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webXL | 1 year ago

What makes the “b-word” dirty?

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SEJeff|1 year ago

I didn’t use it because I didn’t find it relevant. They’re using hashing and EC algorithms and they’re improving them.

jandrese|1 year ago

It's hard to separate from the sea of grifters, con men, cranks, and scammers that infest the domain. Just using the word is a yellow flag that you might be some kind of whacko, even if all you really want to talk about is the math.

People have to forever be on guard that you might at any point pivot to all taxation is theft or how you have formed your own micro nation that consists entirely of yourself and thus have diplomatic immunity from all prosecution. Because it happens. Or maybe you have a once in a lifetime deal to buy this receipt like object for some hideous art that is guaranteed to appreciate in value millions of percent. It's just the crowd that has aggregated around crypto currencies includes a lot of untrustworthy people.

webXL|1 year ago

Why do people need to be on guard for those beliefs? People should be critical thinkers and not thought police.

Granted, there are all kinds of whackos in crypto, but we should only be concerned about the immoral ones trying to scam us out of our money: SBF, Do-Kwon, and the like.

ShroudedNight|1 year ago

The trough of disillusionment carved out by grifters burning the peat of enthusiasm unsustainably.