From 2017 but relevant today with bitcoin drop.
Bitcoin Plunge Reveals Possible Vulnerabilities In Crazy Imaginary Internet Money
https://theonion.com/bitcoin-plunge-reveals-possible-vulnerabilities-in-craz-1821134169/
https://theonion.com/bitcoin-plunge-reveals-possible-vulnerabilities-in-craz-1821134169/
From 2017 but relevant today with bitcoin drop.
9 Comments
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 201d
Their value is made up by the people who buy and sell it
Outside of that closed circle, a bitcoin is a scam.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 201d
Isn't every currency made up?
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
Indeeed
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 201d
The Onion is becoming the last bastion of real journalism.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 3 pts · 201d
Is bitcoin a currency?
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 201d
Biggest vulnerabilities are probably unwillingness to consider upgrades to deal with quantum computing threats and its structurally dwindling security budget (if there is a maximum number of bitcoins, much less money will be paid to miners in the future, greatly reducing the cost of attacking the network). Not like you can trust the market to be rational enough to actually factor this stuff into the price though.
TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com · 1 pts · 202d
@cyrano 😂 yeah, I knew it.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 201d
vga@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 201d
Oh we're doing this again. Rich people decide that BTC will crash, they sell, articles like this appear, it crashes, they buy, it goes up.
Why you guys are so keen to help them to do this is the part I don't understand.