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0 pointsStavrosK8y ago0 comments

> You never actually tried to use the coins for anything until this point when you are now finally trying to "cash out".

An alternate (and correct) interpretation is that I bought IOTA as I thought I may end up using it in my IoT projects. I didn't (probably because nobody working for IOTA actually cares about IoT), and now I want to sell them for a more useful currency.

Not everyone wants coins for speculation, but you're forgiven for thinking otherwise.

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enraged_camel8y ago· 2 in thread

The other possibility (not just you and IOTA, but for others) is that a lot of coins have free offerings at their launch to get things off the ground. Stellar is an example.

So yeah, just because someone owns coins doesn't mean they are/were mindless speculators.

StavrosKOP8y ago

Oh, true, they did give out some coins (me included).

Yet another possibility (which is how... a friend of mine... uses coins) is buying weed from the dark web. That's a big use case right now.

bitoneill8y ago

I bought my first legal weed in California yesterday and it was a very interesting experience. I don't usually smoke but I wanted to see what the store was like. It was strictly cash only. They had several ATM's installed in the building. Security was tight for this reason. It's hard to process that it's now legal.

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