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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
This is an issue that I’ve grappled with for years and have written about (https://mazmhussain.substack.com/p/what-bitcoin-and-crypto-are-for). I’ve tried convincing more left-leaning people about the possibility of crypto but come up against much opposition. This opposition has been built on a belief that crypto is simply a scam that utilizes effective storytelling to inflate hyper-speculative assets. After years, I’ve stopped trying to convince people. This is because I’ve come closer to their perspective and developed a more negative view of the crypto world. This is not about the technology, which is neutral and can still have uses, but about the broader “crypto industry” which really is overrun with scamming and abhorrent behavior. I wrote about my evolving views here after years of observing this industry (https://paragraph.xyz/@unmediatedthoughts/casino-killed-the-computer-star?referrer=0x2503b70933119084c26df4c8d3e96d282de10743). I still have some hope which is why I keep an open mind.
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I enjoyed reading the article. And I have given up trying to convince, because there is no point. And because I've lived through this a couple of times in my life. Like in the mid-90s, when I was trying to explain to my 20-something friends who first touched a computer at the university, about the usefulness of email and the amazing world of the Internet ahead of us. Or when I was trying to build WAP applications in the early 2000s and dreaming about location-enabled services on phones with a browser, while my potential clients relied on fax machines. Or in the second part of the 90s, when I was the internal joke in a company that relied on DEC Unix, Solaris and SCO, and preached Open Source and Linux. Same thing later, with blogs, podcasts, social media. (cont.)
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Rooting for you and everyone who cares about the tech to build something good with crypto
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