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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Eh, the relationship isn’t quite the same as that one.

  It’s more like the relationship between a video game framework and a video game. Pygame, Unity, or Godot are not games you can play; they’re tools for programmers to build games with.

  Similarly, blockchain is a technology for implementing scams; NFTs are one specific scam.

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  • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Similarly, blockchain is a technology for implementing scams

    By that logic the US dollar is a means for facilitating crime. It’s certainly used for that, a lot, but that isn’t what it is for. A blockchain is for keeping an immutable and verifiable record by way of cryptography. That there are a lot of scams doesn’t change what it is.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      By that logic the US dollar is a means for facilitating crime.

      See, the difference is that dollars have legitimate uses.

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      • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, you’re hating for the sake of hating with no clue why. I’m just going to go ahead and block you, kthxbye.

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      • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As does Blockchain, which is widely used for such purposes already.

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  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • LemmysMum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. It’s hard to feel sorry for anyone who got grifted, who knew that buying the equivalent of a graffiti’d up CVS receipt would turn out to be worthless.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bullshit and horseshit are different, but they’re both shit.

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• SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s all the same to the cryptobros

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