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.

    • tobyvin@lemmy.tobyvin.dev
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      1 year ago

      While I think you’re right in that neither of those seem to be pyramid scheme, I disagree with the implication that they are any better (apologies if that was not the implication).

      They seem to just be creating an avenue for monotization of something that, I assume (but I could be wrong here), was previously free by nature, hence the necessity for an NFT to monetize it.

      I guess really that’s just what NFTs do, or at least their main use case. But I guess I just fundamentaly disagree with that idea.

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        1 year ago

        “Artificial scarcity” is the way I’ve heard it labeled, and I agree, that’s not something that should ever be desirable.