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Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure (www.dlnews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As soon as you could exchange it for real money it just became another tool of capital to move in secret.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I believe any good thing you can say about crypto will eventually be coopted and controlled by capital.

The same is true for all "disruptive" technology unless it's built specifically to be hostile to monied interests, like the fediverse - and even then, you have to continue defending it against incursions.