I believe it will be ubiquitous, but happening in the background. People won’t be like, “hey what’s your bitcoin address dude, I want to send you .000000054”. It will be more like the sauce that powers a payment app like Venmo, but hidden in the background, making settlement cheap for the provider. The Strike app already does similar, and if a big cc company sees the light and tries using crypto settlements to square accounts, they will save billions on settlement charges. THAT’S where it will be used by everyone, they just won’t know they are using it
I remember before www, before aol, so when I was the first person going online in my friend group, everyone thought I was a lunatic. imo, crypto is the same. In a decade it will be ubiquitous and nobody will care what anyone’s opinion of it was in 2023
It’s such a deep and controversial subject. I’ve never tried mining. There are some simple use cases, like tipping creators on social media, that don’t require a person to close all their bank accounts and convert all their dollars to bitcoins, but people take any talk of innovation in the space as a demand that they change their philosophy of money, so to me, the anti-crypto crowd seems reactionary and toxic.
I came from Apollo on iOS, so Voyager is scratching the itch for me, almost completely.
I like discussing stuff. I’m a student of cryptography from way back, who got involved in cryptocurrency later in life. I find lemmy to be pretty anti-crypto. People have said this is because lemmings are left-leaning and so therefore don’t like crypto, but this flies in the face of all the norms I know as an old guy who worked through these industries from the 1980s (technology, computing, programming and cryptography). This is another thing I miss from the-social-network-which-shall-not-be-named - an active bitcoin community
Yes, I was an Apollo user since forever. I won’t run Reddit app, and they kept suspending me for no reason all the time. Such bs, what app actively chases out contributors? So I ended up here. I just need somewhere to find my curated content and discuss the things I have questions about
Lemmy is awesome, but I wish everything was encrypted. I understand that with federation it’s a bit pointless in theory, but it would improve a few aspects imo.
I’ve been trying to focus on inspiring civilized conversations, while occasionally challenging an idea if I have a differing point of view, but only when saying so adds something to the conversation. I was guilty of getting in some spats on Reddit, but usually with trolls who were asking for it-kind of irresistible sometimes over there. I too have been educated by some very patient people here on lemmy when I came over clueless about it and activitypub in general. I’ve had some great in-depth conversations, just looking for the casual lobby where I could do stuff like help newbs (I like to share what I learn) that sort of thing
That’s the obvious answer, but I think how others have said the early crowd is techy here, so maybe a lot of introverts until the crowd diversifies?? Just a guess, but I really try to discuss stuff but get a lot of meh responses
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These are the reasons!