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by etrautmann 1925 days ago
Why does anyone need to be part of a community around a currency? I don’t feel a sense of community based on being a dollar user.
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I chuckled. I know the last sentence was meant as joke but here's an answer anyway: because the dollar is not a pyramid scheme. Whereas any new currency that doesn't have a fair distribution mechanism will be. The earliest adopters in such flawed currencies will always have an increasingly disproportionate amount of the total wealth as it gets adopted. Hence the incentive for communities to spread awareness of their pyramid scheme, whether they realise it or not.