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Re:I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So Yo... by rvz on Saturday July 30, 2022 @10:45PM (#32292677)
There you go.

Not only crypto-skeptics can't be bothered to do basic research and even finish reading the entire PYMNTS article and click the 'Download report' link at the end of the article to see and verify the citations and methodology for themselves, instead they continue to pull out anecdotes, assumptions and at worse fallacies to deny reports like this one because 'all crypto bad', or 'all blockchain bad' nonsense. The decades of denial and ignorance from them is beyond pathetic.

What I am seeing here overall in this thread is a very extreme anti-crypto reaction, because the most vocal of all critics have lots books to sell them and they are certainly on a mission to totally stop all of crypto, blockchain and NFTs.

Good luck with that.

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Re:I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So Yo... by Fezzik on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:16PM (#32292823)
I read the whole thing, including the survey results summary, but nowhere do I see how a survey of 2,000 of their own subscribers can be magnified to “represent” three million people. That methodology is not mentioned anywhere that I can see. And while I am definitely not a statistician this seems like massaging the numbers to an extraordinary degree.

I certainly have no doubt that a portion of the 2,000 people surveyed, that are very-likely already interested in cryptocurrency, use cryptocurrency for cross-border transactions as they say they do. But that’s all the survey shows absent an explained methodology for extrapolating larger numbers from their pool.

Edit: clarity.

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Re:I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So Yo... by stevenjgarner on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:43PM (#32292964)
Whatever the audited data might be, there is a significant population of people in many countries around the world using crypto as a currency, not as an investment. At the end of the day, that may be its true value/demand. I have no doubt that regulators will do their best to make that more and more difficult, but the net effect of that seems to only enhance its value as a currency.
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