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by forgetfreeman 1278 days ago
Sad news friend. I am extremely technical and was mining btc 18 months before Starbucks would let you buy a cup of coffee with it so yeah I know how it works. What modern internet funbux aficionados consistently fail to grasp is there isn't a coin in existence that cannot be trivially decoupled from the larger economy through nothing more complicated than removing market-makers incentives to accept them as value tokens. Go meditate on the xkcd where a crypto geek gets worked over with a wrench for his password until enlightenment is achieved.