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by phaistra 1470 days ago
You literally just described most of Wall Street and most of the finance industry too.
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Sort of, it's all very abstracted but at the end of the day the investments generally represent value being produced. Goods being created, services being rendered. Crypto, for the most part, is proof that someone, somewhere had a computer that did a thing.