Tagged “cryptocurrency”

Add to list the list of things ruined by crypto miners. So much for "crypto is an energy arbitrage". Taking advantage of free services and wrecking them for everyone else.

Good one for the crypto proponents bringing up "oh well the internet seemed useless early on as well".

Paper from 2018(!). tldr: no, it isn't.

Quotes from this piece on Ethereum.

I hold zero real gold, so why would I need digital gold, especially digital gold that is ridiculously expensive to transfer?

NFTs as a recruitment tactic for some non-nerd advocates of crypto. The "what is digital ownership" section is legit - being digital and "on the blockchain" doesn't make things magically last forever. Many parts of it could disappear.

4. A few artists really are making life-changing money from this!
5. You probably won’t be one of them.

This aspect isn't particularly different from Spotify and similar.