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[-] lloram239@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

On the other hand I never understood why they tried to tie it into the blockchain or cryptocurrency.

What's so hard to understand about that? EVERY damn problem with the modern Internet goes back to money. People producing content like to be paid. People running the servers like to be paid. And if you don't want to people flooded with ads, you need to get money from somewhere else. Credit card fees make it impossible to pay small creators, so you need to have a micro-payment layer in between, cryptocurrency provides just that.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

cryptocurrency provides just that.

It provides the promise of that.

The reality, not so much

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