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Gold-bug has at times been used as a pejorative against people who criticized central banking and favored gold. I wonder what pejorative will be coined for cry
by louprado 9y ago
Gold-bug has at times been used as a pejorative against people who criticized central banking and favored gold.
I wonder what pejorative will be coined for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Banana-pants is just too broad. /s
- AlexCoventry 9y agoI'm a cryptocurrency enthusiast myself. To be more precise, the talk is ignorant of the history of money as a system of domination, and utopian in that it ignores critical vulnerabilities intrinsic to distributed-consensus currency systems. I wrote about it in a little more detail here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/73fi5q/money_as_a_systemofcontrol_andreas_on_fire/dnq5qcv/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/73fi5q/mone...