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distributed parasitic unregulated and lawless faux paradisal casino of fictional worthless tokens being recklessly circulated towards victims after being made out of thin air.


wrong: Not made out of thin air, but made by creating massive pollution.


Sooo... Thick air?


So... crypto is stocks?


No.

stocks have fundamental value that is tied to a public company's performance. There is no fundamental or intrinsic value in crypto.


Wait a second, I got a _crazy_ idea. Bear with me, you might be onto something...

Is it even remotely possible that the same thing might be happening with crypto, and that Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc value is directly tied to the fundamental/intrinsic value of being able to use the relative decentralized network, therefore reflecting their performance? If no one was using Ethereum because it's worthless it would be valued at zero... but it's not at zero despite being worthless because it's being used... so maybe it's not worthless after all, and has fundamental/intrinsic value? Mindblowing, I know...


Unless you accept the difficulty of the math involved and the electricity spent during solving the mining as the backing value.


Nope.

There is no value to wasting electricity just to solve meaningless mining puzzles all to build a distributed ponzi scheme.


the company has a value from it's stocks; it's stocks have a value from the company... which means it's just as scammy as was said about crypto.

either way, they both have value; it's just about the market.


distributed leaderless Ponzi scheme.


sector where poorly run companies are masqueraded as the sector itself.


The 90% give the 10% a bad name


closer to 99%

a lot of people don't realize how the same skew is present in sectors they respect as well. crypto sector's transparency just shows you every single unincorporated idea monetized for an unknown person's benefit, right alongside massive mismanaged corporations.

the same thing is going on forever everywhere.

its more analogous to being able to see every single phishing attack all at once and considering the organization behind it as the same level of importance as Google, suggesting they equally represent the tech sector.

or looking at every active and defunct LLC registered in every single jurisdiction on the planet and using that as a reason to say it is representative of the economy. just very unrelated things.


The scams and crime are the sector.




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