Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but…
Is the speculative investment scam, which crypto substantially represented, finally dead? Can we go back to buying gold bars and Pokemon cards?
I feel like it is, but I’m having a hard time putting my finger on why it lost its sheen. Maybe crypto scammers moved on to selling LLM “prompts?” Maybe the rug just got pulled enough times that everyone lost trust.
I can answer this. All of my subscriptions are paid in crypto: email, alias service, gift cards, VPN etc.
The reason is pretty simple. First, lots of sites don’t have the security standards cards in my country need to function. Second, I mostly use Monero to pay which is a completely private crypto so payment providers can’t peddle my data.