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Re:Ask HN: What real world problem does cryptocurrency solve? by ur-whale on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:38AM (#30329255)
> Early(ish) adopter here(circa 2013): initially it was a way for nerds who didn’t have street connections to buy drugs.

You are making assumptions.

It might have been your motivation back then.

It most certainly wasn't the motivation for many people I know in the space.

I was introduced to bitcoin by someone who was also promoting this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBPN-MKefA

and the interest I developed for it was both because the tech. was interesting and new and it resonated with my political sensibilities.

Strictly nothing to do with drugs.

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Re:Ask HN: What real world problem does cryptocurrency solve? by malsuwaidi on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:43AM (#30329295)
I’ve actually outlined both réal-life use cases: 1- initially anonymous online payment (we all know how that went), and 2- fringe -let’s - change - this - corrupt - system types who also would like to get rich doing it (by definition if you want to change a political economy system it’s for you to come out on top on the other end).

What other real world use case has there been for crypto so far that’s actually 1-useful and 2-adoptable ?

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