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    1. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 4h4 hours ago

      I think most of us in the industry gave cryptocurrency a long leash because it's full of technical cleverness and seemed innovative just on those terms. But it's time we recognize that cleverness is being used as bait to defraud more people and perpetuate a con. Enough is enoughpic.twitter.com/Arnrqjtfvo

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    2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 4h4 hours ago

      The two things people need to know about cryptocurrency are completely non-technical: 1. If it doesn't work, it's just an easy to lose casino chip 2. If it works, it creates an end run around all financial regulation, and will be dominated by uses those regulations try to stop

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    3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 4h4 hours ago

      Some of those financial regulations are unjust. People can send remittances in crypto to relatives in repressive countries, and you hear their stories from boosters. But people also want to move billions in untraceable crime money around. Guess which traffic predominates

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    4. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 4h4 hours ago

      The third path out of this dilemma is to legitimize cryptocurrency by bringing it into our existing regulatory structures, at which point it becomes indistinguishable from technologies that do the same thing at a fraction of the complexity and one millionth of the resource cost.

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    5. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 4h4 hours ago

      The only reason proponents have to domesticate cryptocurrency is to maintain a situation like the status quo, where part of it (like Coinbase) sits in the legal economy, the rest of remains in the illegal economy, and pathways between the two continue to function smoothly.

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    6. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 3h3 hours ago

      Remember the playbook that Uber used: 1. Promise a revolutionary technology ("self-driving cars are coming"!) 2. Use that promise as a pretext to ignore all regulation 3. Make a fortune 4. Drop the tech story Same goes for crypto

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    7. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 3h3 hours ago

      We also have to address the root reason that cryptocurrency exists, which is that there is a corrupt, overfinancialized casino economy that favors the rich, 2008 proved that the system is rigged so they can never lose, and ordinary people will continue to search for a fairer deal

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    8. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 3h3 hours ago

      A lot of young, idealistic people are getting caught up in cryptocurrency because they want to build a better world. Their talent and optimism deserve a better outlet than this scam money, and we all need a better alternative than the status quo

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    9. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 3h3 hours ago

      A lot of intelligent observers look at cryptocurrency, see that it makes no sense, and reasonably infer that they must be missing something profound on the technical level. Tech culture has a nice tradition of not deriding new ideas, but we need to break it here and speak out

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    10. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 2h2 hours ago

      From the outside (like from Congress's point of view) people see a trillion-dollar new tech industry, a lot of proponents who of course argue this is the next big thing, and some critics. They don't see the huge silent majority of tech people who know it's a scam. That's on us

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      Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 2h2 hours ago

      This thread about cryptocurrency made it to the top of Hacker News and then got flagged off in about seven minutes, start to finish. Just to give you an idea of the polarization on this issue among nerds, and why people with doubts stay quietpic.twitter.com/kI0I2hAyBy

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        1. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 52m52 minutes ago

          Many people in replies are saying "bullshit, there's no billions in laundered money moving over the blockchain!" Right-because it can't handle the volume! The big money laundering is crypto-adjacent and done through projects like Tether. Only ransomware *has* to use blockchain

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        1. Bob Cactaur‏ @komphlex 2h2 hours ago
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          if i post under my real name about cryptocurrency ill be blacklisted from some very large companies by way of underhanded hr folks.

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        1. Whitney McNamara‏ @whitneymcn 2h2 hours ago
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          Oof.

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        2. j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜‏ @jwz 2h2 hours ago
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          I mean, it's canonical HN fodder, isn't it? The topic should be catnip for finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers.

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        3. Rascar "sexy boy" Tépacap‏ @TyphonBaalAmmon 2h2 hours ago
          Replying to @jwz @Pinboard

          I remember ten years ago when HN noticed the existence of Bitcoin and wouldn't talk about anything else for weeks. I was sure it would die down in a year and boy was I wrong about that, unfortunately.

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        1. Maxwell Kronen Von Berg‏ @mkvb0 1h1 hour ago
          Replying to @Pinboard

          It made it to the front page, not the top. No reason to embellish.

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        2. David Gerard  🐍 👑  🌷‏ @davidgerard 1h1 hour ago
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          It's been unflagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27335574 …

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        3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 1h1 hour ago
          Replying to @davidgerard

          It got reposted, and since it was also retitled I'm guessing is now under moderator protection

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        1. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor 54m54 minutes ago
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          lol @ that comment

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        1. de-cen-tra-liz-ed & de-crypt-ed‏ @greg_not_so 46m46 minutes ago
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          not polarizing at all in my mind and coinbase makes it work for both worlds

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