Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform

• TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Trust and regulations that are lacking in crypto make it what it is. If a collective of people are willing to offer something in exchange for something else, even just because it is a crowdsourced confidence scam, it doesn’t really ethically exonerate what you are supporting. Every person who participates in crypto is also holding up its underground international market. It was bad enough under normal markets, but the difference is between night and day with crypto. Crypto is far too easy to turn into a bunch of excuses and anonymous pseudonyms.

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you realize the scale of illicit trade in us dollars is like 10 orders of magnitude more than crypto?

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    • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only because the trade power of US dollars is like 10000madeupbagillionzillioninternetnumber0000 order of magnitude more.

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• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isnt the difference that money is valued against something tangible. Like gold, oil or data. The strength of a countries currency is based on how much of these things it has.

  Whereas crypto isn’t valued against anything other than thoughts and prayers. If people think it has value then it has value. Until people no longer think it does, at which point it tanks and you are no longer rich. It’s the same as those NFTs.

  Sure you can make money in crypto, you can exchange it for traditional money if you play the game well. But that doesnt mean crypto has any inherent value.

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  • ogy@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No. It used to be fixed against a physical asset but it hasn’t been for a long time now.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The USD is backed only by the “full faith and credit of the United States government”. Nothing tangible whatsoever. It’s fiat.

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  • HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most currencies today are fiat currency. They only got value because they are the official currency of a nation and their government says so and people have the belief it has value. The US dollar used to be backed by gold but was stopped in the 70’s.

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  • mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    data
    tangible

    in that case money itself is tangible and can be valued against itself. You are confusing exchange value and use value. Money has an exchange value, so does gold, oil or any other commodity. But unlike money they also have a use value.

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  • sonalder@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1 USD is worth 1 USD because you can pay 1 USD of taxes. It is backed by political promises, oil, weapons and war. This can’t end well.

    Crypto means cryptography. Cryptocurrencies are a variety of things from stablecoin (digital token backed by fiat money often by a private company ), company shares, community projects, scams, scams, ponzi, scams, cool technical experiments and technically bad experiment. In the other hand there is Bitcoin (and Monero to some extent) that is owned by humanity, no foundation, no company, no state. It is backed by a proof of past energy brining the most innovative security system in the history of IT, not based on restricted access and opacity but by economical incentive to play fair with others in a big game theory peer-to-peer network.

    Bitcoin is not the money of the internet. It’s the internet of money.

    Andreas Antonopoulos

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