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Re:Bitcoin miners are buying power plants by gruez on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:42AM (#26833742)
>It’s cryptocurrency, the Stellar Lumens (XLM) is trusted well enough to be in the top 15 cryptocurrencies by marketcap. It has years of history to look back at. It doesn’t have a inflation rate (0% inflation rate now + occasional coin-burns).

market cap =/= trust, especially when you consider that in the past there were outright scams that were in the top 15 (eg. IOTA).

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Re:Bitcoin miners are buying power plants by webinvest on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:07PM (#26837834)
I don’t like IOTA. It was pretty overhyped for it’s value. I don’t know how many cryptocurrencies there are, maybe 10s of thousands, but being in the top 15 by market cap lends more credibility than in the top 1000 by market cap. Anyone can make a cryptocurrency, but not anyone can make it valuable.
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