• Mandy@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    even if that claim is true, crypto is still hot garbage that never has done any good to the world what did crypto actually do that was positive, something that isnt some esoteric cryptobro bullshit can you actually, genuinely tell me one, hell, two things crypto actually does that is good?

    and please dont come at me with financial security or freedom, cause that is a bunch of baloney

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      1 year ago

      Provided an alternative reserve currency that isn’t controlled by countries clearly trying to gain economic domination over smaller nations.

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        1 year ago

        Not controlled by countries and also making it so extremely volatile that it can loose its value literally in seconds

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          1 year ago

          It’s that there is significant institutional support to keep the current monitory regime in power. There have been plenty of volatile state controlled currencies too.

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            1 year ago

            You so realize how Looney you sound right

            Name me a single currecny that has ever been able to loose its value in literal seconds, just one, go on ill wait

            only your fake funny code coins are able to that arent they

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              1 year ago

              To be honest I don’t know if any currency that was both able to speculated online as well as having no official reserve currencies or ties to a major world economic zone. That combo is volatile, more so than the unpegged currencies of the past or the pegged currencies of today.

              Again there work towards that happening hence why there is some stability.

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                1 year ago

                lmao, crypto has never worked towards that, it has only gotten worse by the year and is an absolute shitshow now bitcoin, the originator of this trend is just as volatile, 30k for a single coin, seriously? it just takes one person with a lot of them to tank its value in seconds

                “pegged” currency as youd like to call it cant be crashed that easily nor that fast

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                  1 year ago

                  Currency pegging is a term in monetary theory. Stable coins are examples of currency reserves in the crypto space.

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                    1 year ago

                    sure, except there are no stable coins, when, again, all of them can be crushed in a matter of seconds