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Blockchain technology is doomed, and somebody will be, eventually, the last link of the ponzi scheme.
by mrfinn 6y ago
Blockchain technology is doomed, and somebody will be, eventually, the last link of the ponzi scheme.
- superbcarrot 6y agoI don't get why people's thinking swings to these wild extremes. Why does it have to be either a societal disruptor that changes everything or a doomed ponzi scheme? Can't it be something like "oh we tried to have cool internet money, turned out that it's not that great, some people are still into it I guess".
- africanboy 6y agobecause there is no such thing as "cool invented money" it is either useful for society or it is a scam.
- TheButlerian 6y agoBecause they are dumb nocoiners.
- jariel 6y ago'into it' for what reason? That's where the Ponzi part comes from.
- thetanil 6y agothere are a lot of people in the "not that great" and "still into it I guess" camps. Those just don't make headlines. Also, some morons can only read headlines. Don't worry, the world is not as idiotic as the headline writers and readers.
- mrfinn 6y agoIt becomes a Ponzi scheme the moment you realize that the idea is intrinsically broken, but still you keep shilling it and making grow the value exponentially, (value that somebody has to pay). BTW, flagged, really mods??
- tiku 6y agoWhen does a Ponzi scheme stop being a Ponzi scheme?
- totalZero 6y agoThis is a really, truly weird way to defend Bitcoin, whose claim to fame is that its only value comes from its uptake. The argument goes, "governments can fiat money, so why can't we?" There is no unique creation of value anywhere in the Bitcoin life cycle. Any liquidity or anonymity externality that doesn't equally apply to USD is probably accruable only by criminals and traffickers. The transactions are slow and costly, and there's no guarantee that some governmental research agency hasn't already broken the cryptographic underpinnings.
- xirbeosbwo1234 6y agoBecause it is so fantastically monumentally brain-meltingly bad. When a casino uses as much electricity as entire countries, it deserves my hatred rather than just not deserving my love.
- ur-whale 6y agoAnd all the tin-foil wearing weirdos who had been hollering about it from their mum's basement will be vindicated. That will be quite a day!
- mrfinn 6y agoActually some of us are really interested in cryptocurrencies as tool to liberate people from a corrupt system, and we leaved our mum's basement a long time ago.