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Re:Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers by BonoboIO on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:34PM (#31622383)
Like tulips.

Still waiting for the bull market there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Re:Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers by anonporridge on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:49PM (#31623208)
Fun fact, Tulip mania is mostly a myth.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...

> So if tulipmania wasn’t actually a calamity, why was it made out to be one? We have tetchy Christian moralists to blame for that. With great wealth comes great social anxiety, or as historian Simon Schama writes in The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, “The prodigious quality of their success went to their heads, but it also made them a bit queasy.” All the outlandish stories of economic ruin, of an innocent sailor thrown in prison for eating a tulip bulb, of chimney sweeps wading into the market in hopes of striking it rich—those come from propaganda pamphlets published by Dutch Calvinists worried that the tulip-propelled consumerism boom would lead to societal decay. Their insistence that such great wealth was ungodly has even stayed with us to this day.

Re:Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers by ProjectArcturis on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:14PM (#31626561)
"merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis—but only because it undermined social expectations."
Re:Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers by carlivar on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:44PM (#31622510)
Yes, I referenced tulip mania to the Coinbase recruiter.

It's probably going to collapse worse.

Re:Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers by BonoboIO on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:00PM (#31622708)
Losing everything ... what a nightmare

„Taiwanese Ends His Life After Losing $2 Million Luna Investment„

https://coinquora.com/taiwanese-ends-his-life-after-losing-2...