• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    Anybody who is seriously in the software industry should have realized the crypto was a giant pyramid scheme that they would definitely at the bottom of.

    And if one person tells me that it’s not fiat one more time they’re going to get a slap. Absolutely 100% is fiat shut up.

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      5 months ago

      I actually get crypto as a concept but I really think their can only be one coin of any true value, and right now it’s Bitcoin. I think at some point something will come and knock it off the pedistool.

      I’m not a get rich quick kinda guy so I never bothered with crypto and have only played around with a little bit of money trading stocks and treated it just like I do gambling (money I will lose, although I did make a bit of money back on GameStop lol).

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        The worst thing that ever happened to Crypto was the price rising so high. It made idiots billionaires overnight, and then these idiots thought that made them smart. Now they spend all their time going to Blockchain conferences and patting themselves on the back for being so revolutionary when in reality they just got lucky.

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      5 months ago

      crypto was a giant pyramid scheme

      Was? I don’t agree but I understand when people keep saying it’s a pyramid scheme. I don’t understand the past tense though.

      Absolutely 100% is fiat

      I think a key difference is that it’s maintained by an open network of computers rather than a state.

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        It’s sold as a money making scheme not as an alternative form of currency. If you just use it as an alternative form of currency to get around some kind of restriction then it’s fine but the crypto bros don’t use it like that. They think it’s going to manifest some kind of will for them. Of course they’re being tricked by other people who’ve already invested. Who themselves were tricked by other people who already invested. It’s literally a pyramid scheme. The only way anybody makes money is to get other saps involved.