• Lena@gregtech.eu
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    3 days ago

    I don’t see why people hate on crypto. It’s an amazing technology, fully decentralized, with mathematical proof that no one can cheat or abuse it.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t have any issues with crypto, but it’s more so the people who promote it. They tend to be techno-billionaires Who want to make something needlessly complicated and expensive or else creating a currency that has no real value. The other issue is that it’s computationally expensive and not as good for the environment as other payment methods.

      I myself, am a proponent of cbdc, but the government has outlawed any creation of a consumer cbdc

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        3 days ago

        Fiat currencies can be abused too.

        And I know, I know, crypto is used for scams, but does that make it any less valuable for you? I assume you don’t scam people.

        Edit: also wdym by “abused”?

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          I meant scams, rent seeking behavior by minors and payment processors, using bitcoin as an investment rather than for its utility as a currency.

          Then there is the environmental issue from back when all the mining was done and what it did to GPU prices.

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            3 days ago

            Minors got too much power, which is why they aren’t releasing the Epstein files.

            Oh, miners is what you meant.