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There are 2 really amusing things here: * that so many people think crypto is either perfect or totally evil and admit no middle ground. * that both groups co

There are 2 really amusing things here: * that so many people think crypto is either perfect or totally evil and admit no middle ground. * that both groups constantly claim their (rather extremist) views are facts but refuse to substantiate them. I wonder how long it will take for people to agree that crypto neither cures cancer nor causes it...

afarrell 4y ago
I'm still wondering if there is good evidence that crypto is useful for Venezuelan economic refugees. I imagine such evidence is hard to find publicly because removing the obscurity would raise the probability that a friend of Maduro uses it against such refugees.
roody15 4y ago
I agree think honestly there is room for middle ground here. Crypto didn’t stop humans from being humans. There are always people trying to make a quick an easy dollar. The tech really has little do with this aspect of human behavior.
simplotek 4y ago
> * that so many people think crypto is either perfect or totally evil and admit no middle ground. Such a strawman right in the leading hypothesis. What makes it so hard for you to face the actual criticism directed at crypto? Do you find it so indefensible that you prefer to avoid it altogether?
- LatteLazy 4y ago
  Do you think it is possible that at least some part of crypto, was once or will be, at least partly, not a scam? Because if you do, you already agree with me. And if not, you're going to have to explain how you know literally everything about 1000s of projects with a billion users... That's the problem with the ultra extreme position the article and many many people here take. I'm not here to defend crypto. I am not a true believer. I just find it strange that such a huge complex thing with so many users etc apparently is not just 99.999% scam, but 100%. And some how people have discovered this and know if for fact. And yet are unable to share their sources, or methods... It's almost like such people have no more idea what is happening than the true believers...

afarrell 4y ago

I'm still wondering if there is good evidence that crypto is useful for Venezuelan economic refugees. I imagine such evidence is hard to find publicly because removing the obscurity would raise the probability that a friend of Maduro uses it against such refugees.

roody15 4y ago

I agree think honestly there is room for middle ground here. Crypto didn’t stop humans from being humans. There are always people trying to make a quick an easy dollar. The tech really has little do with this aspect of human behavior.

simplotek 4y ago

> * that so many people think crypto is either perfect or totally evil and admit no middle ground. Such a strawman right in the leading hypothesis. What makes it so hard for you to face the actual criticism directed at crypto? Do you find it so indefensible that you prefer to avoid it altogether?

LatteLazy 4y ago
Do you think it is possible that at least some part of crypto, was once or will be, at least partly, not a scam? Because if you do, you already agree with me. And if not, you're going to have to explain how you know literally everything about 1000s of projects with a billion users... That's the problem with the ultra extreme position the article and many many people here take. I'm not here to defend crypto. I am not a true believer. I just find it strange that such a huge complex thing with so many users etc apparently is not just 99.999% scam, but 100%. And some how people have discovered this and know if for fact. And yet are unable to share their sources, or methods... It's almost like such people have no more idea what is happening than the true believers...