/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>25031523
Sirgay used the funds to buy his dad a Lambo and to buy himself a cozy penthouse in the middle of New York. And Linklets paid for it all. Lel.

Sergay Betray

>>25031523
Every single one of us dumped into GRT and now we’re waiting for BTC to fuck the chart harder into the ground before returning home
It won’t be long

>>25031523
6PM tonight jupiter and saturn solstice. pump time.

>>25031723
How low we going?

>>25031523
We're surely near the bottom of this cycle.

In saying that, I did recently dump 30% of my stack for UNN.

when it's the price of a cup of coffee, you will have reached singularity.

>>25031749
BTC is going to $19.6-8ish, I’m just watching it until the bloody mess chart turns the corner

>>25031523
3 years and little interest outside of defi.

buy api3

>>25031523
if you swung responsible. nothing
you should have more link, more btc, more fiat and enough eth for gas fees

>>25031523
You memed too hard, countless larps, blatant lies, very obnoxious, fake bravado, /b tier humor. Overall a subhuman tier behavior that plagued biz for 3 years.

In the end you became a meme yourself.

Fat scamming russian faggot founder started dumping tokens

>>25031523
>What went so wrong?
Nothing so far.

>>25031913
Eternal bagholder lol. Please don't kys when it goes to 0.14c, I want to laugh at you first.

>>25031973
Don't worry about that, it won't.

>>25031523
My dearest friend, 'tis with immense pleasure that I inform you that your letter has found safe travel to my destination and landed in my hands. However, this pleasure was fated to remain short lived and bittersweet, for I must also admit to you, regardless of what distress it may cause to you, knowing you went to great trouble to pen it and deliver it to me, that I in fact declined to open it and refused to read the message contained within. Surmising your intentions, there exists no doubt in my heart regarding your sincere worries for my financial well being, but alas your attempts to convince me to modify my investment strategies shall regretfully remain futile, as my stubbornness in this matter has indeed been sealed irrevocably and no other voice shall rock its imperturbable foundations. Allow me then to reiterate my will once more, and do your best to forever remember it for no change will follow: I shan't part ways with my beloved asset for it is my utmost belief that I have invested wisely and foresee infinite potential in its future, and therefore no other possession in this world shall change my decision, not even a mountain of gold! For my possessed asset is indeed fated to be worth more than any other riches in the world. We shan't speak of this no more. Sincerely yours, your beloved friend.

>what went right
retail investors

>>25031973
you had 3 years

>>25031560
Wrong. NXT marines bought him that Lambo kek
Sergey is focused on eating Bigmacs untill dead, so he can't going to jail

>>25031913
In the end you became a meme yourself.

>>25032360
>Sergey is focused on eating Bigmacs
I'm a monster to say the least, I'm a burger eating beast.

>>25032627
this is repeatable.

>>25032700
Indeed.

>>25032090
based english major

>>25031860
This. Linkies must die

>>25031523
Serious question for people fudding chainlink. If you believe link will fail what will replace it? Or do you believe that cryptocurrency will fail in general? In order for blockchain technology to be mass adapted there must be a bridge between off-chain assets and on-chain assets.

>>25033043
nobody actually fuds it. its just bored idiots with sub 30 iq.

>>25033043
cryptocurrency is already successful, it just functions as a store of value and BTC has that cornered. Everything else is just useless technology that'll never go anywhere, including smart contracts.

>>25033043
There's literally no reason the bridges need to be ""decentralized"" oracles.

>>25033421
tell that to literally every defi project that has been burned in the past year by not using chainlink price feeds.

Sergey is just going to dump on us indefinitley. There is STILL no mainnet no staking, no product. Its over bros. The dream is dead.

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Assessing Obama’s legacy
By David Bromwich
A political virtuoso . . . might write a manifesto suggesting a general assembly at which people should decide upon a rebellion, and it would be so carefully worded that even the censor would let it pass. At the meeting itself he would be able to create the impression that his audience had rebelled, after which they would all go quietly home — having spent a very pleasant evening.

— Kierkegaard, The Present Age

Any summing-up of the Obama presidency is sure to find a major obstacle in the elusiveness of the man. He has spoken more words, perhaps, than any other president; but to an unusual extent, his words and actions float free of each other. He talks with unnerving ease on both sides of an issue: about the desirability, for example, of continuing large-scale investment in fossil fuels. Anyone who voted twice for Obama and was baffled twice by what followed — there must be millions of us — will feel that this president deserves a kind of criticism he has seldom received. Yet we are held back by an admonitory intuition. His predecessor was worse, and his successor most likely will also be worse.

One of the least controversial things you can say about Barack Obama is that he campaigned better than he has governed. The same might be said about Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, but with Obama the contrast is very marked. Governing has no relish for him. Yet he works hard at his public statements, and he wishes his words to have a large effect. Even before he ascended to the presidency, Obama enjoyed the admiration of diverse audiences, especially within black communities and the media. The presidency afforded the ideal platform for creating a permanent class of listeners.

>>25032090
I needed this to cheer me up. Thanks,

>>25033421
No but there is a need for them to be trustless senpai

>>25032090
Succinctly put, anon.

>>25033998
Not really. For example they put on the AP election data no problem.

The same might be said about Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, but with Obama the contrast is very marked. Governing has no relish for him. Yet he works hard at his public statements, and he wishes his words to have a large effect. Even before he ascended to the presidency, Obama enjoyed the admiration of diverse audiences, especially within black communities and the media. The presidency afforded the ideal platform for creating a permanent class of listeners.

Winning has always been important to Obama: to win and be known as a winner. (Better, in fact, to withdraw from a worthwhile venture than be seen not to succeed.) Alongside this trait, he has exhibited a peculiar avoidance of the business of politics. The pattern was set by the summer of 2009. It came out in the way he shunned the company of his own party, the invitations that didn’t issue from the White House, the phone calls that weren’t made, the curiosity that never showed. Much of politics is a game, and a party leader must enter into the mood of the game; it is something you either do or don’t have an appetite for. Of our recent presidents, only Eisenhower revealed a comparable distaste.

Photographs from Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign by Ron Antonelli
Photographs from Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign by Ron Antonelli

Obama has sometimes talked as if he imagined that, once he moved to the White House, the climb would be in the past. Indeed, some major drawbacks of his first year as president — the slowness in explaining policies and nominating persons to the federal judiciary and other important posts — may be traced to his special understanding of that year’s purpose. It was intended as a time for the country to get to know him. According to a tally published by the CBS correspondent Mark Knoller, the twelve months between January 2009 and January 2010 included 411 occasions for speeches, comments, or remarks by Obama, forty-two news conferences.

The theory seemed to be that once the public trust was sealed, persuasion and agreement would follow. Mastery of the levers of government was desirable, of course, but it could be postponed to another day.

Meanwhile, Obama’s hesitation in assuming his practical responsibilities was unmistakable; it could be glimpsed at unguarded moments. There was his comment in response to a peevish remark by John McCain during the February 2010 health-care summit, which the president moderated. “Let me just make this point, John,” he said, “because we are not campaigning anymore.” He meant: there are lots of things that we shouldn’t argue about anymore. McCain looked more bewildered than affronted, and his emotion was shared by others who noticed the curt finality of the reply.

Obama meant that the game was over. Now was the time for putting his policies into practice (doubtless with suitable modifications). We had heard enough about those policies during the campaign itself. Postelection, we had left discussion behind and entered the phase of implementation. In the same vein and with the same confidence, he told Republicans on Capitol Hill three days after his inauguration: “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” But they could, and they did. The Republicans had an appetite for politics in its rawest form; for them, the game had barely begun.

To declare the argument over in the midst of a debate is to confess that you are lacking in resources. This defect, a failure to prepare for attacks and a corresponding timidity in self-defense, showed up in a capital instance in 2009. Obama had vowed to order the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay as soon as he became president. He did give the order. But as time passed and the prison didn’t close of its own volition, the issue lost a good deal of attraction for him.

>>25034053
What does that have to do with a bridge?

The lawyer Obama had put in charge of the closure, Greg Craig, was sacked a few months into the job (on the advice, it is said, of Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel). Guantánamo had turned into baggage the president didn’t want to carry into the midterm elections. But the change of stance was not merely politic. For Obama, it seemed, a result that failed to materialize after a command had issued from his pen was sapped of its luster.

Yet as recently as March of this year, Obama spoke as if the continued existence of the prison were an accident that bore no relation to his own default. “I thought we had enough consensus where we could do it in a more deliberate fashion,” he said. “But the politics of it got tough, and people got scared by the rhetoric around it. Once that set in, then the path of least resistance was just to leave it open, even though it’s not who we are as a country and it’s used by terrorists around the world to help recruit jihadists.” One may notice a characteristic evasion built in to the grammar of these sentences. “The politics” (abstract noun) “got tough” (nobody can say why) “and people” (all the people?) “got scared” (by whom and with what inevitability?). Adverse circumstances “set in” (impossible to avoid because impossible to define). In short, once the wrong ideas were planted, the president could scarcely have done otherwise.

The crucial phrase is “the path of least resistance.” In March 2015, in the seventh year of his presidency, Barack Obama was presenting himself as a politician who followed the path of least resistance. This is a disturbing confession. It is one thing to know about yourself that in the gravest matters you follow the path of least resistance. It is another thing to say so in public. Obama was affirming that for him there could not possibly be a question of following the path of courageous resistance.

He might regret it six years later, but politics set in, and he had to leave Guantánamo open — a symbol of oppression that (by his own account) tarnished the fame of America in the eyes of the world.

It is perhaps understandable that Obama felt a declaration of his intention to close Guantánamo need not be followed by the political work of closing it. For Barack Obama sets great store by words. He understands them as a relevant form of action — almost, at times, a substitute for action. He takes considerable authorial pride in the autobiography he published before becoming a politician. We may accordingly ask what impression his spoken words have made in his presidency, from the significant sample we now possess. He employs a correct and literate diction (compared with George W. Bush) and is a polite and careful talker (compared with Bill Clinton), but by the standard of our national politics Obama is uncomfortable and seldom better than competent in the absence of a script. His show of deliberation often comes across as halting. His explanations lack fluency, detail, and momentum. Take away the script and the suspicion arises that he would rather not be onstage. The exception proves the rule: Obama has a fondness for ceremonial occasions where the gracious quip or the ironic aside may be the order of the day, and he is deft at handling them. As for his mastery in delivering a rehearsed speech, the predecessor he most nearly resembles is Ronald Reagan.

This presents another puzzle. Obama said during the 2008 primaries that he admired Reagan for his ability to change the mood of the country — the ability itself, he meant, abstracted from the actual change Reagan brought. Astonishingly, Obama seems to have believed, on entering the White House, that his power as an interpreter of the American dream was on the order of Reagan’s.

But this ambition was less exorbitant than it looked; the differences between their certitudes are small and cosmetic. Reagan spoke of the “shining city on a hill.” Obama says: “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.”

Photographs from Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign by Ron Antonelli
Photographs from Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign by Ron Antonelli

He came into office under the pressure of the financial collapse and the public disenchantment with the conduct of the Bush–Cheney “war on terror.” It has been said that this was an impossible point of departure for our first black president. Might the opposite be true? The possibilities were large because the breakthrough was unheard-of. The country was exhausted by eight years on a crooked path. The nature of the doubt, the nature of the uncertainty, it is possible to think, made the early months of 2009 one of those plastic hours of history when the door to a large transformation swings open. Obama himself evidently saw it that way. On June 3, 2008, having just won the Democratic primaries, he declared in Minnesota that people would look back and say, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” The language was messianic, but the perception of a crisis and of the opportunity it offered was true.

Obama’s warmest defenders have insisted, against the weight of his own words, that such hopes were absurd and unreal — often giving as evidence some such conversation stopper as “this is a center-right country” or “the American people are racist.” But the same American people elected an African American whose campaign had been center-left. He inherited a majority in both houses of Congress. It takes a refined sense of impossibility to argue that Obama in his first two years actually traveled the length of what was possible.

>>25031523
All is well. $1000 inevitable.

>>25034164
Did not read lol

>>25034166
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reOLeLX0Q9U

>>25031523
moving out of chain will go in graph prob this week

>>25033043
Ask yourself, why does there seem to be a constant stream of link fud?
The answer is 2 fold. 1st its literal newfag idiots who only invest in the latest pump and dump or xrp.
2nd its a campaign to drive the price down so that the scum can get cheap link.
Linknis still the smart annon project of choice, nothing has changed apart from the blessing of WEF and confirmed Google and swift partnership.
Its fundamentals are stronger than ever.
The only ammo for the fud is that finally link isn't embarrassing every other project with its strength.
I'm so fucking comfy

Please say at least 5 bad things about Obama.

>>25034234
1. N
2. E
3. G
4. R
5. O

>>25033388
>Everything else is just useless technology that'll never go anywhere, including smart contracts
Whew boy, this post will not age well

>>25031523
I bought at 47,50 and 55 cents per linky, so I have no fucking clue what you’re on about.

Okayish fud thread, though.

>>25031791
>$19.6-8ish
Pajeets just can't help themselves.

>>25033388
This is the lowest IQ take I've read all year.

>>25031973
Drown in the Ganges, chaiwallah.

>>25032080
Hi Sergey, if you still see this, just wanna say thanks

>>25034218
>The only ammo for the fud is that finally link isn't embarrassing every other project with its strength.
Absolutely massive cope post

>>25034826
Another baseless, un substantiated post by a brainwashed newfag. Go on the why is punjab coin the next big link killer?

>>25034977
LINK is the next big LINK killer. Enjoy missing the bullrun.

>My ID color will determine the fate of LINK

accept the truth

>>25035152
Teal, like the waters around Fiji, where I’ll be retiring to.

>>25035222
Checked and based

>>25035132
Oh my god! Maybe I should sell my LINK if other marines are as low iq as this.
Did you even read my post?

GRT got released. IT now has a competitor.

>>25033005
>>25033982
>>25034013
newfags kys

>>25035335
The project I’m invested in just broke its ATH. Meanwhile your paradigm shifting shitcoin is half off. Wouldn’t bring up IQs desu

>>25033043
The problem isn’t the tech or the project retard. It’s the team with 600 million in tokens ready and willing to dump them on you.

>>25035506
Yep. Crypto prices are literally all narrative based and link just isn’t that sexy or compelling right now, even with the wef and other crazy shit. Price will not recover until staking comes out.

>>25034819
I am not Sergey.

there is absolutely no reason LINK should cost any higher than one burger dollar to achieve what it wants to achieve

>>25035615
Wrong

>>25035222

chessed

>>25035420
And I presume you have always been invested in the project that has just broken its ATH right?
I hope you mean btc and not the graph by the way... but I doubt you do.
I hold btc for what its worth but you have to be a dribbler to not think LINK is coming back bugger and harder.

>>25035641
Oh no he said I’m wrong without any counter argument, that settles it then you dump fucking room temp iq pajeet

>>25034218
>Google partnership
Delusion, it's called a blog post

>>25035615
There was no reason.

>>25034218
Cope I held a bigger stack than you and cringe at how delusional linkies are. They cannot refute a single piece of FUD and repeat their reddit mantras 'DYOR' 'NEVER SELLING' etc. This is how you know the only direction link can go in is down

But maybe there will be reasons it will be 0.0000000000000007 link for a cup of coffee.

Linkfudding is painfully pajeet. Just admit you don't have the patience to wait for staking and move on.

>>25033421

70 IQ post

>>25035679
Yeah it's out of the spotlight and a perfect time to but more on the cheap of you're a link let and newfag like me.

Then when it moons, pink wojaks and why didn't I get more etc.

How do you do, fellow LINK Mariners??? I just stumbled upon your subreddit thanks to this interview from my favorite LINK Mariner Twitterino but I'm a little bit confused with this forum interface. Where are the upvote and like buttons??? Anyway I hear this is the place to share your best LINK memes, do you have any good memes to share??? My favorite memes are Keanu Reeves and grumpy cats.

Edit: I see a lot of bigoted language around here, that's really deplorable and I hope it doesn't reflect the true viewpoints of the LINK Army Community!!! Could you tone it down with the casual racism and be more inclusive, please??

>>25036692
Have you checked in yet? Please refer to your visitor's manual on how to approach the link subject. Thanks.

>>25033043

STX

>>25036692
Welcome to the marines, nigger.

>>25036692
Lmao. CHAINLINKGOD AND 2018. Hahahahhaha. What a dumb cooont. People like myself were buying in 2017. He was late to the party and wants to act like he found link. Lmaoooooo

>>25038197
I bought in 2019. And I still made a killing so far. More than ever in a shorter time than ever in crypto. And Link ain't even done.

>>25038197
Don’t be such a grinch, passion is commendable

>>25038290
>And Link ain't even done.

Hi Idiot,

What went wrong is that you sold your Chainlink prior to Martin Luther King day upon when the price for one single Chainlink will be $10,000.00 dollars USD. They call it 10KMLK and a lot of people have been talking about it for a while now.

>>25038396
Well, it isn't. Should I lie to make you happy Anon?

>>25036692
>2018
Ah, that's why he is so cringe. not surprised that i hate his guts

>>25032090
Holy English, Batman