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Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by wesapien on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:27PM (#34214356)
No one has to use it if they don't want to. Keep your money in whatever currency you want or your wealth in art or precious metal
Re:Top Bitcoin dev gets owned by arcticbull on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:16AM (#34214930)
Tell that to everyone in El Salvador and everyone exposed passively through the silliness of Elon and Jack, or OTPP or CDPQ. It's strictly false to say nobody is forced to use it - they are. Almost 7M of them in El Salvador.

But even if that weren't true, that doesn't mean its a good idea to use it or advocate for it or pretend it doesn't have these glaring flaws as folks march onward toward the abyss and take down the normies with them.

It's everyone's responsibility to call out bad ideas that harm us all. Especially when as soon as anything goes wrong, the afflicted yell "HELP! POLICE!!" just like our tweeter down-thread. That's a draw on public resources which puts this discourse squarely in the public interest. Not to mention spending like 0.6% of the world's electricity on coal-powered lotto ticket scratcher machines undergirding the whole thing.

The funniest part is when things start to go wrong all the talking heads jump in and start saying "crypto deserves better critics!" It has fantastic critics - you just have to listen. Critics aren't supposed to say things you want to hear.