sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Dec 14:56
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I wish I had my ID so I could register to buy some bitcoin…
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 13 Dec 17:57
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Bisq.network. no id required. Though if I were you, I would not be buying Bitcoin since it’s perfectly traceable at all times into the future. Monero on the other hand is not.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Dec 18:21
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I don’t care if it’s traced. I’ll check out Bisq. Thanks stranger.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 13 Dec 19:11
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You can do what you want of course, but it is really a bad idea. Because if somebody does something with Bitcoin that you sell them any time in the future, it could very well come back on you. If you don’t believe me, look up the case of Bitcoin Fog.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Dec 21:36
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Good point! I’ll just update my ID and use wealthsimple or something.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 13 Dec 21:47
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Monero.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz
on 13 Dec 15:13
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To directly fund the president’s choice of Bitcoin reserve to the spectacular enrichment of himself, Texas and anyone else in the know. The oil rush is on and there will only be one winner…
Damn as much as I hate crypto, I hope El Salvador held onto that rather than selling on the drop
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
on 13 Dec 20:40
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We are on the tail end of the crypto grift. Getting the largest country on earth to invest in Crypto is basically the last gasp before the bubble deflates and cleans all the suckers out.
Take your bitcoin and flush it down the toilet where it belongs.
Telorand@reddthat.com
on 13 Dec 17:47
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If you needed more proof that crypto is a giant fraud scheme: Republicans love it.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 13 Dec 17:55
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There is whole bodies of data for progressive uses of crypto. Donating to NGOs is the very first one that comes to mind, but there are definitely others.
Crypto is Non-partisan, just like shoes or a hammer. Anybody can use them for whatever they want.
Telorand@reddthat.com
on 13 Dec 18:20
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Nonpartisan doesn’t mean it’s not a scam.
Anybody can use them for anything*, but isn’t it so convenient how easy it is to launder money with crypto? And isn’t it convenient how they’re happy to spend taxpayer money to set up this fund?
We’re not talking about systems like VPNs, where you could argue they hide criminals in addition to human rights activists. That levels the playing field and protects people’s right to privacy.
What rights is crypto protecting? We’re talking about a vehicle where entire governments can pump up the value and reap the inflated price. We’re talking about foreign billionaires who can covertly and easily “invest” in their favorite candidates without taking the roundabout way of using dark-money PACs.
Crypto is just another empty, ultra-capitalist “American Dream” promise shrouded in tech.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 13 Dec 19:15
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According to what I understand of what’s being proposed here, no taxpayer money would go to purchase any Bitcoin whatsoever. It would all be people paying their taxes in Bitcoin and such. Not actually the purchase of Bitcoin by the state. I do think that we have totally different views on crypto, though, because the right I see it protecting is our right to capital that cannot be seized and controlled by the government. Yes, that enables some bad things. But on a whole, I believe it helps society. If you need to leave an oppressive situation, you can. If your government causes inflation to ruin the value of your money, you can protect your wealth with crypto because they have no control over it. I totally agree that most crypto is indeed a scam. There’s no argument for me on that. My argument is that there are legitimate projects doing legitimate things and those should not be thrown out with the bathwater like the baby.
I like your measured view of crypto. I still am not convinced by your argument, mainly because I do not believe in capital as something to be protected, but I do think that regular people having the means to act apart from government oversight is good.
My issue is still that it doesn’t level the playing field. The benefits of privacy and decentralization for the wealthy outclass what benefits the rest of us get from the same thing. It’s just another way for the rich to get richer, while the poor stay poor.
While good things are done with it, my opinion is that it’s still a net negative.
Either way, have a lovely day. Hopefully I didn’t come off too harsh.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 13 Dec 20:00
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Compared to some people I’ve talked to, you are quite levelheaded.
But regular people from countries which are sanctioned by countries do benefit from it, yet their benefit is still not worth it? I understand being critical and wary and vigilant, but to outright deny its usefulness for people with little options outside of official government sanctioned forms of economic power? You’ve deemed their plight and cause as outweighed and tainted by the wealthy who they have zero control over.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you wrote, but that’s not how sanctions work. It’s the people within their own country who are hurt by their country’s sanctions, not sanctions from other countries. This leads to domestic companies buying less exports, which is supposed to lead to more domestic production (or hurt the other country’s economy), but regular people aren’t typically buying exports direct from the producers. That’s not a problem Bitcoin can solve, unless import companies start using it or regular people start importing themselves.
However, it’s still the wealthy who most benefit from crypto. It’s the wealthy who make the barrier to entry higher, and it’s the wealthy who can very easily manipulate the value of this value-less currency (just look what they can do with the stock market, and that’s regulated).
It’s not that I’m against the plight of the downtrodden, I just don’t see how crypto actually helps them; like I said, it’s another “American Dream,” a promise of wealth that will never materialize for most, because the wealthy have rigged the system.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Dec 20:41
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isn’t it so convenient how easy it is to launder money with crypto?
Depends on the coin, but the most popular ones have 100% transparent transactions, so it’s actually not great for money laundering. There are a lot of obfuscations techniques, but those exist w/ digital fiat transfers as well. The most popular crypto exchanges are KYC, meaning they require a paper trail for any exchanges. There are options to move money between cryptocurrencies w/o using a KYC exchange, but doing anything w/ fiat is a lot more difficult without going through a KYC exchange.
If you want to launder money, it’s a lot easier to just deal in cash.
There are cryptocurrencies designed to hide/obfuscate transactions (e.g. Monero or Bitcoin Lightning network), but you still have to interact w/ a KYC exchange at some point, which gives your local tax authority enough details to catch you when you try to cheat on your taxes.
What rights is crypto protecting?
That’s the wrong way to look at it IMO.
To me, it provides a check against national monetary policy and the major payment networks. If you live in a country with rapid inflation, your options are basically buy a different store of value (gold, cryptocurrencies, another nation’s currency) or get screwed. Likewise, the major payment networks tend to charge 3% for all transactions, perhaps higher for international transactions, whereas cryptocurrencies give you an alternative method of payment.
Cryptocurrencies don’t protect rights per se, but using them is an expression of your right to transact with others however you want.
We’re talking about a vehicle where entire governments can pump up the value and reap the inflated price.
That describes fiat a lot more than cryptocurrencies, but in the opposite direction. You’re at the mercy of your central bank w/ most fiat currencies, whereas your local government doesn’t have any control over cryptocurrencies, they can merely interact like any other market participant can. Yes, they have a lot of money at their disposal, but governments also tend to need to do things transparently, so there are already checks against governments intentionally manipulating values through massive transactions.
Crypto is just another empty, ultra-capitalist “American Dream” promise shrouded in tech.
If you look at the crypto scams that exist, sure. But also remember that any new thing gets jumped on by people looking to make a quick buck. Look at all of those “stock tips” channels on YouTube (or any form of collectible, for that matter), those tend to just be pump-and-dump schemes. The fault here doesn’t lie with cryptocurrencies, it’s merely that it’s very liquid so it’s easy for someone to cash out.
That said, it actually has very little to do with capitalism or economics at all, it’s more of an anti-government initiative, similar to the whole idea behind the fediverse (can’t shut us all down).
It shouldn’t be forced on anyone, but if you appreciate a cryptographic way to own your money securely (USDC or otherwise), decentralized monetary networks give you ways to do that.
I work fulltime in the industry and the racket that is the traditional finance system is the one that resembles a ponzi/fraud/scam more than crypto in my mind.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Dec 21:03
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Exactly. The core of the problem is the finance industry itself, they’d be scumbags regardless of the medium of exchange. Cryptocurrencies merely give you alternative method for transactions.
For every scam someone shows me about cryptocurrencies, I could probably show 10 with fiat currency.
The main “problem” with cryptocurrency is also its main selling point: crazy swings in value. That’s not great for regular savings, but it’s basically proof that there’s no central org messing with the currency and that value is determined purely based on supply and demand, just like gold and, to a lesser extent, stocks (stocks often pay dividends and provide voting privileges). And since it’s transparent, you can see any attempts to mess with valuations, which is less true for central banks.
There’s plenty of trustworthy stablecoins now. And lending platforms have far better yield than a tardfi savings account.
You don’t even need to speculate on some volatile token to move your savings onchain. Do it for the usd rate.
You’ve hit on another problem with the industry, and that is the fact that we are focused on the speculative network or project coins when retail would benefit so much from the network without changing their unit of value. They can just use USD.
We need to stop trying to sell Bitcoin as store of value or eth/sol as gas and start just onboarding usd.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Dec 03:45
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My issue with stablecoins are that pretty much nobody actually accepts them for payment, whereas I can usually find someone to accept Bitcoin, ETH, or Monero, and of those, Monero is my favorite (less speculation, low transaction costs, privacy).
If stablecoins were commonly accepted, I’d probably use them for payment.
Payments is a beast of a final boss. I don’t use any of em for payments often at all. I just store value there. Like a brokerage account. And my business treasury.
If you’re into this space and not a Solana lover, you have to check it out. Huge ecosystem. All the large caps bridged as SPL tokens. Fast confirms. It makes defi fun and as responsive as a brokerage account or banking app
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Dec 18:26
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I can see two use cases for stablecoins:
P2P/vendor transactions
crypto speculation (i.e. settlement fund)
I don’t speculate on crypto because the expected return is negative (zero sum + exchange fees). So, transactions are the only reason I’d be interested, and that’s much easier to find for BTC, ETH, or XMR.
And I’m discounting the “store of value” here because the stablecoin I’d get would be tied to USD, so I might as well just hold USD and benefit from regulatory oversight and interest (I mostly buy US treasuries and treasury MMFs) and not open myself to the added risk and costs of holding crypto.
So until merchants accept stablecoins, I’ll stick with BTC, ETH, and XMR since they’re actually accepted by some merchants.
tortina_original@lemmy.world
on 13 Dec 21:10
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When was the last time YOU have “laundered money with crypto”?
Why don’t you do it and tell us how it goes?
You have to do serious KYC everywhere before you can even think of withdrawing cash (any serious amount). I know, i had to do few of these in past 18 months just to retain access to few largest exchanges. Bitcoin is not anonymous. On the contrary.
And if you think loundering is converting from BTC to XMR and buying drugs with it, well let’s just say that crypto has a very, very long way to go before it comes even remotely close to Dollar.
When was the last time YOU have “laundered money with crypto”?
Nice try, fed! (/j)
datendefekt@feddit.org
on 13 Dec 20:10
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So you’re saying that it’s progressive to use bitcoin as … money?
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 13 Dec 20:28
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I’m just mainly giving resources. I am a pretty hardcore libertarian and so some of the views are incomprehensible to me and others make sense.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Dec 20:29
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They’re saying it’s neither progressive nor conservative, it’s just a tool that you can use.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Dec 00:55
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if you lie crypto you’re not a progressive; crypto is poison for the environment.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 14 Dec 01:52
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I never said I was a progressive and not all crypto uses a ton of power. Look at Ethereum, for example. That uses very little power because of being proof of stake. Or look at Monero, for example, because even though it’s proof of work, it’s specifically CPU based. On regular computers, which means that it uses no more power than your computer would be using anyway. Since it is CPU based, it is also not worth it to build large mining farms in big warehouses. However, even if you look at Bitcoin specifically, mining needs cheap power, and a lot of cheap power, according to everything I understand, is solar and hydro, which are renewable, and are used a lot. Bitcoin mining also puts off a lot of heat as a byproduct, which could be used to do things like dry clothes, heat pools, heat municipal city buildings, etc. Plus, you’re not taking into account the emissions of the banking sector in and of itself. How much stone is mined to build bank buildings? How much gasoline is burned to transport employees to and from work? How much gasoline is burned to use armored cars to transport cash, etc. If you are going to compare the environmental costs, at least make it an objective measure.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Dec 15:07
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all i read was nonsense words
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 14 Dec 15:15
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Dyor
tortina_original@lemmy.world
on 13 Dec 21:05
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Republicans love $ too. So, a fraud scheme, yeah?
That is a truly simplistic way of looking at things. Don’t. I am as left as you can possibly be and yet I absolutely hope that bitcoin and blockchain tech would take off.
When I say blockchain tech, I don’t mean shiity scam coins, I mean “election data on an immutable public ledger” type of tech…
One can dream.
Telorand@reddthat.com
on 13 Dec 21:29
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I’m with you. However, the current state of things is not what I envision when I think of decentralized currency and immutable public ledgers.
You don’t want elections anything mixed with computers until computer architectures are more robust and verifiable. Not to mention that to mess with elections takes much fewer resources when they’re digital than when you have to corrupt thousands of vote counters.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Dec 21:21
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Exactly. I used to want digital election, and then I thought about it for half a second a realized how stupid that is.
I’m 100% in the camp of universal mail voting. We can use machines to count votes, statistics and manual counting as a check against bad machines, and individuals can check if their ballot was counted properly. Blockchain can potentially be a part of that, but it should never be the core part.
I don’t trust voting machines at all, paper ballots all the way. Maybe eventually we can do public key crypto, but not now.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
on 14 Dec 15:39
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Bitcoin operates just like the talibangeilcals. Full of grifters, thieves, and belivers who get screwed by the former.
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I wish I had my ID so I could register to buy some bitcoin…
Bisq.network. no id required. Though if I were you, I would not be buying Bitcoin since it’s perfectly traceable at all times into the future. Monero on the other hand is not.
I don’t care if it’s traced. I’ll check out Bisq. Thanks stranger.
You can do what you want of course, but it is really a bad idea. Because if somebody does something with Bitcoin that you sell them any time in the future, it could very well come back on you. If you don’t believe me, look up the case of Bitcoin Fog.
Good point! I’ll just update my ID and use wealthsimple or something.
Monero.
thinly veiled giveaway to crypto speculators
To directly fund the president’s choice of Bitcoin reserve to the spectacular enrichment of himself, Texas and anyone else in the know. The oil rush is on and there will only be one winner…
So in other words invest government money and taxpayer looses everything once the price plummets. Well done!
Been done in El Salvador. This is going to be a grift on the US tax payer of EPIC proportions.
bloomberglinea.com/…/el-salvador-loses-50-of-its-…
Damn as much as I hate crypto, I hope El Salvador held onto that rather than selling on the drop
We are on the tail end of the crypto grift. Getting the largest country on earth to invest in Crypto is basically the last gasp before the bubble deflates and cleans all the suckers out.
Totally agree with you. I just figure if they bought at like $40k, selling at $20k when it’s now at like $100k would have sucked haha.
“Strategic” lol
Take your bitcoin and flush it down the toilet where it belongs.
If you needed more proof that crypto is a giant fraud scheme: Republicans love it.
There is whole bodies of data for progressive uses of crypto. Donating to NGOs is the very first one that comes to mind, but there are definitely others.
Edit: www.amazon.com/…/B0C1J3DC2X
Crypto is Non-partisan, just like shoes or a hammer. Anybody can use them for whatever they want.
Nonpartisan doesn’t mean it’s not a scam.
Anybody can use them for anything*, but isn’t it so convenient how easy it is to launder money with crypto? And isn’t it convenient how they’re happy to spend taxpayer money to set up this fund?
We’re not talking about systems like VPNs, where you could argue they hide criminals in addition to human rights activists. That levels the playing field and protects people’s right to privacy.
What rights is crypto protecting? We’re talking about a vehicle where entire governments can pump up the value and reap the inflated price. We’re talking about foreign billionaires who can covertly and easily “invest” in their favorite candidates without taking the roundabout way of using dark-money PACs.
Crypto is just another empty, ultra-capitalist “American Dream” promise shrouded in tech.
According to what I understand of what’s being proposed here, no taxpayer money would go to purchase any Bitcoin whatsoever. It would all be people paying their taxes in Bitcoin and such. Not actually the purchase of Bitcoin by the state. I do think that we have totally different views on crypto, though, because the right I see it protecting is our right to capital that cannot be seized and controlled by the government. Yes, that enables some bad things. But on a whole, I believe it helps society. If you need to leave an oppressive situation, you can. If your government causes inflation to ruin the value of your money, you can protect your wealth with crypto because they have no control over it. I totally agree that most crypto is indeed a scam. There’s no argument for me on that. My argument is that there are legitimate projects doing legitimate things and those should not be thrown out with the bathwater like the baby.
I like your measured view of crypto. I still am not convinced by your argument, mainly because I do not believe in capital as something to be protected, but I do think that regular people having the means to act apart from government oversight is good.
My issue is still that it doesn’t level the playing field. The benefits of privacy and decentralization for the wealthy outclass what benefits the rest of us get from the same thing. It’s just another way for the rich to get richer, while the poor stay poor.
While good things are done with it, my opinion is that it’s still a net negative.
Either way, have a lovely day. Hopefully I didn’t come off too harsh.
Compared to some people I’ve talked to, you are quite levelheaded.
The Fediverse is only as good as we make it. Keep being excellent to people.
But regular people from countries which are sanctioned by countries do benefit from it, yet their benefit is still not worth it? I understand being critical and wary and vigilant, but to outright deny its usefulness for people with little options outside of official government sanctioned forms of economic power? You’ve deemed their plight and cause as outweighed and tainted by the wealthy who they have zero control over.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you wrote, but that’s not how sanctions work. It’s the people within their own country who are hurt by their country’s sanctions, not sanctions from other countries. This leads to domestic companies buying less exports, which is supposed to lead to more domestic production (or hurt the other country’s economy), but regular people aren’t typically buying exports direct from the producers. That’s not a problem Bitcoin can solve, unless import companies start using it or regular people start importing themselves.
However, it’s still the wealthy who most benefit from crypto. It’s the wealthy who make the barrier to entry higher, and it’s the wealthy who can very easily manipulate the value of this value-less currency (just look what they can do with the stock market, and that’s regulated).
It’s not that I’m against the plight of the downtrodden, I just don’t see how crypto actually helps them; like I said, it’s another “American Dream,” a promise of wealth that will never materialize for most, because the wealthy have rigged the system.
Depends on the coin, but the most popular ones have 100% transparent transactions, so it’s actually not great for money laundering. There are a lot of obfuscations techniques, but those exist w/ digital fiat transfers as well. The most popular crypto exchanges are KYC, meaning they require a paper trail for any exchanges. There are options to move money between cryptocurrencies w/o using a KYC exchange, but doing anything w/ fiat is a lot more difficult without going through a KYC exchange.
If you want to launder money, it’s a lot easier to just deal in cash.
There are cryptocurrencies designed to hide/obfuscate transactions (e.g. Monero or Bitcoin Lightning network), but you still have to interact w/ a KYC exchange at some point, which gives your local tax authority enough details to catch you when you try to cheat on your taxes.
That’s the wrong way to look at it IMO.
To me, it provides a check against national monetary policy and the major payment networks. If you live in a country with rapid inflation, your options are basically buy a different store of value (gold, cryptocurrencies, another nation’s currency) or get screwed. Likewise, the major payment networks tend to charge 3% for all transactions, perhaps higher for international transactions, whereas cryptocurrencies give you an alternative method of payment.
Cryptocurrencies don’t protect rights per se, but using them is an expression of your right to transact with others however you want.
That describes fiat a lot more than cryptocurrencies, but in the opposite direction. You’re at the mercy of your central bank w/ most fiat currencies, whereas your local government doesn’t have any control over cryptocurrencies, they can merely interact like any other market participant can. Yes, they have a lot of money at their disposal, but governments also tend to need to do things transparently, so there are already checks against governments intentionally manipulating values through massive transactions.
If you look at the crypto scams that exist, sure. But also remember that any new thing gets jumped on by people looking to make a quick buck. Look at all of those “stock tips” channels on YouTube (or any form of collectible, for that matter), those tend to just be pump-and-dump schemes. The fault here doesn’t lie with cryptocurrencies, it’s merely that it’s very liquid so it’s easy for someone to cash out.
That said, it actually has very little to do with capitalism or economics at all, it’s more of an anti-government initiative, similar to the whole idea behind the fediverse (can’t shut us all down).
It’s freedom of money. That simple.
It shouldn’t be forced on anyone, but if you appreciate a cryptographic way to own your money securely (USDC or otherwise), decentralized monetary networks give you ways to do that.
I work fulltime in the industry and the racket that is the traditional finance system is the one that resembles a ponzi/fraud/scam more than crypto in my mind.
Exactly. The core of the problem is the finance industry itself, they’d be scumbags regardless of the medium of exchange. Cryptocurrencies merely give you alternative method for transactions.
For every scam someone shows me about cryptocurrencies, I could probably show 10 with fiat currency.
The main “problem” with cryptocurrency is also its main selling point: crazy swings in value. That’s not great for regular savings, but it’s basically proof that there’s no central org messing with the currency and that value is determined purely based on supply and demand, just like gold and, to a lesser extent, stocks (stocks often pay dividends and provide voting privileges). And since it’s transparent, you can see any attempts to mess with valuations, which is less true for central banks.
There’s plenty of trustworthy stablecoins now. And lending platforms have far better yield than a tardfi savings account.
You don’t even need to speculate on some volatile token to move your savings onchain. Do it for the usd rate.
You’ve hit on another problem with the industry, and that is the fact that we are focused on the speculative network or project coins when retail would benefit so much from the network without changing their unit of value. They can just use USD.
We need to stop trying to sell Bitcoin as store of value or eth/sol as gas and start just onboarding usd.
My issue with stablecoins are that pretty much nobody actually accepts them for payment, whereas I can usually find someone to accept Bitcoin, ETH, or Monero, and of those, Monero is my favorite (less speculation, low transaction costs, privacy).
If stablecoins were commonly accepted, I’d probably use them for payment.
Payments is a beast of a final boss. I don’t use any of em for payments often at all. I just store value there. Like a brokerage account. And my business treasury.
If you’re into this space and not a Solana lover, you have to check it out. Huge ecosystem. All the large caps bridged as SPL tokens. Fast confirms. It makes defi fun and as responsive as a brokerage account or banking app
I can see two use cases for stablecoins:
I don’t speculate on crypto because the expected return is negative (zero sum + exchange fees). So, transactions are the only reason I’d be interested, and that’s much easier to find for BTC, ETH, or XMR.
And I’m discounting the “store of value” here because the stablecoin I’d get would be tied to USD, so I might as well just hold USD and benefit from regulatory oversight and interest (I mostly buy US treasuries and treasury MMFs) and not open myself to the added risk and costs of holding crypto.
So until merchants accept stablecoins, I’ll stick with BTC, ETH, and XMR since they’re actually accepted by some merchants.
When was the last time YOU have “laundered money with crypto”?
Why don’t you do it and tell us how it goes?
You have to do serious KYC everywhere before you can even think of withdrawing cash (any serious amount). I know, i had to do few of these in past 18 months just to retain access to few largest exchanges. Bitcoin is not anonymous. On the contrary.
And if you think loundering is converting from BTC to XMR and buying drugs with it, well let’s just say that crypto has a very, very long way to go before it comes even remotely close to Dollar.
Nice try, fed! (/j)
So you’re saying that it’s progressive to use bitcoin as … money?
I’m just mainly giving resources. I am a pretty hardcore libertarian and so some of the views are incomprehensible to me and others make sense.
They’re saying it’s neither progressive nor conservative, it’s just a tool that you can use.
if you lie crypto you’re not a progressive; crypto is poison for the environment.
I never said I was a progressive and not all crypto uses a ton of power. Look at Ethereum, for example. That uses very little power because of being proof of stake. Or look at Monero, for example, because even though it’s proof of work, it’s specifically CPU based. On regular computers, which means that it uses no more power than your computer would be using anyway. Since it is CPU based, it is also not worth it to build large mining farms in big warehouses. However, even if you look at Bitcoin specifically, mining needs cheap power, and a lot of cheap power, according to everything I understand, is solar and hydro, which are renewable, and are used a lot. Bitcoin mining also puts off a lot of heat as a byproduct, which could be used to do things like dry clothes, heat pools, heat municipal city buildings, etc. Plus, you’re not taking into account the emissions of the banking sector in and of itself. How much stone is mined to build bank buildings? How much gasoline is burned to transport employees to and from work? How much gasoline is burned to use armored cars to transport cash, etc. If you are going to compare the environmental costs, at least make it an objective measure.
all i read was nonsense words
Dyor
Republicans love $ too. So, a fraud scheme, yeah?
That is a truly simplistic way of looking at things. Don’t. I am as left as you can possibly be and yet I absolutely hope that bitcoin and blockchain tech would take off.
When I say blockchain tech, I don’t mean shiity scam coins, I mean “election data on an immutable public ledger” type of tech…
One can dream.
I’m with you. However, the current state of things is not what I envision when I think of decentralized currency and immutable public ledgers.
You don’t want elections anything mixed with computers until computer architectures are more robust and verifiable. Not to mention that to mess with elections takes much fewer resources when they’re digital than when you have to corrupt thousands of vote counters.
Just gonna leave this here xkcd.com/2030/
Exactly. I used to want digital election, and then I thought about it for half a second a realized how stupid that is.
I’m 100% in the camp of universal mail voting. We can use machines to count votes, statistics and manual counting as a check against bad machines, and individuals can check if their ballot was counted properly. Blockchain can potentially be a part of that, but it should never be the core part.
I don’t trust voting machines at all, paper ballots all the way. Maybe eventually we can do public key crypto, but not now.
Bitcoin operates just like the talibangeilcals. Full of grifters, thieves, and belivers who get screwed by the former.
yeah! cr*pto is the world’s 1st decentralized ponzi scheme
Aren’t all ponzy schemes decentralised?
i love it. anything to make texas bankrupt
Texa ns already are.
Source: Am Texan, declared bankruptcy a few years back.
War on Griftmas!!!
I kinda look forward to quantum computing ruining bitcoin
I should buy more Bitcoin for now
I mean, crypto is fundamentally flawed and will never work well as a global system for everyone but in the meantime…
What a great way to embezzle tax funds!
so…is this how the Conservatives are funding Russia now?
sure looks like a great way to launder funds to your best pal Vlad back in checks notes “not Russia”.
How they gonna mine bitcoin without enough electricity to heat their houses? Maybe Cruz is doing research in Cancun.
Is Texas about get rug pulled?