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by hospitalJail 1139 days ago
I'm with you on every crypto except Bitcoin, but nothing about bitcoin should make you nervous.

Its nice you live in a country with a stable currency that doesnt hyperinflate. Not everyone has this luxury. Zimbabwe and Venezuela come to mind.
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sleepybrett 1139 days ago
Look at all that virtue.

Bitcoin started a literal tsunami of financial crimes, I feel bad for hyperinflated countries and if they find some use in bitcoin that's great for them, but I for one will stay the fuck away from anything blockchain related if I can help it.

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ipaddr 1139 days ago
That's how my grandmother feels about the internet.
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sleepybrett 1133 days ago
Turns out the internet has proven upsides, not sure you can say that about crypto with a straight face.
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hospitalJail 1139 days ago
On a similar note, cellphones/internet allow all sorts of crime. Cars, make it easy to commit crimes. Food, allows people to use energy to fuel themselves to commit crimes. Water/boats/international trade: huge for crime. Cash, great for crime. Government, could be complicit in crime.

ChatGPT says you used "hasty generalization" fallacy, but I'm not sure that is the correct fallacy. You have a fallacy here.

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tsuujin 1139 days ago
Nah, that’s not the hasty generalization fallacy. They didn’t say “bitcoin allows for crime to happen”, they said bitcoin has been the center of a huge amount of actual financial crime.

I think that’s the observation fallacy, where you look at what’s happening and then state it out loud.

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pcthrowaway 1139 days ago
> but nothing about bitcoin should make you nervous.

The energy consumption of bitcoin does in fact make me very nervous.

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