It is annoying semi annoying maybe but like I use it to do black market things, anarchy stuff, getting medicine where gov provides shit. It is such a crutch

But you dare to mention it on mainstream media and you will get lynched or banned for whatever reason nowadays.

Kinda irks me because it helps with my disability so much to get stuff I need, medicine. I couldn't function without it

Just ranting I guess, I do too much of rants admittedly

Edit: So I see all the scams created bias about this tech which is unfortunate. But looking aside this tech is pretty rad though maybe too much resource intensive depending on implementation

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[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are several reasons why I ignore anything crypto related.

The barrier to entry is daunting. Where do I buy it that isn't going to scam me? Where do I store it that isn't going to just steal it? How do I use it?
Almost everytime I hear about it, it is related to a scam. I recieve texts from strangers wanting to scam me with it. I read about people like Bankman-Fried being seemingly legit but then stealing it. I read about Musk's on-again/off-again love for Doge and it feels like just a way to pump up his own investment that would be illegal of it were normal investments.
The freedom it gives you to get what you need is the same freedom that allows organized crime, terrorist organizations, and sanctioned countries avoid scrutiny a lot easier.
Most are a risky investment. The price swings greatly on the biggest ones and never goes up on most of the others. The only ones that don't seem to have that problem are the ones that peg their value to a real currency.

[–] solomoncaygnuyou@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Before the inevitable downvotes: I do not endorse crypto, but I understand it better than most people because I work with it every day at my job. I am forced to understand it simply because my job requires it. So I will address the points you made and why I think they are weak arguments against crypto.

The barrier to entry is daunting

Is it? You go to one of the many mainstream crypto brokers like Kraken or Binance and you make an account and start trading. Is that any more daunting than going to a bank website and opening up a new checking account?

Almost everytime I hear about it, it is related to a scam.

Okay? I hear about scams involving the US Dollar every single day. I'm not boycotting the US Dollar because it is commonly involved in scams. Every single unit of currency is subject to this problem; crypto is not special or unique in this regard.

The freedom it gives you to get what you need is the same freedom that allows organized crime, terrorist organizations, and sanctioned countries avoid scrutiny a lot easier.

This is the same argument the feds use to argue against cryptography as a whole. "Bad people can use this technology for bad things, so we should be against it.". The cartels murder thousands of people every year over the US Dollar but nobody's boycotting that for some reason.

Most are a risky investment

Anyone getting into crypto who thinks it isn't a risky investment has been lied to. No different from a shitty financial advisor (not a fiduciary) telling you to invest in meme stocks and blindly believing them.

IMO the best genuine argument against crypto is that proof-of-work models are an environmental fucking disaster (which is not to say that printing paper money does not also have a disastrous environmental impact). Proof-of-stake models are better but are not perfect. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Crypto was founded under idealistic principles but it has been implemented in very flawed ways. But I say don't throw the baby out with the bath water.