• bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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          And the drug buyers would be happy if people stop using it as speculative assets so they don’t have to suddenly have their wallet’s value change wildly throughout the day

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        if it was promised as a “store of value” or in simple terms “price will go up forever infinitely”, what kind of use cases to expect? Fun part is that they attracted gamblers with this false promises and now losing the same gamblers because bigger and nicer bubble appeared.

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    Conceptually crypto is useful as an alternative form of currency. The gains it has had was pretty much a massive pump and dump aka no different than someone with enough assets in the market buying a bunch of cheap stocks, finding a way to convince others to buy and then dumping at or near the peak.

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        Who says I have any money whatsoever in the market or crypto? I prefer real world value, like food production, building materials, electricity generation, drinking water and so on.