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.

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    1 year ago

    Friend of mine side hustles crypto. He has a full time job so it’s not quite his thing but sells a little here and there.

    The key was he got in early a bunch of years ago like all speculative markets.

    To quote George Carlin it’s like any other group of people: a few winners a WHOLE LOT of losers.

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      1 year ago

      That’s not a “side hustle”, that’s just gambling.

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        1 year ago

        I had a habit of avoidikg calling it that because of the aggressive replies I get saying it’s not gambling. 😆

        Man feels good to say crypto is gambling and speculative. I wonder what else I can say.

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