• azalty@jlai.lu
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      3 months ago

      Or maybe just privacy and anonymity, low fees, not being controlled by external entities? You know, the thing it was built for.

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        3 months ago

        Privacy and anonymity with Bitcoin? Are you serious?

        Not being controlled by external entities? Bitcoin is controlled by a bunch of whales and various insiders such as Tether, the client development goons and random scammers.

        All of them are looking to get some money off the marks. Nothing more, nothing less.

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      3 months ago

      You obviously don’t know what you are talking about. Why are you talking then? This is silly.

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        3 months ago

        Right, everyone who disagrees with me as a fool and knows nothing.

        You might disagree with what I am saying, but you can’t deny this is a reasonable take and not mere shitposting or engaging in “hate crimes against the blockchain!”.

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          3 months ago

          This is not about blockchain, silly. You simply don’t know how people use it. It can be very, very valuable tool, especially among people who have to use privacy-oriented services like Proton. The fact that you confidently ignore such use cases tells more than enough about the depth of your knowledge: it is based on hateful social media comments and nothing else.

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            3 months ago

            “Silly”

            Very mature comeback. An excellent reflect of the validity of crypto use cases. Couldn’t have done better myself.

            If you knew anything about business and industries, you would know full well that cryto/blockchain has been a massive failure in practically every use case other than two I outlined above.

            If you did care about “privacy” w.r.t. crypto, you wouldn’t be using bitcoin.