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I already consider antisemites my personal enemies. I'm considering making crypto defenders too.
Why? Cause they try to gaslight you with bullshit.
>crypto problems are solved, but don't look at the fact that no one is using the fixed ones and everything is still Bitcoin dominated.
Remember Bitcoin Cash? And how it was supposed to fix some of Bitcoin's problems? Well I didn't. Had to search the name again, cause it fell into obscurity and no one is talking about it anymore. I remember being quite optimistic about it at the time... yeah, so much for a fix. Apparently it was so "good" it got forked again.
In a decade of crypto development, the only other noteworthy alternative to Bitcoin has been Ethereum, and maybe a meme coin. That's it. Everything else, you kinda know it's somewhere there in the background, but no one uses them as currency. At best shady people use it as an overhead to bank transactions to somewhat hide things.
But that's not using crypto as currency. That's not moving away from a reliance of USD.
Even with Bitcoin, the king of crypto, you still have an abundance of people relying on USD, to either buy Bitcoin to pay to others, or to convert the received Bitcoin to USD asap, because it's volatile.
And if you don't intend to move away from USD, then stop being a fag and use PayPal. You're literally solving nothing, while wasting electricity. And if you're obsessed with wasting electricity while we still have a big issue with CO2, then at least do folding@home or something.
>but muh baking system
1) as I pointed out earlier, you're still heavily relying on banks to constantly buy/sell crypto. Depending on how optimized the crypto system is overall, you might actually be giving banks even more work to do than without crypto;
2) congrats, now you're just making new banking systems, that are probably based in China or something. So much better.
The central idea behind crypto is genius. I remember when I finally sat down to understand the basic principle and how I was amazed by it. But problem is, years later, the IRL situation is dumbfoundedly bad. It reminds me of some format wars, only it's so much much much worse.
Remember, format wars don't guarantee you the best format for the user wins. It just guarantees the format that makes it easiest to exploit you out of your money wins.
Forgot about:
"Oh, did I say I want to replace USD? No, no, no, don't be silly. That's definitely not why crypto exists. It's definitely not made to replace fiat currency, because fiat currency is prone to governments messing around. What, every crypto advocate says crypto is good to keep governments away from manipulating the market? Don't be silly, you need to believe what I say now! Crypto is not for that. It's good that this crypto relies on fiat currency, makes perfect sense, it's not a bother at all that it's consequently just as susceptible to government manipulation. "
most people use crypto as effectively a cooler stock market
that will probably be how it will almost always be, that doesnt mean crypto use doesnt happen or isnt increasing, you're just surprised that the local retail worker isnt getting paid in crypto. Part of the problem is that you're using crypto as a catch-all when they different currencies have different intended use cases and different ease of access, lets be frank, using "crypto" as a stock market thing is far easier than having a proper wallet and doing typical transactions, that hasnt really changed much in the past 5 years
now a currency like Monero, has a proper wallet software that is supposed to work quite well and there are terminal ones that work well, but that isnt going to be used by companies that are still rocking 2004 windows software, its that simple
its not because its volatile (lmao USD) or anything like that, its simply because the average person isnt using it. public knowledge of crypto has increased a shit ton in the past couple years, but use of proper wallets hasnt so much, which is why for example, the value of the cryptocoins i have has increased 600% but I cant currently buy X directly right now.
the wasting electricity stuff is dependant on the particular currency, and the CO2 stuff is a non-issue lol, check on that ozone layer chief, its fine.
I used to have a friend that managed to get involved in a pyramid scheme, or maybe I should be nicer and call it "multi level marketing" like he was suckered into. In any case, I still remember some of the bullshit he'd say to me trying to convince me to join under him.
"Gaslight" was not a word in my vocabulary at that time, but looking back, I'd say he was trying to gaslight me with the whole "no, no, it's not a pyramid scheme, it's multi level marketing, definitely not the same principle". "No, no, don't use your logic to figure out that you're giving money to the level above you, and stealing money from the people below you, and that there's clearly a limit to how far down you can go, so some people at the bottom simply can't make a profit, and that if you draw it out it clearly forms a pyramid, cause it's not a pyramid, it's multi-level marketing!".
I'm feeling the same thing really. "No, don't look at the obvious things, that anyone can logically deduce. Crypto is great and perfect and fixed, and USD is sooo bothersome. But don't think about how people buy crypto with USD because they can't get it in other ways, and sell crypto for USD because they don't actually want to keep the crypto. And definitely don't think about why they don't want to keep the crypto, it couldn't POSSIBLY be because it's more bothersome than USD. No, don't look at it, you hear me! Things are 100% exactly like I tell you, don't think about it! Don't contradict me! If you do you're just emotional and will be left behind. Don't believe your eyes and your reason, believe me! Crypto wastes energy resources? Well what about the banks, they waste too! But of course you shouldn't think about how we're still buying and selling crypto via banks, duh. In fact, crypto is clearly more efficient than banks, so we don't need to rely on USD and banks, so that's why it's good. Oh, did I say crypto doesn't rely on USD, well there is this crypto that fixes the stability problem by relying on USD. But it's a good thing that it relies on the thing that I said is bad and bothersome and that I want to get rid of because it's more wasteful than using crypto."