silentjohn

Both of those reasons are valid and fair.

That said. MAN, you must hate the kind of company you end up stuck with. Crypto as far as I know is MOSTLY very weird AnCap types

Crypto indeed is a weird af place. I hate 99.99% of the projects and the people here. The culture is insufferable. But there is space to build projects that actually help working people.

imma h8r

Why though? It's just tech. It's neither good nor bad. It can be used for good (public goods funding, donations to causes that might otherwise be blocked, paying artists a la patreon, governance voting via DAOs, etc) or bad (speculative markets, BAYC, memecoins, rugpulls, etc).

Read Blockchain Radicals, there's more of us than you think. Dozens!

Make no mistake though, I view crypto as simply a technological tool to get us from A to B. From the cryptoleftist subreddit:

Bitcoin or any other specific crypto / blockchain project will not get us to socialism. This is first and foremost an ANTI-capitalist community (this should be the bare minimum to calling oneself a leftist), so please, we don't want to encourage some of the worst aspects of both capitalism and crypto currency like speculation and trading. We don't care if you do it, but there are other communities out there for that.

That said, there's some cool work being done on Breadchain for coops and workers: laborDAO, the ReFi (regenerative finance) movement, etc.

Crypto can be an important tool to:

• protect the unbanked,underbanked, and even banked from the exploitative financial system: we’re making progress

• remove US hegemonic power by undermining the dominance of the US dollar: we’re making progress, but some like USDC are actually reinforcing American dominance

• move away from capitalism and asset speculation to collective ownership (governance tokens), trade of useful goods (digital or physical), and savings protocols: we’re not making very much progress and are actively moving against this

Of course people think crypto "doesn't do anything" when most people don't even understand how investments or tech in general works.

There is actually a lot going on with crypto. It's just that people who aren't plugged in won't really care... : https://ethereumadoption.com/

Ohhhhh, the "T" word. Ez block for this uninformed and ignorant troll.

Pushing powerlessness? What are you doing to stop this? I'm with DSA and fighting IRL to stop this. Have you organized any protests? Have you phone banked anybody? Have you distributed literature? Have you actually gone out and talked with real human beings about what struggles they are feeling?

Kids were still in cages during Biden. Prison slave population still highest history. Biden started the genocide and handed it over to trump. Biden deported more people than trump. Biden didn't feel like codifing roe. No min wage discussions whatsoever. No universal healthcare. Harris wanted a stronger border than trump and bragged about it. Half of the US can't even afford a 1 bedroom apartment under Biden and Trump alike.

The two parties exist to appease their corporate donors. Nothing they do is in your interests.

By the way, progressive measures passed in many states, even states that Trump won. People want progressive policy but neither party is willing to deliver. This is a feature, not a bug, of capitalism.

There's always conveniently a cohort of Dems that vote against party lines. Every. Time. Then they can shrug and say "welp, we tried".

Two sides of the same capitalist shit sandwich.

Another vote for brave search

Tunic

I'm an ETH-head. I understand it. It makes sense. Bitcoin? Bitcoin doesn't make any sense to me. I have severe concern about its long-term security model and the community's overall lack of desire to change anything about the protocol, including its security model.

That said, I'm overall negative about crypto in general these days. VCs, corporations, institutions, politicians, etc have all seemingly co-oped crypto in a big way. There's not much about the original cypherpunk ideals that remains anymore.

I'm part of Breadchain, a project spearheaded by The Blockchain Socialist to promote and fund left-aligned crypto projects that help workers and coops, etc. But again, these days I'm getting very jaded about the trajectory of crypto.

Usually, my attempts to use it are either thwarted by issues installing, issues booting, or general problems while using it… leading to “catastrophic failure” that I can’t fix without digging into hours of research and terminal commands.

This was my experience as well ... 20 years ago. I've not had many of these issues over the past few years using any distro. I used Debian for a couple years and now I'm on Arch. Really, it just works for me...

TBH now that I think about it, I ran in to more issues with Ubuntu than just simply using Debian.