[brosirmandude]

It depends on your definition of productive but in my opinion it's creating wealth, companies, & jobs.

People are going into work every day to work on crypto-related products. Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies are putting food on the table for those people.

[bena]

That's a rather low bar.

Scamming people can also put food on your table. Stealing can put food on your table. Neither is particularly productive.

[kolbe]

But then we get to hire policemen and prison wardens!

[blueline]

> it's creating wealth, companies, & jobs

based 100% on people trying to make a quick buck, and not based on solving a problem virtually anyone actually has.

by this bar, Dutch tulips in the 1600s were also extremely productive

[kolbe]

It's fine that you have that definition. And certainly I can understand why you want the words to mean that. But that's just not what a 'productive asset' is. You can have your own language, and that's cool, but creating your own definitions to invalidate someone else's use of that word is just ridiculous.

[s73v3r_]

People are doing the same for the IRS scams that pop up around tax time, too.