Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji
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35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

  • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    410·
    3 months ago

    or more like because the government doesn’t have problems with people keeping themself busy on entertainment vs them using a decentralized and open currency that can bypass financial institutions

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      I’m pretty sure the government isn’t forcing people to watch YouTube and neither of the people you mentioned are government employees, unless you’re concocting some elaborate Alex Jones-level conspiracy theory.

      • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        3 months ago

        You seem to have same comprehension problems or to be in bad faith. Read carefully what i wrote, it’s nothing of what you said.

        Trying to label everything as a conspiracy theory is something the government and propaganda have been doing excessively over the past years. You may not like it to hear it but every time cristiano ronaldo appears in state media and gets paid for it they are indeed working for the government. When the government put restrictions on youtube competitors such tiktok or when they use it to broadcast official events, they are indeed forcing you to use youtube.

        That’s not the point of the discussion anyway: cryptocurrencies aren’t controlled by the government and hard to control by design, there lies the government interest to boycott them.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Maybe if it was controlled, it wouldn’t constantly fluctuate in value and would actually be worth buying things with without hoping for a day when it’s worth more and you’re richer.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              I can go to the supermarket next week and milk will cost about the same in dollars as it did this week because the value does not change that rapidly.

              Not true with Bitcoin.

              • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                13·
                3 months ago

                I can go to the supermarket next week and milk will cost about the same in dollars

                If you live in america and you are lucky the price of thing stopped increasing perhaps it will cost the same. If you live in any other part of the world that use a different currency the price may be different

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  I do live in America and why you think milk costs significantly more from one week to the next I don’t know. Even if the price rises, we’re talking pennies per week. Far less than Bitcoin fluctuates.

                  I have no idea why you’re even trying to argue that the dollar fluctuates as much in value as Bitcoin because that’s just demonstrably false. This is the current fluctuation of Bitcoin value. If the value of a dollar changed by one percent in a day, that would be huge. Seven percent? That would be a disaster.