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Shame it's being abused by crypto bros who want to treat it as money.

There are other genuinely useful crypto projects (like Monero for privacy and I don't like the idea of smart contracts)

I really want to tell you the fact that most crypto is scam. These guys first went into crypto and now I am seeing so much crypto + AI.

As someone who genuinely is interested in crypto from a technology (decentralization perspective)

I see transactions as a byproduct not the end result & I see people wanting to earn a quick buck feel really weird.

Also crypto isn't safe. I just think like now its better to correlate as a tech stock though 99% of the time, its run by scams, so absolutely worse.

The technology is still fascinating. But just because the technology is fascinating doesn't mean its valuable. Many people are overselling their stuff.

That being said, I have actually managed to use crypto to create a permanent storage (something like ipfs but its forced to store it forever) , so I think this can be used where anonymity/decentralized is required. But still, this thing could be done without including money in the process as well & crypto is still not as decentralized as one might imagine.

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rklaehn 5 days ago | parent [-]

> Shame it's being abused by crypto bros who want to treat it as money.

Iroh contributor here. I don't know what you are referring to. Iroh is just a library to provide direct QUIC connections between devices, even if they are behind a NAT. We don't have any plans doing a blockchain or an ICO or anything like that.

I am not aware of any project called Iroh that is a scam, but if there is, please provide a link here. It's not us.

I know there have been some scammers trying to make a BLAKE3 coin or something, a year ago.

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Imustaskforhelp 5 days ago | parent [-]

I actually wasn't referring to iroh but rather ipfs / the stratos thing that I mentioned.

My only gripe with iroh currently is that its browser wasm feels too much for me/ I don't want to learn rust.

So I actually wanted to build something that required connectivity and I used nostr because nostr is great for website and not gonna lie ,its awesome as well (but nostr is also riddled with crypto bros :( )

	▲	rklaehn 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		OK, thanks for the clarification. I have nothing against crypto in principle, but I really don't want Iroh to be associated with crypto scams. Iroh is just a library for p2p connections. You can use it for crypto, but I would say that the majority of our users are non-crypto(currency). We will try to make the wasm version easier to use, but if nostr works well for you, go for it! Not the right place if you want to avoid crypto bros though :-)
	▲	Geee 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Haven't used Nostr recently, but isn't it associated with bitcoiners rather than crypto bros? At least it used to be that way.