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by mkatx 873 days ago
But seriously, there are 1000's of cryptocurencies, you can't logic the possibility that even one was built with 'non-scammy' intentions? Cause 1 is all it takes to refute that 'ceyotocurrencies are inherently a scam'.

I'm sure your being vacecious, but there are those that would comment that seriously.
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spankalee 873 days ago
Yes, I think digital scarcity is a scam.

But that's not really the point. You seem to think that I can't really exist and any "person" with such an "opinion" is a part of a propaganda operation or trying somehow to artificially lower the price (with a post!) to buy in.

Can you accept that real people think crypto is a scam?

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mkatx 873 days ago
Happily, I really appreciate your opinion, your part of the conversation.

I said "There are so many 'people' online", implying that there is a lot of propaganda being passed off as opinion. How much? How real? Well, I was giving my opinion on that.

I'm not saying that YOU are this propaganda, but challenging you to defend your point helps to fight, and weed out, the propaganda I'm talking about. Sounds like you might have read it?

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daveguy 873 days ago
Whether a crypto is built with non-scammy intentions has little bearing on whether it is used as the vehicle for scams. And a permanent, uncorrectable ledger as the sole truth of transfer of funds is perfect for scams.
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mkatx 873 days ago
"Whether a crypto is built with non-scammy intentions has little bearing on whether it is used as the vehicle for scams."

Many things can be used as a vehicle to scam to varying degrees, to say that cryptocurrency is inherently a scam in and of itself, is not accurate, as it certainly has non-scam use cases, just like non-cryptocurrencies.

I'm happy to debate, but I don't think either of us are wrong so far, as what you said and what I said are both not mutually exclusive. But if you are asserting that cryptocurrency is in and of itself a scam, I'm happy to have a healthy debate.

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dartos 873 days ago
I’m sure that somewhere in crypto land there are people really trying to show the good crypto can bring.

I’m sure a fair amount of them get screwed over by bad actors.

But it’s undeniable that the most successful strategy (at least in terms of gaining popularity) is making a pyramid scheme, but automated.

That may say something more about humans than crypto, but it is what it is.

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