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Intriguing how your assertion just lit a light bulb in my brain! True, you could say there's a chasm of difference separating Bitcoin from the motley crew of cryptos often derisively dubbed 'shitcoins'. Bitcoin has demonstrated its muscle, bounceback-ability and capacity for disruption. However, does it totally nullify the use-value of the other coin-kids on the block?
Yes... some of the shitcoins might have validity, use cases and value... but don't let that get you distracted.
you will likely be best to learn about bitcoin first and figuring out bitcoin before getting distracted into mostly nonsense (even if there might be some value in some of that crap).. it is better to presume the crap to be crap rather than allowing it to use your time, energies, psychological and your financial capital..
At the same time, you are free to do what you like, yet if people are polluting mostly bitcoin threads with pumping shitcoins, then it is not really good for discussions or for even seriously attempting to focus the thread on bitcoin first. and then if the problem/issue is tackled from a bitcoin first perspective, then there might still be some room to incorporate some shitcoin discussion, but it does not tend to be a good practice to fail/refuse to maintain focus.
Sure, Bitcoin may be the cool kid now that El Salvador gave it a nod,
Bitcoin was already cool before El Salvador "gave bitcoin a nod"
but does that imply the entire crypto-crew is nothing but deadweights?
It is a better practice to presume shitcoiners to be scammers rather than the other way around... but you can do whatever the fuck you want.. especially if you enjoy being distracted by mostly noise and nonsense.
It tends to be a better practice to try to focus on the signal rather than the noise, and engaging in such practices of focus will help you in a lot of areas in life, not only related to better understanding bitcoin... if you are even capable of such actual focus rather than merely suggesting/implying that you sufficiently/adequately understand bitcoin...when you likely do not.. otherwise you would not be arguing such nonsense and making such nonsensical points.
Some of these so-called 'shitcoins' have gone through a metamorphosis, finding their own corner in the vast crypto world. Ethereum, with its smarty-pants contracts, is breaking molds left and right in numerous sectors. Are we so quick to ignore its worth?
It does help if you realize that it is a shitcoin that facilitates other shitcoins and it is a mechanism that allows further building of shit upon it, with itself being quite shitty too..
I cannot necessarily cause you to change the way that you are understanding ethereum and how it has built various networking effects that it has built, and if you are not able to appreciate the various ways that bitcoin is superior to ethereum including some of the POS bullshit, then what good does it do to argue with you? Just go take your shitcoin talk and promotion to some other place.. it is largely distracting... because it does not even apply to this thread in which El Salvador is largely attempting to focus on bitcoin first and to approach bitcoin as legal tender from that perspective..and if you are distracted into wanting to talk about how great you believe ethereum to be or ethereum related matters to be adding value then you seem to be in the wrong place and you are just taking us away from what El Salvador has been doing and seems to want to continue to emphasize bitcoin and bitcoin related matters.
Sure ethereum could be described to be related to bitcoin because it sucks off the tit of bitcoin and engages in affinity scams (and franky made some good points in the post above about the vaporware aspects of ethereum too).. but why do we even need to battle about that scam smoke and mirrors house of cards of ethereum in this here thread..? It is not even on topic here.. and you can believe whatever the fuck you want regarding that coin and pump it in some other forum thread or even in some other place on the internet, no? Why do you want to talk about it in this thread?
Moreover, 'crypto' isn't just some buzzword millennials love to throw around. It's a power-packed term symbolizing the revolutionary ability of blockchain tech. So, shouldn't we emphasize the gap between Bitcoin and its counterparts, but also push for a thorough grasp of the richly varied crypto-sphere?
There are levels to which the term "crypto" is distracting. On the mere basic level, it tends to include failure/refusal to specify what the fuck is being talked about. If we are talking about bitcoin, then we should be able to talk about bitcoin, and if some other matters relate to bitcoin we should be able specify how they might or might not relate to bitcoin rather than employing some amorphous term that does not really have any meaning unless you at least try to put it into some kind of a context.
Again, I am not really sure why you believe that there is some kind of need to talk about the "crypto-sphere" in this thread, when El Salvador specifically is working on bitcoin first and bitcoin focused, and surely from time to time there might be some questions regarding whether some of the things that El Salvador is doing is sufficiently pegged (or tied) into bitcoin, so the ways that various projects might come up in the context of El Salvador might have various shitcoin (or crypto-sphere) elements in them, and surely we likely realize that a lot of shitcoin projects went to El Salvador and/or are involved in El Salvador too.. so there might be some times in which El Salvador might need to clarify some of the matters, including the extent to which some of the shitcoins are working within the language or the spirit of their various legislative and structural establishments that are trying to focus on bitcoin first.