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284 sats \ 4 replies \ @nerd2ninja 13 Apr 2023 \ parent \ on: Boycott Bitcoin Magazine & Their Shitcoin Conference bitcoin
Bitcoin is not part of crypto
Explain how any crypto you love is a social construct.
Bitcoin is a social construct.
It would make as much sense to group them together as it would be to call Robux or Runescape gold, Twitch bits or any other digital currency "crypto"
bitcoin is a cryptocurrency
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Its also a digital asset, but as you can see with my Robux example, that isn't useful to describe it that way
A parrot is a bird, but I don't want to say cardinal, bluejay, woodpecker, vulture. I want to talk about a kind of bird
So you can wittle that down to songbirds corvids, or Psittaciformes
On the other hand you are a mammal which would group you in with dogs. But every time you cry and cry that you aren't like dogs I hit you with
"You are a mammal"
Bitcoin is a social construct. Things that are issued by corporate entities do not belong in the same discussion and "industry" as something that changes on the basis of social consensus.
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I buy that.
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The word “cryptocurrency” did not exist when bitcoin was invented.
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