Fasters's definitions

Piflation

Short for “Pi Inflation.” The pi equivalent of inflation, when more digits of the decimal number π are needed over time for computational or practical purposes to achieve a better accuracy or to prevent potential astronomical mishaps.

In the past, ordinary folks needed at most three digits of π for most everyday math computations; later, rocket scientists used fifteen digits for interplanetary missions; and today numerologists need millions of them to search for someone’s date of birth, cellphone number, wedding anniversary, or lottery or lucky numbers—piflation is inevitable to satisfy man’s ever-growing mathematical needs and wants.

by Fasters January 18, 2023

ZKP

Short for “zero-knowledge proof.” A method used in cryptography to prove ownership of a specific piece of knowledge without revealing the content of that knowledge, thus ensuring that data can be shared without sharing personal information.

Thanks to ZKP, someone can prove a particular fact sans revealing that information, thereby creating the required trust to perform a transaction on the darknet.

by Fasters January 19, 2023

GTX

The next Ponzi crypto platform—set up by the co-founders of the bankrupt crypto hedge fund “Three Arrows Capital,” in partnership with the co-founders of CoinFLEX, which recently filed for debt restructuring to recover their losses—that would allow customers from ex-unicorns like FTX, Celsius, and Luna to trade their crypto bankruptcy claims in exchange for a new cryptocurrency called “USDG.”

Trump had this bigly idea over the weekend, as he discussed with his golf buddies whether he’d launch HTX, named after FTX and GTX, to raise a few billions from MAGA patriots, who got burnt by dishonest and disgraced crypto co-founders—his proposed motto is to “Make Crypto Great Again.”

by Fasters January 24, 2023

Day Zero

The day when you wake up and are 100% free from any bondages of a boss, because you are now getting paid without having to work—you have graduated from a tired-and-broke entrepreneur (who used to slave for sixty to eighty hours a week for yourself to avoid working forty hours a week for someone else) to a passivepreneur.

From Day Zero, you no longer need an alarm clock as you could sleep through until you feel like waking up to have your breakfast at any time of the day.

by Fasters January 28, 2023

π success

A geekspeak term for “50% success”—indirectly referring to the angle measure of a semicircle being π radians or 180 degrees.

For simple-minded persons, “π success” would sound like a cool way to mean “3.14% success,” but not so for symbol-minded Martians.

by Fasters January 28, 2023

Pigami

The art of folding a square piece of paper into a π-like shape.

On Pi Day, the winner of the Pigami Contest, which will be held outside a Japanese bookstore, will be given a book voucher worth $314.15.

by Fasters January 29, 2023

Lunar New Year

A new year term used by someone (who doesn’t approve of China’s internal politics and its foreign policy in bribing or bullying many poor or developing natural resources-rich countries) to their Chinese friends, foes, or fiends rather than using “Chinese New Year.”

If you want to be in the good books of the Chinese communists or nationalists, use “Chinese Lunar New Year,” not the arguably disrespectful “Lunar New Year” or the highly disparaging “Korean Lunar New Year” to infuriate them.

by Fasters January 29, 2023