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by Nihilartikel 409 days ago
At least it's not shitcoin crypto!
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Right, it's just potentially as our more destructive as the thin veneer of legitimacy allows this stuff to steal investment from actually useful things and cause epistemic collapse as it infiltrates our knowledge systems. But at least it's not counterfeit money.
This feels more like regular crypto. Has a use and doesn’t disappear but never delivers on its original promise.
> This feels more like regular crypto. Has a use...

That's debatable.

It has enabled an entire online commerce in illegal narcotics.
I mean...., the only use case I think of, is probably monero or de-regulation.

I mean, I am no crypto bro. But Monero is definitely an up for privacy as a privacy enthusiast.

It's pretty useful for committing crimes, I guess?
Committing crimes can be useful for humanity. Wherever you live, or come from, I can almost guarantee the current regime in your country was the result of treason, revolution or usurpation. It’s also quite likely that this event was a net positive for your country. Every single rebel, revolutionary and freedom fighter is someone elses criminal and terrorist.
Everyone that wants to transact privately and without censorship or middlemen is a criminal? This society is so sick that that's a common viewpoint