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by bendtheblock 1492 days ago
Regulation can’t come soon enough. These are risky assets at best. People are getting hurt.

Just think how much real tech talent has been wasted on this pointless experiment. This could have gone into fintech, greentech, healthtech, proptech etc anything else really that creates real value.

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Or adtech, or more adtech, or even more adtech, or how about some adtech?

That's pretty much what the majority of tech companies boil down to nowadays, or at least some free service (or paid + ads!) that's a trojan horse to get ad revenue.

crypto is a branch of fintech though
If you squint at it hard enough, a bomb is a combustion engine.
Ok - the non crypto bit of fintech. Basically anything else but this