35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

  • radamant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    615·
    5 months ago

    Please describe how I can send the money to my mom in Russia (disconnected from SWIFT) with GNU Taler today. I’ll wait.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 months ago

      I don’t know how I could possibly have been more explicit about it not yet being ready for any real-world use cases than I was.

      • radamant@lemmy.worldEnglish
        412·
        5 months ago

        It will never be ready. It doesn’t even make sense. To transact with real fiat like the US dollar, you’ll have to go through an official on-ramp and an off-ramp of the respective government. And to do an international transaction you’ll have to use one of the widely accepted systems like SWIFT. GNU Taler doesn’t appear to address anything like that. Anyhow, my comment was made with the premise of this whole thread in mind, i.e. “Bitcoin is stupid” or “snake oil”. Yet there’s no alternatives to what crypto provides. So is it that stupid after all?

        • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          5 months ago

          How wasteful!

          Anyhow, today I’m going to resume using a currency backed by oil and nukes, which encourages consumption on purpose. I will then either exploit workers by investing in a for-profit business, or get poorer.

          But someday, in the future, economics will work the way I expect them to. That’s when I’ll switch to something better!

          • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            Russia has had oil and nukes and it didn’t stop the ruble from collapsing in the 90s

            Maybe reexamine your assumptions