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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Oh yes. A huge amount of speculation. Just like NVDA.

My point is that you can say a lot of negative things about crypto, but you can't say it doesn't work. It definitely works.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

It doesn't work as a currency. It "works" as a speculative investment in that the bubble hasn't yet popped.

But, what if the bubble doesn't actually pop, and the prices remain at the current levels, more or less, for another couple of decades. If that happens, will cryptocurrencies be seen to "work"?

[–] MadBigote@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Works as a publicly shared, immutable, secure database (and small calculation) engine.