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.
There are also a lot of crypto scam sites popping up, where a scammer will set up a fake crypto exchange site that looks real on first glance, hoping you make an account, give them all your identity information, and “deposit” a bunch of money/crypto into it, which they run off with.