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This is where the bubble pops folks. You watched it here live.

Put your money where your mouth is and short it then. Otherwise such statements are empty predictions with no responsibility or weight behind them.

> Put your money where your mouth is and short it then.

This is exactly what I’m talking about. The original spirit/purpose of Bitcoin has been completely taken over by financial engineering and speculation. And it’s such a shame.

Ok, so you have a sentiment that Bitcoin and crypto is more than it's price and speculations.

But you started talking about the price and bubbles, how does that further your goal of sharing this sentiment? You wrote about the price yourself? Or are you referring to the bubble of mindshare? "Bubble" usually refers to price, I might have misunderstood you?

If you're as sure of this as you are presenting yourself then why are you posting here instead of rushing over to LedgerX and opening an account so you can purchase puts from me?

Which one of the bubbles?

People over-leveraging themselves to buy Bitcoin, which anyone with real experience has already moved on from for better designed crypto by the way, is a clear sign that right now we are at peak hype in this space.

This is me speaking as someone who read the white paper on Bitcoin in 2010, and then mined on my GPU for all of 2011-2012 to help build out the network. I have since moved on, as have other practitioners.

The only people that remain on Bitcoin are retail speculators, governments with seized assets, and financial institutions. It’s not a healthy makeup, and extraordinarily toxic to the greater crypto community as a whole in my honest opinion.

What part of my comment is difficult to believe?

The part where it's the same worthless claim which is falsely made by a multitude of similar sounding altcoin pumpers over and over again.

If it were true, you could easily prove it.

Which is a better designed crypto? It cant be too toxic if its a well performing investment asset right?

A combination of Mississipi bubble [1] and The Great Depression. Here we have a conversion of debt into suspicious equity and at the same time leveraging to invest (i.e. buying with the money you don't have). Both usually end in bankruptcies, financial ruins, suicides, homicides...

[1] http://www.thebubblebubble.com/mississippi-bubble/

The CDC site provides information in other languages as well if you’d like to share with family/friends in your community!

Is your avoidance of frameworks/libraries based on principle or performance?

Mostly being troubled the value added isn't proportionate to the payload increase. Double my LoC because I don't like typing out "getElementById" or want a throttle/debounce function or two or don't want to deal with hash changes? It seems unjustified if I'm targeting modern browsers.

That mostly makes sense. Would you recommend going towards this route for other developers?

We often look nostalgically back to the past, but it’s a fair argument that for a lot of people things really weren’t all that great.

As a woman, as well as being in STEM, I see how tenuous my position still is. On my team I’m still the only female in an engineering role. I can’t imagine what life would have been like if I had been born 100 years ago.

I want to start contributing to open source projects like these, but the process seems somewhat intimidating.

Are there any good guides or maybe an introductory tutorial somewhere on how to get involved?

Start your own open-source project, and make process of contributing to it not "intimidating".