Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but…
Is the speculative investment scam, which crypto substantially represented, finally dead? Can we go back to buying gold bars and Pokemon cards?
I feel like it is, but I’m having a hard time putting my finger on why it lost its sheen. Maybe crypto scammers moved on to selling LLM “prompts?” Maybe the rug just got pulled enough times that everyone lost trust.
Well, are MLMs dead? Audible book spamming? The nigerian prince scam? Hell, mail scams are still running to this day.
As long as there’s a hook, I doubt cryptomoney scams are going to be leaving any time soon. It is rare we’ll see scams of the same magnitude as before, but they’ll always be around in those sorts of communities. Just a matter of principle, whenever money’s involved.
You could probably go back to buying pokemon cards, though. The fact that crypto’s greatest investors have a vested interest in not having their cash vanish into thin air, it’s best used for it’s purpose-- as currency-- unless another FTX fumbles the bag.
Those whales likely still have reserves to dump, too. Hell, they can probably create reserves. For a long time it will still be worth it for them to keep marketing crypto to dumb victims.