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> I then decided to venture into crypto with money I could completely lose and not worry about, and it really helped my understanding further. Did he? Did he
by horsawlarway 5y ago
> I then decided to venture into crypto with money I could completely lose and not worry about, and it really helped my understanding further.
Did he?
Did he really?
As someone who has genuinely used bitcoin for one of the (VERY few) use cases where it's actually useful - buying drugs on a dark market. I don't buy it. You can find a lot more detail on my position here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29331167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29331167
I'm not going to type it all out again.
- icu 5y agoOP here. Yes, I had to send "money" to China, for a service rendered in the US, while I am physically in London. It was a totally legitimate transaction and had nothing to do with anything dark market or drug related. Thanks for the link to your discussion, I will read it, but please don't throw out criminal accusations in HN.
- horsawlarway 5y ago> please don't throw out criminal accusations in HN. Pointing out that you have a very clear conflict of interest here, and that you should be taken with many grains of salt, is not a criminal accusation. If you think I'm claiming you use dark markets, please go read my comment again. I'm very clearly not... ( and I hope you had better reading comprehension on the crypto materials! :P )