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Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but...

Is the speculative investment scam, which crypto substantially represented, finally dead? Can we go back to buying gold bars and Pokemon cards?

I feel like it is, but I'm having a hard time putting my finger on why it lost its sheen. Maybe crypto scammers moved on to selling LLM "prompts?" Maybe the rug just got pulled enough times that everyone lost trust.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

not really. the stupid stuff, like nfts, are dying, but the rest is still the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, one thing is the use cases of some to bypass laws.

The other thing is, there will always be people to fall for all kinds of scams, cults, hypes, pyramid schemes so many are still alive as well, there is people out there buying sugar pills and energy healing and Reddit gold.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hopefully. The only thing it was ever useful for was buying illegal drugs via Silk Road.

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