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by sdfhdhjdw3 1448 days ago
Crypto is one of the biggest active victim-blaming communities.

"Not your wallet not your coin", or whatever they like saying, is just is just deflection from valid criticism that crypto is very easy to exploit without recourse.

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I disagree. To me it's like saying passwords are broken because most people choose "password123". Or like saying dollar bills are bad because they can rip. Safety rails should be made of course, but if you aren't even maintaining basic hygiene within a system then I'm sorry but that's on you.

People are learning to use better passwords, and people learned long ago to keep their paper money in a wallet. The same will happen with crypto.

Passwords are broken because people choose “password123”. People work on all sorts of alternatives because of this.
It's funny how badly my criticism went over his head.
> The same will happen with crypto.

What’s the motivation for this to happen?

…and that woman was date raped because she wore a short minidress. It’s her fault! /s
How much do you think is the fair value of 1 bitcoin?
Check coinmarketcap - you don’t have to speculate about the market value because they list it.
I didn't ask about the "market value", and I wasn't asking you.
I have no idea. Certainly more than the cost of a pizza. There are 21 million, and if split evenly among the world population each person would get ~0.002625.

It depends on a lot of factors; like how important it might become for people to avoid using fiat or government controlled digital currencies, or how deeply integrated it could become in daily life.

Splitting it evenly among the world population seems completely irrelevant for this conversation.