• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You’re saying “in addition to using it as a currency” as if that’s actually what people do with crypto. They don’t.

    And yeah, it is a problem. It renders it useless outside of as a bit of gambling on the side.

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      2 years ago

      Alright, so let’s call them cryptotokens instead. I’ve always preferred that myself, it’s a much more general description of what they do. It doesn’t change what they are but if that term makes you happier we can go with that.

      It renders it useless outside of as a bit of gambling on the side.

      Hardly, there are lots of things you can do with these things. A ledger is more than just for tracking money, it’s a database. You really can’t think of useful things that could be done with a completely decentralized and permissionless database?

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        2 years ago

        People don’t use bitcoin or other cryptocoins as a general purpose database. They use it as they’d use a stock.