Not involved with any fishy crypto fishy business

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I'm told that there are people claiming to "tokenize" my git repositories with my approval.

I just want to clarify that that is not the case. I do not believe in monetizing my repositories.

If you believe crypto-currencies are anything but a scam, I have a bridge to sell you.

But I'm not selling source code.

This is ridiculous, I thought NFTs died out 3 years ago, and now they're scamming out Github repos?

This whole thing belongs to https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com
If someone made an crypto pump'n'dump out of my repos (If I had any), I'd seek legal counseling, probably already happened with someone else, since the scammers now seek permission by spamming spammy spammail

Thank you Linus for providing a disclaimer, and if you, dear reader, got an offer by them: don't fall for it, it's more likely to get the 5'000'000€ from the Nigerian prince you got in an email from 2008

This whole thing belongs to https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

I have made a suggestion here: molly/web3-is-going-great#1243

To close off this chapter, we’ve now completed full refunds for everyone who participated, and returned ~25k SOL to ~9k users (https://x.com/gitfish/status/1934094603998916932)

All transactions are recorded and auditable: https://github.com/gitfishdev/linux-refund/tree/main/data

The $LINUX token is officially retired.

This is ridiculous, I thought NFTs died out 3 years ago, and now they're scamming out Github repos?

This whole thing belongs to https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com If someone made an crypto pump'n'dump out of my repos (If I had any), I'd seek legal counseling, probably already happened with someone else, since the scammers now seek permission by spamming spammy spammail

Thank you Linus for providing a disclaimer, and if you, dear reader, got an offer by them: don't fall for it, it's more likely to get the 5'000'000€ from the Nigerian prince you got in an email from 2008

hi laura @torvalds be best friends with my best friend laura

This is quite literally, "I've got a bridge to sell you." NFTs can be generated for literally anything that exists. I wonder if anyone has attempted to sell an NFT for the number π (pi) ~= 3.141592653...? Or Euler's number, e ~= 2.718281828...? Maybe we can defeat NFTs at their own game: Concept #1: One NFT to rule them all. Can an NFT be generated for the entire universe? Once you have done that, would it make all lesser NFTs invalid? Could it break the NFT concept? Concept #2: Russell's paradox applied to NFT's. What about generating an NFT which represents all NFTs that do not include themselves as part of it!?! Boom. All NFTs self-destruct. It probably isn't that simple. But the whole scheme (yes it's a scheme, just like the Ponzi scheme) only has the value that people place on it. You could conceive of, design, and build the most perfect and beautiful system ever created, but if no one chooses to place their trust in said system, it has no value, other than its inherent aesthetic beauty in the eyes of its creators. So, when it comes down to it, the cleverest debunkery ever foisted on a system will be futile if people continue to place their trust in it. In a way, systems of trust are very much like the story of the "stone soup." Many of you have heard the story, but I will briefly retell it: A mysterious traveler enters a rural village, claiming to have in his possession magical stones that will turn plain water into soup. The village has had a bad year; the last harvest was very small, and no one had quite enough. News of the mysterious stranger spread quickly, and soon hungry villagers crowded into the village square, where the stranger was preparing to speak. He said, "I have in my hand some magical stones, that, if placed in a pot of boiling water, will make a delicious soup." The excited villagers brought out the largest and greatest boiling-pot in the village, usually used for the annual harvest celebration. It hadn't been brought out of storage yet this year because the harvest had been such a disappointment. The young and able grabbed buckets and used them to fill the great boiling-pot with water from the village well, and the village woodsmen brought firewood. Soon the pot was filled with boiling water, and the smell of the steam, reminiscent of harvest celebrations past, began to fill the villagers with some hope. The mysterious traveler then stood and spoke again. "These stones will make a wonderful soup. However, the soup needs one ingredient to get it started: carrots!" The Jones family's normal crop of wheat had been completely wiped out by a hailstorm, but their carrot crop, which grows underground, was safely harvested. It was all they had, so they had up until now kept it all for themselves. Upon hearing the request for carrots, Mrs. Martha Jones, the family matriarch and keeper of the family pantry, hesitated at first, thinking of her family and the long winter ahead. The village fell silent as she considered what to do. Finally, after visibly counting on her fingers for a few moments, she announced that the Jones family would gladly share a week's supply of their carrots with the village. A great roar of gratitude erupted from the gathered crowd, as Mr. Jones and their daughter Amy went to fetch the carrots. Inspired by this (and also envious of all the attention that the Joneses were getting), another family, the Jones's next-door neighbors, the Smiths, had some extra beans they had canned and were left over from last year's harvest. They asked the mysterious stranger if their beans would also help the stones make the soup. "It's funny you should ask!" he replied. "If no one had had any carrots, beans were the next thing I was going to suggest!" Now it was quite the spectacle to see the Smith and Jones families racing to be the first to get their contributions to the stones! Before anyone had even blinked, the Johnsons were offering a portion of their "secret" stash of dried ham; the Coopers brought out some corn that had been kept in a barrel; and the Metzgers had some beef jerky they knew would soften up nicely in the boiling water; and Addis and Abebe brought some injera, a family recipe from the old country, so the villagers could wipe their plates clean with the delicious bread! The Jones had the head start, so their carrots were in the water first, but only by a few seconds. Before barely another blink of an eye, nearly every family in the village had poured, thrown, tossed, or upended barrels of various foodstuffs that the industrious villagers had each been wisely keeping for themselves, but willingly contributed so as to ensure that the magical stones would issue forth the magical soup. And sure enough, just as the mysterious stranger had promised, soon there arose from the steaming water an incredible aroma of flavors that none in the village had ever smelled. Each of the families who had contributed their necessary "starting" ingredient insisted that the smell of their family's food was clearly the most important. But soon, as their stomachs started to rumble and their mouths began to water, they stopped arguing and joined together and cried, "Time to eat!" The mayor of the village, who normally only appeared at the square for the annual harvest festival, stood up and declared "Today shall be known henceforth as 'Stone Soup Day' in our Village!" The mayor then gave the mysterious stranger a ceremonial key to the village, and declared, "You my friend are welcome to return with your magical stones anytime, because, motioning out over the crowd of now happily fed villagers, your generosity had ended our famine! There is now plenty of food for all!" No one had noticed that each stone was engraved with the letters "NFT" along with a strange square pattern that looked as if it had been woven by a loom of black and white threads. "I have taken to wonderin'," said Mr. Humus, keeper of the village's richest soils, "why'd the mysterious stranger refuse to accept my carefully grown selection of th' village's finest mushrooms? His answer just makes no sense. He said the stones were 'non-fungible'.

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We randomly chose the hottest subject around for our first scam project. Using other's work and image for visibility and now refunding users in an poor attempt at recovery.

Adding a layer of shit to something that already exist (and works well) is still shit. About sponsor profiles not being accepted in countries unsupported is another question (and one for Shitcrosoft).

Ok this has escalated and surely we just have to stop this however Linus T. (@torvalds) wants and look at the GitFish website and press the info button (This is only for Chrome and Google users) you will see a warn pop-up.Surely all GitFish tokens are virtual malware and GitFish is probably phishing people.If i was Linus T. (@torvalds) i would stop this aswell so @tomviolin and the rest lets stop debating,I have been getting notifs from this gist in the night for SO LONG and i on average now have 5 hours of sleep,Ignore the crashout but lets touch grass for a day,the LINUX token was just a start-up for more controversy,Infact Linus T. (@torvalds) would prob say smth like this

aswell,And @MuntashirAkon i agree with you.

Woe, plague be upon all NFT bros.

indeed open source projects need commercial support
but what the hell is wrong with you you launch token for some project without owner's consent
there are better ways to monetize stuff that have trust from people

♥

HEY! I think you misunderstood me. I was implying all cryptos are scams/mlm schemes.

BASED.

I didn't even know that someone "tokenize" github repo. We at https://namefi.io tokenize domains even so it will require domain ownership be put in the control of our system in order tokenize it. Tokenizing non-onchain assets always involves putting the right of control into a "vault". Any other approach that seems to issue token out of thin-air is pure scam.

GitPhish shitcoins

when this project became buy/sell???

If you believe crypto-currencies are anything but a scam, I have a bridge to sell you.

This is just pure ignorance, lol, you can skip crypto if you want, and probably 90% of the garbage projects are scam, but claiming anything is scam, is just raw ignorance.

@wiseaidev
I am very confused on how you think Microsoft is against Linux? They just (somewhat) open sourced WSL. Not only that, there are plenty of projects that you can only use on Linux that have GitHub sponsors. I don't understand this.

See Microsoft's anti-linux propaganda and tell me.

@wiseaidev I have actually, however Microsoft has been becoming increasingly more open. Nothing will happen to you. Especally from GitHub where they don't really care what code you post. Its stupidly simple. I will be more than happy to show you github repos that have the sponsors enabled.

I say this as a humble bumble coding nerd with no hate for Microsoft. I actually love C# and .NYET, they got me into programming ever since High School. But let's be honest: Microsoft makes some of the most bloated software known to mankind. Open-sourcing stuff is nice et al, but doesn't fix the fact they keep dropping useless software like Cortana and Copilot. These tools eat up resources, slow down machines, and solve problems that don't exist. It's like they're trying to reinvent the wheel, except the wheel now needs 32GB of RAM and a Microsoft account just to spin.

If you believe crypto-currencies are anything but a scam, I have a bridge to sell you.

This is just pure ignorance, lol, you can skip crypto if you want, and probably 90% of the garbage projects are scam, but claiming anything is scam, is just raw ignorance.

Yo, that's straight-up disrespect to our godfather. Without his work, you wouldn't even have the tech to post this comment. He's not just right, he's been calling it like it is. The real problem in crypto is perception. The tech itself is solid, but people turn it into a scam by chasing quick money, pumping hype coins, and selling false promises. Linus isn't necessarily against crypto itself, he's more likely against the circus around it.

i think he said crypto is scam because crypto looks like decentralized but its not that hard to control , manipulate system, take polymarket's oracle as example there are some claims that uma(the oracle behind polymarket ) holders manipulated outcome of polymarket's result , But crypto is the latest innovation so far in financial industry

Linus just dropped the mic on crypto clout-chasers — code stays free, scams stay salty.

In the end, technology isn't the problem; it's people's way of managing technology to take advantage of others.

and crypto bros think that open source is a military training area to monetize some shit

@wiseaidev
I am very confused on how you think Microsoft is against Linux? They just (somewhat) open sourced WSL. Not only that, there are plenty of projects that you can only use on Linux that have GitHub sponsors. I don't understand this.

See Microsoft's anti-linux propaganda and tell me.

@wiseaidev I have actually, however Microsoft has been becoming increasingly more open. Nothing will happen to you. Especally from GitHub where they don't really care what code you post. Its stupidly simple. I will be more than happy to show you github repos that have the sponsors enabled.

I say this as a humble bumble coding nerd with no hate for Microsoft. I actually love C# and .NYET, they got me into programming ever since High School. But let's be honest: Microsoft makes some of the most bloated software known to mankind. Open-sourcing stuff is nice et al, but doesn't fix the fact they keep dropping useless software like Cortana and Copilot. These tools eat up resources, slow down machines, and solve problems that don't exist. It's like they're trying to reinvent the wheel, except the wheel now needs 32GB of RAM and a Microsoft account just to spin.

you mean .NET?nyet is literally the russian word for "no",you got urself in a issue there buddy

i think he said crypto is scam because crypto looks like decentralized but its not that hard to control , manipulate system, take polymarket's oracle as example there are some claims that uma(the oracle behind polymarket ) holders manipulated outcome of polymarket's result , But crypto is the latest innovation so far in financial industry

unrelated but i like ur name hassan and mehedi

"If you believe crypto-currencies are anything but a scam, I have a bridge to sell you"

This is interesting

If you believe crypto-currencies are anything but a scam, I have a bridge to sell you.
This is just pure ignorance, lol, you can skip crypto if you want, and probably 90% of the garbage projects are scam, but claiming anything is scam, is just raw ignorance.

Yo, that's straight-up disrespect to our godfather. Without his work, you wouldn't even have the tech to post this comment. He's not just right, he's been calling it like it is. The real problem in crypto is perception. The tech itself is solid, but people turn it into a scam by chasing quick money, pumping hype coins, and selling false promises. Linus isn't necessarily against crypto itself, he's more likely against the circus around it.

You can have an opinion without offending anyone. The biggest offense is calling all crypto related projects, a scam.

Don't put people in pedestals, everyone makes mistakes, grow up and don't be a fanboy with fallacies. I could criticize that statement here, on X or in person, it does not matter.

If you believe crypto-currencies are anything but a scam, I have a bridge to sell you.

This is just pure ignorance, lol, you can skip crypto if you want, and probably 90% of the garbage projects are scam, but claiming anything is scam, is just raw ignorance.

Note: I am not entirely certain I actually wrote the line above, but I certainly did paraphrase it. Having said that, I should have been more specific. I am not at all challenging the tech behind cryptocurrencies. It is a brilliant idea, and from what I have seen, brilliantly executed. What I am calling a "scam" is the way people are using it.

It is my contention that this entire scenario was created by people who just don't understand what a currency is supposed to be.

As put very succinctly by the Central Bank of Australia in their excellent educational materials ( https://www.rba.gov.au/education/resources/explainers/pdf/what-is-money.pdf ), the standard definition of what makes something "money" (i.e. a currency) is that it is a:

• widely accepted means of payment
• unit of account
• store of value

Let's look at how cryptocurrencies -- the way they are currently implemented -- stack up:

• Widely accepted means of payment: Depends on your threshold, but if I'm lost in a strange city far from home, I'll take a $100 bill in my pocket over any amount of bitcoin. Wouldn't you? FAIL.
• Unit of account: wildly fluctuating values can only mean one answer: FAIL.
• Store of value: again, wildly fluctuating values make this a FAIL.

The original idea behind bitcoin was that it would provide all three of these attributes. It was supposed to be a digital version of cash, meaning that one could enjoy the benefits of cash (anonymity, universal acceptance) while being secure at the same time. Being "secure" means giving a digital unit of currency a comparable security that being a unique physical object gives to a $20 bill.

As I have stated, the technology behind cryptocurrencies is very solid. But, instead of trying to establish bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a stable means of exchange, that is, an accepted unit of account and a store of value, somehow they became more akin to chips in some sort of bizarro-world gambling casino, a world in which possession of chips has somehow gained a value in and of itself that people pay more and more to have, thus becoming -- in some very important ways -- the opposite of cash.

So why aren't "real" currencies like the U.S. Dollar also a scam, and what gives "real" currencies the attributes of being "money"? It is because they are issued by governments through their central banks, and declared legal forms of tender in their respective countries. But MUCH more importantly, the value of, for example, $1.00 in U.S. dollars, is agreed by all parties before, during, and after all financial transactions using dollars, VOLUNTARILY. If you go to a street vendor in Paris, and offer Euros to pay for a sandwich, there is virtually no chance that the vendor will question the value of these Euros; in fact the vendor almost certainly has published a menu that lists the value of each served food item in Euros. You leave your house in the morning with X number of Euros in your pocket, confident that those Euros will buy you what you need for the day, whether it is a tank of fuel at the nearest filling station, a sandwich from a street vendor, or whatever else.

Imagine trying to do that with any of the current "established" cryptocurrencies. You would have no idea whatsoever what the value of X bitcoin that you have in your pocket will be worth at the end of the day. Street vendors' menus would be a mess because of unpredictable bitcoin value, and what was once a simple, stress-free transaction over lunchtime could very well dissolve into pitted battles of haggling and likely creation of a "black market" using gold, silver, or other materials that have some sort of intrinsic value.

The bottom line is that, in my humble opinion, the lofty ideals of the originators of cryptocurrency technology -- to imbue transactions made with digitally-based units of exchange the stability and trust that physical-world transactions made with physical-world units of exchange such as cash enjoy -- has been completely usurped by people trying to make a quick profit from people who have never understood what a currency is supposed to be.