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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by jackcodes on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:54AM (#21078296)
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP take up around 80% of total market cap and I’ll class those as legitimate enough to fall in the non-scam category. I’ll also ballpark half of the remaining 20% as not being scams (I know that’s a little debatable too, is a poor business premise a scam for example?), and I’d say that’s not too bad on the whole.

If we’re talking about number of projects then I can’t disagree, there’d be no argument.

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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by Nursie on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:41AM (#21078800)
Most of the activity taking place on them appears to be scams or scam related though, especially as many of the large exchanges appear to either be scams or at least be in on the scams.

It's scams all the way down.

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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by chx on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:26AM (#21079197)
What makes you think Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP are not scams? That's the entire point of this argument: Bitcoin is a scam. I showed you an article about how there are no legit usages (aside from those that include it out of hype but could be implemented just as well without) and another which shows you it is a digital version of the chain distributor scheme.
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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by jackcodes on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:37PM (#21082687)
> What makes you think Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP are not scams?

Because they deliver what they promise, and I get from them exactly what they say they’re going to give me.

Bitcoin doesn’t advertise itself as getting rich. It says it’s a digital ledger and wallet. I can use it like that. Ethereum, a platform for creating tokens and contracts. I can use it to do that. XRP, well that’s one for the banks so I’m taking a punt, but they’re doing real settlement.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP aren’t scamming me. The guy asking for Bitcoin on telegram, yes.

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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by coralreef on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:16PM (#21082463)
Its strange that you say there are no legit uses, when people keep telling you how they use it.
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