Why do I always have to remind the same people that bitcoin is not the same as crypto? It’s like they completely forget everything I tell them in between the times I speak to them.
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People are retarded dot meme.
Yep. I've noticed that these people in my life don't want to pop their reality bubble, so they are very selective about what they remember and forget the rest. I can even tell them what I said in the previous sentence, and the next time we talk it's like it never happened.
Cognitive dissonance takes awhile to wear off
Their lack of plans is measured in centuries.
They forgot to do their homework
I've seen the arguments against the idea of Bitcoin being crypto but I really feel like it's a semantics argument. At its core, definitionally speaking, Bitcoin IS a cryptocurrency. It feels to me like people who say otherwise are only doing so to try to distance themselves from the scams and rugpulls common in the Ethereum side of things. It's similar to how the Bitcoin crowd always disses the idea of Web3, when that term defines a broader movement than just Ethereum-based "DeFi" stuff.
I don't think it's semantics. "Crypto" prior to 2009 meant cryptography. Money built on cryptography can be considered cryptographic currency, or cryptocurrency as a shorthand. But "crypto" as a category/brand after bitcoin's initial success came to mean imitations of bitcoin, but without all of the most important aspects that made it unique, including scarcity, fair distribution, and no one in charge. Crypto is just another form of insider money printing. It's antithetical to everything bitcoin was intended to dethrone.
I mean, that's essentially what I'm saying here: the "crypto" term has grown a negative reputation thanks to rugpulls and scams but that doesn't mean that Bitcoin itself isn't definitionally a cryptocurrency. At that point, it becomes semantics more than anything.
I still have this keychain I got years ago, and I love it, but bitcoin technically being a “cryptocurrency” is beside the point. The word “crypto” is a blanket category definition for “not bitcoin.”
Funny how this discussion keeps coming back around and nothing ever changes.
I mean, I understand the frustration but giving up on a descriptor because some people co-opted it to mean something else is just giving them a bit of a victory. I mean, the term "gay" used to mean "jovial", "exuberant", "exceedingly happy" but now people only think it means "homosexual", and that's because people let the term change into something it wasn't supposed to mean.
Point I'm trying to make is that calling Bitcoin crypto(currency) is not a negative thing, in my book. If you don't want to call it that, that's fine, but that doesn't change the fact that it's factually a cryptocurrency. You don't see me ditching the "Tea" in my name just because some vengeful feminists co-opted the word for their ridiculous doxxing app.
So you’re saying crypto is gay? 🤣
Maybe not the best analogy 🤣 but my point is that just because people steal a term and change its meaning doesn't mean you have to go along with that change.
I don’t even like the word crypto enough to want to use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s indefinitely poisoned.
And that's fair, you're free to use or not use it. I'm just saying that I don't agree with the BTC maxi argument "Bitcoin isn't crypto" because like I said at the start, it really does just boil down to a semantics argument by people who feel that they want Bitcoin distanced from altcoins.
I prefer to keep my distance from scams.
The truth is We can’t save everyone 🥲