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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by reducesuffering on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:27PM (#46195022)
> I want to buy subversive literature from someone I already trust not to rip me off, or for an amount I'm not worried about losing, without anyone requiring me to give them a government ID. Or I want to sell it to people without requiring them to give anyone an ID. I want to donate money to Wikileaks. I want to commission art or software from someone in South America who doesn't have access to US banks.

So literally 0.1% of the financial needs of the average person. What a revolution

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by AnthonyMouse on Monday December 08, 2025 @06:50PM (#46199369)
> So literally 0.1% of the financial needs of the average person.

"Thing that solves some problems for some people doesn't solve all problems for all people" is not a very useful criticism.

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by reducesuffering on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:24PM (#46201205)
It is when people are trying to act like Bitcoin is an enormous source of value to the market like several JP Morgans and not a Hallmark level of value provided
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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:56PM (#46211275)
World GDP is >$100T/year. What percentage of that does something have to be used for before it's worth something?
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