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Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but...

Is the speculative investment scam, which crypto substantially represented, finally dead? Can we go back to buying gold bars and Pokemon cards?

I feel like it is, but I'm having a hard time putting my finger on why it lost its sheen. Maybe crypto scammers moved on to selling LLM "prompts?" Maybe the rug just got pulled enough times that everyone lost trust.

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[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

No, the market is down. stocks are down.

[–] Deletecat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people are shifting towards the AI trend instead. Read a post which somewhat describes it well, people integrate the new trends into their projects to get more investor money. Nothing looks better to investors other than 'We have AI Blockchain nano technology behind our service'.

Last year, 'we have blockchain' earned lots of money. Now it's 'we have AI'. In both cases, the technology probably isn't needed, it is there just to be there.

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[–] nerdyguy1990@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was naive enough to get into the crypto games, because I was hoping to earn some crypto for myself. I wasn't having much luck, and I started to tell myself that crypto was a scam. I enjoyed seeing the web3 browsers emerge, like Brave, Osiris, etc, as they offered a new infrastructure to the internet. Something decentralized, which was cool. I'm also disappointed that we now have AI browsers, which is scary and not a good direction to go in.

[–] trent@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm also disappointed that we now have AI browsers, which is scary and not a good direction to go in.

Out of pure curiosity, why do you say this? In context of something like ChatGPT, it makes sense, but what do you think about stuff like local LLMs as assistants and embedded in browser infra?

[–] reric88@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's dead, just dormant right now. It kicked up a looot of buzz and got a lot of attention, especially from bad actors and govs. I can see it getting big, again, I just don't know when.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My partner just got a DM on Instagram about... cryptomoney! Funny thing is, if you search the company, the entire first page is about scandals and negative things. And it is on some MLM list too.

So, the grifters are still out grifting.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 1 year ago

There are also a lot of crypto scam sites popping up, where a scammer will set up a fake crypto exchange site that looks real on first glance, hoping you make an account, give them all your identity information, and "deposit" a bunch of money/crypto into it, which they run off with.

[–] ppb1701@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's not dead, but the SEC sure has been really helping the consumers basically tanking the market about everytime they help....

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