• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      Well… Partially. It could be so much more than just nerd investment gambling and criminal money, but the technology is just fundamentally too flawed for that.

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          6 months ago

          I’m referring to all blockchain based ones. Block chain, by design, is beyond extremely inefficient

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            6 months ago

            There are ones based on mesh structures, and other shit I don’t quite understand. By design, having multiple currencies offloads a lot of the transaction cost.