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I've been mining for a while and have a pretty good amount (for me) in my wallet, but crypto make so little sense to me. It is nothing, it produces nothing, it cannot be carried or stashed away in a safe. I often wonder what the end game is with crypto.
It's a digital form of money just like your money right now bunch of numbers on a screen ie Apple Pay, Google Pay, Paypal etc.. Your photos on your phone or on your computer are too digital unless you print every photo you take.
 
The greed level with this stuff is off the charts. I just worry that they lump this crazy **** in with the S&P, which puts everything on notice.

It’s a money raising scheme by ultra right wing libertarians to privatize money, then with that money they steal from these pump n dumps they finance creations of privately run corporate cities, private armies, private police, private services, private parks. They will say citizens can make decisions with ‘DAO’ but reality is the only thing they can decide is what the owners want them to decide.

Only the richest will get the best treatment that’s why all these ‘coins’ are almost all owned by a few people. Everyone’s data on a blockchain. All your behavior and beliefs collected and analysed. If you have the wrong thoughts you dead. Wrong beliefs you dead.

With this vision of theirs they will be in constant war. Each city under cyber attack by the other cities. Each city fighting against other cities for resources. Citizens tracked and manipulated all the time.

They had this idea they can go back to the period of the warring city states of 400 years ago but with hi tech they can maintain a kind of oligarch and lordship power forever.

They take all the worst parts of history and present day and want make all those worst parts even worse.
 
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It’s a money raising scheme by ultra right wing libertarians to privatize money, then with that money they steal from these pump n dumps they finance creations of privately run corporate cities, private armies, private police, private services, private parks. They will say citizens can make decisions with ‘DAO’ but reality is the only thing they can decide is what the owners want them to decide.

Only the richest will get the best treatment that’s why all these ‘coins’ are almost all owned by a few people. Everyone’s data on a blockchain. All your behavior and beliefs collected and analysed. If you have the wrong thoughts you dead. Wrong beliefs you dead.

With this vision of theirs they will be in constant war. Each city under cyber attack by the other cities. Each city fighting against other cities for resources. Citizens tracked and manipulated all the time.

They had this idea they can go back to the period of the warring city states of 400 years ago but with hi tech they can maintain a kind of oligarch and lordship power forever.

They take all the worst parts of history and present day and want make all those worst parts even worse.
Jeez mate .... happy xmas to you too.
 
Instead of asking Tim soft ball questions about irrelevant topics like Bitcoin, why don’t they ask Tim about Apple’s plan to violate all its users’ privacy by scanning all photos on their personal devices?
I agree Tim never does a hard interview. Just handpicked questions.
 
This is gross and scammers are trying to take advantage of it to rip people off.

If you're going to invest in anything especially crap like this then keep your mouth shut. The financial media is run by a collective of crooks and con artists and they use interviews like this to egg CEOs into opening their mouths.
 
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Of course he does, billionaires love crypto. It’s like real money, but speculative and therefore easily manipulated. Plus it causes unnecessary pollution that won’t affect people with a lot of money to blow on crypto. What’s not to love if you’re in the wealth hoarding class?
 
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I've been mining for a while and have a pretty good amount (for me) in my wallet, but crypto make so little sense to me. It is nothing, it produces nothing, it cannot be carried or stashed away in a safe. I often wonder what the end game is with crypto.
Regulation.
 
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well when you're too old to get the "D", I guess you have to pursue other "interests".
 
You are misinformed and clearly against crypto in general. And if you are informed and you still say these things then any discussion is pointless.
I suggest you read up on it more and then maybe we can talk if you still don't see the benefits

They are? A lot of companies? Who are the top institutional investors? How many in the top-ten aren’t crypto companies?

There is one thing that drives crypto these days: Tether. Tether prints fake coin money, the price goes up. Tether doesn’t print, the price goes sideways and down. When the stablecoin game is over, and it’s very much nearing the end, crypto is done. No one really cares about old tech that isn’t good at doing what it supposedly is supposed to do, and people care even less about faux-decentralization. All people care about is “price go up” in the great crypto ponzi casino, and Tether drives that.
 
He supports it because he owns some. Lots of people do, but the the average Joe will often admit it's nuts.
 
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Damn I was just kidding but then someone found this image buried in iOS 15.2.

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Cliché “if Steve were still alive” statement incoming, but I really believe if Steve were still alive, he would smack the **** out of the crypto industry with surgical precision if someone had the nerve to ask him about it. We lack strong leaders these days that think for themselves and don’t surrender all critical thinking to the almighty dollar. Instead we have scammers like Jack, Elon and Zuck. Embarrassing times. History will not smile on this period.

True. He knew about it and bitcoin wallets were banned from the App Store. After he passed way it was pressure from some big Silicon Valley oligarchs that forced Apple to undo Steve Jobs' ban so that Conbase could release their con app.
 
It’s no surprise that Tim Cook is interested in money. He’s more interested in money than in creating products that were as innovative and user-friendly as those created under Steve Jobs’s leadership. Cook cares more about shareholders than he does about products and users because he’s mainly interested in money.
 
It’s no surprise that Tim Cook is interested in money. He’s more interested in money than in creating products that were as innovative and user-friendly as those created under Steve Jobs’s leadership. Cook cares more about shareholders than he does about products and users because he’s mainly interested in money.
Yup. That M1 Max is a failure of technology. Just imagine if it could compete with any of Intel or AMD's offerings- those companies care about YOU, not money.

(lol)
 
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