They are fun stickers, but the call to action is missing. They don’t inform anybody, just brand awareness I guess. For all the electrical workers at your school
Some students had put this sticker on those substations. But hey, something is better than nothing.
Petition to keep cryptocurrency BS out of /c/privacy .
as long as they’re not treated in here like investments but rather private ways of payment i say crypto live
Yeah, but in order to work as a private means of payment, cryptocurrencies first have to work as a means of payment (you know… as a “currency”). Until/unless they do, they’ll remain gambling with extra steps.
Cryptocurrencies are definitely not great currencies but they are definitely already used as currency by many people.
Three seconds of googling (well, I used DuckDuckGo, but anyway) suggests otherwise.
Can you show me what says that?
That’s a pro-cryptocurrency source. Scanning down the page, the first result from a source I recognize is an article called “Bitcoin Is A Cryptocurrency, But Is It Money?” from Forbes. It doesn’t directly answer the question my search term asked, but it does say “Economists say that money performs three functions. … Does Bitcoin do any or all these things? In brief, no.”
Somebody’s opinion. Nice
@Rumblestiltskin @TootSweet #BTC is a bad currency, but others can be great!
not certain if i understand your comment correctly but crypto has been used primarily as a form of payment for years before the recent boom. not for groceries or other “real life” stuff, sure, but online people did start to warm up to cryptocurrencies as a payment option.
As I’ve said in other comments in this thread, everything I’ve been able to find on the topic has indicated that cryptocurrency is used much more as a speculative investment than as any form of payment.
These days yes, which is a shame. But it was used primarily as payment before the financebros caught wind of it.
Nice sticker, super cool! Hope people will look into Monero because of this, every time I try to explain to Monero to someone they think it’s some cryptobro bullshit lol
Isn’t Monero “some crypto bullshit”? Or is there a privacy related tool with the same name that I’m not aware of?
Monero is a cryptocurrency that actually offers the privacy that every other cryptocurrency claims to have.
So it’s cryptobro bullshit
Until crypto gets serious about addressing its environmental impact I have a hard time jumping on board. As far as I know Monero is better than most, but still enthusiasts tend to hand wave away the energy concerns.
Monero is better than most in some ways, but it’s proof-of-work so not really any better in that way. Ether is the one that doesn’t waste energy, Monero is the one that offers privacy. There’s at least one that tries to do both but even fewer people have heard of it.
Which one is that? I haven’t really followed crypto in about 7-8 years but I am very familiar with Monero’s background.
I’m sure there’s probably more than one and I don’t even remember which it was that I saw, but a quick search turns up GNO which is said to be privacy-focused although it isn’t immediately clear how exactly it works.
Personally I’m rooting for something non-blockchain for the electronic payments system of the near-ish future: GNU Taler. It solves enough privacy problems to be useful, making it much better than what most of the world uses now, without immediately becoming the basis for a pyramid scheme, an instrument for pump-and-dump scams, a means of receiving big ransom payments, or a big flashing target for banking regulators.
Taler seems more promising
This. I very much hope Taler takes off and becomes something I can use to pay for my groceries or whatever.
Very cool.
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