Finally. Let us be free of crypto please.
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Yessss. Just get more ddr4 and GPUs onto the market.
most miners have calculated the rate for electricity to keep their rigs profitable and have automatic kill switches based on market prices. it's not exactly news that rigs are turning off right now
Cryptocurrencies have various use cases:
- moving money from and to sanctioned countries, like Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Russia
- paying for criminal activities, like hitmen, organs, drugs
- scams
In most cases, they do more harm than good.
Replace crypto with cash and all those things are true, and yet...
The point of crypto is to remove control of currency, so does it do that or not?
The point of crypto is it is controlled via programmed rules, depending on the type, which in theory would make it more fair if coded properly.
You're talking about programming control, I'm taking about macroeconomic control. Switching to crypto removes many of the levers of macroeconomic control, or it shifts the control over to exchanges, mediators (courts), miners, validators, whales, and - probably not what crypto boosters want to hear - governments, who remain the power brokers and can easily assume these roles. Moreover, if crypto boosters think banks won't use their enormous capital, power and overall economics expertise to shift into one of these roles, they're delusional. I feel like crypto boosters think that banks just "don't get it", and this is ludicrous...banks have hundreds of years of institutional economic knowledge and experience. Economics doesn't just get invalidated by crypto.
All of this ignores the fact that crypto is highly susceptible to volatility and scamming overall. Crypto has a larger more complex attack surface at the application layer, and this makes it substantially more risky particularly as malicious technology advances in that domain and can quickly outpace the technology required to secure against it.
Look I don't have time to point by point give my takes, however I find it very funny when volatility and scamming are brought up as if that's not rampant in literally every economic system.
I also don't see how a transparent ledger with programming to ensure payments complete as expected is more risky then the opaque banking system also running nearly entirely online just behind closed doors in banks is any better.
Haven't we already learned security through obscurity is not actually security?
I will say, the corporate/banking takeover of BTC happened over a decade ago now, so agree with you there, which is why it's now "digital gold" instead of its original stated intent of digital cash.
To be fair saying crypto is the currency of pedos is like castigating dollars for being the currency of the pedos. By the same logic we could condemn about anything. Crypto by volume is used way more by scammers than pedos anyway. 40 billion just in romance scams out of SE Asia run by Chinese Gangs with forced labor that is mostly run through crypto I presume.
But that doesn't mean crypto should be illegalized for that alone either. The governments will always use those examples to lock everything down under their control and the consequences of that are far worse than the free wheeling problems that came before.
The logic to condemn crypto because one group that sucks uses it it defective, is my point.
The dollar is a lot larger than an Israeli honeypot to ensnare swells in the west into fucking children on camera with epstein for Israel to hold and ensure their undying devotion no matter if they are cancelling their freedom of speech at home or pursuing a blatant final solution against their others. Just as crypto is bigger than the criminals that use it, and making that association will lose your credibility one would need to make other points.
That said, our politicians will max out the credit f the country, and de facto default printing money to pay off the debts that will skyrocket by tens of trillions of dollars every excuse they get while destroying the trust inherent in the system in multiple ways. One trust will remain for now, that big business that pays them off will be bailed out by tens of trillions in borrowed money when their own cheatings crashes their own businesses.
This is probably some organized pump and dump type scheme by key players.
Of course it is. Something like 2/3 of all BTC are held by a handful of people/companies.
Another fun-but-useless fact I like to remind myself of re: crypto is that, back in its early days (`12?), an old friend gave me a birthday gift of thumbdrive w/ BTC = my birth date (double digit) ...and I have absolutely no idea where it is.
When I was fully cashing TFO (before one of the crashes, ironically), I may've spent waaaay too long trying to find that >$200k memstick. 🥴😂🤷🏼♂️
https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin
The 1-year chart is... interesting.

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