• PropaGandalf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Holy shit whats up with all these guys hating here on cryptos? As if all of them would be the same. Sure better go to daddy bank…

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      1 year ago

      NFTs and (x)coin speculation really made a lot of people sour on cryptocurrency, fairly or unfairly.

      There are legitimate uses for crypto, I don’t think Mastercard, Visa, or your bank need to know what size dildos you’re buying online. But people treating it like a high value stock instead of actual currency really hampered it’s wide adoption imo.

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        1 year ago

        I use monero for this reason. It has actual usage as a currency and maintains a fairly stable value. Sure, it fluctuates, but it does so rather slowly compared to others. It doesnt drop 15+% overnight.

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      1 year ago

      To be clear: I also hate crypto EXCEPT MONERO.

      When I got a new PC it had (and still has) quite powerfull cpu, so I googled if I could make some money from my PC. The answer was crypto mining. Only nice looking crypto miner for Linux was Cudo miner and it only supported Monero for cpu mining. I was mining for a year and got 50€, because of free electricity (parents). In that time I discovered that Monero is private and anonymous crypto and then I got interested in privacy. I was also a localmonero trader but paypal close both of my accounts without a reason :(.

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        1 year ago

        Nice story. There are a lot more cryptos and blockchains that aim to disrupt the current centralized systems. It is rather easy to distinguish between real cypherpunk rooted projects and other useless shitcoins.