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Of all the world ills I can think of, none are caused by money as means of exchange or by trust systems more broadly. Crypto isn’t going to do anything for glob

Of all the world ills I can think of, none are caused by money as means of exchange or by trust systems more broadly. Crypto isn’t going to do anything for global warming or for rampant inequality caused by the unstoppable compounding growth of big capital (in fact it may do the opposite). The premise that trust systems have failed humanity is flawed. I am willing to be persuaded otherwise but I doubt this will come from reading “a couple books” because as it stands I firmly believe that the idea is complete nonsense.

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Sargos 6y ago
> Crypto isn’t going to do anything for global warming Actually this is a pretty good example of a problem that quadratic funding has a good chance of helping with. It's really hard to coordinate all nations on Earth but not actually that hard to coordinate people from all over the Earth. https://wtfisqf.com/ https://wtfisqf.com/
xiphias2 6y ago
This book is the best summary that I can give you to being persuaded. Bitcoin's price movement is just a market signal that there's something deeply wrong and unfair with the current financial system. The more you learn about it, the more you can profit from the huge value transfer that's going on in front of your eyes. If you want a link, I suggest hope.com as well (as I could suggest many others, but what's important is that the ROI of learning about the reason for Bitcoin is huge).
- arcturus17 6y ago
  > Bitcoin's price movement is just a market signal that there's something deeply wrong and unfair with the current financial system Sorry but this sounds like the conspiracy drivel commonly heard in crypto circles. To a reasonable person, Bitcoin's price movement is a market signal of people speculating and trying to become richer - simple as. Occam's Razor, and all that.
  - xiphias2 6y ago
    That's true of every asset in the world. But it doesn't explain why Bitcoin is the best performing asset in the history of humankind for more than 10 years now. Bitcoin as a software is very simple, you can code it in a day in a high level language. But if you don't take the time to go deep on monetary history to see why a money takes over another (or not), you'll miss out on huge gains. All reasonal people start as Bitcoin skeptics BTW, that's fine.

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Sargos 6y ago

> Crypto isn’t going to do anything for global warming Actually this is a pretty good example of a problem that quadratic funding has a good chance of helping with. It's really hard to coordinate all nations on Earth but not actually that hard to coordinate people from all over the Earth. https://wtfisqf.com/ https://wtfisqf.com/

xiphias2 6y ago

This book is the best summary that I can give you to being persuaded. Bitcoin's price movement is just a market signal that there's something deeply wrong and unfair with the current financial system. The more you learn about it, the more you can profit from the huge value transfer that's going on in front of your eyes. If you want a link, I suggest hope.com as well (as I could suggest many others, but what's important is that the ROI of learning about the reason for Bitcoin is huge).

arcturus17 6y ago
> Bitcoin's price movement is just a market signal that there's something deeply wrong and unfair with the current financial system Sorry but this sounds like the conspiracy drivel commonly heard in crypto circles. To a reasonable person, Bitcoin's price movement is a market signal of people speculating and trying to become richer - simple as. Occam's Razor, and all that.
- xiphias2 6y ago
  That's true of every asset in the world. But it doesn't explain why Bitcoin is the best performing asset in the history of humankind for more than 10 years now. Bitcoin as a software is very simple, you can code it in a day in a high level language. But if you don't take the time to go deep on monetary history to see why a money takes over another (or not), you'll miss out on huge gains. All reasonal people start as Bitcoin skeptics BTW, that's fine.