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by ramblerman 1402 days ago
> Who can look me in the eye with a straight face and say bitcoin protects against volatility? That bitcoin "protects exactly" against mismanaged economy and corrupt government?

You are conflating volatility and corruption

Bitcoin won't protect you against the former (and neither did the lebanese pound), but it does offer protection against the latter.

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With bit coin, and other cryoto, being using as the go to way to oay ransom attacks I highly doubt bitcoin does anything other than making corruotion easier.
And tech support scammers use Apple gift cards, so obviously Apple is just a giant scam too
If gift cards were everything Apple did, yes thatbwould be true. Since obviously gift cards are not everything Apple does, it is clearly not true.