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Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) (thedabbler.patatas.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by smallpatatas@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji".

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Are you sure you are not confusing propaganda with what crypto is actually used for?

I don't care how easy it is to set up a wallet. I cannot take my crypto and go down to the bodega and buy a sandwich. I can't pay my rent with crypto. I can't pay my utilities with crypto.

Crypto is not a usable currency for the vast majority of people.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Before the government enforced credit cards and made them mandatory it would have been really hard to buy a sandwich in bodega with a credit card too. Not sure where you live but these days in most places if you want you can literally pay with all sort of service, they have these big cash registers with the screen that accepts all soft of payment youtubers advertise for.

Crypto is not a usable currency for the vast majority of people.

There aren't any limits that prevents the majority of people from creating a crypto wallet and using cryptocurrencies

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't care how easy it is to set up a wallet. I cannot take my crypto and go down to the bodega and buy a sandwich. I can't pay my rent with crypto. I can't pay my utilities with crypto.

There aren't any limits that prevents the majority of people from creating a crypto wallet and using cryptocurrencies

This is why people laugh at you cryptobros. I literally tell you why it's not a usable currency and you tell me it totes is.

Go back to speeding up climate change with your fake currency and stop trying to pretend normal people are using it to for anything other than unregulated securities trading.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Go back to speeding up climate change with your fake currency

cryptocurrencies provides an open alternative to a centralized and rotten financial system that is at the core of consumerism and the speedrun of mankind into oblivion.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You practically use the energy output of a nuclear reactor to process transactions. So I think you're the ones pushing the expediation of the human races extinction. What's worse is your been obnoxious while doing it.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You practically use the energy output of a nuclear reactor to process transactions.

Every time you pay with your credit card or use an ATM the same thing happen, with the difference that you are not using a decentralized and open source service.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Incorrect. I don't use the output of a small town. You use power but nowhere near what cryptocurrencies require.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago

I don’t use the output of a small town.

I think you are literally using that since ATM are open 24h