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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by viking123 on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:47PM (#48031928)
The thing is that the former crypto gamblers have moved on to gamble in the prediction markets like Polymarket now. Not sure if COIN is coming back from this.
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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by Rohunyyy on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:09AM (#48032426)
Ahh yes the next big thing! We had cloud, then crypto, then VR??? , then AI and now straight up gambling. I feel the next next big thing in computers should be porn.
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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by tdeck on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:23AM (#48032537)
Now that I think of it, the last decade has just been wave after wave of techwashing the same old gambling. First it was sports betting, then cryptocurrency, then NFTs, then "prediction markets".
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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by autaut on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:30AM (#48032586)
In the 70 and 80s ppl kept their lifestyle by having their spouse starting to work. In the 90s and 2000s it was with credit cards. In the 2010s it was apps offering artificially deflated prices to corner markets. And now it’s gambling and buying burritos w Klara.
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