• polle@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    The saddest part is, we thought crypto was the biggest waste of energy ever and then the LLMs entered the chat.

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      1 day ago

      At least LLMs produce something, even if it’s slop, all crypto does is… What does crypto even do again?

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        12 hours ago

        Monero allows you to make untraceable transactions. That can be useful.

        The encryption schemes involved (or what I understand of them, at least) are pretty rad imo. That’s why it interests me.

        Still, it’s proof of work, which is not great.

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          12 hours ago

          Sure, Monero is good for privacy-focused applications, but it’s a fraction of the market and the larger coins aren’t particularly any less tracable than virtual temporary payment cards, so Monero (and other privacy-centric coins) get overshadowed by the garbage coins.

          Same with AI, where non-LLM models are having a huge impact in medicine, chemistry, space exploration and more, but because tech bros are shouting about the objectively less useful ones, it brings down the reputation of the entire industry.

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        20 hours ago

        It gives people with already too much money a way to invest by gambling without actually helping society.

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          15 hours ago

          for the biggest crypto investors it isn’t even really gambling. they use celebrities to hype a memecoin and then rug pull and split the profits harvested from the celebrity’s fans.

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          21 hours ago

          It also makes it’s fans poorer, which at least is funny, especially since they never learn