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Showing Original Post only (View all)What do you think of Crypto Currencies? [View all]
Here's Senator Warren's discussion on the topic.
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Thinking of the environment? One transaction with a Bit Coin cost 53 days of average US household's electrical usage. Make sense?
I don't think so. I agree with Warren it needs to be stopped along with all the criminal intent that Crypto Currencies are trying to cover up.
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Since the fbi was able to get into one bad actor's Bitcoin wallet, maybe there's hope
soothsayer
Jun 2021
#2
I don't know enough to comment about that particular issue but I don't think the internet itself,
ShazamIam
Jun 2021
#3
You can buy $.01 worth of bit coin. Shoulda, it'd be worth a coupla grand by now. But no to Bitcoin.
marble falls
Jun 2021
#9
the cynic in me says that governments across the planet hate the idea of money they can't regulate.
WarGamer
Jun 2021
#14
The environment argument is specious. But cryptos are the future in ways unrelated to currency
fescuerescue
Jun 2021
#17