• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s more than a perception problem now, it’s a culture one within the crypto community (as far as I can tell).

    Even if you treat the most prominent crypto as a utility, the sea of hype and speculation will affect you.

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      21 hours ago

      Maybe. I feel a bit out of the loop on “crypto community culture” because I understand that much of it largely exists on Twitter nowadays, and I don’t go there. Still, it is a functional solution for a money equivalent of encrypted communication.

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        Or Discord! And investment TV! It’s so cultish, it’s unreal.

        I think this should be distinguished between “pure” crypto enthusiasts, in it for the utility, not speculation, which are probably like pink elephants now.

        AI has a similar divide, where like 99% of the hype is on Twitter and TV with AI bros, but there are little niche communities messing with open weights, locally runnable models in a much more grounded way. /r/localllama used to be a hub for this (and there is a little branch on Lemmy), but unfortunately it seems to be getting strangled by Reddit enshittification .