Only 1997 DCM will be issued

While mainstream media gives free advertising that money just cannot buy.

The Aikido approach

In short this means that one adapts to the movement of an attacker. To blend in with minimal effort to counter the attack and create and effective defense. Though being a Japanese form of martial art, it also relates to the principle of TAO, or the way/ the path. Going with the flow, grabbing the momentum and putting it to good use. In the Cryptos realm it looks like we could do with some healthy Aikido response to the recent wave of attacks from the dark side. The old powers that be, banks, governments, some multinationals, their controlled education system and the mainstream media. It really looks like 2018 started with a big offensive against Cryptos. And what does come with that? Mentioning the legendary TULIP bulb mania of 1637 and of course the DOTCOM bubble that started in 1997. Suggesting that these events ended theses markets for ever and always.

But is this true? Ask the flower business if you can still buy Tulip flowers and if there is a profit in that. The Netherlands have not become a well known TULIP selling country. Sure Amsterdam is known for many things, but not for TULIPs right? Ah well, it won't be a billion dollar market I guess... Oh, dang it actually is. Never mind that, there are no expensive TULIP bulbs anymore. Eurm, well maybe 100 EURO is not to be considered expensive. The Double Flaming Bird it is called and some apparantly do want to pay a lot of money to get their hands on them. Sure you won't buy a house with one, but the Tulip business is flourishing worldwide. And it gets the Netherlands a lot of free advertising in many ways. Tourists visit Amsterdam for more than just cannabis and sex. They also come for the canals, OldAmtsterdam cheese and Tulips, off course...

Yes, but when the DOTCOM bubble bursted in the year 2000 it ended all e-commerce and it closed down the internet for good. Ow, sorry, that is fake-news, I guess, please forgive me this mistake. Yes, some companies went bust, a few promised mountains of gold and everybody wanted to get in on it. That is a human story that repeats itself, over and over again. And it will be that way as long as money is needed to survive in the global ratrace. But when the so called DOTCOM bubble supposedly began in 1997, no one got in with the idea that they would like it to burst somewhere in the year 2000. Some call it a crash, others prefer to call it a correction. Seems to me now that indeed correction is a better description of what happened. As we can cleary see the proof now that DOTCOM is a booming business, that only could be that way thanks to the internet. That has become a major part of our day to day life.

Gold will attract robbers too

Those who have been Crypto veterans already have seen many bubbles burst. In 1997 Hashcash came into excistence, not many know this predecessor to Bitcoin, but it was created by mister Adam Back. It had the fist Proof Of Work mining system and created a kind of digital stamps to fight of email SPAM. About twelve years later Bitcoin introduced the Blockchain and the Cryptocurrency BTC to the world. Some laughed at it, some bought two pizzas with 10'000 BTC, it was a crazy time back then. And where the so called DOTCOM bubble lasted for about three years, Bitcoin BTC is soon to celebrate its 10th birhday in 2019. Because it is free open sourced under MIT license anybody could create their own fork. Some that came after were usefull too, like Litecoin LTC and Dogecoin DOGE. But many came that just were after a pump 'n dump cash in. It was even possible to have them Bitcoin forks custom made. If you has some BTC to spare...

That was a bubble that bursted within the Cryptos realm. A lot of gold-digging forks, all in all I think there were about 5'000 different forks. Most of them jsut being complete and utter rubbish, just get-rich-quick schemes. Unfortunately a lot of people fel for those ones losing their savings. But that happened during the economical debt crash of the Banks too in 2008 and we are still bailing them out. And no guarantee it wont happen again any day soon now. Cryptos cannot be bailed out and they are debt free, that seems like a good solid base to me. But still the Cryptos realm had another challenge, ICO {Innitial Coin Offerings}. A lot of them were the real deal, but again it also attracked the gold-diggers from the get-rich-quick realm in. And the same happened with the ICOs as with the forks. Many proved to be scams. As happened with a new trend: cloning an excisting blockchain, renaming it, add some words to sell it and hey presto: richness all over the place. It is something that happens everywhere, not just in Cryptos.

Golden opportunity

So all these claims in the mainstream media with professors and know-it-alls. Politicians that want a nice job in a high position after they have been in government, preferably at some bank, they do tend to threaten a lot. And in this massive attack on Cryptos some things are being repeated over and over again in mainstream media. Things like the TULIP bulb mania and Bitcoin being even worse than that. Well, just repeat the word TULIP, as there is actually a very rare asset on the Waves DEX that has that name. Free advertising I'd say. And on behalf of the people of the Netherlands I also say thank you for all that free Tulip advertising. It is a kind of like those annoying advertisements for washing powders. It'll stick to you and when you are in the supermarket you will recognise it right away. So, I'd say, use it to our adantage the Aikido way. Go with the flow.

That is why I decided to create another Asset on the Waves Platform that fits the Aikido principle. If one developement proved that it was just a rough correction in 2000, it was the DOTCOM. And what is being used next to the TULIP to try and state that Bitcoin and Cryptos would end? Yes, DOTCOM, therefore I give you a newly created asset with that name. It only has that name, in capitals, as I know for sure there will be copycats soon, this is the right ID of the DOTCOM asset on the Waves DEX platform: 6JHBYXmndYMgh2XQZwWX81fVSDKyhv4bpoctiruetUo7. There are only 1997 to be issued and the consist of a 1000 milli DCM. Just like the TULIP asset, very rare. Just 1'997'000 milli DOTCOM, much more scarse than Bitcoin. What it will do? Will it be good for holding value? Does it have any use to it? Only the market will tell.

And one thing is for sure, the advertising is going to be huge, all over mainstream media, for free. You cannot buy that kind of advertising. That is the Aikido TAO.

May the Cryptos be with us!

Now how to handout these 1997 DOTCOMs?

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