> "Any decade now we will have PoS" Almost every blockchain already is.
You know that's not relevant. Nobody cares about the number of blockchains having one or another attribute. I could create and launch a billion new ones, and it doesn't matter.
> Ether will move to PoS within the coming 2 years.
I truly hope so. I'll believe it when I see it.
> There's a few hundred million people using crypto.
Estimate I found is one, not a few. But that could be wrong.
But yeah. I know of several people who tried, some successfully, to get paid in bitcoin. They didn't want to pay taxes.
Everyone wants everyone else to pay their fair share. You can't point to someone saying "Well I don't want to pay my fair share" as a contradiction, because that's a completely different statement.
Everyone wants only sober people on the street, but come on, it's me and I only had three beers and it's like a 10min drive.
> Singling out ransomware is equally lazy.
Lazy because it's not hard. "Pointing out murder is wrong, is lazy". Uh… so what?
> A recent study showed that the portion of criminal activity in the crypto space is lower compared to cash.
Speculation is by far the biggest, yes. Studies have shown that much or most of that speculation is market manipulation, too.
> Yet you'd never comment on cash being a criminal invention, would you?
I didn't say that about blockchain either. I said it's a scam generator. Cryptocurrencies are more like the scam of being paid in company credits in the company store, if you want to make comparisons to cash. It's not a great comparison, of course, because your whole question assumes that "cryptocurrencies are just like cash" which they are very much not.
Partly because what I already said. But partly... well I don't think you're interested in hearing anything anything, so what's the point?
If you've gotten this far, and are this invested, then you'd need to get over the cognitive dissonance of that, and a HN comment won't help.
You know that's not relevant. Nobody cares about the number of blockchains having one or another attribute. I could create and launch a billion new ones, and it doesn't matter.
> Ether will move to PoS within the coming 2 years.
I truly hope so. I'll believe it when I see it.
> There's a few hundred million people using crypto.
Estimate I found is one, not a few. But that could be wrong.
But yeah. I know of several people who tried, some successfully, to get paid in bitcoin. They didn't want to pay taxes.
Everyone wants everyone else to pay their fair share. You can't point to someone saying "Well I don't want to pay my fair share" as a contradiction, because that's a completely different statement.
Everyone wants only sober people on the street, but come on, it's me and I only had three beers and it's like a 10min drive.
> Singling out ransomware is equally lazy.
Lazy because it's not hard. "Pointing out murder is wrong, is lazy". Uh… so what?
> A recent study showed that the portion of criminal activity in the crypto space is lower compared to cash.
Speculation is by far the biggest, yes. Studies have shown that much or most of that speculation is market manipulation, too.
> Yet you'd never comment on cash being a criminal invention, would you?
I didn't say that about blockchain either. I said it's a scam generator. Cryptocurrencies are more like the scam of being paid in company credits in the company store, if you want to make comparisons to cash. It's not a great comparison, of course, because your whole question assumes that "cryptocurrencies are just like cash" which they are very much not.
Partly because what I already said. But partly... well I don't think you're interested in hearing anything anything, so what's the point?
If you've gotten this far, and are this invested, then you'd need to get over the cognitive dissonance of that, and a HN comment won't help.
> you're the "intellectually honest" one.
Yup.