Some people are saying this is no surprise, as all of crypto was a Ponzi scheme from the start.
Earlier this year when it went semi-viral I watched ‘The Line Goes Up’, which I found pretty educational (as an outsider). Despite the title, it’s about more than NFTs, and covers crypto/blockchain/DLT/so-called ‘web3’ stuff. It is a critical/skeptical take on the whole space with lots of good arguments (in my view).
Are people downvoting because they believe this not relevant enough to the FTX scandal? I understand it is only tangentially relevant (ie. FTX abused its customers money, they did not start a ponzi scheme). Or maybe because it is insensitive or wrong to share critical pieces of the wider area at a time like this in case people’s emotions about the event get overgeneralised to related wider debates? If people disagreed with my view that the video has good arguments or is educational, they would have disagree-voted instead. My intention in sharing it was that, as someone who doesn’t know much about crypto, watching this video helped me to understand some things about some of the wider claims that I had heard made. I thought that if there were people in a similar position of not knowing much, it could be helpful. Additionally, I thought that at a time of reflection and reckoning, a healthy dose of reviewing the more skeptical material is worthwhile, and this came to mind. It feels silly to be justifying simply sharing a video—but I actually just happened to be reading this thread which made me feel like it was worth asking downvoters to double check if they’d be willing to explain their reason for downvoting (I don’t feel too personally upset about it, but do feel a bit of concern about community voting norms).
Earlier this year when it went semi-viral I watched ‘The Line Goes Up’, which I found pretty educational (as an outsider). Despite the title, it’s about more than NFTs, and covers crypto/blockchain/DLT/so-called ‘web3’ stuff. It is a critical/skeptical take on the whole space with lots of good arguments (in my view).
Are people downvoting because they believe this not relevant enough to the FTX scandal? I understand it is only tangentially relevant (ie. FTX abused its customers money, they did not start a ponzi scheme). Or maybe because it is insensitive or wrong to share critical pieces of the wider area at a time like this in case people’s emotions about the event get overgeneralised to related wider debates? If people disagreed with my view that the video has good arguments or is educational, they would have disagree-voted instead. My intention in sharing it was that, as someone who doesn’t know much about crypto, watching this video helped me to understand some things about some of the wider claims that I had heard made. I thought that if there were people in a similar position of not knowing much, it could be helpful. Additionally, I thought that at a time of reflection and reckoning, a healthy dose of reviewing the more skeptical material is worthwhile, and this came to mind. It feels silly to be justifying simply sharing a video—but I actually just happened to be reading this thread which made me feel like it was worth asking downvoters to double check if they’d be willing to explain their reason for downvoting (I don’t feel too personally upset about it, but do feel a bit of concern about community voting norms).