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ShazamIam

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3. I don't know enough to comment about that particular issue but I don't think the internet itself,
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 01:12 PM
Jun 2021

is secure enough for a crypto. I agree it has a scamy feel.

YES! TheFarseer Jun 2021 #1
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
I want no part of crypto. Pinback Jun 2021 #4
And institutional banks fescuerescue Jun 2021 #21
My thoughts exactly. rownesheck Jun 2021 #22
Not backed by anything Bettie Jun 2021 #5
Sheesh Thyla Jun 2021 #6
I kind of get it because a computer programmer friend of mine TlalocW Jun 2021 #7
There are more energy-efficient cryptos unblock Jun 2021 #8
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
Besides the energy drain, they're much too volatile to me. brush Jun 2021 #10
Holy crap, we better shutdown the internet 48656c6c6f20 Jun 2021 #11
Can someone dumb this down for me please? What energy? Besides computers Maraya1969 Jun 2021 #12
I can give you the Reader's Digest version. WarGamer Jun 2021 #15
No. the last bitcoin mined will take 10 minutes fescuerescue Jun 2021 #19
You're technically right... WarGamer Jun 2021 #25
Yea weird things can happen with sparsely mined coins fescuerescue Jun 2021 #28
the computing power required is huge rdking647 Jun 2021 #16
i have a small amount invested in them rdking647 Jun 2021 #13
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
............ Tommy Carcetti Jun 2021 #18
I can send XRP anywhere in the world in 3 seconds RandiFan1290 Jun 2021 #20
It's hard for me to think of it as a currency chriscan64 Jun 2021 #23
I think of it like skeeball in an 80s arcade leftstreet Jun 2021 #24
I give it the same credibility as I did pet rocks and MS-DOS 4.0 LanternWaste Jun 2021 #26
In the end, no one knows for certain the future of Crypto Currencies Yavin4 Jun 2021 #27
Asking in the wrong place... 99% of DU is either anti-crypto, JCMach1 Jun 2021 #29
+1 Thyla Jun 2021 #30
I really don't understand how they work Marrah_Goodman Jun 2021 #31
I love them Polybius Jun 2021 #32
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