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README.md

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 - [centralbank](centralbank)  - print your own money / cryptocurrency; run your own federated central bank nodes on the blockchain peer-to-peer over HTTP; revolutionize the world one block at a time
 - [tulipmania](tulipmania)  - tulips on the blockchain; learn by example from the real world (anno 1637) - buy! sell! hodl! enjoy the beauty of admiral of admirals, semper augustus, and more; run your own hyper ledger tulip exchange nodes on the blockchain peer-to-peer over HTTP; revolutionize the world one block at a time
-
+- [cryptquotes](cryptquotes) - incl. oracle tool to get a random crypto quote of the day on the command line - on the new new "in math we trust" ponzi economics - on get-rich-quick blockchain secrets - on bitcon maximalists, scammers, morons, clowns, shills & bagHODLers and more
 
 
 

cryptoquotes/Manifest.txt

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 Manifest.txt
 README.md
 Rakefile
+bin/oracle
+data/Amy_Castor.yml
+data/David_Gerard.yml
+data/Frances_Coppola.yml
+data/Nouriel_Roubini.yml
+data/Patrick_McKenzie.yml
+data/Trolly_McTrollface.yml
 lib/cryptoquotes.rb
 lib/cryptoquotes/version.rb

cryptoquotes/README.md

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 # Crypto Quotes
 
+
+> SEC Investor Education:
+> - Don't understand an investment?
+> - Don't invest in it.
+
+Yes, but what if there's only 21 million of it?
+
+  \- Trolly McTrollface
+
+
 cryptquotes library / gem - incl. oracle tool to get a random crypto quote of the day on the command line - on the new new "in math we trust" ponzi economics - on get-rich-quick blockchain secrets - on bitcon maximalists, scammers, morons, clowns, shills & bagHODLers and more
 
 
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 * rdoc  :: [rubydoc.info/gems/cryptoquotes](http://rubydoc.info/gems/cryptoquotes)
 
 
-## Usage
 
-to be done
 
 
+## Command Line
+
+Use the `oracle` command line tool. Try:
+
+```
+$ oracle -h
+```
+
+resulting in:
+
+```
+Usage: oracle [options]
+  Print wise oracle sayings / crypto quotes
+
+  Options:
+    -n, --number=NUM                 Number of quotes to print (default: 1)
+    -h, --help                       Prints this help
+```
+
+
+Let's give it a try. Ask the oracle (it's free):
+
+```
+$ oracle
+```
+
+printing:
+
+```
+We have not entered "Post Tether" yet.
+Tether is still furiously printing digital bucks.
+Who believes Bitcoin's price is organic?
+It's not - it's a Ponzi, and Tether is its Little Helper.
+
+> Austrian Maximalist comments:
+>
+> Bitcoin is not a ponzi. It is a monetary network, first of its kind.
+> Currently valued at 365 billion dollars. What am I missing?
+
+    - Amy Castor
+```
+
+Or lets try:
+
+```
+$ oracle -n2
+```
+
+printing:
+
+```
+A friend of mine, who works in finance, asked me to explain what Tether was.
+
+Short version: Tether is the internal accounting system for
+the largest fraud since Madoff's ponzi scheme.
+
+    - Patrick McKenzie
+
+
+Bitcoin manipulated well before tether started to manipulate it...
+
+See "A Bot Named Willy: Did Mt. Gox's Automated Trading Pump Bitcoin's Price?"
+
+    - Nouriel Roubini
+```
+
+
+## Usage in Your Scripts
+
+
+Yes, you can add the oracle into your own scripts.
+Example:
+
+``` ruby
+require 'cryptoquotes'
+
+Oracle.say        # or Oracle.says
+```
+
+printing
+
+
+```
+Bitcoin user guide:
+1. Buy Bitcoin.
+2. Never sell Bitcoin.
+3. Don't listen to Bitcoin critics.
+4. Tell your friends to buy Bitcoin.
+5. Tell your friends never to sell Bitcoin.
+6. Tell your friends not to listen to Bitcoin critics.
+7. Remember that Bitcoin isn't a pyramid scheme.
+
+> Austrian Maximalist comments:
+>   8. See super-rich legendary investors like Tudor Jones, Stanley Druckenmiller,
+>      Michael Saylor, etc. who wouldn't fall for mere pyramid schemes, buy and hold Bitcoin.
+
+    - Trolly McTrollface
+```
+
+
+If you want to get quotes in the source format
+(in memory)
+use the methods from `Quotes`. Example:
+
+```
+q = Quotes.random      # get a random quote (as as hash table)
+#=> {"quote"=>
+#   "Tether is \"too big to fail\" - the entire crypto industry utterly\n" +
+#   "depends on it. We just topped twenty billion alleged dollars' worth of tethers ($USDT).\n" +
+#   "If you think this is sustainable, you're a fool.\n",
+#  "date"=>#<Date: 2020-12-13>,
+#  "source"=>"https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1338215299737407490",
+#  "by"=>"David Gerard"}
+```
+
+That's it for now.
+
+
+
+
+## Sources
+
+The crypto quotes sourced from
+[100+ Crypto Quotes - On the New New "In Math We Trust" Ponzi Economics - On Get-Rich-Quick Blockchain Secrets - On Bitcon Maximalists, Scammers, Morons, Clowns, Shills & BagHODLers and More»](https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes)
+
 
 
 ## Install

cryptoquotes/bin/oracle

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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+###################
+# == DEV TIPS:
+#
+# For local testing run like:
+#
+#    ruby -Ilib bin/oracle
+#
+# Set the executable bit in Linux. Example:
+#
+#    % chmod a+x bin/oracle
+#
+
+require 'cryptoquotes'
+
+Oracle.main

cryptoquotes/data/Amy_Castor.yml

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 ###############
 #  Amy Castor
 
-- quote: | If you can print billions and billions in fake money,
+- quote: |
+    If you can print billions and billions in fake money,
     you can make the price of Bitcoin whatever you want - until too many people
     try and cash out, that is.
   date: 2020-12-01
   source: https://twitter.com/ahcastor/status/1333549071806603264
 
-
-- quote: | Binance, the Nº1 Tether exchange, is racing to get U.S. users off
+- quote: |
+    Binance, the Nº1 Tether exchange, is racing to get U.S. users off
     its exchange. We saw something similar with BitMex
     before its operators were indicted.
   date: 2020-11-24
   source: https://twitter.com/ahcastor/status/1331334231012720640
 
-- quote: | We have not entered "Post Tether" yet.
+- quote: |
+    We have not entered "Post Tether" yet.
     Tether is still furiously printing digital bucks.
     Who believes Bitcoin's price is organic?
     It's not - it's a Ponzi, and Tether is its Little Helper.
@@ -26,13 +28,15 @@
   date: 2020-12-01
   source: https://twitter.com/ahcastor/status/1333568275901345793
 
-- quote: | Ponzi's collapse when they can't keep up with cash withdrawals.
+- quote: |
+    Ponzi's collapse when they can't keep up with cash withdrawals.
     All frauds snowball over time because the real money keeps getting
     sucked out of the system.
   date: 2020-12-01
   source: https://twitter.com/ahcastor/status/1333560281897734144
 
-- quote: | If you need more help understanding how fake digital dollars hurt retail investors,
+- quote: |
+    If you need more help understanding how fake digital dollars hurt retail investors,
     look at what happened to Mt. Gox and  Quadriga.
     Eventually, the Ponzi collapses, because there is not enough real money in the system.
   date: 2020-12-01

cryptoquotes/data/David_Gerard.yml

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 - quote: |
-    Bitcoin mining.  Bitcoin's BIG PROBLEM is that it uses a country's worth of electricity
+    On Bitcoin mining:  Bitcoin's BIG PROBLEM is that it uses a country's worth of electricity
     to run the most inefficient payment network in human history.
 
     People don't seem to know this! and I tell them, and they get angry.

cryptoquotes/data/Frances_Coppola.yml

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 ################
-#  Frances Coppola 
+#  Frances Coppola
 
-- quote: | The inventors of Bitcoin wanted to create a better financial system,
+- quote: |
+    The inventors of Bitcoin wanted to create a better financial system,
     but have succeeded only in creating another casino.
   date: 2020-11-30
   source: https://twitter.com/Frances_Coppola/status/1333309244528091136