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0 pointscan16358p4y ago0 comments

I supported Ukraine with crypto. (in < 30 seconds, Sunday night)

I've bought actual stuff I liked on Internet with crypto (the only other option was PayPal which is blocked in my country).

There is sure a lot of dirty things going on on crypto but there are definitely totally legitimate use cases. You can gamble with fiat, you can gamble with crypto.

You can donate/buy with fiat, you can donate/buy with crypto.

I'm an opportunist who is in web3 and NFT space too, which is literally a free economy, and no one has to participate. Anyone can happily buy their NFTs if they find a value in them, and anyone can use crypto to transfer/donate money or buy things. Things can surely crash, so can fiat, stock market, or whole country economies.

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colesantiago4y ago· 2 in thread

A poor excuse to use a useless and broken system for after 15+ years is still slow at sending payments (which is supposedly the primary usecase) and is incinerating the planet doing useless computations just for fake tokens.

No thanks at all, a system that does this needs to be destroyed.

can16358pOP4y ago

Well, ironic that that "useless" and "broken" system is the only or the fastest way for many use cases.

Perhaps you can try to understand the actual problems that it's solving.

colesantiago4y ago

Such as being the fastest way to do gambling and speculation which the majority of people are using it for. 'DeFi' projects that gets hacked all the time with people losing their money in all cases.

Pretty useless and broken for anything else, because it is not solving anything than useless blockchain puzzles that we both know are no good for the earth.

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