• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Someone had imaginary money on a computer and someone else stole the imaginary money and that’s bad because the imaginary money has value in real money and I hate this timeline.

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      1 year ago

      Someone had real gold in their coffer full of gold coins, then someone convinced them that credit written down as a number on some slips of paper had the same value, that they could trust the bank’s computers with keeping track of the total value, and everyone clapped.

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      1 year ago

      Well, it’s Monero. It has clear value in buying drugs safely. Almost all darknet sites support it… I’ve been told.