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Bitcoin the new gold (or store of value - hint: did you know? gold is a mineral - that's not subjective but objective)!? Sorry, Bitcoin is comedy gold! The internet of money! LOL.

The bitcoin ponzi and the austrian economics bullshit (e.g. value fluctuates based on demand - it's all subjective!) to the max lies get ever bigger. For a good summary published just a couple of days ago of the "state-of-the-fraud", see Why Bitcoin is a Ponzi (Learn how the Investment Fraud Works) [1]

PS: The damage to our planet is not subjective but objective and very very real [2]. Of course, you find nothing in this "Bitcoin Changed My Mind" about the CO2 footprint or the electronic waste etc.

[1]: https://openblockchains.github.io/bitcoin-ponzi [2]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

A little to the moon gem from the best of crypto quotes [1] via SEC Investor Education:

> New Year's Financial Resolution: Ponzi scheme "red flags" - Avoid too-good-to-be-true "investments" with claims like:

- "To the moon! To the mars!"

- "Number go up!"

- "Yearly return of 300+% in 2020!"

- "Could quadruple in 2021 and rally to $100,000!"

[1] https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes#sec-investo...

For a best of crypto quotes incl. pumping up the gigantic Bitcoin ponzi, see https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes

SCAM ALERT! SCAM ALERT! SCAM ALERT!

> The U.S. Dollar is no longer a reliable store of value. Cameron and I (Winklevoss Twins Capital) make the case for $500 000 Bitcoin. Number go up! To the moon!

> When Elon Musk puts the Tesla balance sheet into Bitcoin, we'll have to change the Bitcoin rallying cry from "to the moon!" to "to Mars!"

-- Tyler Winklevoss, Bitcoin Billionaire

or

> There are 3.5 billion smart phones on the planet. All of them can hold bitcoin. None of them can hold gold. Bitcoin is the future. Number go up! To the moon!

-- Cameron Winklevoss, Bitcoin Billionaire

Given the challenge of how to invest $600 million in treasury reserves, after a lifetime of experience and months of analysis, I decided on an allocation of 100% Bitcoin, 0% Bonds, 0% Stocks, 0% Real Estate, 0% Gold. Seems rational to me. Number go up! To the moon!

-- Michael Saylor, Business Intelligence Billionaire

and on on.

Great initiative: FYI: I help devs find indy (and regular) books on crypto (programming). The good books @ https://openblockchains.github.io/crypto-books/ The bad and ugly @ https://openblockchains.github.io/bitcon-books/

PS: Again the website sources and data are public domain / open. Fork aways for other languages / topics more than welcome :-).

Great initiative. FYI: I help devs find indy (and regular) books on ruby @ http://planetruby.github.io/books

PS: The website source and data is public domain / open. Fork away for other languages / topics more than welcome :-).

See 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-...

FYI: I am collecting the best of crypto bitcoin quotes @ open blockchains [1] incl. classics such as:

I HODL, you HODL, we HODL!

Austrian Maximalist comments:

I bought at the all-time high (ATH) and I'm UP.

or

SEC Investor Education:

New Year’s Financial Resolution: Avoid too-good-to-be-true “investments” with Ponzi scheme “red flag” claims like:

- “To the moon! To the mars!” - “Number go up!” - “Yearly return of 300+% in 2020!” - “Could quadruple in 2021 and rally to $100,000!”

[1] https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes

For a different view may I highlight the Best of Bitcon Books @ Open Blockchains [1] - Austrian Economics Bullshit to the Max - The Bitcoin Fraudsters' Lies

[1] https://openblockchains.github.io/bitcon-books

The Open Blockchains Book of the Year 2020 Award Goes To...

Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money by David Gerard, November 2020, 182 Pages - Congrats!

What's your book of the year?

Great write-up. Another way to contribute is with articles / write-ups to help others or to highlight / uncover hidden gems. See the 25 Days of Ruby Gems - Ruby Advent Calendar 2020, December 1st - December 25th [1] page or the upcoming Ruby Blockchain Week 2021, January 3rd to January 9th - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems [1]. Contributors without code welcome.

[1] https://planetruby.github.io/gems/

See the Ruby Advent Calendar 2020, December 1st - December 25th - 25 Days of Ruby Gems [1] that highlights ruby scripts in action for a sampling what you can do with ruby. [1] https://planetruby.github.io/gems/

PS: (And yes, the website itself is built with jekyll and ruby, see https://github.com/planetruby/gems ).

Congrats! To celebrate Ruby and the Ruby community, the Ruby Advent Calendar 2020, December 1st - December 25th - 25 Days of Ruby Gems highlights ruby scripts in action - packaged up in gems for your convenience and for easy (re)use, see https://planetruby.github.io/gems/

FYI: I collect a best of crypto quotes over at open blockchains, see https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes

To quote Nouriel Roubini, Economist:

No use ever, past, present and future for XRP and Ripple products... it is already flopping after spending a fortune and printing a huge amount of totally useless XRP. (Now the XRP army of Twitter trolls, bots, hired guns and zealots will attack again...)

FYI: I collect a best of crypto quotes over at open blockchains, see https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes

To quote Nouriel Roubini, Economist:

No use ever, past, present and future for XRP and Ripple products... it is already flopping after spending a fortune and printing a huge amount of totally useless XRP. (Now the XRP army of Twitter trolls, bots, hired guns and zealots will attack again...)

There are CSV specs - see https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/csv-dialect/ and https://github.com/csvspecs , for example. Note: Both initiatives are ongoing and alive and kicking. The trouble is almost nobody cares - as your ignorance shows - just complaining and playing the know-it-all is so much easier and more fun, isn't?

FYI: Find some CSV format specifications (and tests) @ https://github.com/csvspecs

From The Awesome Diem (formerly Libra) Page [1]:

Diem stems from the famous latin phrase 'Carpe Diem' translating to 'Enjoy the present, make the most of today', a common mistranslation is 'Seize the Day' (via Wiktionary)

Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpō "pick or pluck" used by Horace to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". Diem is the accusative of dies "day". A more literal translation of carpe diem would thus be "pluck the day as it is ripe" - that is, enjoy the moment. It has been argued by various authors that this interpretation is closer to Horace's original meaning (via Carpe diem @ Wikipedia)

[1]: https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-diem

FYI: I collect all things Facebook's Diem (formerly Libra) at the Awesome Diem (formerly Libra) page [1] incl. Best Libra Book of the Year 2020 Award and much more. [1]: https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-diem

FYI: Slideshow (S9) [1] lets you write your presentations in markdown and than lets you pick one of many template packs [2] such as Reveal.js, Bespoke.js, Deck.js, Shower.js, S6 and some more. [1] http://slideshow-s9.github.io/ [2] http://slideshow-templates.github.io

PS: Yes, Slideshow (S9) is basically a static website generator / compiler for (web) presentations.

SQLite is great for multi-blogs / planets too - I use SQLite for the backend in the pluto tool [1] that helps running Planet Open Suse, Planet KDE and others. [1] https://github.com/feedreader/pluto.starter

I use SQLite for sharing structured open data - it's a better alternative to zipped csv datasets, for example. See the football.db [1] as some example SQLite datasets e.g. the English Premier League in england.db and so on. [1]: https://github.com/openfootball/england/releases

PS: The big elephant for SQLite data packages is Simon Willison's Datasette [2]. [2]: https://datasette.io

Not up-to-date but many more ruby 3x3 articles, see https://planetruby.github.io/calendar/ruby3x3

FYI: # is already "reserved" in markdown for headings. So in theory markdown is also not workable, in practice :-).

It's kind of like:

1. FC Köln - that's a football club name (and not a list marker). Try it in markdown - same gotcha :-)

Thanks for your kind words (yes, sorry for the missing disclaimer). Texti is slowly evolving :-) The point is NOT to invent new syntax [1], thus, using the established unix-style/shell-style/python-style/ruby-style for comments. For a litte real world examples that generated HTML, LaTeX and Markdown from Texti see https://github.com/texti/texti.github.io/tree/master/samples

PS: The main missing feature (among others) in Markdown and that rocks Wikitext (and Texti too) is built-in (recursive) templates (with optional parameters) using the {{}} syntax.

[1]: I know % is not new because it's used in LaTeX but LaTeX is esoteric compared to Python, Ruby, Shell Scripts, Unix Configs, etc.

Another great alternative is Wikitext used by the Wikipedia (among many others) see https://www.wikipedia.org or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext

PS: Why not have the best of both worlds, that is, Markdown and Wikitext? Yes, you can; see Texti (Text with Formatting Instructions) - https://texti.github.io

You can use colors - like in html and css you keep style and structure separate. If you want all your heading 2 blue, for example, than you can use h2 { color: blue; } and so on and so forth.

PS: By the way, you are currently commenting in text without colors - how do you feel?

> I love Ruby, but that file looks a little nuts to me right now. The block comment at the top of csv.rb is over 500 lines long. The Ruby module tries to do everything...

FYI: CsvReader [1] is a more modern alternative to the old standard csv.rb library in ruby.

[1]: https://github.com/csvreader/csvreader

In Rubyland there's the versatile CsvReader library / gem [1] that supports HXL, ARFF, CVY and more "exotic" or modern flavors / dialects among many others.

[1]: https://github.com/csvreader/csvreader

CSV is awesome :-). Leon Bambrick curates an Awesome CSV Page [1] and another Awesome CSV Page [2] by my humble self.

[1]: https://github.com/secretGeek/AwesomeCSV [2]: https://github.com/csvspecs/awesome-csv

FYI: I've put together a collection of CSV specifications [1]. CSV Dialects / Flavors include CSV v1.0, CSV v1.1, CSV Strict, CSV <3 Numerics, CSV<3 JSON, CSV <3 YAML and some more.

[1]: https://github.com/csvspecs