• @[email protected]
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    1711 year ago

    This is so funny. The entire point of cryptocurrency was to be an irreversible, untraceable currency. Now these dipshits are sueing over losses? I don’t know if they are severely mistaken or severely angry. You are not getting that back. Neither do you deserve to. You knew what you were doing.

    • @[email protected]
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      1141 year ago

      The first step is “Fuck the government!” The second step is always “Help me, Obi Wan Government, you’re my only hope!”

      • @[email protected]
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        241 year ago

        I deserve help from the government as I’ve done everything right and just been unfortunate. Its everyone else who have got into trouble entirely through their own doing that don’t deserve help.

    • @[email protected]
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      371 year ago

      When was cryptocurrency meant to be untraceable? It literally had the complete ledger out in the public.

        • 1bluepixel
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          351 year ago

          That was true back in the days when you could mine your own coins and hold them in your own wallet, but with all the KYC requirements these days, it’s pretty hard to get, say, BTC that’s not traceable to you.

          It’s not impossible, but it’s certainly not as easy as cash.

            • @[email protected]
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              171 year ago

              It’s just a shitty speculative investment. That’s about it. It’s just reached cult following and hasn’t completely crashed. But when it does someone is going to be left holding a really big bag

              • @[email protected]
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                41 year ago

                The real Michael Burry depicted in the Big Short movie is buying puts against the stock market. Its not just crypto bros that need to ve concerned. All day on Bloomberg today they danced around recession after labor day expectations.

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 year ago

                  The stock market may be in a bubble, but regular stock investments aren’t the same as investing in crypto no matter how much the crypto bros insist it is. Stocks are shares of actual companies that (typically) make things, and they also produce dividends.

                  All that said, I think the end of QE “forever” is a thing that the C-levels of big companies are still trying to get over. I think it’s much more difficult to find retail investor interest in a market where benchmark rates exceed inflation, and it looks like the AI hype juice is starting to run out.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    01 year ago

                    A stock represents a share in the ownership of a company.

                    It has no inherent requirement that a company ‘make things’ or produce dividends.

          • sapient [they/them]
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            31 year ago

            Some cryptocurrency can be truly anonymous using some pretty interesting maths to verify things have properties without revealing the thing (in particular, XMR/Monero is the most well known one for doing this).

            However, it’s still crypto so it’s kinda like instant distrust and heavy skepticism (though I’m slightly less negative than I used to be for the truly anonymous ones as I’m trans and while right now I can still get HRT through normal channels after being on DIY for a bit, a backroute via DIY is always something I like to keep tabs on and within current economic structures crypto of this kind can theoretically be useful as long as it is somewhat inflationary to reduce it’s use as an investment vehicle, though I also am anti-currency in terms of my desired economic system ;3)

            With things like BTC/Bitcoin or others with a public ledger, you can pay someone a lot to essentially mix your currency with several other people before sending it to new accounts to reduce traceability, but turning it to fiat currency is still often pretty traceable for the reasons you said. To me it also seems money-laundering-ish lol ., there’s definitely tons of sketchy shit involved. But it’s crypto so that’s par for the course ;p

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          Pseudo-anonymous. “Anonymous” until you use it in any transaction that can be traced to you, then the anonymity of that account is gone forever and every transaction you’ve ever made can be public knowledge.

          • Square Singer
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            81 year ago

            Sorry for the small correction, it’s pseudonymous. So it’s not “fake not named” (pseudo a nonymous) but “fake named”, since each user can be identified by a unique pseudonym.

              • Square Singer
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                I’m from Austria, but the language is similar enough ;)

                But yeah, compound words is what our language does^^

    • @[email protected]
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      301 year ago

      They just seem really upset that the scam/grift/MLM didn’t work out in their favour and they’re the ones taking the loss.

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      I don’t really agree with this sentiment.

      Are they dipshits?

      Yes

      Should Sothebys lose all credibility and be fined for faking an auction?

      Also yes.

      Should Bored Ape owners get any of their money back?

      Naaaaaaaaaaaw

      This crosses certain lines that are beyond just: huuuur crypto dumb

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      121 year ago

      You forgot unregulated which usually even makes it to the front row in a lot of arguments completely denying the necessity to even have regulations at all…