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Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, does not believe in cryptocurrencies, calling them a vehicle for scams and a Ponzi scheme.
Torvalds was once rumored to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but he clarified it was a joke and denied owning a Bitcoin fortune.
Torvalds also dismissed the idea of technological singularity as a bedtime story for children, saying continuous exponential growth does not make sense.

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[-] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago

Crypto means hidden, stop using it to talk about cryptography.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

It's also sometimes used as shorthand for crypto-orchidism -undescended testicles.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ahh, so... crypto, which is based on crypto, can be used to pay for treatments to crypto.

Got it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Crypto currencies doesn't mean "hidden currency", it means currency based on cryptography.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Do you mean to say that crypto is based on crypto? Crazy!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Did you just defeat your whole original point yourself?

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