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Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network by sleepybrett on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:53PM (#35778230)
Look at all that virtue.

Bitcoin started a literal tsunami of financial crimes, I feel bad for hyperinflated countries and if they find some use in bitcoin that's great for them, but I for one will stay the fuck away from anything blockchain related if I can help it.

Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network by ipaddr on Monday May 01, 2023 @04:10PM (#35778459)
That's how my grandmother feels about the internet.
Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network by sleepybrett on Sunday May 07, 2023 @07:19PM (#35856530)
Turns out the internet has proven upsides, not sure you can say that about crypto with a straight face.
Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network by hospitalJail on Monday May 01, 2023 @04:09PM (#35778452)
On a similar note, cellphones/internet allow all sorts of crime. Cars, make it easy to commit crimes. Food, allows people to use energy to fuel themselves to commit crimes. Water/boats/international trade: huge for crime. Cash, great for crime. Government, could be complicit in crime.

ChatGPT says you used "hasty generalization" fallacy, but I'm not sure that is the correct fallacy. You have a fallacy here.

Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network by tsuujin on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:16PM (#35779980)
Nah, that’s not the hasty generalization fallacy. They didn’t say “bitcoin allows for crime to happen”, they said bitcoin has been the center of a huge amount of actual financial crime.

I think that’s the observation fallacy, where you look at what’s happening and then state it out loud.