You might not care about badges, but badges care about you
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But what are they for? Im seeing talk of badges, but, for what?
"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."
Satoshi Nakamoto
A non answer. Also, I didn't ask to be convinced, I asked what they were and for. IIRC Satoshi wrote an entire paper for people with those questions :-)
“Jesus loves you… badges care” 😆