asciilifeform: wb signpost

asciilifeform: is 'tempest' on www sumwhwre ?

asciilifeform: a ok

asciilifeform: signpost: iirc this was a pestron signpost milked outta a bot ?

asciilifeform would read, curious what this looked like (even if heavily massaged)

asciilifeform: re 'frontier' -- orig wot in our case (nanotube's) was powered simply by various folx wanting to trade various things to/from coinz . sumthing that aint happening much any moar afaik, at least not publicly (once you subtract the various reich goxen)

asciilifeform: and, contrary to the popular pov on subj, asciilifeform not thinks that this was on acct of gestapo dispatching gasenwagen until 0 remained who wanted to trade

asciilifeform: ( for 1 thing, there are still more than a few corners of planet3 where the proverbial 'bicycle courier' etc. and otherwise not 100% under the reich boot. )

asciilifeform: the moar obvious boojum is that ~100% of coin is in the hands of 1 of : a) speculators who use it as 'casino chip' b) folx who loaded up 10-15y ago and only offloading to fiat ever since to keep in hookers & cocaine (tm) c) folx who are waiting for exchrate to grow the proverbial decimal place , aiming to turn into (b)

asciilifeform: notably missing afaik is (d) people interested in buying anyffin (other than fiatola, in qty not readily avail. to them anywhere but the goxen; or dope, by the milligram?) for coinz

asciilifeform: (d) arguably only sorta quasi-existed at any point. even mp wasn't much of a (d) except rather episodically and with creaking

asciilifeform: theoretically nothing prevents it. all that's req'd is for sumbody to actually want to !

asciilifeform: errybody seems to want 'errything, right-now, and all at once' eh

asciilifeform: that the 'gulf' folx are diagnosably, clinically retarded, imho no longer oughta be considered a controversial notion

asciilifeform: (tldr -- cousin-fuckers, so unsurprise?)

asciilifeform: errybody seems to be convinced 'environment is deranging' but to asciilifeform not clear that it's in any significant way 'different outside the window' nao than in 2010s

asciilifeform: ... except by inference there's clearly over9000 folx who loaded up then and got their 'new zero' or 2 or 3. what've they done with the moolah ? evidently whatever it was, not visible from asciilifeform's perch

asciilifeform: signpost: masturbators pre-date mechanization, clearly

asciilifeform: for that matter, they were clearly already the dominant species of fauna on the net in 2010s. (consider where good % of mp's phortune, per his own words, had come from)