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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by graeme on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:49PM (#27338199)
You’re going to need a bit more evidence on the “criminals love gold” point. Your thailand example just shows people will scam for small, valuable, fungible things.

Gold didn’t have a rep as the hub of black market transactions before bitcoin.

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by daniel-cussen on Monday May 31, 2021 @12:49PM (#27345924)
Exactly, scammers love small, valuable, fungible things, and gold and bitcoin are both.
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by marcusae313 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @08:03PM (#27338315)
No it did not, but art did and still does. A lot of art in the future will have a non-fungible identity on chain. It's starting and will only grow rapidly.
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