wait this community has been shilling a meme coin this whole time I thought were were larping as leftists is that shtick over?

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    Honestly we shoulda got in on the grift.

    Wish I had known this was all gonna happen 10 years ago when I first heard about crypto and immediately was like “Huh that sounds interesting but impractical, there’s no way anyone is ever going to take this stuff seriously as a currency/asset” and here we are lol.

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        oh yeah it was sure good for that for a minute, but I meant it’s only possible use cases are shit like that or grifting and only because of capitalism/war on drugs.

        It’s a novelty in search of a use case.

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          It’s a novelty in search of a use case.

          True, but I think blockchain technology in of itself has use cases. Bitcoin, Ethereum and co. can go ahead and die because they’re useless but the underlying technology is essentially a distributed database with built-in transparency mechanisms, meaning it could be used to facilitate for example state bureaucracy. You’d also make looking up and validating info etc way easier. I don’t think it’s an absolute necessity for a well-functioning state but it could have its uses.

          What most cryptobros are peddling unfortunately is not that but rather pyramid schemes.

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      I fortunately don’t have any regrets since I was too young and poor to do anything when this stuff was new where I could have made lots of money. Also between then and now I definitely would have lost my wallet since I wasn’t intelligent enough to back things up.

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        I had just built a new desktop and happened to have bought one of the first cards people were recommending for it. I just bought it cuz I was a g*mer though lol.

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      I think those regrets will always happen with speculation or gambling e.g. “I wish I’d bet on a Trump victory”, “I wish I’d bought Apple shares”, “I wish I’d never given my first gen Pokemon cards to my cousin”. Hindsight is always a kick in the arse.

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        I’m not talking buying in lol, I mean I thought about mining it just for fun as a hobby thing in the early days when it didn’t take a whole server farm.