Stablecoin regulatory crackdown sends warning to industry
We don’t have industries. Nixon donated all of our industries to China and got nothing in return but 40 years of pain and misery and slavery.
Bitcoin is not an industry, it’s a hive of swindlers and spies and cults. Is there a word for such a conglomeration? Time to look through the 1874 Dictionary of Slang. Brits had plenty of words for bitcoiners.
Long firm, a gang of swindlers who obtain goods by false pretences. They generally advertise or answer advertisements. The word LONG is supposed to be from a playful allusion made by one of the firm to the length of their credit.
Magsman, a street swindler, who watches for countrymen and “gullible” persons, and persuades them out of their possessions. MAGSMEN are wonderful actors . Their work is done in broad daylight, without any stage accessories. Their ability and perseverance are truly worthy of a better cause. Magsmen are often men of superior education. Those who work the tidal trains and boats are faultlessly dressed and highly accomplished.
Towzery gang, swindlers who hire sale-rooms, usually in the suburbs, for mock auction sales of cheap and worthless goods, and who advertise their ventures as Alarming Sacrifices, Important Sales of Bankrupts’ Stock, etc.
Mare’s nest, a supposed discovery of marvels, which turn out no marvels
at all; from a story similar to that about the cock neighing.
Sharp’s-alley: Sharp’s Alley was, until City improvements caused it to be destroyed, a noted slaughtering-place near Smithfield.
Lame duck, a stockjobber who speculates beyond his capital, and cannot pay his losses. Upon retiring from the Exchange he is said to “waddle out of the Alley.”
And that brings us back to Sammy, retiring from his Exchange and waddling out of the Alley.
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