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I don't remember Gibson but I wonder if we can get to the point that outlaw hackers limit damage to the wealthy and send "refunds" to the exploited. That would be worth celebrating.

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That would be the part at which these books go from sci-fi to straight up fantasy.

I would say that anyone who have enough time and money to investing in crypto is by definition wealthy.

I wish that were true. The Celsius and Voyager fallout has shown otherwise:

https://blog.mollywhite.net/celsius-letters/ https://blog.mollywhite.net/voyager-letters/

Only read voyager letters, but those sums listed point towards people being very wealthy.

I could see point if we were talking of hundreds, but we are talking of sums of over hundred of thousand. Which to me is very wealthy on global scale at least.

My kitchen contractor was in crypto -- when we were talking a few months ago he was down 20% but waiting for it to come back. That was pre meltdown.

It's not just the wealthy, it's the cab driver giving crypto tips now.

I mean, sure, in the sense that a janitor in the US is wealthy when considered globally.

is by definition wealthy.

Or at least they where before investing in crypto...

Like communism, that idealism fails on the part where the one stealing a lot of money (or appropriating it in communism for the greater good) has to actually give it back to somebody that is not himself

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