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Re:SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Inv... by birracerveza on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:43AM (#34831978)
So... crypto is stocks?
Re:SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Inv... by colesantiago on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:17AM (#34833336)
No.

stocks have fundamental value that is tied to a public company's performance. There is no fundamental or intrinsic value in crypto.

Re:SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Inv... by anticensor on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:26AM (#34833396)
Unless you accept the difficulty of the math involved and the electricity spent during solving the mining as the backing value.
Re:SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Inv... by colesantiago on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:48AM (#34833536)
Nope.

There is no value to wasting electricity just to solve meaningless mining puzzles all to build a distributed ponzi scheme.

Re:SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Inv... by birracerveza on Friday February 17, 2023 @08:28AM (#34834393)
Wait a second, I got a _crazy_ idea. Bear with me, you might be onto something...

Is it even remotely possible that the same thing might be happening with crypto, and that Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc value is directly tied to the fundamental/intrinsic value of being able to use the relative decentralized network, therefore reflecting their performance? If no one was using Ethereum because it's worthless it would be valued at zero... but it's not at zero despite being worthless because it's being used... so maybe it's not worthless after all, and has fundamental/intrinsic value? Mindblowing, I know...

Re:SEC Charges Terraform and CEO Do Kwon with Defrauding Inv... by devhead on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:14PM (#34837382)
the company has a value from it's stocks; it's stocks have a value from the company... which means it's just as scammy as was said about crypto.

either way, they both have value; it's just about the market.