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Pluvious

(4,967 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:59 PM Apr 11

New York state has filed to accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment

Can you imagine somebody suggesting this might happen back when a bitcoin was worth one penny each ?


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Botany

(73,846 posts)
1. Crypto is a scam. You give me your real money and in return you get a little electronic parking place ...
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:08 PM
Apr 11

…. somewhere in cyberspace.


Gaugamela

(2,800 posts)
2. A bill was introduced in the state legislature, no doubt by a magat republican. While he's at it,
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:12 PM
Apr 11

why not junk stock, NFTs, old cars, a letter of credit from a Nigerian prince?

Crypto holders are looking for buyers. Technically, it looks like it’s worth a lot, but if buyers jumped in en mass the value would tank. That’s why they got the stupidest sick fuck to agree to make the treasury buy it. Then he can sell his own worthless crypto to the treasury. The grift is endless.

Cirsium

(2,312 posts)
3. Crypto
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:42 PM
Apr 11

Crypto as a combining form before a vowel:

Crypto -

1: hidden; covered

2 : hidden by dissembling; unavowed

Norrrm

(1,208 posts)
4. The big money return in crypto is:::
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:14 PM
Apr 11

The big money return in crypto is:::
1. Starting it, hyping it, selling it, and getting out, leaving the
suckers holding the bag.
2. Handling/storing it for others.
...a. Not your own money/crypto. Someone else's money/crypto.
...b. Lots of fraud/money manipulation/theft/lack of regulation.
3. Backed by trust/faith/great promises/optimism... but no
real assets.
4. It can literally disappear and good luck with lawsuits.
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A few have profited by 'investing' but not the majority.

bluestarone

(19,577 posts)
5. Just saying that for the first time ever saw a (bitcoin machine) when i filled gas at a gas station (EXXON Bismarck ND.)
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:22 PM
Apr 11

Looked just like a ATM machine had bitcoin all over it. Just saying i was really surprised to see a bitcoin machine.

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