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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:43:51 JST Sexy Moon
   cryptocurrencies are super useful even if they didn't pan out exactly how expected and they fill a lot of niches but the bad publicity of the constant scams, hacks and collapses are destroying it
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:45:10 JST Sexy Moon

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     there is absolutely no will inside the industry to actually fight this, everybody is still just moneygrubbing as fast as they can.
     
     the tech people are building amazing shit, constant advances in applied cryptography but it just gets overshadowed
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:45:35 JST Sexy Moon

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     • Hoss Delgado
     @Hoss that's definitely true but it's also true that there really is a ton of terrible scams
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:45:36 JST Hoss Delgado

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     There's a reason the press gives the bad shit more attention.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:47:47 JST Sexy Moon

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     • Hoss Delgado
     @mangeurdenuage @Hoss there is also a slow but steady centralization and regulatory capture happening in the exchanges.
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     mdn (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:47:48 JST mdn

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     • Hoss Delgado
     @Moon @Hoss Indeed. But the press is also the mouth of sauron so it's not surprising that any positive stuff isn't even pointed out.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:57:55 JST Sexy Moon

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     • of nothing
     @apropos shitheads on this network whine that they can still hate Ethereum forever because of all the electricity it wasted before the switch happened.
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     of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:57:56 JST of nothing

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     @Moon I'm personally hurt by this: I looked at bitcoin long, long, long before it was cool, saw that everyone were moneygrubbers and scammers, and moved on.
     I would have grubbed *so much* money if I'd picked up bitcoin at that point, but the corruption was too evident: people were offering goods and services for bitcoin and getting censored because they were taking bitcoin for 'too little', people were saying economically crazy stuff like "bitcoin's value is derived from its energy costs".
     
     On the other hand, bad publicity is publicity. I'm hearing a lot less about crypto in general since Ethereum left proof-of-work to escape the "burning jungles for NFTs" meme
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:59:30 JST Sexy Moon

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     • taylor
     @nik I mean the actual chains themselves are constantly improving. for example using math proofs to verify tons more transactions in less computing power, or doing smart contracts using WASM instead of the shitty Ethereum EVM.
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     taylor (nik@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 09:59:31 JST taylor

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     @Moon@shitposter.club in the last few years crypto has seemed to fully split into smart engineers who need funding to develop a project so they staple cryptocurrency to it, and the money rabid people

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:17:58 JST 翠星石

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     • mdn
     @mangeurdenuage The tor network has centralized authorities in order to mitigate attacks that a solution hasn't been found in full p2p.
     The authorities really are limited to informing clients which flags each relay has (can set Stable, Valid, Running, BadExit etc for example) and the clients decide which relays to use from the flags.
     
     You can run your own directory authority if you want and you can also configure or patch the client to respond in the wanted ways to certain flags.
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     mdn (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:17:59 JST mdn

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     • Hoss Delgado
     @Moon @Hoss feels like the tor network.
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:22:53 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @Moon memecoins are going to be done done after the next bullrun (if it even materializes). Guvments don't like competition and ultimately people still need to eat or are forced to pay taxes.
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:40:56 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @zxcvfadsf @apropos @Moon 10grans
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     zxcvfadsf (zxcvfadsf@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:40:57 JST zxcvfadsf

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     @apropos @Moon Which currency is less corrupt than bitcoin?
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     saint podiatron (goatmeal@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 14:57:09 JST saint podiatron

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     saint podiatron (goatmeal@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 14:57:10 JST saint podiatron

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     @Moon I am becoming more jaded as I feel that trying to spread any good parts of cryptocurrency is like casting pearls before swine
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     The Harblinger (harblinger@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 17:27:50 JST The Harblinger

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     @Moon :nice: called it!
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     The Harblinger (harblinger@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 17:27:51 JST The Harblinger

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     @Moon this post marks the local bottom :blobhyperthink: