Is Crypto a racial issue now? How long was I asleep?
It isn’t, and it doesn’t need protecting. I say this as someone who was mining bitcoin back when it was still valued at under $1 a coin. The concept of bitcoin was really interesting and I had hoped that it could actually function as a digital currency outside the control of the major credit card processors. The execution however leaves much to be desired. We were promised a federated digital currency, what we got was an unregulated securities market.
Early cryptocoins had the right kind of nerds who cared about solving problems with a strange new digital… thing.
After a few years, the community stopped solving problems and focused on money-making instead. Its a distressing and sad thing to watch, but as it became obvious that Crypto was a ponzi / money making scheme, the nerds and problem-solvers disappeared. Its very demoralizing to see your hard work used for… well… evil. Maybe not the biggest evil but wantonly stealing funds through convoluted tricks and supporting literally black market evils is evil. A lesser evil than murder but evil nonetheless.
There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with BTC. Its just technology. But the cryptocoin world has drawn all the evil people to it, to the point that the well-meaning community has collapsed. You only see assholes with BTC these days.
Crypto? WTAF?
I’ve seen people get in big trouble for not protecting crypto, from posting private keys on github to not destroying on time. Keymat is no joke.
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https://www.npr.org/2024/10/13/nx-s1-5151968/harris-weed-crypto
No racist overtones there.
To be fair… When the article’s opening line is “In outreach to Black Men”, it doesn’t really matter what you put after. It’s going to sound bad.
Right - I just mean literally any attempt to try and cater to a specific group is gonna be like this.
Both campaigns go after different groups. I just think literally anything that is contained in these are going to sound racist.
In a less charged example, both candidates try and appeal to women. Those could be viewed as sexist.
