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As much as there are problems with HK, I think most of us have realized this is the next chapter of the technological revolution. One that we all thought was supposed to be ushered by crypto/web3 but never really materialized for most.

That said I think this technology will only be exploited to make big tech only bigger.

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Who's "we?" Crypto was always a stupid grift. I've never touched the stuff, because although I was born to be a sucker, I am at least wise enough to have realized this about myself.

I think there's something genuinely new in the world, and I think it is very foolish to assume too much about how that's going to play out. Humans will be human, because we always are. Beyond that, the only way anyone can know is by finding out.

meh "crypto" means nothing nowadays.

The only relevant "crypto" is Bitcoin, when you're actually holding the keys and not delegated to an exchange, and it's primary purpose is not speculation but just transfering money without a trusted third party. I've been using it to move money for over 10 years, and many people I know do too.

I'm sure. But I have no use for that aspect of it either, seeing as I'm not in the market for drugs, child pornography, or fascist insurrection.

Dont be a sucker who missed the train by thinking this is how not to be a sucker

Go running down the tracks, money falling out my pockets all the while, just in time to get flattened by the much larger train full of revenuers and regulators coming to clean up all the scams that haven't yet cashed out? No thank you.

Did we all think that?

At no moment in time did I think web3 was a technological revolution.

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