Pyrite

A brass-colored mineral, FeS2, occurring widely, used as an iron ore and used in producing sulfur dioxide for sulfuric acid. Also known as fool's gold because it looked like gold and people used to think it was.

a delusional fan of an eastern NC university, that thinks they should be in the SEC because of their inferior sports teams. You see this most during the football season. They have trouble beating universities and colleges from the piedmont of NC as well.

the name given to a troll that shills for bitcoin in internet discussions, and whose behavior toward others is always toxic when those discussions might have any hint of negativity about bitcoin; usually posts under a pseudonym or anonymously; most often found in discussion forums such as Slashdot and Reddit, and/or article comment sections. They'll often write in support of/upvote their own replies using sockpuppet accounts. They are also sometimes referred to as a Bitcoin Cultist or Bitcoin Maximalist.

Gets their name for two reasons:

1. they often compare all forms of currency other than bitcoin as being as worthless as the mineral pyrite in their arguments when shilling for bitcoin
2. they themselves are chasing the "fool's gold" (bitcoin) in religious/cultist ways

Some believe that no self-respecting bitcoin owner would waste their time to make their arguments to people whom they consider "a lost cause" themselves, and since most of these troll posters keep replying in discussions with the same tired arguments concocted in their echo chambers ad infinitum (i.e. to always get the last word), it is thought that these posters are simply poor people getting paid by said bitcoiners per post, likely in Dogecoin.

A derogatory slur for any supporter of the bitcoin technology with no regard for context or reasoning. Most often used by trolls, wall street coke fiends, people invested in the various knock-off technologies or existing financial system establishment.

Pyrite code is what occurs when a finished program is subjected to constant tinkering and updates, resulting in frequent glitches and bugs. The term stems from gold code, which is what programmers call a finished program, minus any patches or fully-formed updates; the code is golden. Pyrite is also known as fool's code.

Pyrite/ Pyrite Gender: A gender presentation that looks like a man or a woman, but they don't identify that way. Like fool's gold.

a disingenuous and fake disposition.

Opposite: Heart of Gold.