Financial privacy has practically vanished over the last 50 years. Most people are in denial about it, and still believe that their relationship with their bank or their credit union is confidential -...
    • shortwavesurfer
      85·
      8 months ago

      You are dismissing an entire category with that one word. Are you sure you’re not throwing out any babies with that bathwater?

        • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
          72·
          8 months ago

          you probably invested in it and lost a bunch of money. people who blindly and universally hate crypto as a whole usually got fucked over in a scam or in the markets

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            35·
            8 months ago

            I’m smart enough to not “invest” in something that has no real world value and that isn’t protected under law.

            Crypto tends to be pump and run and I don’t trust it worth a hoot

            • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
              31·
              8 months ago

              have fun playing by the rules of the system that hates you and your privacy

              also monero is fairly stable price wise

        • shortwavesurfer
          11·
          8 months ago

          Besides the power which crypto helps with because it absorbs stranded power or gives a customer for steady income to a power company that can help build more infrastructure. What else is a problem with crypto?