I have run into some chill blåhaj people here

I mean I have met many chill lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear users. They’re just a pain when you talk about their specific topics. The same applies to blahaj users. The main issue is ada, the instance admin of blahaj

Am I weird if I like to keep my socks on?

blahaj.zone basically

Turns into an authoritarian cult. You’re either completely with them or fully against them

Living with your parents while working = being rich speedrun

who else call people virgin anyways?

thinking people use it just as ‘virgin’ is either deliberately obtuse or ignorant

That’s just what people say these days, even if it’s inaccurate. They don’t care, they just want to insult and trigger. Who is the ignorant?

all I see are green flags

I have always criticized the current system

Payment processors are just part of it. Each time similar issues arise, I’m here

The current system’s problems are not just the actions of a few. The few in question have an incredibly high market share. Crypto would fix these issues: no need for middlemen, more privacy and anonymity (for applicable cryptocurrencies), cheaper international transactions, decentralized to prevent censorship (as long as governments don’t fuck it up too much)

Not to mention your original message was about criticizing Mastercard which is a single entity, and you’re comparing that to criticizing crypto which isn’t

What isn’t essential to you could be essential to others. For many people, card payments are not essential. Emails aren’t essential. Cars or public transport aren’t essential. You’re saying something is useless based on adoption. So it is just useless until it becomes essential at an arbitrary point? So it does not prove anything

Cryptocurrency is essential to protect your online financial privacy. If you don’t care about it, that’s on you.

Why blame crypto instead of the specific parts of a different community? You can’t generalize a group because of the actions of a few individuals

Cryptos impact is high but not as much as many other fields, and it’s not for the love of profit, but as a necessity to protect a decentralized currency used by lots of people

Many cryptos don’t even have any environmental cost

This, but hating on crypto is trendy

And then people associate crypto with scam even if that’s incorrect because they don’t know better

So it’s a people problem?

I was really surprised when I saw this

Being full anti AI must be as cringe as going all in AI

Yea crypto -> fiat is easy for businesses that declare their income. It’s still a pain to do, but they’re used to having an entire service dedicated to that already

A full crypto ecosystem is what crypto enthusiasts are wanting to achieve. It would be amazing.

Afaik AMD isn’t fully supported either

And you lose the ability to run tensorflow if you like to do AI

Sure, what you said is true, but again, I’m talking about crypto -> fiat

Who is gonna ask?

The exchange, the website… It happens frequently

there are no rules where you send your crypto and you don’t have to explain to anyone

AML and KYC procedures are a thing in crypto, just make a few searches

Following crypto trails is easy when there’s only one destination…

You’re putting too much trust in the system. If there’s a doubt you will be asked to clear it, they won’t do it for you

It’s basically the same as directly sending

The exchange will know what you spend crypto on

They would not, but you would not be anonymous this way. You get problems when:

• The crypto you received is through a shady source (it could be any individual which pays you with dirty coins)
• You engaged in pro-privacy activity, which links you with illegal activity, like coin mixers to blur the origin and destination of crypto
• You received more crypto than you bought

As long as you stay with centralized exchanges and directly send crypto to some websites, you should in theory always be fine (as long as you don’t send them to criminal or pro-privacy services), but that’s not the original goal of crypto

Apart from that, some countries straight up force you to declare every transaction you make with crypto, which isn’t doable for most people and puts them in illegality