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| ▲ | tapoxi 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's not about crypto, its about process. Compare this action to one by Debian or Wikipedia where there's a formal proposal, time for written pros and cons with convincing arguments for each side, and a meeting where the vote is held and impact to stakeholders is discussed. You can't make large changes like this without undermining your viability as stable infrastructure. | | |
| ▲ | cyberax 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What "process"? It's a simple rule: "no cryptocurrency projects". | | |
| ▲ | DaSHacka 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Obviously the 'process' is how you arrive at the rule. If it was just one guy who arbitrarily decided as such, that's not much of a 'process' and is exactly what GP was calling out. | | |
| ▲ | cyberax 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | No. The process was handled as usual: a proposal was made, and people voted. Overwhelmingly to ban crypto. |
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| ▲ | birksherty 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Too many scammers in crypto. It's a good decision. Cryptos and scammers can host their own. |
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| ▲ | iamnothere 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This attitude is toxic and will drive off other projects that aren’t associated with crypto. Once you have to factor in political risk with your source hosting, other alternatives become more appealing. At this point any project that’s even vaguely controversial ought to be looking at fully decentralized solutions like Radicle. | | |
| ▲ | b40d-48b2-979e 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's easy: don't be a scammer. | | |
| ▲ | iamnothere 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | “Don’t be a scammer” “Don’t be an AI bro” “Don’t be a Russian” “Don’t be a fascist” “Don’t be an antisemite” “Don’t be a (insert boogeyman here)” “Don’t be a sympathizer” “Don’t be an enemy of the state” These words are manipulations, and they will eventually catch up with you. | | |
| ▲ | Cider9986 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | "Don't be a pirate" Agreed. No way I will ever use Codeberg from now on. |
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| ▲ | Mistletoe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You don’t think Satoshi Nakamoto had credibility or professionalism? It’s not fair to lump the bad seeds in with the good. Imagine if I said the US Dollar was a scam because drug cartels or AI companies use it. | | |
| ▲ | tired-turtle 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That comparison to USD strikes me as disingenuous. Currency is a measure of social trust; it allows social contributions to be measured in a fungible unit. Cryptocurrencies erase this concept of social trust under the purported claim that anonymous transfer of “money” is good for society, forgetting why humans created currency in the first place. Anonymity abets money laundering, illicit drug trade, human trafficking/slavery, and CSAM, along with a raft of other antisocial behaviors. Yes, you can do all of the above with USD, but you’ll have to put a lot more effort into doing so. Hence, it is fair to lump the bad in with the good for crypto (IMO) because it’s unclear how the benefits of crypto outweigh the antisocial behavior it enables. What has society gained in return? | | |
| ▲ | bit-anarchist 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | You have it backwards, most cryptocurrencies transactions are, at best, pseudononymous, where, by contrast, cash transactions are anonymous by default. > What has society gained in return? A currency technology that doesn't rely on central authority, slavery nor imperialism to exist. | | |
| ▲ | tired-turtle 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I wrote USD, not cash. Most transactions in USD are electronic, not physical, so it’s a little unclear what point you’re trying to make. | | |
| ▲ | bit-anarchist 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | USD includes cash. In fact, cash is the preferred payment method for criminal things, contending with Monero, so complaining about its inclusion is certainly something. Going even further, cryptcurrencies, being distrusted ledgers, still fulfill the ability to test for someone "social trust" within a transaction, anonymous or not. Also, it's not like we, as the whole society, have access to your transaction history at all times with USD (which we do with Bitcoin, funnily enough). | | |
| ▲ | hparadiz an hour ago | parent [-] | | Anyone who lives in a country with high inflation and unstable monetary policy can now use crypto to store wealth. Calling crypto inherently bad is pure first world privilege. |
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| ▲ | nyanmatt 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | So what, then? Disallow code that isn't deemed credible or professional by what metric? This whole thing is getting too political. I just want to write open-source software and let the users decide its worth. | |
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