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No offense but your comment is unintentionally humorous because you're asking all these sane questions blaming the mindless people who bought into IOTA, but you
by cocktailpeanuts 9y ago
No offense but your comment is unintentionally humorous because you're asking all these sane questions blaming the mindless people who bought into IOTA, but you happen to be one of them as you describe yourself.
> This is absolutely insane and I can't believe this thing ever got traction.
It got traction because people--including yourself--bought into it without thinking much.
> It feels like hacks upon hacks upon hacks. It doesn't even work right! Did any of the people who bought these coins try to ever use them for anything?
Yeah, like yourself. You never actually tried to use the coins for anything until this point when you are now finally trying to "cash out".
- StavrosK 9y ago> You never actually tried to use the coins for anything until this point when you are now finally trying to "cash out". An alternate (and correct) interpretation is that I bought IOTA as I thought I may end up using it in my IoT projects. I didn't (probably because nobody working for IOTA actually cares about IoT), and now I want to sell them for a more useful currency. Not everyone wants coins for speculation, but you're forgiven for thinking otherwise.
- enraged_camel 9y agoThe other possibility (not just you and IOTA, but for others) is that a lot of coins have free offerings at their launch to get things off the ground. Stellar is an example. So yeah, just because someone owns coins doesn't mean they are/were mindless speculators.
- StavrosK 9y agoOh, true, they did give out some coins (me included). Yet another possibility (which is how... a friend of mine... uses coins) is buying weed from the dark web. That's a big use case right now.
- bitoneill 9y agoI bought my first legal weed in California yesterday and it was a very interesting experience. I don't usually smoke but I wanted to see what the store was like. It was strictly cash only. They had several ATM's installed in the building. Security was tight for this reason. It's hard to process that it's now legal.
- StavrosK 9y agoIs it completely legal now? Do you no longer even need a prescription?
- bitoneill 9y agoIt is completely legal now and I didn't need a prescription card. They asked me if I had a prescription card, for what reason I don't know, because I've never had one and they don't require it anymore. I think perhaps medical clients get discounts or special deals?
- spookthesunset 9y agoProbably asked so they don’t charge some kind tax or something...