Casablanca gambling? I'm shocked!

> I can't think of many stand-out moments in it To me, the `La Marseillaise` scene[1] is incredibly powerful. The crowd trying to out-sing the German soldiers with the French national anthem, and the sheer raw emotion of the scene. Amazing character moments from Ricky, Victor, and Illsa. I haven't looked into the veracity, but the legend around the scene is that most of the extras in the bar were French refuges - and the emotion of the scene was very much present on set. Casablanca was filmed during the height of WW2, and came out in 1942, so it does seem plausible. Louis's brief "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" - Handed a pile of his winnings by the croupier - "Oh, thank you very much." exchange [2] is also a fantastically memorable comedic exchange. [1] [link] [2] [this video]

I really think that all of this DeFi stuff is playing with fire. If these tools scale large enough, it's easy to imagine breaking the right link in the system at the right time to cause catastrophic failures. Remember that all complex systems operate in a degraded state. If there's ever a way that only part of a complicated swap executes correctly the trade can get really far out of position. People in Ethereum land will say things like "the smart contracts can't possibly execute if all of these conditions aren't met!", but I can assure you that lots of extremely fault-tolerant systems built by very smart people (like electronic stock exchanges) have failed in very surprising ways. Weakly collateralized flash loans are just faster leveraged tools with all of the tradeoffs that entails. YMMV, there's definitely a lot of money to be made. [this video] << Relevant.

More like Proof-Of-Waste, both of precious electricity, and of precious rare earth elements and other materials. Not to mention how much precious time cryptocurrency shills waste, and dangerous greenhouse gasses they produce from all the hot air of their rancid breath, by droning on and on and on about cryptocurrency all the time, parroting all the lies they heard in youtube get-rich-quick pyramid scheme videos. Another shill in this thread just mindlessly repeated the same old lie they parrot all the time: >Crypto helps accelerate the growth, demand, and build-out of renewable energy. That's like saying using more Cocaine helps you quit using Cocaine faster. "Cocaine makes me feel like a new man. And he wants some too!" In an unfortunate and unintended way, it's true... And the absurd idea of using a crypto rig as a space heater has already been completely debunked in this thread. Go back and read it. If it's such a great idea, then why doesn't everybody already have one or a hundred of them, huh? matheusmoreira: Do you really believe in get-rich-quick schemes and perpetual motion devices and miracle cures, even when you can't seem to find any for sale that actually work? Then you must not believe in the free market, either. Is it easier to believe there's a huge well organized conspiracy suppressing these technologies, instead of simply the laws of physics and economics? Go back and read astoor's comment again, which trixie_'s fancifully wishful reply simply doesn't refute.