• kescusay@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Same as their past: Get-rich-quick schemes, outright scams, massive wastes of electricity, criminal funding tools, investment instruments that aren’t backed by actual companies making anything (and are therefore 100% speculation)… and sometimes some interesting technology.

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      10 months ago

      investment instruments that aren’t backed by actual companies making anything (and are therefore 100% speculation)

      Yep, only the evil bad crypto has ever done this! Our revered financial institutions would never sanction such filt-

      2008 enters the room

      SHIT

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      10 months ago

      That’s the sad state of things right now, but I hope things will change for the better, and crypto will become an acceptable way to keep and spend money (rather than ponzi ICO schemes, or sorry, “investment”). I also hope that more crypto switch to proof-of-stake to avoid the huge waste of energy, though that has its own problems as well (fears of more centralization, though this didn’t happen with ETH, or at least not yet).

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        10 months ago

        So no improvements, but a bigger ecological cost. So we should dump crypto, got it!