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[+] -23 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Regulate society for the greatest good. Living in a playground for the ultra-wealthy is not it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That's whom cryptocurrency confidence games is currently serving, though. It vacuums off bad investors far more than bad markets ever could have, and leaves society to deal with the mess. Stablecoins is just another way to pass off the sort of bad debt that has led to bank rescues of the past and the fall of Lehman Brothers. You say you are tying it to currency, and then begin tying it off to bad debt obligations.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't worry about the downvotes bro. Lemmy has a knee jerk aversion to crypto, even though the ideals of the fediverse and the ideals of crypto are very much aligned

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Ideals and reality are vastly different things.

    Much like the the american dream, capitalism, etc, no matter the system, if people are able to hoard wealth, they hoard power.

    Crypto does nothing to change anything except make hoarding easier since the supply is finite.

    Crypto is not anonymous.(no matter how hard you believe) Crypto is not about your freedom. Crypto is not going to make the world a better place.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Totally hear you — crypto isn’t perfect, and yeah, hoarding happens just like in any system. But that’s more a human problem than a crypto one.

    Crypto is a tool, and how it is used is what matters. It can be used to speculate on ridiculous monkey JPEGs, or scam people or it can be used to send money across borders without middlemen, resist censorship, and invest without being subject to the big banks.

    It’s not a silver bullet, but it does open up new possibilities that the current system just doesn’t.

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