Just stick to bitcoin, monero, and ethereum.
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Syndication@lemmy.today 1 day agoI miss the days when crypto was only for secure transactions and more of a novelty. Now it’s all either a scam or used for gambling.
If I kept all my crypto 10+ years ago instead of using it (I thought that using crypto for everything was cool at the time and thought thats what it was supposed to be used for) and after calculations I could have afford a nice big house ~$350,000 by now.
Now I feel sad that tech bros got to profit big time off something I thought would be perfect for financial privacy, life makes no damn sense :( I even jumped into it fairly early in 2012…
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Hapankaali@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Crypto transactions have never been more “secure” than wire transfers with 2FA.
Syndication@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
At the time it was best security for trekking an ancient chinese trade route.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
And scams and gamblers are useful for covering for secure transactions
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Vaguely lamenting spending 5000ish bitcoin sending people pies on r/randomActsOfPizza. Good time tho, made some people’s days and that pizza place is fuckin’ loaded now so there’s that.
Syndication@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Oh wow I remember that subreddit and I also remember people gifting me dogecoin in the reddit comments but I feel much less bad about that one at least lol
I may have sounded a bit salty about my loss, but hey don’t feel bad about yours too, at least you can say you helped people out and possibly changed the someone’s life by feeding someone who may have otherwise been struggling hard. I have been there many times. I don’t remember much details from that sub, but I am assuming the free pizza subreddit was intended for people who really needed it, which is cool of you to do!
If my crypto went towards helping people, I probably wouldn’t even be as bothered by it except for all the grifters abusing it now. If anything, I should be doing more helping like that now if my bank wasn’t constantly in the red at least. Oh, I know! I’ll buy $500 of bitcoin and I’m sure it will be doubled over $1,000 by the end of August! I just gotta trust the crypto process bro!! /s