by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

As the reader might have guessed from the headline to today’s blog, I’m in another one of my “We told you so” moods.  Remember when crypto-currencies first came out? Why, they were the best thing since deep dish pizza. Not only would they usher in a new golden age of peace and freedom, and utterly avoid the nasty central banksters, they were entirely secure and “unhackable.”  And, if you get in now, you’ll be able to make lots and lots of real money trading your electronic blips, oh, and did we mention, that there were only a certain amount of blips available, and they were on a distributed ledger which could not be hacked? Huzzah! the new age of freedom and financial security was here! I recall listening to one well-known “conservative” talk show host when the crypto-craze had just begun, and he was all in, updating people almost daily on what his electornic blips were worth, and urging people to “get in now”.  We were even treated to a bit of history on how all this wondrous marvel came into existence: someone in  Japan named Admiral Sackosushi Yamamoto (or something like that) came up with the idea and isn’t it wonderful we’re such good friends now, even after all that misunderstanding about them sinking our fleet a few years back.