Vaccine conspiracy material

COVID-19 vaccines currently approved for use are undeniably safe and effective.

Select this box if you see any posts expressing refusal to become vaccinated, that vaccines are more risky than getting the disease itself (they're not), that people getting vaccines are "NPCs", or other conspiracy material regarding vaccines (5G, microchips, Bill Gates, the like).

Purchase of or shilling purchasing physical gold

Physical gold is often promoted as a "safe haven" investment and "inflation hedge."

Select this box if the user is promoting such an investment, or reports having invested in physical gold.

COVID-19 conspiracy material

COVID-19 is real, but this cohort of social media users never seem to shut up about how COVID-19 is fake/planned/etc.

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"Ethereum is the future of finance"

Some strongly believe that in the future, Ethereum and the decentralized applications running on it will displace traditional financial services and institutions.

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"I got rugged"

Rug pulls happen depressingly often in DeFi, often causing massive losses for investors.

Select this box if the user reports that they experienced a rug pull, or they got "rugged."

Attempts to pump shitcoin bags

Select this box if you see posts promoting or shilling any non-major cryptocurrency with the strong implication that the user is trying to help its price recover.

Vague prediction of the stock market crashing

Predictions of an imminent stock market crash are exceedingly common. Predictions that pan out seem to be exceedingly uncommon.

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Pepe the Frog

Pepe the Frog is a green anthropomorphic frog. Many variations of this frog have been created for more memes.

Select this box if you see this frog or any of its many variations.

Pink Wojak

The Pink Wojak is a variation of the Wojak character tinted pink and with bleeding eyes. It is typically used to express extreme frustration.

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Wallet hacked, funds lost

Self-custodial cryptocurrency wallets (such as Metamask) require the user to carefully manage their private key and ensure it is not stolen. Anyone with the private key is able to send funds from the corresponding wallet.

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TradingView chart without explanation

TradingView is a commonly-used application for charting of financial data and technical analysis. Users can easily share screenshots of their charts.

Select this box if the user posts such a chart without accompanying it with any explanation.

Tungsten cube

Tungsten is a dense metal that, for some reason, has become fashionable to own in the form of a cube.

Select this box if the user has purchased a tungsten cube.

Name ends in .eth

Ethereum Name Service is a decentralized naming system for Ethereum. It assigns domain names to Ethereum addresses, and its domains end in ".eth".

Select this box if the user has suffixed their username with ".eth", regardless of whether they actually own the corresponding ENS domain.

Tether FUD

Tether (USDT) is a cryptocurrency that is purportedly backed 1:1 with reserves of US Dollars. It is unclear whether this is actually true.

Select this box if you see any material spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) about Tether.

Ethereum price hopium

Select this box if you see any posts showing false hope that the price of Ethereum will move in a given direction.

See: hopium

Profile picture is from an NFT

Many users decide to flaunt an NFT they supposedly "own" by setting its corresponding picture as their user profile photo.

Select this box if the user has a profile picture that is from a recognizable NFT collection.

User implies they are evading taxes

Select this box if the user makes a post that strongly implies that they are committing tax evasion.

Elon Musk worship

Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla. He is (in)famous for his obsession(?) with meme tokens, like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu.

Select this box if you see any post worshipping him.

"I got liquidated"

Liquidation refers to the forcible automatic closure of a leveraged position in an asset to avoid incurring further losses. Typically, this occurs when the trading account is at risk of becoming insolvent.

In the space of cryptocurrencies, highly-leveraged derivative and margin products are common and easy to access, and extremely dangerous in the wrong hands.

Select this box if the user posts about such an event happening to them.

Vitalik Buterin worship

Vitalik Buterin is best known as a co-founder of Ethereum.

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"Taxation is theft"

Select this box if the user uses the phrase "taxation is theft" or words to that effect.

"US Dollar is the real shitcoin"

Select this box if the user expresses any sentiment that the US Dollar is a shitcoin.

The author would like to note that most cryptocurrencies are, as of writing, still quoted in terms of the US Dollar.

"Bitcoin mining is good for the environment"

Mining Bitcoin and other "proof of work" cryptocurrencies uses massive amounts of electricity and generates enormous amounts of e-waste.

Select this box if the user nonetheless makes any claim that Bitcoin mining is "green" or "good for the environment."

Binance Smart Chain = Binance Scam Chain

Binance Smart Chain is an Ethereum fork by cryptocurrency exchange Binance. It achieves some amount of scalability by massively decreasing decentralization.

Select this box if the user expresses a sentiment that Binance Smart Chain is a scam, or similar.