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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations

Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.

Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.

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[-] BigHaas@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this idea got started by people who don't trust the government and can see themselves being robbed from by financial institutions blatantly breaking and abusing rules, but they don't have the ideological framework to imagine something substantially different/trustworthy so they invent this technology as a bandaid fix for the specific problem of information transparency.

And the new ethereum proof of stake uses a fraction of the energy but is still considered a block chain.

[-] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely, it’s tech-fetishism (in the sense of commodity fetishism) combined with capitalist realism. They identify a very real problem, but they cannot believe that it is inherent to capitalism and can only be solved by its ending.

Edit: Proof of stake had inherent problems also, it removes the “fairness” of verification and ties the ability to do so directly to one’s investment.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The best way to defeat capitalists is by playing the game where the capitalist can buy a lot more game pieces and can fail many more times than you can. galaxy-brain

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