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If you'd read my post you'd have seen that it was squarely aimed at those who replied "They wouldn't touch it". Those people who are looking into it (as I am) do not fall into that category. And you don't need a cryptocurrency wallet to be looking into Bitcoin.
And I have posted on CP before in relation to blockchain technologies. I posted a link recently to a new video sharing platform called DTube which is touted to be an alternative to Youtube which has been developed using blockchain technology. So I clearly understand there is more to blockchain than just cryptocurrency.
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Dominic Burford wrote: I'm surprised at the 62% who voted that they wouldn't touch it. For a technology community this is rather embarrassing.
The problem with this technology is the type of user this will attract. The technology, per se, is fine, but by getting involved with it you're getting into bed with the likes of people traffickers, drug dealers, terrorists, etc. By putting money into this tech, you're helping those guys keep their cashflow going.
Personally, I'd rather invest my time and money in something more ethical.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: but by getting involved with it you're getting into bed with the likes of people traffickers, drug dealers, terrorists, etc
Wow that's a broad characterisation of anyone using cryptocurrencies. Every technology that has ever existed can be used for either good or bad. That's not a fault of the technology. Blockchain (or specifically cryptocurrencies) can be used for perfectly legitimate uses, or nefarious ones.
Presumably you don't have a problem with using the Internet, despite it being used by people traffickers, drug dealers, terrorists, etc.
Brent Jenkins wrote: Personally, I'd rather invest my time and money in something more ethical.
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Dominic Burford wrote: Every technology that has ever existed can be used for either good or bad. That's not a fault of the technology.
Yep, guns don't kill people and all that..
Dominic Burford wrote: Presumably you don't have a problem with using the Internet, despite it being used by people traffickers, drug dealers, terrorists, etc.
I use it because I have to.. I've always loved tech since I was a kid but in my opinion it's taken society in some unhealthy and dangerous directions. Personally, if someone killed the internet tomorrow I'd be more than happy and I'd go and find something else more constructive to do with my life.
This article gives me some hope. 
[Edit] Missed the 'doh' on my comment about being more ethical. It's not fashionable I know, but there you have it.. that's me. Sorry.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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There's a difference between unregulated currencies like Bitcoin, Ether, etc. and the blockchain technology.
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Yes I know, but thanks anyway.
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Cryptocurrency prices will likely crash down to a tiny percent of their current value. Buying now (when hype is high) is a poor decision.
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Because there's no "not yet" answer available. As a result I think that high percentage is a symptom of the answer options rather than a rejection of cryptocurrency.
I have no intention of using it soon as I have no current need for it. Long term very possibly. The "other" answer, in its position, implied I was currently using a wallet of an unlisted technology, which doesn't apply. Therefore the closest answer to "not yet" was "won't touch it", which doesn't express my position well at all.
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That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification 
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Aren't Visa and Mastercard cryptocurrencies when you buy online?
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Agreed, and more reliable currency
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I am actually quite surprised by the number of nay-sayers in this community. That probably speaks to our average age. (I likely wouldn't have looked into cryptocurrency myself if my millennial son hadn't brought it to my attention.)
I would definitely recommend all you "Won't touch it"s to transition into "Looking into it"s. There is literally no doubt in my mind that block chain technology will revolutionize commerce over the next 10 years as much as the internet itself has. This absolutely isn't going away, folks. And the net behemoths of today that don't embrace it will almost certainly become the Encyclopedia/Travel Agency/Brick&Mortar Bookstore companies of tomorrow. It's not about the criminal element (a small fraction); It's about a fundamental overhaul of online trust.
It's really that big. You owe yourself a favor to look into it.
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Well, I chose "Won't touch it" simply because (a) I'm not "looking into it" and (b) right now I have no need for it.
But if I did have a need for it I'd look into it.
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May be before we jump into crpytocurrency, we should check how money work.
I have problem with trusting government provided currency. In what world we should trust this so called crpytocurrency
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If you understood blockchain and how it works, you would have more trust in it. As each block in the chain is replicated across a peer-to-peer network of other blocks, it is practically imprenetrable to hacking. You would need to circumvent the entire blockchain to do so, and this would obviously have the effect of bringing unwanted attention to the hacker's activities.
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If you understood how money works, then you would not have lectured me about blockchain.
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Why do you assume I don't understand how money works? I did Economics at college and have a perfectly sound understanding of how money works.
I don't remember lecturing anyone either. I was giving an explanation of how blockchain works.
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I was joking, I should stop joking, yesterday I made a mess with my GF.
Anyway, no I didn't know how block chain works, thanks a lot. The fact is I am not worried about security of money, I am worried about trusting the value of money. Value of money can be inflated artificially.
One final info, I didn't do Economics at college, but I think I will study it anyway..
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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You are welcome to embrace it because it is new.
Add to your list:
Japanese remote-computer kissing[^], and for the world of tomorrow, remote sex. Both with the look and feel of (what you'll believe to be) the real thing.
As an old fogey, I'll just settle for the flesh & blood type, hope against hope that they, too, don't go the way of the Encyclopedia, Travel-Agent, and each group of Early Adopters.
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Realizing this should go in "Site Bugs/Suggestins", but I have your attention, here.
It's time CP have its own CryptoCurrency.
1) for status, before "that other site launches one"
2) in place of rep-points (starting fresh, sorry, O.G.).
We can give the a cool name like "NullPointers" or "Bitz".
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W∴ Balboos wrote: We can give the a cool name like "NullPointers" or "Bitz".
"BobBobs" 
(As in Bob[^] and bob - Wiktionary[^] )
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I think the survey is missing an option. How about a simple "No"?
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Agree. Or maybe "Don't need it right now".
Either way, it doesn't mean you wouldn't consider it in the future.
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I think it would have been better if they had asked for systems based on blockchains, or at least not just cryptocurrencies, because looking at the list of products included in the survey that seems to be the intention.
For example, the product Etherum is somewhat more global than a cryptocurrency: it is an environment for implementing smart contracts, and, eventually, one of those smart contracts implemented may be a cryptocurrency system.
Sorry for my bad English
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