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> People who think that all crypto is worthless may be confused by this. The actual reason was far more silly. It's precisely because crypto is worthless that
by time_to_smile 4y ago
> People who think that all crypto is worthless may be confused by this. The actual reason was far more silly.
It's precisely because crypto is worthless that where ever crypto is, there is only scams.
People point to FTX and say "see it's not crypto that's the cause, it's classic corruption!" but that misses the point critics of crypto are making.
Because crypto has no real practical value, its only function is as a tool for traditional scams and corruption.
Critics of crypto generally don't believe that crypto itself is a tool that creates fraud, but because it is a useless tool, when you see it being "used" what you must be seeing is fraud.
We've seen this borne out over and over again.
- ar_lan 4y agoI think it gets lost in the messaging when people say "crypto is a scam". I think they mean to say precisely what you did, but when people yell "cryto is a scam" it makes the random Coinbase user who bought .0001 BTC wonder how the hell they are scamming people. It doesn't make them think - huh, maybe Coinbase (or more importantly, Celsius, or BlockFi or FTX, etc.) itself is the scam, and I'm being scammed.