• Fades@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    as dubious as the value they provided

    Go look at bitcoin and tell me the value dubious. Here I’ll help: https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/BTC-USD click the 5y view at the bottom.

    Yes crypto is full of scam coins, but scammers permeate everything, should we give up on email too for the same reasons? Saying crypto in general is a scam is just ignorant.

    XMR as well provides key privacy protections, etc.

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      25 days ago

      When I say dubious I mean it’s not tangible, there’s no guarantee of its value.

      If I have chatgpt write me a block of code that block of code is inherently and immediately useful to me

      If I buy a bitcoin it will probably eventually increase in value but I can’t do anything with it, and there’s no guarantee it won’t be immediately worthless the next day

      I guess by the same logic you could say the code might be immediately worthless if there’s a solar flare that wipes out all technology on earth but you get my point I’m sure