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State of the art programming, all with the goal of scamming people.

Crypto programmers don’t “have” to do anything because they are working on an illegitimate, unregulated security.

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Have you heard of Indian call centers? Let’s ban phones, let’s ban email, let’s ban gift cards, let’s ban bank accounts.

The fact that the technology is also being used to scam people doesn’t mean that the whole thing is bad. There are numerous use cases beyond illegal activity, and you focusing on a tiny fraction of the whole thing just shows that you don’t actually want to understand, but that hate is your only way of expressing, that you don’t understand it.

Here, read up. They’ve got studies and sources for their claims.

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Scam call centers are illegal and get shut down often. Great example if you want to somehow convince people that crypto isn’t a scam.

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I think they meant call centers in general, for legal sales. No they didn’t I’m wrong

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So you’re saying that scamming through crypto isn’t illegal and that the people behind it don’t get caught?

You’re comparing apples and oranges, it doesn’t work like that.

Crypto is the “phone” or “email” from my example, it’s just a medium.

So yeah, good job showing you don’t understand how it works

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Last time I checked all of those had real world value before the scams started.

For cryptos, it seems to be the other way around. They are trying to solve issues at the cost of having issues that are unacceptable and unfixable.

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It may seem like it, but it sure isn’t like it. You’ll obviously hear about the bad and nothing about 5he good, unfortunately that’s how media works nowadays.

Do you want to elaborate on those issues that are unacceptable and unfixable? I’m not saying there aren’t any, but you’re describing a trade-off, and crypto isn’t the only thing in the world with trade-offs.

Fiat is a great example - conveniet, nice, until it starts hyperinflating, until people use it to fund wars, until the government confiscates it because you insulted a politician on Twitter.

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