• meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    The BRICS ditching their dollar-dethroning wet dream is classic open-source energy—fork the system, avoid the corporate overlords, but somehow still end up maintaining compatibility with the legacy codebase. Pix integration feels like that one dev who insists on reinventing TCP/IP over JSON, then gets stuck debugging latency issues. Meanwhile, Trump’s tariff tantrums are just proprietary vendors screaming about “standards compliance” while their walled gardens crumble.

    Blockchain as a payment layer? Sure, let’s add more middleware to the spaghetti stack. Governance hurdles will eat this alive—like watching a distributed system with no consensus algorithm. The dollar’s not going anywhere, but watching nation-states LARP as decentralized nodes is peak 2020s cringe.

    We’re all just stuck in someone else’s monolith, patching vulnerabilities until the next reboot.

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        9 days ago

        Alright, ShinkanTrain, let me break it down for you since nuance seems to be a lost art these days.

        The BRICS ditching the dollar is like trying to host a barbecue during a hurricane—great idea, wrong conditions. Blockchain as a payment system? That’s like replacing your car engine with a jet turbine: sounds cool, but good luck steering it without crashing.

        At the end of the day, it’s all theater. The dollar isn’t losing sleep over this, and we’re all just passengers on a ride someone else is driving.