The Crypto Market has aggregated an amazing amount of con artists...

Sledog

If I can't hold it and spend it it is worthless. Silver and gold prices are being depressed by the cabal. I like silver as it would be more spendable than gold because if shit hits the fan there values will skyrocket. Harder to spend an ounce gold coin.

Swaye

I have no idea if the info presented here is true or not, but it made enough sense to me to make me not invest when I was considering it previously:

https://jacobin.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-bitcoin-economy-decentralization

At a bare minimum it raises some very interesting (and troubling) issues wrt crypto and the market around it.

RaceBannon

I just figured that something invented to buy drugs on the dark web would never be legit or it would be co opted by governments

I don't understand it to this day but I bet I'm right

Pitchfork51

I'm a pretty techy dude but I never got into it. Never had the time to really understand it.

Was turned off by the crypto bros.


Usually when dumbasses think they've stumbled on a gold mine they are wrong so I avoided.

UW_Doog_Bot

RaceBannon said:

I just figured that something invented to buy drugs on the dark web would never be legit or it would be co opted by governments

I don't understand it to this day but I bet I'm right

It's precisely that drug dealers use it that you know it's case proven.

Low trust environment.

Anyway, first major adoption bubble. It's the internet in 1998. I remember thinking I wouldn't even touch Amazon stock back then...