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You know how I know cryptocurrency is a scam? Because it's been around for going on 30 years (as a concept if not an actuality, anyway), and still no one has been able to come up with anything you can actually do with it.
Ha! 😀
But think about how long it took for the construct of money to supersede barter. 😀 More than a hundred years. (Admittedly, we live in accelerated times. Still...)
Fungibility is the one great advantage of cryptocurrency. Possibly it betrays my fundamentally libertarian bias, but I don't like the thought that shadowy presences can track everything I purchase. That was the great advantage to money, too.
I'd say the jury is still out on crypto. Give it another 20 years. 😀
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The alleged secrecy of crypto is bullshit. There was a giant child porn ring that got busted in South Korea recently, and it was super easy to do because the goons running it made everyone pay for access with Bitcoin.
Being able to hide your funds and what you do with them will always be something that's easy for rich people and impossible for everyone else. Personally I don't give a fuck.
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Well, Bitcoin has a public ledger, so sure, it can be traced.
There are cryptocurrencies that claim to be untraceable (though I don't know whether they've been put to the test.)
I don't give a fuck either in actual practice. Just theoretically. 😀
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