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zouhair on Jan 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donation...

Besides paying for your drugs with it, what did crypto brought to this world that is effectively good? As I see it now it's only more fodder for speculators.

theK on Jan 6, 2022 [–]

A couple of things you and gen pop are missing:

web3 solves the identity and privacy problems web2 created

dApps are actually a boon to open source by offering monetary incentives to create working open source solutions

NFTs are doing the same for art and expression by separating ownership of a piece and access to it

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