What if you woke up tomorrow and completely lost access to your bank account, credit cards, PayPal, and Venmo, all because of something you posted online?

  • hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    I’m not convinced that a triopoly (not sure what it’s called) is significantly different from a duopoly.

    My own views are that we need a balance of control and chaos. Both extremes have substantual downsides.

    My main view is that a centralized system can be built on top of a decentralized one, but not the other way around. And by the way, if crypto and traditional banking co-existed, with broad support for both, that would be a decentralized system, and I’m fine with that. As long as people can easily convert their fiat to crypto and interact with the same sellers in order to bypass censorship.

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      19 hours ago

      More competition is better than less. It is that simple. Your argument is just either nihilistic or an excuse to support a duopoly.

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        4 hours ago

        Well crypto is fully decentralized, with every node acting independently, so it really is the most competitive environment you can imagine, if that’s what you’re looking for