And here we have another specimen of "things which crypto are actually useful" spotted in the wild!

I think the intersection of the set of people able and interested in contributing and those who are willing to figure out cryptocurrencies is the empty set.

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rglullis 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I quick visit to https://gitcoin.co/campaigns will show you that you are wrong. Hundreds of projects funded by even more people.

Mind you: that's on one of the most convulated ways there is to get involved, because it involves a bunch of smart contract operations and on-chain voting. If we are talking about crypto only as a payment network, things are even simpler.

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LtWorf 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's cheating if the projects using it are cryptocurrency related :)

A generic python library used by generic people who have no interest in this field is something else.

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rglullis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Coinbase reports more than 100+ user accounts worldwide. Kraken has ~10M.

Also, we are talking about people who are tech-savvy enough to be interested in participating in a FOSS project. Opening an account at an exchange is not rocket science.

	▲	LtWorf 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, getting the money out of an exchange if you are in a country USA doesn't like is rocket science. Which was the whole point of using crypto rather than money.