• xavier666@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    even if the crypto thing was NOT a scam (which is rare, I know).

    that comment had to hurt the crypto community hard

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      4 months ago

      The people who still don’t know have built up a level of ignorance to miss any kind of message like that.

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      4 months ago

      TBH I feel like it’s much harder for anti-crypto ideologues to admit that crypto has non-scam usages. Or to admit that fiat currency is a scam so huge that it’s literally destroying the planet.

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        4 months ago

        to be fair, buying drugs or untraceable money transfers are totally a use case of crypto (basically everything that is illegal)

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          4 months ago

          untraceable money transfers

          Crypto is very traceable though - every transaction that has ever happened is in a public ledger!

          There’s usually a transfer to or from fiat currency at some point, and there’s been several cases where Bitcoin transfers have been traced to a real person using that.