Comment on How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history
Korkki@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Crypto really is a perfect target for this kind of bank robbery, nobody can really feel too bad about it. It adds nothing to society, since you can’t even buy anything with it beside drugs and is mostly used for speculation and creating pollution.
Okay I get the hate for capitalism and global warming, but can we stop acting like anonymous payments for drugs and web hosting g are a bad thing?
Do you like to get stoned and/or to trip balls? Do you like watching pirated movies? I fucking do at least, I imagine most people do lol.
Your thinking seems to assume the liberal society as static and unchanging and seek to make life within it more tolerable, even with things that are mostly just product of current society and it’s ills.
Well yeah in a better society where art was distributed freely and certain recreational substances weren’t illegal we wouldn’t need them.
That’s not the reality we live in today, however.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I personally think there could be practical uses for crypto, such as getting around banking monopolies, but it’s poorly secured at the moment, and the main usecase being pushed by its users are “get rich quick” schemes often involving fraud.
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 1 year ago
In a way crypto has fulfilled the promise of “banking the unbanked”… Its just that the main group of ”unbanked” people happened to be criminals and scammers.
Its been a huge boom for scammers, before this you had to convince people to use wester union or something and convince a person they are talking to some inconvenienced soon to be oil barron, now all they do is throw up a website with tradingview charts and people will throw money at them.