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Maybe crypto scammers moved on to selling LLM “prompts?”

The A.I. "Grift Shift" is Underway

as long as there are easily accessible networks with money on them there will be scammers to try and exploit them, this is no different than what we have seen with fiat, the biggest difference being that usually you have to use cash only to put out a shingle and be shady. Crypto allowed anyone to "look" legit and have easy access to settlement.

if anything people are learning WHY you want to at minimum control the ramps and ensure there are channels through which there can be trade using strong identity systems. next phase of crypto will look a bit more grown up as it will very likely be coming to the party as an enabler of multiple VRF style auth systems, helping break dependance on social login systems.

Hopefully. The only thing it was ever useful for was buying illegal drugs via Silk Road.

Bitcoin is still around 30k a pop, so I wouldn't say it's dead yet. But I foresee a big crash in the months or years to come: the hype has passed, and the real uses of crypto are very few. It's also not a good investment since the expected returns are 0. Once people finally realize that, I see the price falling to 1k or even less.

No, one thing is the use cases of some to bypass laws.

The other thing is, there will always be people to fall for all kinds of scams, cults, hypes, pyramid schemes so many are still alive as well, there is people out there buying sugar pills and energy healing and Reddit gold.

not really. the stupid stuff, like nfts are dying, but the rest is still the same.

I hope the hype is dead. What are people buying drugs on the deep net with these days?

My partner just got a DM on Instagram about... cryptomoney! Funny thing is, if you search the company, the entire first page is about scandals and negative things. And it is on some MLM list too.

So, the grifters are still out grifting.