[–] 3 points 3 months ago

i didn't stick around long enough to find out; i left on the same day i learned that they were targeted with 3rd party spam adds to buy worthless crap and i couldn't be a party to smiling at someone's face while they shared their hopes of keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table using the stock market since they couldn't find work.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    better than the stock market.

    i used to do technical support for a startup that enabled people to trade themselves on the stock market and it made me feel disgusting when i learned that 99% of the user base were desperate people that couldn't find work so were using the stock market as a last ditch gambit.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Right! Monero still has it's use avoiding state oppression. The concept of smart contracts is still very promising to me too.

    Unfortunalty a finance innovation was ripe to be overwhelmed in our current financial system. After that the innovation has taken a major back burner with the exception of zero knowledge roll ups.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 4 months ago

    if it was promised as a "store of value" or in simple terms "price will go up forever infinitely", what kind of use cases to expect? Fun part is that they attracted gamblers with this false promises and now losing the same gamblers because bigger and nicer bubble appeared.

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