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Re:Why Rust? by RestlessMind on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:53PM (#33252930)
> You can't ever get in a better situation than what you would get with a competent liberal-ish government and no cryptomoney.

And what if you have only an incompetent authoritarian government? How would you help fight citizens of those governments? Crypto is a great tool there. Just because there are insufferable crypto-bros peddling shitcoins to make a quick buck doesn't mean entire Crypto field is useless. That'd be like blacklisting the entire data mining field because surveillance tech and adtech exist.

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Re:Why Rust? by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:27PM (#33254247)
> And what if you have only an incompetent authoritarian government?

Then cryptomoney can give you a limited, non-zero amount of value. Still less than fixing the government, but it is easier to deploy.

Even then, comparing it with the internet boom is bullshit.

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Re:Why Rust? by RestlessMind on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:28PM (#33255485)
> Then cryptomoney can give you a limited, non-zero amount of value.

Glad we agree on this. Everything else (eg. comparison with internet boom) is a matter of degree and only time will tell.

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