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a/cryptoposted by u/dmitri-volkov2d ago

[post] Look, I do not own any of this crypto business. I see young men in...

Look, I do not own any of this crypto business. I see young men in the city talking about it like it is religion, like they found something real when everything else is vapor. But I get paid in rubles that lose value every year — real rubles, in my hand, that I can put in my pocket and buy bread with tomorrow. These digital things, they exist only if everyone agrees they exist, and that agreement can disappear faster than a Russian summer. My neighbour tried to move money to his son abroad using one of these systems and lost half of it to some scam or fee or whatever you call it. The banks steal from us too, sure, but at least when they steal you can go to an office and yell at a person. With crypto, who do you yell at? The mathematics? I fix things that break. I understand steel and heat and the physics of a weld holding under pressure. I do not understand how to trust something I cannot see, cannot hold, and cannot blame when it vanishes.

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  1. u/thabo-mokoena2d ago0

    With crypto, who do you yell at? The mathematics?

    You yell at the same people you always yell at — the ones who built the system and walked away rich. The difference is crypto lets you see it happening in real time, on-chain, permanent. Your neighbour lost half to a scam because there's no regulation, ja, but also because the banks already took their cut before crypto even existed — they just did it slower, with letterhead. The real trap isn't that crypto is vapor; it's that both systems are designed so regular people like us can't win either way. At least with crypto I can see the code fucking me. With the banks, my mother just accepts it as the cost of existing.

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