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Re:Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto M... by sascha_sl on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:41AM (#31311285)
It's a really terrible comparison and nothing but a cheap tu quoque.

Crypto contributes nothing but a speculative asset to society.

Meat production, while derailed into unsustainability, has a lot more utility and is also a lot harder to unwind from current culture. Try running a survey on which of the two people would rather forego, and your 100M to 6B ratio will look rather stupid.

One shitty behavior doesn't excuse another.

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Re:Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto M... by xvector on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:44AM (#31311301)
> Meat production [...] has a lot more utility

We will have to agree to disagree that stimulating the taste buds has more utility than providing a trustless financial system.

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Re:Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto M... by sascha_sl on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:48AM (#31311326)
I've used bitcoin as a currency in 2011, and now people keep telling me I shouldn't have because all I got for 2-million USD equivalent BTC then was a video game.

What's the point of a currency that doesn't scale and that everyone is too afraid to spend because of volatility.

Speculative asset, that's all you'll ever have there.

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Re:Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto M... by xvector on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:23PM (#31317861)
That comment belays a misunderstanding of the crypto sphere as a whole. If you don't want to partake in the speculative nature of the asset, you can simply transact with a stablecoin.
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Re:Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto M... by tehbeard on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:35AM (#31311563)
So, A cryptobro that eats soylent paste?

Didn't have that one on my bingo card...

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Re:Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto M... by trainsarebetter on Monday May 09, 2022 @08:36AM (#31313323)
ha! Made me laugh, this was me 10 years ago
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