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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by gaigalas on Monday December 08, 2025 @06:06AM (#46190946)
It originally meant nothing. Bitcoin was a proof of concept, with some examples of things it could solve, but no actual ideological arc.

Some people saw it as an opportunity to push for an ideological agenda because you can convince a lot of people that cryptocurrency is a silver bullet (it's not).

Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by nailer on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:07AM (#46193959)
> but no actual ideological arc.

Wasn’t the first thing signed an article about the collapse of the banking system?

Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by gaigalas on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:39AM (#46194404)
This is the first thing:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It has nothing about the collapse of the banking system.

Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by kayamon on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:18PM (#46194917)
> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by nailer on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @08:46AM (#46204865)