Google produced an ad for it’s latest call screening service, it takes a swing at cryptocurrency, with one of the actors saying cryptocurrency is not real money.
Neer Varshney wrote about this on TheNextWeb.com
From the article:
The company banned all cryptocurrency related ads starting June, but later relaxed the rules to allow select regulated exchange desks to advertise in the US and Japan.
Perhaps Google is trying to send a subtle message by advertising cryptocurrencies in its own content? Or, I am reading too much into this. Nevertheless, I think Google could have been more creative in its mockery.
Read the full story here
cryptocurrency is by definition not real money…..
page howe
It was just a way to generate buzz as passionate cryptoheads will pick up on that and evidently, it worked.
Gold has been the only true real money amongst humans for over 5,000 years.
Article 1 Section 10, US Constitution:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;…
In the US at least, legally, gold and silver are only money. There’s no place in the Constitution allowing for anything else. If you are religious, chances are the texts state gold and silver are the only allowable money as well.
Anyone calling anything else money is being fooled and allowing humanity to be scammed and suppressed by evil.
So, if there are any real “domainers” here (folks that had access to Rick’s old forum, most of u don’t know what that is) – you will remember that “domains were not an investment” and we were all “cybersquatters”.
Well, I have one thing to say to “domainers” that mock crypto: “Those who forget are doomed to repeat”. Good luck in your view of what’s money and what’s not my fellow “domainers”.
Gold is still the gold standard.
Fiat money and digital money call be gone in a flash!
…And this is why “domainers” should like .gold as I do, as one of the few very rare exceptions of really likable tlds, one with a vastly huge range of versatility with regard to alternate meaning of “gold,” which even domainers themselves and virtually every normal person in society continually uses in normal communication as a metaphor all the time (including Rick Schwartz, including recently) aside from only the literal meaning, which is also valuable. They should view this domain and its likability from the perspective of a real world end user (if they can), not merely as a “peddler” who only considers “value” in terms of what they might be able to sell a domain for immediately without any thought about the big picture of what real end user market value is. And they should realize that liking this tld from that perspective is no threat to .com at all, as only a rare exception among the horde, just as some luminaries are not afraid to say that something like “Home.Loans” is great and valuable despite not being .com.
But I won’t hold my breath.
P.S. Our blog host here picked up buying.gold in early release btw, at around $3k it would seem, unless he got a special discount. That would be an example of literal use of course. Metaphoric use is vastly greater in possibility, and vastly normal and prevalent.
I invest in ‘gold’ .com domain names regularly as they drop, and have sold several, including GoldBit.com a few years back.
P.P.S. And I agree the reg and renewal fees are high, and that’s a concern.