I’m curious

If those are the only options, I am choosing juggalo

Chatgpt… please summarize the Gartner hype cycle for a 5 year old

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It’s called accelerationism and it is stupid

Sure and people who think you can’t have monetary policy with crypto are too uninformed to be worth discussing the merits of each system.

I’m sure we can all wax lyrical about what we think money is and lord knows whenever cryptocurrency is brought up the armchair currency experts are always there. So thank you for that!

Its not the same thing, its just incrementally more decentralized than the current system but potentially less so then a proof of work one (and even then only in theory, in practice a lot of POS chains are more decentralized than BTC).

But the most important aspect of crypto is actually not decentralization. Decentralization is necessary but only to a point. What is more important is for the cryptocurrency to be permissionless. In that way, you are correct it is replicating a system we already have… cash. It basically taking the properties of cash and bring that into the digital realm. We lost so much when our money and other assets became digital and that it what crypto is trying to give us back. It crazy to me that people don’t want to see that happen and buy into these superficial critiques, which, even if true are just engineering problems that can be overcome.

But I am no stranger to seeing people completely sleep on radical shifts in technology. Hell the fediverse is just like that too and if you leave it for a moment you will see people trashing it in the same way. So whatever, keep your fiat. I hope the future is one where both systems an co-exist.

As opposed to a currency issued and secured by a central bank?

Yes… some with billions of dollars in a crypto has a billion more reasons to want the network secured.

Great place, went there last year to get some kratom while on a short trip to Vancouver. We ended up having a shot of LSD and then we decided to walk back downtown through Chinatown, unaware until that point that it was Chinese new year. Best day of the whole trip!

Yeah the quality of content has definitely degraded since the API changes and these insular hive minded communities have only become more so, probably because those are the type of people that stayed. And Lemmy just isn’t quite there in terms of catering to niche topics that was keeping me on reddit.

Same that is my favorite and I don't think we are alone because its always sold out at the stores while the other plant milks remain untouched.