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Crypto is a $1T industry even with all the hate it gets on HN.
by nightski 4y ago
Crypto is a $1T industry even with all the hate it gets on HN.
- JohnFen 4y agoSo? Cryptocurrency (or even blockchain) has not (yet) changed the world. That was what everyone was predicting.
- reidjs 4y agoYes it has, I see bitcoin ATMs all over the place and know that tons of people exchange cryptocurrencies daily for fiat and for other cryptocurrencies. A lot of people use it to gamble and buy drugs online. Some people are using it as a monetization scheme for their artwork (NFTs). The actual impact of those things is pretty small, but none of this was possible before their invention, so they literally changed the world, for better or worse (mostly worse).
- edgyquant 4y ago> The actual impact of those things is pretty small Then it hasn’t changed the world. That phrase doesn’t mean “a small number of things are different” it means that everything has pivoted.
- andsoitis 4y ago> The actual impact of those things is pretty small That’s the definition of NOT changing the world.
- reidjs 4y agoI guess I interpreted the expression literally as "changed the world [at all]", when most people interpret it as "changed the world [significantly]".
- andsoitis 4y agoeveryone means "significantly" when they use that phrase. otherwise, even an ant changes the world but nobody would say that.