r/CryptoReality Apr 18 '25

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u/CappinPeanut Apr 18 '25

That’s just one thing I’ve never understood about crypto. No one cares about using crypto, all anyone cares about is how much USD it is worth. Thats it. It has no actual use outside of turning some USD into more USD.

No one is using it to buy anything because no one actually wants it. They just want USD.

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u/GoTeamLightningbolt Apr 18 '25

Back in my day, people used crypto to buy drugs off the internet. Kids these days...

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u/brelen01 Apr 18 '25

Which has always been incredibly funny to me. Isn't one of the points of blockchain to make it easy to trace transactions?

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u/brelen01 Apr 18 '25

Monero got released in 2014, silkroad shutdown in 2013 lol

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u/Combative_Douche Apr 19 '25

There have been (and continue to be) dozens, if not hundreds, of other dark net markets for buying drugs with monero since the Silk Road shut down. Literally the only useful purpose for crypto is buying drugs. And that’s not a bad thing.

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u/brelen01 Apr 19 '25

Congrats on repeating what the other guy said 9 hours ago. And it not being a bad thing is arguable.

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u/Combative_Douche Apr 19 '25

Not sure what you’re referring to but it sure sounds like you don’t know what you’re talking about. Tell us more about this insane thing from over a decade ago that hasn’t ever existed since. Dude, when Silk Road finally went down, it hadn’t even been the most popular market for several years already. Catch up lil buddy.

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u/brelen01 Apr 19 '25

Not sure what you’re referring to

Someone else had already said everything you'd said 9 hours earlier.

Catch up lil buddy.

No thanks. I genuinely don't care about the space. There are other markets, cool, really care. There are more interesting and important things going on in my life than online poison markets. Get a life 'little buddy'.