35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

          • Mubelotix
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            64 months ago

            You think you can fool people by using a simple straw man argument technique? Come on, get your shit together. Bitcoin is infrastructure as anyone can submit transactions to the network and they will be seamlessly processed. As simple as that

            • @[email protected]
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              54 months ago

              I know that shouting “straw man!” is the first step of trying to deflect from being wrong on the Internet… But if you’re going to do it, at least know what a straw man is.

              My argument is that “Infrastructure” != “anyone can do it”.

              Infrastructure is something that benefits and maintains the general public. Bitcoin benefits a handful of cryptobros, billionaires… and most importantly ransomware rings.

              • Mubelotix
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                4 months ago

                Your straw man is “shit in their pants”

                Read your own comments dude

                • @[email protected]
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                  34 months ago

                  The person I was arguing with was saying that “infrastructure is anything which is something anyone can do”. I gave an example of something that anyone can do which isn’t infrastructure.

                  It’s absolutely a direct refuation — a counter-example which disproves their original statement. It’s not a “straw man”, as much as you get mad and scream that it is.

                  • Mubelotix
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                    34 months ago

                    So you were wrong from the beginning. He never said “infrastructure is anything which is something anyone can do”. You are the only one who said it. He provided an example of a service provided by the infrastructure in question