Why? Nobody cares about decentralization/privacy except for a tiny segment of hardcore libertarians, criminals, and communists/anarchists who hate the very concept of money. Cryptocurrencies have no technical or practical advantages over existing payment systems for a vast majority of people in a vast majority of circumstances.
Ask yourself, why is Facebook's user base orders of magnitude larger than decentralized networks like i2p, freenet, and zeronet combined? Why aren't people throwing fist fulls of cash at these projects, which have been around for years, if decentralization is so desirable? Even the Tor network with its 4M users (mostly druggies and pedos) is dwarfed by any moderately popular blog.
The future of cryptocurrency/blockchain looks like this: XMR is the de facto currency for criminals and DNM users, as it's the only one that solves the privacy problem. Companies like VISA and Mastercard, and perhaps some banks use private, tokenless blockchains for international money transfer. The shitcoins you spent months researching and HODL because you think they will eventually solve some non-existent problem will be worthless in this new paradigm. Cryprocurrency market speculation is nothing but a natural ponzi scheme teetering on the edge of collapse.
Not a bet I'd make given the acceleration of change because of technological evolution
Jordan Watson
Hey look daddy another cyberpunk who thinks the world will become a complete anarchist’s playground in the next 2 years!
Connor Myers
>nocoiner kek fuck off
Landon Scott
thanks, sold 100k
Nathan Turner
You fucking faggot probably never even heard of crypto let alone Ancaps one year ago. Things are changing fast boomer.
Michael Hall
except when crypto goes under national regulations. then you are fucked. not with privacy coins.
Isaiah Butler
Huh? This is pretty much the opposite of what I'm saying.
Ethan Brooks
Okay, if you don't like it you don't have to be here. Go be normie somewhere else.
Jack Morris
>muh 80 trillion USD shitcoin marketcap
Henry Sullivan
I'm just trying to help people here shed their delusions and think sensibly about cryptocurrency trading. You have to treat this market as a house of cards that could come crashing down at any moment rather than a long term investment. Make your money and get out ASAP, otherwise you'll most likely get caught bagholding and unable to cash out when SHTF.
Anthony Morris
how will you cash out your usd when their is a hyper - inflation?
you do realize they have already printed enough money that if it all returns to the US it will buy everything that isn't nailed down, right?
Mason Hall
and then, right then and there, when the value of crypto has gona down to zero and bitcoin is worth fractions to the usd
I will buy
I will buy it all
Samuel Lopez
>Hold 100 XMR >XMR goes to 1000$ per coin >Government ban comes in >Can't cash out >Forced to spend 100k on the black market
What do I buy lads?
Tyler Edwards
Cash out into what?
USD?
BAHAHAHA fucking kek.
40 year old virgin no coiner detected
Jason White
In all seriousness though, only a non-technical retard would see absolutely no future in cryptocurrencies
yeah, there's a ton of shit that's overvalued, but to completely dismiss the technology behind crypto you'd have to be as stubborn as the people who thought the internet wasn't a good idea at all
Ryan Brooks
Imagine being this much of a brainlet.
Its not about people caring about blockchain, people dont have a clue whats good for them. Its about business saving billions of dollars and visionaries building a true sharing economy.
Enjoy your 18k loser.
Aaron Morgan
really made me think.
Jordan Clark
I don't have the time or interest to debunk your libertardian conspiracy economics, but thanks for the laugh.
Easton Cruz
youve lost all credibility. You are Stupid. Shut up now
Adam Reed
Murder?
Connor Wright
Most crypto currencies cant be inflated though. That's why I like them. Fuck the government controlling the value of our money.
Jaxson Young
As I said, there is a future for blockchain technology. Mastercard is already experimenting with it.
Daniel Watson
LOL all I saw was the XMR then tldr your post. I disagree crypto is not going anywhere
Justin Green
Nice this is exactly what i posted last night but without insults
good job
Elijah Walker
>government controlling the value of money >implying it isn't the banks
Adrian Cruz
Fuck the government controlling the value of our money.
Cuck.
The masses (normies) like money.
When they see that their shitty USD can't buy them the things it used to due to inflation, and internet nerds are making millions, they'll fucking coming running.
And newflash, it's already happening right onw.
This image board is full of fucking brainlets its unreal. Funny part is even if you're holding 10K of top cryptos today, you're gonna be a millionaire.
Evan Thomas
>muh centralized company is going to implement decentralized methods FOR THE PEOPLE
hahahaha, that's a good one. let me know when the Mastercard ICO hits the scene. I'm gonna be comfy with my ADA.
I've actually been hoping for a huge crash so that I can buy more.
All new ICOs, for example, stink of dumb money.
Camden Torres
Lol cryptocurrency is SHIT and speculative shit
IOTA? yeah i want my toilet to make transactions for sure
Fucking piece of shit idiots with your anarchism shit " muhh descentralization""
yeah sure keep dreaming about taking over banks you piece of autist shit
stupid communists
Jack Martin
All I'm reading is "I don't know how this technology works and I'm angry that I don't understand something that's making people a lot of money"
there's a bunch of shit cryptocurriencies, but there's even more dumb fucking people
we don't want to take over the banks you fucking idiot, BANKS DON'T NEED TO EXIST
Isaiah Diaz
>He thinks that someone besides him and his two virgin friends from Canada and Slovenia cares about Descentralization
KEK you are a joke
nobody cares about what banks do with our money you idiot, your "descentralization" wet dream is nothing more but shit and now people is speculating with the market to make even more fiat the coin you so hate
Fucking piece of stupid communist shit
Adrian Cooper
The people don't give a damn and never will. Private blockchains will make international money transfer cheaper for payment services and banks. It has nothing to do with decentralization.
Asher Ward
bro what are you saying, we have a fucking hashtag with millions of views, we're mainstream as fuck
Landon Richardson
You don't get it faggot, master card can easy spend 100 million or whatever to develope there own block chain.
Why would they want to buy faggot coins.
Dominic Jenkins
Venezuela begs to differ. Kill yourself
Matthew Long
>BANKS DON'T NEED TO EXIST
Don't you have some 12yr old game to play on steam or you have already played all of them?
Lucas Hall
>Cryptocurrencies have no technical or practical advantages
How about the fact that it's all online and has much better security? Stupid fuck
Wyatt Wilson
>nobody cares about what banks do with our money you idiot
Connor King
My sides haaaa venezuela is a SHITHOLE and they deserve to fucking starve because they choose socialism for like 15 years
Fuck venezuela
Cameron Gray
Either way the point is bitcoin and friends has intrinsic value because they're finite. It's the convenience of cash with the security of gold and the anonymity of the internet. Or it will be soon anyway.
Caleb Stewart
Besides you and your virgin friend from China}
No, 90% of people doesn't know how the financial system works and neither they want to know
Stupid piece of shit keep jerking off with your communist fantasy
Xavier Watson
I'll tell you the reason why everybody doesn't go to i2p, freenet, tor etc etc
It's because of accessibility. It is hard for the average normie to understand and get into these things. They just want a simple, easy, system. The best way for crypto to go mainstream is to make it idiot proof as much as possible and as simple as possible. once that is achieved, you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be adoption.
Kayden Anderson
You think that the blockchain is the only good thing to come out of cryptocurrencies? It's like you don't even know why Ethereum is considered a 2nd generation cryptocurrency.
Don't you have a lawn to mow? Depending on where you are it might be past your bedtime, grandpa
Levi Howard
>b-but visa is hiring blockchain engineers! they must be really interested in crypto!!1
my sides dude, thanks i love to laugh at retarded people like you
Xavier Anderson
>communist fantasy
How the fuck is DEcentralization a communistic goal?
Goddamn do you think before you spew this drivel?
Jayden Gomez
>stupid communists Crypto has proven the fact that communism is dead. You'd have to completely do away with computers for communism to thrive.
Jaxson Myers
your reading comprehension is unsurprisingly terrible. never did I say I was interested in VISA engineers making cryptocuckery
hey have fun, I'm gonna go do something productive.
Alexander Russell
>Ask yourself, why is Facebook's user base orders of magnitude larger than decentralized networks like i2p, freenet, and zeronet combined? A handful of privacy protocols don't represent the entirely of decentralization. What about BitTorrent? That's pretty huge - it takes up a decent amount of total internet traffic worldwide.
William Hill
You don't know shit about communism and leninism right? Fucking piece of shit
go jerk off somewhere else
Daniel Adams
I said that because all you fags promoting crypto tech as it was the future are saying stupid things like that
Yeah go play some steam games before going to school tomorrow
Julian Stewart
You're a fucking retard. The crypto economy is the epitome of unregulated free market capitalism. How many chromosomes do you need to have to think that it's communistic? LMFAO
Jaxon Thompson
>He can't see neo-china approaching him from the future
Jack Fisher
Oh yes, much better security. If your credit card info gets stolen and used for a shopping spree, you call up the company, they reverse the transactions and send you a new card. If a hacker breaks into your phone or computer and steals your wallet.dat file, your funds are permanently lost. This may not be a problem for paranoid crypto-nerds with a high level of security knowledge, but for normies it's a catastrophe waiting to happen.
>Ethereum
Smart contracts are a novelty.
Christian Foster
Tomorrow is Saturday you know absolutely nothing.
Jaxson Adams
Also, solidity is the worst language I've ever worked with, and Vitalik is a pedo. Fuck thereum.
Grayson Perry
How do the banks control the value of money? You think Yelen and Draghi are not government?
Jayden Hughes
It was the dream of satoshiwhatever it is called
and it is the wet dream of a couple of idiots around here
Maybe i hurt your comunnist kokoro?
Fucking piece of shit
Jose Flores
then go wagecuck in waltmart while dreaming about revolution because thats probably all you can do with your low IQ
piece of useless shit
James Price
fucking this. lol @ the myopic fudder.
Evan Watson
>satoshiwhatever it is called Oh yes, yes, I can clearly see you know what you're talking about for sure!
Your extra chromosomes are showing, retard
Nathaniel Thompson
>Either way the point is bitcoin and friends has intrinsic value because they're finite By that logic my farts have intrinsic value too. They are also finite
Christopher Scott
first off, we have a new federal reserve chair. second, the federal reserve is literally not part of the government.
it's literally a private corporation mostly run by banks. the government has some (insignificant) amount of control, like appointing the chairperson, mostly to keep people from realizing it.
not even joking. look it up m8.
Jonathan Gutierrez
did i hurt your anarcho feelings?
Piece of useless shit, you are probably also a nigger
Samuel Hughes
I'm guessing you are some Communist Chinese who lives in a closet with a toilet and gets paid 10 yuan per hour to sit at a desk and FUD crypto all day by calling it Communist when it is the exact opposite.
Xavier King
Let me explain in normie so you can understand. I'm sure at some point as a kid you watched the claymation Jack Frost.
If you remember fucking Kubla Kraus taxed everyone to the point of having no money. So you remember what the fuck the town's people did? They created their own currency.
Jaxson Peterson
The fact that organized crime is slowly moving into Monero is reason I hold.
A few months ago my buddy was playing an underground poker game overseas (I'm not going to say where) and the mob that ran the joint charged in Bitcoin.
Slowly the darknet is moving to monero and crime families will follow suit. That's the most realistic use case out of most of these 'currencies' that have ZERO need for the coin aspect of their technology.
Mason Wilson
HAHAHAHAHAHHA so i was right
HE DOES THINK IN MONETARY REVOLUTION } KEKKKKK what a fucking piece of useless shit you are
"Th-the currency of the people""
my sides dude, thanks
Tyler Evans
>Central banking and the current fiat money system is nothing but a natural ponzi scheme teetering on the edge of collapse. FTFY
John Russell
This guy gets it.
Henry Lee
You highly Underestimate how stupid the average shabbos goy is. Maybe like 10% of the population understands that banks take their money and then lend it out to others for interest. Even fewer understand how the Fed works. As long as they have their nigger ball and celebrities they won’t gice a shit.
Ryder Nguyen
Imagine a virgin living with his parents that owns 0.3 BTC and thinks about monetary revolution while serves as a cashier in walmart
What a fucking joke dude
Cooper Lee
Wow you sure are salty. Why are you incapable of explaining how the crypto market is communistic? Only a low-IQ nigger can't explain his position and tries to hide behind name-calling when he's called out for his low-IQ nigger behavior.
Jayden Cox
imagine a sexually frustrated 28 year old software developer who spends his friday nights fudding on Veeky Forums because he knew about btc back in 2010 but was too much of a good goy to buy in.
lol i bet you describe yourself as a "skeptic" in conversation too.
Jaxon Morris
Nice try let me guess you give some of your profits back to the motherland? Worship the holy shekel some more
Brody Ward
>it's the only one that solves the privacy problem
Monero is built on top of the, CryptoNote application layer protocol. Bytecoin was the first to be released, in 2012. I agree, most coins will never be used, except, for, speculation. Only privacy-coins, and DAGchain coins, will be in the future.
Ian Carter
are you calling me a nigger you pice of useless shit? keep dreaming about sucking marx dick while owning monero you well know that satoshi wet dream was fucking over banks and make a descentralized shit and it is totally over you pice of nigger delusional fuck
>tries to proyect himself with every detail into another person
Uh uh i hitted the nail right? you own 0.3 BTC and dream about taking over banks?
kek please you are making my night
Justin Davis
what reason could i possibly have for wanting to tell you how much i'm holding? whatever i say you'd just claim it's bullshit.
i can tell you that i've been invested in digital assets for about 3 years now, and they've been good to me... that being said, i have a stable job with good pay and benefits.
something tells me that my analysis of you wasn't too far off though.
Leo Martinez
> i have a stable job with good pay and benefits.
Jaxon Gomez
Do your walmart boss let you check on blockfolio to see how your 0.3 BTC are going?
Landon Howard
if imagining that i work at wal-mart is making your night, then go right ahead and fantasize :^)
Oliver Sanders
>the federal reserve is literally not part of the government.
>Monopoly on the creation of money and interest rates given by the government >Chair appointed by the president
Would be like claiming ministry of defense is not the government.
Jace Rodriguez
>t. didn't look it up you probably think Federal Express is a government agency too lol
Lucas Lee
You morons seem to think that marxists, libertarians, and anarchists cannot want crypto for the same fucking reasons.
READ the stuff about money in Capital, Vol. 1. Marx argues that as capitalism progresses the movement of capital will aim to be ever more efficient. I'm not going to shill coins that do this better than anything in our centralized system, but this shit is coming. Maybe all these coins will die but marxists are just as down with decentralized, unregulated currency as the most virulent free market capitalist. Don't forget that Engels was a very wealthy factory owner and capitalist and bankrolled Marx.
Furthermore--and here is where I'm going to make all the 17 year old libertarians screech--marxism and libertarianism are NOT diametrically opposed. Something like socialism IS, but socialism=/=marxism. Socialism takes wealth from others and redistributes it through social services and the like. Marxism's central premise is that value is generated by material labor power and the workers that generate this value are only getting a fraction of the surplus value generated. Value doesn't arise out of thin air. It's CREATED by human TIME and effort. If you believe people should be paid according to the actual value created according to each individual's time and effort then you are in essence a marxist. The question in the late 20th/early 21st century is how we measure such things. We aren't factory workers any more.
Grayson Lopez
>>Maybe like 10% of the population understands that banks take their money and then lend it out to others for interest
man you are being generous, I doubt it is less more then 3 %, and half of them understand cuz they are making money of it.
Chase Russell
>The absolute state of boomers
Nicholas Fisher
The nomenclature is irrelevant, if the government gives you a monopoly and they can decide who leads you, you are de-facto a public entity.
Benjamin Bailey
>“Why Bitcoin can’t be a currency” – The Underground Economist | $0.23 >“Why bitcoin will fail” – Apenwarr | $3.12 >“So, That’s the End of Bitcoin Then” – Forbes | $15.15 >“Why Bitcoin Will Fail as a Currency” – The Calculating Investor | $14.01 >“The Bitcoin Is Dying. Whatever.” – Gizmodo Australia | $10.95 >“The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin” – Wired | $2.37 >“Wired, Tired, Expired for 2012: EXPIRED – Bitcoin” – Wired | $13.30 >“Beware of This Insidious New Currency Scam” – Salon | $117.06 >“Game Over, Bitcoin. Where Is The Next Human-based Digital Currency?” – OUI Share | $122.30 >“Bitcoin Sees the Grim Reaper” – NY Mag | $105.70 >“Why Bitcoin will fail” – DailyPaul.com | $105.39 >“The SEC Shows Why Bitcoin Is Doomed” – Bloomberg View | $93.57 >“Bitcoin Is A Joke” – Business Insider | $433.57 >“Bitcoin Will Crash To $10 By Mid-2014” – Business Insider | $887.63 >“An early obituary for bitcoin” – Reuters | $821.79 >"Bitcoin revealed: a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth from one libertarian to another” – The Washington Post | $182.00 >“Is this the end of Bitcoin?” – BizNews.com | $228.07 >“Was 2014 The Death March for Bitcoin?” – PYMNTS.com | $315.81 >“Bitcoin is (Nearly) All Dead” – Acton | $325.60 >“Why Bitcoin’s male domination will be its downfall” – Fusion | $235.13 >“Why Apple Pay And Dollars Are Killing Bitcoin” – Forbes | $233.01 >“Performing an Autopsy on the Bitcoin” – The Street | $409.05
Colton Perez
pt 2 >“Sorry, libertarians: Your dream of a Bitcoin paradise is officially dead and gone” – Salon | $637.77 >“Dumb Investment Of The Week: Bitcoin Investment Trust” – Seeking Alpha | $408.3 >“R.I.P. Bitcoin. It’s time to move on.” – Washington Post | $382.00 >“Bitcoin Refuses to Just Die Already” – Gizomdo | $1185.01 >“Bitcoin passes $1,000 but only number that matters is zero” – Financial Times | $1034.34 >“Bitcoin is a bubble. It will burst on Monday 12 December 2016” – Linkdin | $771.23 >“The Bitcoin Bros Have Lost” – Deal Breaker | $577.58 >“Bitcoins – Are You Kidding Me?” – Seeking Alpha | $1938.7 >“Bitcoin will never be a financial mainstay” – Finance Feeds | $1,184.47 >“What is a Good Price For Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies? Zero.” – Jonathan Harris | $2262.83 >"Stay away from bitcoin — it’s complete garbage” – MarketWatch | $2345.56 >״Why Investors Should Ignore the Cryptocurrency Hype״ – Investopedia | $2,594.21 >“Bitcoin Just Surged Over $4000 and Is Near Biggest Financial Crash in 400 Years” – The Street | $4061.54 >“Gartman: Avoid the bitcoin boom” – CNBC | $4,046.99 >“A Bitcoin Is Worth $4,000–Why You Probably Should Not Own One” – Forbes | $4,179.97 >“Bitcoin’s price hit $5,000 last week. It’s still a dumb investment” – LATimes | $4,363.02 >“Why China Crushed Bitcoin” – Forbes | $4,450.15 >“Virtual Currencies are Not Money!” – Linkedin | $5,943.06 >“Jamie Dimon says if you’re ‘stupid’ enough to buy bitcoin, you’ll pay the price one day” – CNBC | $5,128.05 >“Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says” – Bloomberg | $9,972.67 >“Time to sell your Bitcoins: Cryptocurrencies success a bubble, Central bankers around the world warn” – Financial Express | $9,096.37
Henry Davis
Brisbane airport in Australia is rolling out becoming completely crypto friendly. Btc/dash/monero accepted in every store and able to buy plane tickets with it. In this airport are duty free, mcdonalds,subway and shit loads of restaurants. Just take a moment and think for a second how fucking big that news is. But hey cryptos are dead right? Once monera reaches a market cap where people can safely use it as tether. You have a new way to clean your crypto investment aside from using a tumbler which costs too much plus who wants to use fkn buttcoin anyway
Blake Myers
I don't need to fantasize about anything you fucking autistic fuck
you go fantasize about taking over banks stupid pice of normie shit
Samuel Edwards
Link?
Thomas Reed
I love knowing that there are still people in this world who are this retarded
Thanks for being hope for the rest of us, OP.
Gavin Sanchez
Also ethereum i believe, plus 3000 buttcoin atms rolling out across australia this year. Crypto is so dead tho bro dont bother
Brayden Myers
>If you believe people should be paid according to the actual value created according to each individual's time and effort then you are in essence a marxist
Only marxists believe this though so I don't see how this makes marxism and libertarianism compatible.
People should be paid according to the value they bring to the market, irregardless of time and effort.
Nathaniel Lee
Sure. That's why robinhood is adding them.
Josiah Thomas
>the nomenclature is irrelevant no, it really isn't. it means that the banks set monetary policy in this country, not congress. not the president. not any elected official. same if you live in UK / EU or any non-shithole.
i don't really expect a brainlet like you to understand this, but it's actually really important shit.
In 20 years when crypto is widely used just think back to this moment when your lying through your teeth to your grand kids about being an early adopter.