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  Actually IIRC the first public Bitcoin exchange was a pizza.
  Back in the early days of Bitcoin (before it was $1) someone paid 20 BTC to someone else to order them a pizza.
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  Strike those tax exemptions Coinbase wanted. >
  
  Remember when they withdrew a bunch of offers as part of a hiring freeze after people had already accepted and resigned their current jobs? I do. >
  
  On the other hand, I feel like, if you think a job in crypto is for you, you're a fukkin idiot and this is probably the least of the bad decisions you've made. >
  
  The compensation is great because the risk is so damn high. He's saying it's a bad gamble. >
  
  Thank you FTX, Luna, Logan Paul, the crypto isle team and everybody else who turned crypto into the predictable shit show that it is and for proving why regulation and centralization are not bad things to have, especially when it comes to investments and finances. >
  
  Every time one of these exchanges goes belly up there are cryptobros unironically asking for government investigations and bailouts, from the government whose regulatory regime they are explicitly operating outside of.
  Right now, we're at the "lender of last resort" chapter of learning why the financial system is the way it is, except the lender of last resort in this case isn't the US Treasury, it's some shady exchange whose "reserves" are just illiquid shitcoins. >
  
  It's because crypto sucks for petty cash, and the only people who want to move large amounts of money around without the security of government regulation are criminals. Even if someone says otherwise when it's their cash in jeopardy they find their beliefs have a spending limit. >
  
  It started that way. It will end that way. I still remember when the only thing I could buy with bitcoins was weed, sex slaves, and assassins.