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Agreed, there is no real intrinsic value behind fiat money; old people who have a lot of fiat money essentially get paid to sit around all day doing nothing; they're not actually offering any real service to society so why should we value their currency?

At least cryptocurrency people are contributing though open source work. You'd be surprised how many general purpose open source projects are sponsored by crypto companies.

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Wait, what? The second old people are no longer working their savings should immediately be devalued?

There is some rich irony in calling out the lazy old people sitting on fiat when easily 99.9% of "cryptocurrency people" are sitting around HODLing while they wait for their COINZ to MOON. If contribution is your value argument, at least make a modicum of effort to list some of the great open source work contributed by the cryptocurrency people. It seems that most of the "work" is either minimum effort ICO garbage meant to enrich the principals or is blockchain-for-the-sake-of-blockchain to get a marketing boost off the hype.

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