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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by harwoodleon on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:27PM (#27336996)
Absolutely.

And of course new sectors that are not established can seem like snake oil, simply because they are new industries.

The internet has steamrollered many industries and fundamentally changed the way they work.

Manufacturing, Music, Politics and now The final big boss, money.

It will take another ten years for this industry to mature. But in amongst the sham and drudgery we have the first non-violent system of currencies.

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by shieVae4I on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:58PM (#27337773)
> Manufacturing, Music, Politics and now The final big boss, money.

Isn't that a "they laughed at Galileo" argument?

They thought the Internet was snake oil. They thought Napster was snake oil. They thought BitTorrent was snake oil. ... but they also thought Pixelon was snake oil.

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by zzzeek on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:56PM (#27337250)
lighting the earth's natural resources literally on fire to create currency is pretty violent towards human life.
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