Post #1718219

2026-04-25 13:01 UTC

The OP makes it seems like they lost money by making poor trades, which so far in the history of Ethereum you could do in a very short period, but not if you held onto it for any length of time. You're right, they could have lost it by scams or hacks. The power to instantly transact with anyone in the world is a feature, but also a risk. If crypto takes off for actual day to day transactions I imagine there will be an intermediate layer of banks or other institutions that take on some of the risk but also take their cut. Anarchist types are concerned about government backed crypto coins since you lose the fungibility/anonymity of physical dollars but don't get any of the freedom and separation from centralization that crypto supposedly represents.

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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 14:56

> Anarchist types are concerned about government backed crypto coins since you lose the fungibility/anonymity of physical dollars but don’t get any of the freedom and separation from centralization that crypto supposedly represents. *Plus* all the potential for oligarch corruption, like current crypto has. Yeah, it’s like the worst of everything, by design.

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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 15:03

Also, I was thinking of various wallet drainers, not just simple transactions or classic scams: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/what-is-a-crypto-wallet-drainer/50490/ Etherium isn’t just a currency, but a *contract system*. You basically have to be a digital lawyer+developer to understand it, and not accidentally click on the wrong thing to drain your account, and that is a *LOT* to ask of the average person. We’re on *Lemmy*, which must put us in the first percentile of tech nerds, yet I don’t have the bandwidth to learn enough of that to feel secure with my savings in an Etherium wallet. How could the average person?

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