• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Now they’re defiant? I thought the whole thing was that they were the silent majority or some bullshit.

    I knew serial conman Trump couldn’t resist getting involved in crypto which is one of the biggest cons of all time.

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      26 days ago

      I would say the fiat money system is the biggest con, at least by volume. What with all the quantitative easing and fractional reserve banking.

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          17 days ago

          I think I didn’t make myself clear. When I said “by volume” I meant was the amount of value the different systems hold and the amount of if not outright fraud, negative aspects of the systems. The fiat money systems’ money supply has a fundamental weakness, it can be created out of thin air so is constantly loosing value. Think of all the investment vehicles or other assets that tie themselves to this loosing value asset. Trillions in USD. And what’s it all backed by? Ultimately guns. Well most crypto currency is backed by maths and no matter how many guns you point at it, you cannot make 2+2= anything other than 4.

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            17 days ago

            Well most crypto currency is backed by maths and no matter how many guns you point at it, you cannot make 2+2= anything other than 4.

            Sure, you can make one type of coin or other rare or rate limited or whatever, but you can also just make up a different shit coin and give yourself a metric shit ton of that new coin, and then eventually try to move to either a more stable coin or back into fiat once you’ve gotten enough suckers holding the bag to exit.

            That makes crypto ultimately not based on maths at all, but based on hype, stupidity, and scams alone.

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              16 days ago

              The main difference between these “shit coins” and fiat is once the shit coin scammers eventually pull the rug, they cannot just print more of that coin. Fiat scammers can just print more of that currency.

              But in both situations one does need to look at the economics of the coins, and the priors of the people in control.

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                16 days ago

                “Once they’ve completed the scam they have to move onto other scams.”

                Are you even thinking at all when constructing these arguments?

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                  16 days ago

                  What I am trying to get through to you is, just like how the LIBOR scandal doesn’t implicate fiat, scammy crypto projects doesn’t implicate crypto. My criticism of fiat is it’s fundamental systemic weaknesses. It seems your criticism of crypto is it’s used by scammers. A criticism that, incidentally can also be levied at fiat.

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                    14 days ago

                    Sure both can be used by scammers, but in fiat the currency itself isn’t usually the scam.