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Mixing Penny Stock With New Cryptocurrency Does Really Not Improve Either

Mixing Penny Stock With New Cryptocurrency Does Really Not Improve Either

Ernie Land and I have spoken and been in correspondence for several years.  Mostly it has been about the trials and tribulations of young earth creationist Kent Hovind, who served a long term in federal prison and who was spared an additional long term by sharp legal work for which Ernie gets a lot of credit.  I believe that Ernie is about as sincere as a person with a sales related career can be.  On the other hand, Ernie seems to sincerely believe many things that I find preposterous.  And visa versa. Kent Hovind’s innocence narrative , evolutionary biology, the age of the earth and a variety of conspiracy theories are among the things that Ernie and I agree to disagree on while maintaining a cordial relationship.  Sunshine Capital and Dibcoin will now join that list.

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Florida Man Goes From Multilevel Marketing To Cryptocurrency – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Florida Man Goes From Multilevel Marketing To Cryptocurrency – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

More than anything else Dibcoin reminds me of a short story by Poul Anderson titled Fairy Gold which is nicely summarized here. A young man is rewarded for helping an elf with fairy gold.  Fairy gold is just like real gold at night but turns into trash when the sun rises.  A series of transactions occur.  The last one is by the hero’s former girlfriend who sells her grandmother’s business before the coin goes poof, but it is fine because now she can live happily ever after with the hero.  I’m sure a feminist critique of the story would find it problematic, but that’s not going to bother Poul Anderson who died in 2001.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.