Yes you do understand them. You two are having the same exact flippant argument every single crypto evangelist and detractor have had every day for the past decade.
I do not know, since he never actually explained what his point is. Maybe, maybe not, we will never know, he just wants to say something and I move on.
“No it has utility and people use it to pay for things something something smart contracts”
during busts
“See it’s worthless”
“No we just like the tech”
You all have your talking points, you all pretend you don’t know exactly what conversation is happening and are “just curious/asking questions,” and it just rinses and repeats over and over again.
I’m not mad at you I just don’t know why this song and dance persists.
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Yes you do understand them. You two are having the same exact flippant argument every single crypto evangelist and detractor have had every day for the past decade.
I do not know, since he never actually explained what his point is. Maybe, maybe not, we will never know, he just wants to say something and I move on.
“Crypto is based on nothing”
“Neither is the US dollar/fiat currency”
“It’s arbitrary. Something something Dutch tulips”
“No it has utility and people use it to pay for things something something smart contracts”
during busts
“See it’s worthless”
“No we just like the tech”
You all have your talking points, you all pretend you don’t know exactly what conversation is happening and are “just curious/asking questions,” and it just rinses and repeats over and over again.
I’m not mad at you I just don’t know why this song and dance persists.
There’s always two new people just discovering this conversation, picking a side and “researching” their way into the same talking points.
Or it’s bots.