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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by walrus01 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:40PM (#18878489)
Counterpoint: Nigerian scams are not an appreciable percentage of SMTP traffic by volume, if you look at what goes through a busy mail server. Even if you believe that cryptocurrency as a whole is not a scam, you have to acknowledge that a significant and appreciable percentage of the "coins" that you would see in a top-50 list of cryptocurrencies are highly suspicious or outright scams.
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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by CryptoPunk on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:42PM (#18885749)
Which one of the top 50 are scams? I can't think of one. I think it would be more accurate to say that there is a lot of unsubstantiated marketing hype about cryptocurrencies that produces inflated valuations.
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