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"Regulations are NOT the solution to low-quality food. Bitcoin is." - this guy. (lemm.ee)
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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 89 points 23 hours ago

One of the biggest realizations I had in High School is there are two kinds of people who hate bullies: those who don't think bullies should exist, and those who want the bully's power for themselves.

So it it with crypto. These jerkoffs don't want to crush the corrupt monetary system, they want to supplant it with their own scam.

[-] plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 35 points 20 hours ago

It's a movement driven in no small part by rage. By people who looked at [the financial crash of] 2008 - who looked at the system as it exists - but concluded that the problems with capitalism were that it didn't provide enough opportunities to be the boot.

All credit to Dan Olson's masterpeice video Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go watch the whole thing again.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 13 points 22 hours ago

Yep, anyone who wants to change the rules stands to benefit from that change. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise.

[-] argon@lemmy.today 12 points 21 hours ago

There's also the possibility they're just a good person.

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