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You lost me at brave Anyone even remotely accosiating with crypto, let alone making their own and integrating it, is not to be trusted.
There are many things to list but here is by favourite, they said you can tip creators with their garbage coin Turns out some creators did not apply, you could still donate, where did the money go? Sure as shit didnt to the creator
Lol if you want privacy but not crypto, you're in for a bad time
since when has crypto ever been private, it literally advertises itself with the fact you can track every single purchase anyone has ever made by simply knowing their wallet adrress
It's frustrating how long this myth lasts
where did the money go than, im all ears
It might have not been clear, but i'm on your side with this
sure, but where did it go?
Nope, read the Bitcoin white paper. But that was an old coin with some issues that are clear in hindsight and have been fixed in prkvscy coins like zcash & monero.
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
Provided an alternative reserve currency that isn't controlled by countries clearly trying to gain economic domination over smaller nations.
Not controlled by countries and also making it so extremely volatile that it can loose its value literally in seconds
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.
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
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.
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
Currency pegging is a term in monetary theory. Stable coins are examples of currency reserves in the crypto space.
sure, except there are no stable coins, when, again, all of them can be crushed in a matter of seconds
Again no, stable coin is a term, but I see how it could be confused. It's in reference to a token backed by some other store of value. So an agreement that x number of a cryptocurrency can be exchanged for x number of dollars/yuan/etc.
i am aware, yet i have yet to see a single one actually stay stable and not crash than again, im not a crypto gal and making sure i never will be
That's fair while they do have statically more stability then the crypto they are pegged too they are still more volatile then USD. It would be interesting to see the reserve size to volatility ratio of different currencies to see how they compare.
We all know that whenever someone says "crypto" they mean cryptocurrency and nfts. Pretending we're talking about cryptographic security is not helping anyone.
Every bank transaction is more private.
It depends, while all transactions from accounts is known, the details for the owners of the account don't have to be.
No it doesn't, any transaction you make with crypto gets posted online for anyone to see.
Hey, reply to the wrong comment?
Go point all mine out for everyone if it's so easy.
As a fault, that isn't much of one. That transparency makes sure every single coin in a blockchain is where it's supposed to be and accounted for.
You have no idea who random string of hashed numbers is unless they (for some reason) make it public, usually... influencers.