolutionary promise. I’ve only seen it happen once, kind of. In the early 2020s, I was zoning out to hours of NFL when one of those inspirational [Marine recruitment promos][20] popped on — the one where jackbooted Gen Zers with square jaws punched through digital emoji clouds to transform into real men. After the ad flipped off, it was immediately followed by [a nightmarish PSA][21] where glassy-eyed, sweat-drenched veterans lurched, sobbing in empty parking lots and extended stay hotels, struggling to stave off PTSD-induced suicide. I was floored. The jump cut felt like something approaching truth, felt like ads finally reckoning with how imperialist wars for blood and oil squandered youth’s promise down into a pit of stubbled, middle-aged mania. Perhaps America can never tell the whole truth *within* ads, but perhaps we could tell the truth *between* them. Call it The Honesty in Advertising Act. From now on, every military recruitment ad could be attached to a PSA about homeless veterans. Every Kool-Aid ad could be melded with dialysis ads. Every Taco Bell ad would have to be followed by ads for Pepto-Bismol and funeral homes. Smash them all together, and they’d work like the disclaimers on cigarette cartons and liquor bottles. *Surgeon General’s Warning: Capitalism causes poverty, desperation, alienation, and concentration of global wealth in the top 0.0001%. Quitting now greatly reduces risks of premature death, medical debt, eviction, and environmental catastrophe.* The post [The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk][22] appeared first on [The Intercept][23]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7DdTTVA [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha92_hfK9Po [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha92_hfK9Po [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ7Z5LTJWHM [5]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HIMS/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABt8qlvEprdzz1GZsB4uLx8hwMLR4CDRSu2sHF9fymZZ3tqnt6px73VMFkilho20M1k24atGycFVmPXmVr6Bpp_iFy5FI8IRFaPoHeS1P3_jVnRfx00LFhIZvUmrPrJe_71_XvDPQalyNmzGnwGwTaBCggjRkULdBSyluvzcuSPX [6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s2hMSilnLg [7]: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/f5NX/robinhood-financial-gold-men-of-means [8]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OheUzrXsKrY [9]: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3618721.html [10]: https://youtu.be/aXyG1FnTCEs?si=RpYYsKVX5fqYUMqs&t=7 [11]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/11/04/coca-cola-sparks-backlash-with-ai-generated-christmas-ad-again/ [12]: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRPnfTMgCMC/?hl=en [13]: https://ismashusa.com/ [14]: https://disorderlyconductragerooms.com/ [15]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d56-22bpyh0 [16]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lL6roWkXhc [17]: https://adbusters.org/spoofs-ads/eat-fast-die-young [18]: https://archive.org/details/agitateeducateor00cush/page/74/mode/2up?q=1971 [19]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sellout-a-novel-paul-beatty/e0f6404b75f241e4 [20]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCjEV75F2tM [21]: https://archive.org/details/youtube-axMPVsWt-bg [22]: https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/super-bowl-ad-capitalism-honesty/ [23]: https://theintercept.com https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/super-bowl-ad-capitalism-honesty/
"The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk [A commercial for crypto during the Super Bowl LX broadcast on a television at a bar in Los Angeles California, US, on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Super Bowl viewers can expect to see more ads from the technology, pharmaceutical and wellness industries as they watch the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots during the broadcast on NBC. Photographer: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images] A commercial for crypto during the Super Bowl LX broadcast on televisions at a bar in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Photo: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images During the Super Bowl, [Anthropic][1] ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, [Amazon ][2]ran a commercial for its AI assistant [Alexa+][3] in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company [Hims & Hers][4] ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a [multibillion][5]-dollar healthcare company. Turn on the TV today, and you will drown in a sea of ads in which capitalists denounce capitalism. Think of the [PNC Bank ads][6] where parents sell their children’s naming rights a la sports stadiums for the money to raise them or the [Robinhood ads][7] where a white-haired older man, perhaps meant to evoke Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, curses the “men of means with their silver spoons eating up the financial favors of the one percent” from the deck of a yacht. After years of ingesting the mainstream discourse around surveillance capitalism, Occupy Wall Street, and democratic socialism, corporations are regurgitating and even surpassing the rhetoric of the modern left. Naturally, it’s all a winking sleight of hand meant to corral us back into engaging with the same capitalism they portray as a hellscape — but with new and improved privatized solutions. In another widely reviled Super Bowl ad, the video [doorbell company Ring][8] tells us that every year, 10 million family pets go missing, and by opting into a web of mass surveillance, the company has reunited “more than a dog a day” with their families. Modern advertisers descend from those ad men of the 1960s who first perfected the art of channeling our angst with society writ large into buying more junk. As historian Thomas Frank [wrote in his book “The Conquest of Cool,”][9] midcentury advertisers constructed “a cultural perpetual motion machine in which disgust with the … everyday oppressions of consumer society could be enlisted to drive the ever-accelerating wheels of consumption.” The machine has hummed on ever since, retrofitting capitalism’s reprimands into its rationales. It churns out commercials reframing the precariat’s pain not as the product of plutocracy but as the product of buying the wrong products. Advertisements pitch that the good life is to be secured by procuring high quality goods, by curating the right combination of AI assistants, locally crafted beer, paraben-free dryer sheets, Jimmy Dean breakfast biscuits, Capital One Venture X points, BetMGM spreads, Coinbase crypto wallets, on and on. It’s lunacy. Buying Levi’s won’t give you deep pockets. Brand promises, like all promises, are made to be broken. As AI anxiety fueled fears of mass layoffs, [Coca-Cola][10] soothed American workers’ worries about “AI coming for everything” with a glossy 2025 Super Bowl ad, featuring Lauren London, where the gleaming actress flexed her dimples and told us everything would be all right. Ten months later, Coke automated its advertising [with generative videos][11], replacing the actors they’d paid to soothe our worries about being replaced by AI with AI itself. This cynicism undergirds all modern advertising. Commercials clinically diagnose the painful side effects of living under a despotic capitalist regime, only to prescribe meaningless placebos of Doritos and Pepto-Bismol. And should those cheap calories and antacids fail to placate us, should we find homelessness and hunger so revolting that we crave revolution, then conglomerates will sell rebellion, too. As Frank wrote almost 30 years ago, “commercial fantasies of rebellion, liberation, and outright ‘revolution’ against the stultifying demands of mass society are commonplace almost to the point of invisibility in advertising, movies, and television programming.” As economic angst threatens to boil over, production only ramps up. Corporate creatives feverishly manufacture transgression to keep up with populist-fueled demands for prepackaged dissent. > No matter how disingenuous or cynical, there is a secret wish expressed in these ads and the ways they resonate with consumers. Day by day, Hulu and Netflix roll out new swashbuckling tales of scrappy revolutionary insurgencies to enrich their IP regimes. In 2026, trailers for Rachel McAdams’s “Send Help” fulfill employees’ dark fantasies of murdering their boss on a deserted island, as [Carnival][12] ads show weary lumber workers hammering their phone in a fit of fury. Promotions for [smash rooms][13], axe-throwing alleys, and gun ranges generate billions, as big business charges pent-up proletariats to “unleash” in rage rooms and “[throw, hit, punch, and swing at inanimate objects][14] as a means to release your pent up frustrations and anger.” It might seem cringe to invoke “1984” and its “Two Minutes Hate,” where subjects of the totalitarian regime yell for two minutes, if businesses weren’t doing it for us. Yet, no matter how thin, one can see cracks in this hulking machine. No matter how disingenuous or cynical, there is a secret wish expressed in these ads and the ways they resonate with consumers. Rituals are funny like that. Repeat them enough, and they sprout roots. In America, sedition is now a mantra. Mutiny, a popular sentiment. Populism is winning the war for hearts and minds. Billionaires who once spurned talk of class war now finance fiction about eating the rich. Just as advertisers who once fashioned consumerism as orgasmic fantasies now portray shopping in a dreaded wasteland. What are we to make of this capitalism forced to confess its contradictions? At its core, today’s advertising offers a repressed radicalism, a strange plea to revolt against the indignities corporations impress upon us. After all, aren’t Heineken’s reminders to “drink responsibly” just bids for public transportation? Aren’t E*Trade ads with [octogenarian wage slaves][15] a rallying cry for a robust social safety net? Coinbase is right, on some level, that the financial system is broken. But what if instead of more speculative crypto scams, they were boosting public banking? And Isn’t Uber partially right, too? We should be our own bosses. But instead of shackling drivers as gig serfs, what if Uber’s sharing economy gave drivers their share of the company’s profits? What if we didn’t have to shop at places we didn’t get to own and didn’t have to work at places where we couldn’t afford the shop? What if we weren’t so beat up and knocked down that [E*Trade][16] ads had to remind us that “THERE ARE DOGS WITH BETTER LIVES THAN YOU”? Advertisers always stop one step short, never allowing themselves to say the quiet part aloud, always walking us right up to the edge of a radical insight, yet remaining too afraid to incite working people to rise up. There are, of course, other places one could find truly revolutionary art. There are the Adbusters McDonald’s spoofs [reading][17]* “EAT FAST, DIE YOUNG*.” There are the Black Workers Congress vintage 1971 [labor posters ][18]with Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture rallying Black autoworkers in Detroit to strike at Dodge. There are the Paul Beatty [satires][19] where characters wore “Nike Cortez sneakers so fucking new that if they had taken one shoe off and placed it to their ear like a conch shell, they’d hear the roar of an ocean of sweatshop labor.” Yet these auteurs all feel niche compared to the pop art of Super Bowl and NCAA tournament ads. No matter how ridiculous it may seem, I’ve long yearned for America’s prime-time advertisements, already dripping with populist contempt, to finally fulfill their revolutionary promise. I’ve only seen it happen once, kind of. In the early 2020s, I was zoning out to hours of NFL when one of those inspirational [Marine recruitment promos][20] popped on — the one where jackbooted Gen Zers with square jaws punched through digital emoji clouds to transform into real men. After the ad flipped off, it was immediately followed by [a nightmarish PSA][21] where glassy-eyed, sweat-drenched veterans lurched, sobbing in empty parking lots and extended stay hotels, struggling to stave off PTSD-induced suicide. I was floored. The jump cut felt like something approaching truth, felt like ads finally reckoning with how imperialist wars for blood and oil squandered youth’s promise down into a pit of stubbled, middle-aged mania. Perhaps America can never tell the whole truth *within* ads, but perhaps we could tell the truth *between* them. Call it The Honesty in Advertising Act. From now on, every military recruitment ad could be attached to a PSA about homeless veterans. Every Kool-Aid ad could be melded with dialysis ads. Every Taco Bell ad would have to be followed by ads for Pepto-Bismol and funeral homes. Smash them all together, and they’d work like the disclaimers on cigarette cartons and liquor bottles. *Surgeon General’s Warning: Capitalism causes poverty, desperation, alienation, and concentration of global wealth in the top 0.0001%. Quitting now greatly reduces risks of premature death, medical debt, eviction, and environmental catastrophe.* The post [The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk][22] appeared first on [The Intercept][23]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7DdTTVA [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha92_hfK9Po [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha92_hfK9Po [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ7Z5LTJWHM [5]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HIMS/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABt8qlvEprdzz1GZsB4uLx8hwMLR4CDRSu2sHF9fymZZ3tqnt6px73VMFkilho20M1k24atGycFVmPXmVr6Bpp_iFy5FI8IRFaPoHeS1P3_jVnRfx00LFhIZvUmrPrJe_71_XvDPQalyNmzGnwGwTaBCggjRkULdBSyluvzcuSPX [6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s2hMSilnLg [7]: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/f5NX/robinhood-financial-gold-men-of-means [8]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OheUzrXsKrY [9]: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3618721.html [10]: https://youtu.be/aXyG1FnTCEs?si=RpYYsKVX5fqYUMqs&t=7 [11]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/11/04/coca-cola-sparks-backlash-with-ai-generated-christmas-ad-again/ [12]: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRPnfTMgCMC/?hl=en [13]: https://ismashusa.com/ [14]: https://disorderlyconductragerooms.com/ [15]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d56-22bpyh0 [16]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lL6roWkXhc [17]: https://adbusters.org/spoofs-ads/eat-fast-die-young [18]: https://archive.org/details/agitateeducateor00cush/page/74/mode/2up?q=1971 [19]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sellout-a-novel-paul-beatty/e0f6404b75f241e4 [20]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCjEV75F2tM [21]: https://archive.org/details/youtube-axMPVsWt-bg [22]: https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/super-bowl-ad-capitalism-honesty/ [23]: https://theintercept.com https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/super-bowl-ad-capitalism-honesty/"
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"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
They hold their life savings all in on Bitcoin, and have shifted their worldview behind the Bitcoin religion. They'd have to fundamentally change a core component of their personality to even entertain the thought of using Monero, let alone moving over to it as their primary cryptocurrency.
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
You ask the right questions, for which you may be declared a traitor in the Bitcoin community.
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
“millions of projects being done on crypto” Oh please, have you even looked at those projects? It’s a cesspool of scams, gambling and memes. Bitcoin doesn’t have a problem with “projects”, neither does gold.
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
Very true. Theres even DAI which is decentralized and algorithmic. Or TBTC which is a decentralized BTC wrapper on Ethereum. You can even shield these with Railgun with ZK SNARK privacy tech. I'm going with those over custodial options every day of the week. Bitcoin's completely done if they don't make tangible L1 improvements in transaction velocity and privacy. Maxis here can cope all day but this is the reality for the global south, and soon to be the reality in the US and EU with the Genius act and digital euro respectively.
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
How about not creating companies and legal attack surfaces where government requires you to doxx yourself before you even start. Rather start an ungovernable org with no legal ties and beware the inevitable saboteurs that 3 letter agencies will try to inject from the start. The only thing I've really seen work so far is bisq though. Maybe that but with ecash?
"USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists. The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving. Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream? Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward. It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin. I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down. /rant"
I still don’t understand how there’s literally no jobs in bitcoin but there’s like thousands of job ads in crypto and maybe a handful in bitcoin. There’s like a couple of teams building on bitcoin but there’s millions of projects being done on crypto. We need to start companies to serve real world problems. Keen to help.
