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Except it isn’t money at all; only suckers call it ‘money’.

It’s considered a security; a representation of value for sure. Move it around all you want until you’re blue in the face.

But money still has to come out of an exchange and through some sort of bank. So it’s all a shell game that’s decidedly not anonymous or protected at all.

That’s why so many have concluded that crypto is a scam; we might as well be smuggling Egyptian grave goods.



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