35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

  • lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Short reminder that Bitcoin was created as a reaction on the world finance crisis and to allow people like Assange to receive donations, because PayPal and similar just blocked them…

    That does not mean that Botcoin is perfect, but: If the alternative system was perfect, there was not bitcoin.

    Now, do we need an emoji? I don’t care TBH…

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      3 months ago

      I don’t mind a system like bitcoin existing but bitcoin itself has way too many problems to be useful and actually is detrimental to the environment. It takes way too long to process a transaction, it is massively energy intensive for what it is, and it’s been hyped up like the Californian gold Rush.

      Sure it was created to solve a problem but it doesn’t actually solve that problem very effectively. It also introduces an infinite number of new problems that no other currency system has ever experienced.

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        3 months ago

        It also introduces an infinite number of new problems that no other currency system has ever experienced.

        Infinite problems, eh? Can you name like 10?