• 4dpuzzle@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    The return of investment on crypto doesn’t come from any value it generates. It comes from other people who made bad bets and lost their money on the same. That makes investing in crypto the same as participating in a Pyramid. Your argument, if taken for face value, can easily be extended to defend pyramid schemes.

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      8 months ago

      The same is, however, true for most of the stock market.

      The only counter argument is dividends, which are extremely rare in most industries, and barely a dent relative to an investor’s portfolio.

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        8 months ago

        You can argue that owning a piece of a company who generates value is not the same thing as owning some useless cryptographic token.