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over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Specal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can use that same argument against any currency. But you’re mistaking digital currency as being different than physical currency. A $ is a $, digital or physical they are both the same value.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And you can teach a 5 year old how to count and exchange physical currency, but you gotta read half an encyclopedia of crap to even halfway wrap your mind around cryptocurrency.

    Every article I read about crypto just gets longer and longer and more convoluted. How would I even go about simply purchasing a candybar at the store with cryptocurrency?

    Is there an ELI5 version of a crypto tutorial that might actually explain how to even spend the stuff at the store?

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    • BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …but nobody’s talking about cryptocurrency though. Just you. Brought that up out of nowhere 😂

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Guess I forgot exactly what thread I was responding to after I woke up, my bad.

        Still, honestly I don’t get how any of these digital currency exchanges are supposed to work. I couldn’t even get my bank to accept my tax return as a direct deposit, they rejected the transaction and had to send me a paper check.

        At least I know what to do with paper in hand, but digital currency of any form, I’m totally lost.

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