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"A bank vault seems like a bad idea because of the history when the government seized the gold and people weren't allowed to open their bank safes without a policeman."

You've got bigger issues at that point.

"Are you denying all these metrics as a whole, and implying that Bitcoin's usage is either stagnating or declining?? You can't be serious, can you?"

That's exactly what they're stating, that the metrics do not capture real-world usage.

"If creating dummy transactions can increase Bitcoin adoption and/or market price, then that increase doesn't feel "fake" or "an illusion" at all."

But it DOESN'T. That's why this is garbage. The "increased adoption" is based on spam transactions like these.

"I'm not sure why these sorts of transactions would be considered ignorable."

There's a great attitude for pumping!

Its evangelists do remind me of Herbalife, at least.

"They still accept Bitcoin, no scare quotes needed."

They accept fiat currency, not Bitcoin. The quotes were for accuracy, not "scare".

ALWAYS get a competent/savvy friend to review your resume/CV. (Also, dating profiles.)

But seriously, you need someone to be brutally honest with you about these things and employers will NEVER tell you what you need to know.

You're right. The insincere "wondering why" shouldn't have baited my response.

"And I can't help but wonder why this gets support but I am routinely downvoted and generally crapped for attempting to talk about what I have done to beat my medical death sentence"

Since you're being so rude here, I will note that it is probably because you are an unreliable narrator who "cures" herself with blogsourced finds and people have little need for advice that is not based in reality. You post about being shunned by multiple CF communities, I would be willing to guess that it is not because they are afraid of any stunning discoveries you have made.

Shazam doesn't try to run itself passively and report back to HQ when I don't need it to run.

Shazam also isn't the same level of data mining/profiling.

More users, more user engagement, more valuable content.

"generating revenue isn't the same thing as providing a valuable service"

Well, from the cited stats, it's not enough of a valuable service to generate sustainable revenue.

"How would you modify crossfit to make it safer and more effective and keep it fun"

But in that case, it probably wouldn't be Crossfit and maintain the same mass appeal.

"saw this work"

You mean saw a mock-up, employee of ConsumerPhysics.

A fictitious one?