35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

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    1 month ago

    Anyone can shit their pants. Is that “infrastructure”?

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      1 month ago

      You think you can fool people by using a simple straw man argument technique? Come on, get your shit together. Bitcoin is infrastructure as anyone can submit transactions to the network and they will be seamlessly processed. As simple as that

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        I know that shouting “straw man!” is the first step of trying to deflect from being wrong on the Internet… But if you’re going to do it, at least know what a straw man is.

        My argument is that “Infrastructure” != “anyone can do it”.

        Infrastructure is something that benefits and maintains the general public. Bitcoin benefits a handful of cryptobros, billionaires… and most importantly ransomware rings.

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          1 month ago

          Your straw man is “shit in their pants”

          Read your own comments dude

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            1 month ago

            The person I was arguing with was saying that “infrastructure is anything which is something anyone can do”. I gave an example of something that anyone can do which isn’t infrastructure.

            It’s absolutely a direct refuation — a counter-example which disproves their original statement. It’s not a “straw man”, as much as you get mad and scream that it is.

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              1 month ago

              So you were wrong from the beginning. He never said “infrastructure is anything which is something anyone can do”. You are the only one who said it. He provided an example of a service provided by the infrastructure in question