• @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    It’s as legitimate as any country’s currency, as long as that country is being run out of some random basement closet in Silicon Valley.

    • GreenBottles
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      22 years ago

      everything that you said so far just tells me that you don’t understand it. Now I’m not saying that a lot of the crypto out there and actually the vast majority of crypto out there is garbage, that’s entirely true, however Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP, Cardano… and several of the most popular and legitimate companies and technologies out there are exactly that, legitimate.

      giant corporations Banks and financial institutions don’t put billions of dollars into investments of crypto without validating the asset

    • GreenBottles
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      12 years ago

      Also… In September 2021, El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as its second legally-recognized national currency alongside the U.S. dollar.