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by tombert 141 days ago
Despite still not really showing any utility these tech companies want so so so much for cryptocurrency to catch on.

It feels like the entirety of cryptocurrency, outside of being a thing people used to buy drugs, has been an example of Chesterton's Fence, with half of Silicon Valley in denial of this fact.
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groundzeros2015 141 days ago
I think HN is just getting more old and conservative (lowercase c) and is not interested in new things in this area.

We have people in this thread praising KYC.

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prussia 141 days ago
The pendulum has swung a little too far that way, for sure. But when the so-called "cryptocurrency" industry either have business models that are barely concealed ponzis/rugpulls, or run their own "cryptocurrencies" that are only marginally better than a centralised database, it's hard to blame the critics.

Satoshi Nakamoto must be rolling in his grave.

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groundzeros2015 141 days ago
I agree, but that doesn’t make this comment correct.
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tombert 141 days ago
A lot of us were victims of the FTX/Gemini Earn bullshit, where we were taken in by "stablecoins" and promises of safety only to have our stuff stolen.

You could say "bad apples" and fair enough, but even with that as a given, I haven't seen any utility out of cryptocurrency as a whole. I'm sure you can find to a nifty little tech demo for something, but I haven't seen any large adoption for cryptocurrency outside of a "greater fool" investment scheme or buying drugs.

Stablecoins are kind of a cute idea, but as I learned from the unregistered security scam from Gemini, they're basically just a farce.

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