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The middle ground is "I have no use for cryptocurrency." The extremes are "Cryptocurrency is the future of all money" and "Cryptocurrency is a fractal set of s

• Uehreka 5y ago
  For a long time I was happily sitting in the “I have no use for cryptocurrency” zone, occasionally checking in to see if things changed or reading a blog post here and there to see if there was something I was missing. But as the energy usage has ramped up to nation-state levels without an accompanying increase in usefulness, I’ve slid much more in the “cryptocurrency is dangerous to humanity” direction. Idk if I’d call it a “fractal set of scams”, but I think “more bad than good” is a fair characterization.
• herodoturtle 5y ago
  > The middle ground is "I have no use for cryptocurrency." I'd argue that the middle ground is "We'll see." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2cjVhUrmII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2cjVhUrmII
  • quickthrowman 5y ago
    > re: wait and see I’d argue that the web had Facebook, EBay, Google, and Amazon 13 years after launching, what are the crypto folks waiting for if it’s so revolutionary? Where are the killer apps, and how much longer do we have to wait?
• BrissyCoder 5y ago
  "Cryptocurrency is a fractal set of scams all the way down." I really like that description. Did you come up with that?
  • dsr_ 5y ago
    I am sure that the description of something bad as being fractally (self-similar on repeating scales) bad is not original to me.