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Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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> Blockchain tech isn't 14 years old, it's 30 years old, or even 40 if you want to go back to the '82 paper. Still no world-changing tech has come from it, aside from monopoly money. that's like saying that submarines were invented when Jules Verne wrote about them (i.e. you're wrong) blockchain technology requires the internet, hence it cannot be older than the internet

The internet existed in the 80s. How old are you?

the internet is a global network, but I suppose the telegraphs really is that old

Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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What does it do better than a classic centrally run steam marketplace? Why hasn’t Valve switched to NFTs?

It destroys the monopoly Valve has over item ownership and gives power to the people. Valve hasn't switched because having a monopoly is good financially.

It does not. Whoever implements the NFT integration into whatever game you want to play is in COMPLETE control over your item. If they want to not let you use it, they can do that. If they want to turn it into a floppy penis because they think it's funny, there is zero cryptographic assurance the object wont be modified in any way between the blockchain and the GPU APIs that actually put it on screen.

NFTs "in games" is just laughable. It's a perfect microcosm of how crypto boosters NEVER know anything about what they are talking about, like even the most basic, first sentence of wikipedia things.

There is no system agnostic way to program videogame object behavior. Your NFT can pretend to have whatever functionality it wants, but it's up to the game dev to honor that. If your NFT is a jpeg that you want as a weapon skin, the game dev has to take that blockchain data and pull or parse the jpeg out of it, and there is NOTHING the blockchain can do to enforce that. There's NO cryptography protecting that jpeg after that moment.

And that's just the physical, technical implementation, completely ignoring that it won't get to that step because no game studio will ever care to build anything like that for any reason other than just to sell crypto coins on a marketplace for quick cash.

Or do you somehow actually think EA and Ubisoft and everyone put pay to win mechanics in their games because players are desperate to give them more cash?

Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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I know you're exaggerating for effect but I'm having trouble threading the needle here. The "average VC tech company" gets nowhere near public market investors and, if indeed it is run "as a pump and dump scheme" would have a narrow impact on the LPs of the venture funds. Gotta imagine most LPs are sophisticated investors? Pension funds, that sort of thing. Crypto, on the other hand, seems to be predicated on retail…

VC is the search for unicorns. Fund 50 companies and 1 will make back the costs of the other 49 and then some. By design the average VC tech company (the 49) is a flaming failure. That doesn't mean they can't be packaged up and sold.

Totally get the dynamics of venture capital, but there seems to be a very big gap between funding 50 companies with 1 returning the entire fund and what OP described which is the "average" VC-backed company eventually being used to attempt to defraud unsophisticated consumer and public market investors.

Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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There are success stories in tech at least. Crypto only has "Bitcoin has above market returns" in terms of success. There was some neat smart contract stuff but some of that technically breaks trading rules (aka is questionable legality) and others are a coin flip as to whether a vulnerability will let someone drain the entire fund.

> Crypto only has "Bitcoin has above market returns" in terms of success. Ethereum is equally successful.

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Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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What a bizarre bit of strawmanning. The crypto brigade has arrived so this has all gone very desperately defensive. No, that isn't what I said. I said that clearly crypto in any rational sense has failed . Not just failed, overwhelmingly, catastrophically failed. It has zero relevance to the broader market. It has retreated from even where it was five years ago, that being a massively failed experiment. BTC has held…

Again, I don't see how you're strongly distinguishing failure from extreme volatility? What makes an investment vehicle successful? And perhaps, more do the point -- why is BTC maintaining a pretty high price? Your point on liquidity only stands if you presume what I think a lot of people incorrectly presume: which is, crypto as an alternative to day-to-day currency (edit: or perhaps other generally designed-to-be-li…

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Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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What a bizarre bit of strawmanning. The crypto brigade has arrived so this has all gone very desperately defensive. No, that isn't what I said. I said that clearly crypto in any rational sense has failed . Not just failed, overwhelmingly, catastrophically failed. It has zero relevance to the broader market. It has retreated from even where it was five years ago, that being a massively failed experiment. BTC has held…

Daily spot liquidity is ~usd 3 bn. Not sure that's negligible?

~$800M of SPY traded in the closing 1 minute candle today, ~$40B in total. That’s a single ETF.

$3B is peanuts compared to real equity and bond markets.

Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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I don’t know why it’s surprising. Cryptocurrency’s killer app was always crime, and crime is big business.

If cryptocurrency wasn't so volatile it would be better than worthless government paper because 1) cryptocurrency doesn't lose its value at rate of 2-13% per year 2) nobody will ban your cryptocurrency account if you use it for business 3) nobody will require to provide documentation and proof for every transaction that happened in last 6 months in your account.

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Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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NFTs. It's like Steam's marketplace, but without having to have one company have control to ban anyone. It lets you safely make trades without having to pass your items to sites for them to hold on to your items for you.

Can you explain in a few words how an NFT is different from a certificate stating you own a piece of land of the Moon?

The NFT was issued by the creator of the artwork. It’s like a moon certificate issued by god plus we don’t have space flight.

Re: Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users

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> Forex (for travelers) perhaps? Again, we're talking real world. Have you ever travelled abroad and used BTC to buy something? Has anyone you know ever done that?

so the goalposts just moved from "having utility" to "myself-or-someone-I-personally-know got utility from it"? > travelled abroad and used BTC to buy something not the scenario I described. Forex is short for foreign exchange . as in, exchanging to local fiat.

What, no. The goalpost were always “real world utility”. Real world.
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