• x00z@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    At first cryptos had a true value, as in people wanted it and saw the potential of the coin itself, and not of the price it had, thus raising the prices. Then it changed. Capitalists with their huge capital started playing the market. So instead of the cryptos having a monetary value based on their actual value to society, they got their monetary value from previously monetary values. This means that the value of the cryptos shifted towards how much value it could provide to the people investing in them.

    At this point anybody with half a brain should have stopped caring about the actual monetary value of cryptos. Bitcoin was made for one thing and that was to be a decentralized alternative far away from any government. And now you have one government, that only consists of a mere 5% of all humans, that somehow made the market crash? Everybody that doesn’t think this is beyond crazy is getting played, hard.

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      3 hours ago

      Crypto should have been about taking power away from banks and capitalists. And maybe there are projects along those lines. But for the most part it’s been co-opted by exactly that sort of asshole.

      Now crypto exists mainly as a microcosm of human folly.