• GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn’t have a local dealer. It’s also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.

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      Fake money for criminals is unironically a decent addition to the world, although it’s coded in a really dumb way. Plagiarism machine is overhyped right now, but it also has some legit uses.

      So, the poll actually seems about right.

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      Fake criminal money more legit than government money. One day I woke up to the news that all my deposits are frozen indefinitely, that I am not allowed to carry cash abroad, and that I am not allowed to get bank accounts or transfers from any foreign institutions. .Thank fuck for crypto and that I had some. It literally saved my life, so yeah, fake criminal money by a long shot for me.

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    The exposure of hotels using surveillance pricing. A room should cost a hunnert bucks a night. Not $100 or $150 or $200 or $250 etc., depending on which “app” you pray to. Am I right Trivago?

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    Why is everyone so toxic? If you wanna discuss something be nice. (Even if you think that the person you are discussing with is a complete idiot)

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    The fake money for criminals is the best because there’s a lot of people that aren’t criminals that have bought in on it and among those the concensus is “I think a bunch of IT neck beards can build a better financial system better than the one that evolved over centuries”.

    The delusion is laughable.

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      Is a currency really that much better if it’s less stable than balancing two pyramids on their respective tips?

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        Bitcoin is the youngest currency around and u like all of the other currencies it isn’t mandated or controlled by governments. If inventions have to be 100% perfect out of the gate then you’ll never get anything new.

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          Bitcoin is the youngest currency around

          No it’s not, it’s the oldest (and as such, the worst in almost every way) crypto.

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          I think it had it’s time to cooldown from the extrme speculative volatility. It has lost it’s coolness factor in the mainstream after NFT and AI took over.
          Still as volative as ever.

          You can’t tell me a 11% drop in value can be considered a valid alternative.

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            You can’t be serious. Bitcoin is less than 20 years old and for most of that time almost everyone thought it was a joke. Most still do. Your timeframe for stabilization is disconnected from reality.

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      Honestly I think pretty much anyone could build a better financial system, and more people should try. What we have now is the result of centuries of unchecked power. This monetary policy was created by Richard Nixon and then we adopted a Keynesian rationale post facto. It didn’t evolve, it was stolen.

      If you’ve got another idea (including moneyless systems) I’m down to try that too, but what we’ve got right now is pure garbage, and having no out before the modern era doesn’t imply that it’s good.

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        The modern banking system and monetary policy was created under FDR. Nixon just stoped pretending it was backed on gold and told de Gaulle to kick rocks when he asked for the gold back.

        Realistically the changes under Nixon are peanuts compared to the digitization of it all since the introduction of systems like Swift.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    i’m going with the fake money for criminals, cuz sometimes the criminal in question is a trans person trying to get their medicine

    to my great annoyance, almost all diy hrt online can only be bought using crypto. and wow does it make you hate cryptobros to have to navigate an ecosystem clearly designed for speculation to get your life-saving medicine 🫠

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        the homebrewer i was buying from didn’t support this one, so i would’ve had to convert it, which means fees typically

        anyways, i don’t really care to maintain a crypto portfolio. i buy the coin when i buy the thing, so volatility isn’t too much of a concern. my main annoyance is at the bonkers fees that exchanges want because they (rightly) recognize cryptobros as a milkable consumer base

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    I miss when the tech business model was to find where buyers and sellers were interacting, insert an app in the middle and then add fees.

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    The illegal cab company made legal cabs cheaper and more competitive, after a decade of them charging high prices and pricing shitty service.

    Same thing happened when the illegal hotel company came along.