Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but…

Is the speculative investment scam, which crypto substantially represented, finally dead? Can we go back to buying gold bars and Pokemon cards?

I feel like it is, but I’m having a hard time putting my finger on why it lost its sheen. Maybe crypto scammers moved on to selling LLM “prompts?” Maybe the rug just got pulled enough times that everyone lost trust.

  • Deletecat@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Most people are shifting towards the AI trend instead. Read a post which somewhat describes it well, people integrate the new trends into their projects to get more investor money. Nothing looks better to investors other than ‘We have AI Blockchain nano technology behind our service’.

    Last year, ‘we have blockchain’ earned lots of money. Now it’s ‘we have AI’. In both cases, the technology probably isn’t needed, it is there just to be there.

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      1 year ago

      Read the article, and gonna be honest I feel like the sudden push for “AI” development and marketing is to keep the stock prices up amid layoffs from hiring too much since the pandemic.