Cryptocurrencies have various use cases:
- moving money from and to sanctioned countries, like Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Russia
- paying for criminal activities, like hitmen, organs, drugs
- scams
In most cases, they do more harm than good.
Replace crypto with cash and all those things are true, and yet…
Bitcoin is the currency of pedos. Crypto is used to pay people in the global south to abuse children live on ppv streams. The real amazing things is the EU wants to ban encryption which is a basic right to privacy instead of banning crypto and in a double whammy fuck the orange pedo in chief and his suppliers and drug traffickers in one fell swoop.
To be fair saying crypto is the currency of pedos is like castigating dollars for being the currency of the pedos. By the same logic we could condemn about anything. Crypto by volume is used way more by scammers than pedos anyway. 40 billion just in romance scams out of SE Asia run by Chinese Gangs with forced labor that is mostly run through crypto I presume.
But that doesn’t mean crypto should be illegalized for that alone either. The governments will always use those examples to lock everything down under their control and the consequences of that are far worse than the free wheeling problems that came before.
Yessss. Just get more ddr4 and GPUs onto the market.
Sadly? bitcoin miners are using ASICs and other cryptos are using proof of stake so don’t get your hopes up.
damn it peaked at 125k last time.
Every time this happens I hope it’s the final one, and so far every time I’ve been disappointed.
same
I think you might wanna get ready for more disappointment, say maybe two or three years from now
Quantum computing will eventually make specifically Bitcoin worthless. Eth at least gets upgrades, so it might survive.
Some people is saying that Quantum compunting is a hype too. But I am no expert.
Nature is healing
Finally. Let us be free of crypto please.
You are free of crypto.
no one is forcing you to use it
Tell that to my arms dealer.
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Yeah. Let’s give banks all the power.
Like they don’t already have it?
Stay in school.
serious question, what power has Bitcoin gained away from banks?
Every movement of money outside of the banks is taking power away from the banks and governments.
While they will use bad actors as excuses to shut down this flow outside their direct control, the effects from them having a monopoly are far far worse than the free wheeling consequences that came before, and ecompass many of the same problems.
Much of this crypto is a scam, and gamble stocks, and bad for the environment, yet the idea, money moving outside the control of the banks and governments, is a neccessity to prevent the worst case scenarios we are staring down the barrel of right now. There are worse things than unregulated currency, and an all powerful government(s) run by the worst most malicious people in the world are one of them.
You can report critically on Israel without being debanked from Bitcoin. https://www.mintpressnews.com/german-journalist-potter-israel/289421/
It’s not just bitcoin, but cryptocurrency in general enables decentralized transactions and some of them even maintain anonymity for users.
Why not go further and imagine a world without money, crypto or fiat?
Bitcoin doesn’t give power to you or me, it just transfers the power from one set of bastards to another, because it’s STILL MONEY and money is and will always be a tool for exploitation.
until you need actual cash, in which case you give your identity to any reputable exchange.
also who actually benefits from “decentralized” transactions? specifically who and how.
also, that anonymity is what cash is for.
that anonymity is what cash is for.
Crytpo is a currency of crime and corruption. The biggest problem Pablo Escobar had was moving around thousands of pounds of money, a lot of which he had to bury and was eaten by rats. Cash is hard to launder. Ryan Wedding grew his empire very fast using crypto across borders.
The only advantage of crypto is that it doesn’t physically exist, and no one has to report sending or receiving large quantities of it, unlike cash.
$1M in 20s is 40-50kg of weight. Hard to smuggle up your ass.
until you need actual cash
Crypto can replace cash if more people use it.
also who actually benefits from “decentralized” transactions? specifically who and how.
Everyone that doesn’t benefit from the surveillance state.
also, that anonymity is what cash is for.
How are you going to exchange cash across vast distances quickly and anonymously?
finally!
these posts always make me laugh and feel good and want to check in/snoop on some past acquaintances, or at least check the obits.
