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I've noticed quite big overlap between doom-preppers and cryptocurrencies true-believers. Even here in Sweden, the people I know who got very into crypto fall usually between: speculators trying to make a quick buck (coming from day-trading, etc.); doom-preppers that bought BTC, silver, gold, and other "stores of value" they believe will save them from a societal collapse; gullible people thinking that crypto is a safe way to make a lot of money quickly (so get-rich-quickly schemers).

I've met quite a lot of people invested in crypto around here (seems to be quite a big fad for a few years now) and only one had proper understanding of the technical aspects and believed in the technology itself to solve other problems that aren't just finance scams. One from a pool of 100+ people that I had conversations about crypto in the past 4 years.

Nowadays I simply avoid any chat around crypto in real-life, the signal-to-noise ratio is so damn low that it's impossible to have a good, intellectual conversation around it, it's a rotten subject.