35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

  • @[email protected]English
    16•2 months ago

    I don’t know how I could possibly have been more explicit about it not yet being ready for any real-world use cases than I was.

    • @[email protected]English
      -8•2 months ago

      It will never be ready. It doesn’t even make sense. To transact with real fiat like the US dollar, you’ll have to go through an official on-ramp and an off-ramp of the respective government. And to do an international transaction you’ll have to use one of the widely accepted systems like SWIFT. GNU Taler doesn’t appear to address anything like that. Anyhow, my comment was made with the premise of this whole thread in mind, i.e. “Bitcoin is stupid” or “snake oil”. Yet there’s no alternatives to what crypto provides. So is it that stupid after all?

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 month ago

        How wasteful!

        Anyhow, today I’m going to resume using a currency backed by oil and nukes, which encourages consumption on purpose. I will then either exploit workers by investing in a for-profit business, or get poorer.

        But someday, in the future, economics will work the way I expect them to. That’s when I’ll switch to something better!

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 month ago

          Russia has had oil and nukes and it didn’t stop the ruble from collapsing in the 90s

          Maybe reexamine your assumptions