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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And Twitter is absolutely the future of social media!

  See, we can all post statements that are clearly detached from reality and entirely incorrect.

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• accideath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know one person who owns crypto, no shops that take it and I know of too many people who speculate with it. If it is the future of finance, that future is still fairly far away.

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  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well now you know two people who use crypto and I use it as money. I don’t speculate on it. I buy my groceries and pay my cell phone bill and pay my insurance with it. I recently bought a Taylor Swift album with it as well.

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    • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think I could buy my groceries with crypto if I wanted to. What supermarket takes crypto? My phone provider wouldn’t either and my insurance is deducted directly from my paycheque because that’s just how it works here.

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      • shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Instacart has giftcards you can buy with crypto and so does my cell provider. Sure, you absolutely could say that they don’t accept it directly, and you would be right. However, I still get my groceries in my refrigerator, and I still get service on my cell phone. So, at the end of the day, does it matter?

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And how often do you end up paying more on real money due to the delay in transactions or awful gas fees for your transaction?

      Crypto being a common currency is about as likely as Gary Johnson winning the presidential election. The average person is going to take up crypto as much as they use Tor. Both have their uses, but neither one will ever be mainstream.

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      • shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think that’s the fundamental disconnect. You may not see it as money, where I do, since I can buy the things I need to survive with it. And I can buy the things that I enjoy with it, which makes it money. Fees have never been a real problem. I mean, 1 US cent for a transacyion is nothing

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