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For a long time, I was just annoyed. But it has become clear that these digital currencies are one of the most revolting and pathetic things our species has ever created. Great job!

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One of my all time favorite (in a creative thought provoking way) comments from this forum suggested that cryptocurrency may be an answer to the Fermi Paradaox - specifically the Dark Forest theory of it. Instead of going to the trouble of actually physcially trying to destroy us, an alien civilization could simply craft an economic weapon and broadcast it to us as an anonymous whitepaper and we simply destroy ourselves. Far-fetched but darkly comic.

Far-fetched? Russian disinformation ops have succeeded in turning the US upside down with little more than a bot farm and a Facebook ads account.

The Russians couldn’t get Trump close to sniffing a vote count win. I think the shitty system deserves a ton more blame and the focus.

The Russians didn’t rig Bernie Sanders out of the nomination of one of the two major parties twice either.

More believable as a machine superintelligence rather than aliens, since we "know" the former will be here in 10 or 20 or 100 years, and immediately formulate ways to get humans out of the picture.

> Deposits USD into ponzi scam

> USD is bad!!11

Does not compute.

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