• stabby_cicada@slrpnk.netOP
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    Love to hear how you think digital currencies aren’t digital currencies.

    Not all digital currencies are cryptocurrencies. CBDCs are digital implementations of government-backed fiat currencies. If you don’t understand the difference I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.

    by your flawed metrics, solar power is “hype”.

    Solar power produces energy. Cryptocurrency produces nothing and wastes energy doing it.

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        Strange hill for them to die on… A quick search makes it obvious that CBDCs use cryptography

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          Strange hill to die on. A quick search makes it obvious that credit cards use cryptography.

          Hey dude, cryptography != cryptocurrency. Cryptography just says “yes, this person made this transaction, I am sure of it as a computer because this math checks out”.

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            Wait, so you’re telling me that every time I swipe my VISA and smugly explain to the cashier that I’m a crypto bro, I’ve been the fool all along? Please excuse me while I begin to question everything in my life

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          yup, they must have realized the hole they’re digging isn’t getting any shallower.