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I'm all in on the grime, but I feel like this is one of the main reasons people are averse to the current crypto landscape: People generally prefer to live in shopping malls than the wild west.

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>I feel like this is one of the main reasons people are averse to the current crypto landscape: People generally prefer to live in shopping malls than the wild west.

Somehow I think crypto having zero legitimate use case has more to do with it.

Secure digital transfer of value without a trusted intermediary is a legitimate use case.

in practice "security" only comes from Monero and buying it anonymously via cash

Actually needing that is extraordinarily rare.

Really it sounds like the author is advocating for a new type of internet- one that requires sufficiently advanced technical knowledge to interact with, similar to back in the day.

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