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What is an "Ethereum"? Some sort of subscription?
A cryptocurrency that recently lost a lot of its value
I can't wait for people to realize they're all in a pyramid scheme together. I'm sick of hearing bros saying crypto should be part of my portfolio.
If you can hold it long-term, it's a fantastic investment.
If you're a day trader that can't look away from the charts for more than five minutes, then crypto definitely isn't a good idea for you.
I'm sick of not hearing people saying that stocks and the rest of the casino economy are the exact same scam.
I don't disagree, but there's at least some capital and speculative value behind those companies. Crypto is straight up arbitrarily finite.
It never had any value, like all other crypto currencies. But it was used to fake value and dupe people out of their money.
Value isn't necessarily something tangible. It's what other people think it's worth. The USD doesn't have any more value than the belief people put in it. Do you also think it has no value?
I'm not defending crypto speculation, but it's ignorant to say it doesn't have value if you can buy things with it. Basically all modern money is based on faith, including crypto. Even when it's based on gold or silver, that's aren't actually useful for most people so it's still made up value worth however much people value that.
Ok, sure, however, fiat currencies are based on the faith that there's at least one entire nation that you can use your currency in, and is motivated to ensure their currency is worth something, and has some semblance of stability. Crypto is based on the faith that there's other dumbasses out there that will agree with you that these particular bits hold value for some reason.
And that's the most beautiful thing about crypto that got lost in all the speculation, shitcoin, scams, and nft bullshit. A currency of the people for the people, but of course, when the pigs came into power they were the same as the old farmers.
Sure. I'm not disagreeing with that, just that it doesn't have value. It does. Just because it's made up doesn't mean it doesn't have value, as long as someone is willing to buy it from you.
I don't like these uses of crypto either. It's just a really stupid argument to say it doesn't have value. There are plenty of valid arguments that can be made against it without making something up like that.
Right, and I'm not arguing that cryptocurrency doesn't have value, just that it's value is based on a much less solid foundation than the value of fiat currency.
The original comment was. I agree with you.
I'm sorry, but at this point I honestly have more faith in the latter than the former. I just don't have any faith in America at all.
Ok I'm talking about fiat currency as a concept though, not the USD specifically.
If your point is that fiat currencies are still vulnerable to some instability, then sure, I guess I agree, but fiat currencies are still orders of magnitude more stable than cryptocurrencies.
If a state converted from paper money to crypto, the only discernible differences would be like more computers, more transparency, less middlemen, etc. Crypto is literally just a new (distributed, open) form of accounting.
Sure, and that would make that cryptocurrency a fiat currency.
*Also, it's not even close to being new, the idea of distributed ledgers has been around for decades at this point.
Serious question: do the Europeans here have more faith in your governments than you do in obsessive internet people?
I can't answer for anyone but myself, and I'm not European, but I absolutely trust government more than anonymous obsessive Internet people. At least governments are theoretically held in check by those they govern. Internet randos don't play by anyone's rules but their own.
The usd has value created by virtue of being backed by the usa government. It is not just faith based.
With the current administration, I'd argue we are definitely in "faith based" money right now.
It was originally based on a gold reserve and then taken off to become a fiat currency. Trump is talking about potentially not paying back debts owned to other governments. Definitely sounds faith based to me, there's nothing hard backing it.
It's funny because USA has gone bankrupt several times and most people don't even know or acknowledge it.
Now they just print paper money and violently force people to use it for stolen oil.
A country, itself, cannot go "bankrupt".
You wanna know how we can settle debts, for pennies on the dollar, today, right now?
Mint a 10 gajillion USD coin. Now, pay all debts. Now, destroy 10 gajillion USD coin.
See? Impossible to go bankrupt, if you're the buyer, generator, and seller of something, and there's always a willing buyer.
That's completely meaningless and worthless though, especially since that racist empire is literally destroying the planet with its petrol-dollars.
Money does not run on morals.
Wrong.
Fiat currencies are based on military might, not hopes and dreams.
Yo, don't be bad-mouthing our soon-to-be currency. Scams and money laundering were never this easy.
Ethereum is a petroleum based lube used in gay porn. When multiple dudes double dock during an orgy, that's called a block chain. The ethereum on their foreskins creates an immutable ledger.
So what's a hard fork?
That's when a couple of bros split off into a new room but you can still hear them banging through the wall.
It's a pretty old cryptocoin: initally released back in 2015, and a significant change deployed in 2022. It was then when they changed from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, which basically means that they don't use mining anymore to keep the network running. They use like 1% of energy compared to PoW coins.
Also they have some smart contract capabilities which I suppose Ethereum people think are important. But I've never seen any practical use for that stuff.
Still, I think Eth is one of the cryptos that actually tries to be useful and efficient in some way and not just a stupid pump and dump scheme. Turns out, nobody gives a fuck about that, perhaps?
Anything you need complicated multi-party interactions for that you want guarantees on. Real estate escrow comes to mind first. Depository accounts with yield. An immutable archive of records. Multi-signature corporate treasuries. Whatever. It's programmable money. It's not even necessarily monetary, because smart contracts can just deal with arbitrary data.
Never impressive to see a technical audience shit all over Ethereum for internet points. By far the least scammy crypto people have actually dedicated years into building something real on.
Would be great if they got some of that out there.
Respectfully, I think it’s just you. Ethereum smart contracts are universally publicized and utilized in the crypto community, and it’s why people were/are interested in the project. Many other coins are built on top of this technology. It’s pretty foundational. If you look into crypto any deeper than just buying and selling it, then the topic should have come up pretty much immediately.
Good to know, thanks.
I reckon most of that already is. A real estate escrow smart contract is maybe 200-300 lines long in Solidity, depending of course on what it supports (contingencies and such). You may want to actually go look around, because there's I don't know how many millions of lines of Solidity already written. It doesn't all get as much publicity as NFTs.
The off chain legalities are the tricky part of a real estate crypto deal.
Can changing house ownership really be as simple as making an alterations on a decentralized ledger?
You can mimic any existing setup for tracking deeds and similar, or invent new ones, with the added quality that they can't be doctored. Once something is recorded, it's recorded for good.
Blockchain is immutable but legal contracts usually are not. They have break clauses, implied rights etc.
I suspect everything can be implemented correctly, but my doubt isn't technical, it's legal.
Think of a smart contracts like a vending machine. You can't just build one and start selling real things from it. Laws need to be followed.
It's only worth $80,000 per token. Nobody gives a fuck! smh.
Haha yeah I made this comment mostly to see if I could meme some anger out of someone. Got some nice explanations though.
oh whoops
Not like it was obvious lol
It's a decentralized network running a virtual machine with its own token to pay for usage.