+++ date = "2025-03-02T18:00:10+00:00" lastmod = "2025-03-02T18:00:10+00:00" tags = [ "coins" ] +++ My interest in mainstream tech is waning. Maybe it's from counting too many c's in externalities. A lot of us have been _lucky_ in tapering expectations against the professional marketing psychologists. I'm something of an [NFT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token) expert without actually gambling at the tables (not [nftables](https://www.nftables.org/)). I peered into the movements of the [crystal globe](https://www.wikipedia.org/) and almost saw a [vision](https://www.investopedia.com/investing/why-centralized-crypto-mining-growing-problem/). There's a draft on my other blog sitting around about coins as a currency, drafted in the local mania. Luckily, I lost my naivete then and wrote something about web browsers somewhere. There are true believers and then those who speculate on the bread and the fish.