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by iamwpj 1275 days ago
Despite what people might tell you the only market for crypto is "vibes". You can tell the bad bones of the market since a single idea (Bitcoin) got renamed "crypto" -- a word short for cryptography which has nothing to do with these currency systems.

I'm not sold on cash being in our longterm future, but I can tell you the blockchain backed free from corporate overlords is also not in the tea leaves. If you're defending crypto today and hoping for a resurgence you are definitely not going to like the resulting success if it ever does come. It will be part of a corporate hellscape or a tool backed against some sick merit system -- who knows.

Money systems cannot be improved to help people. They are only useful to the people in power.