There's a lot a find absolutely mind-blowing about cryptocurrency. It's why I murdered my GPU back in 2009 in attempts to mine BitCoin. The idea that PEOPLE can generate currency and trade it amongst themselves is amazing to me. Sure, there's abuse - it's easier to use supposedly untraceable currencies to pay for bad illegal things, but this shift in power from governments generating and controlling currency to people and the market being able to generate its own through the use of technology? That's some futuristic shit right there!
I've never purchased cryptocurrency. All I have in my bitcoin account I made posting on steemit about a year back. It's not a lot, but the first time I drew out cash from my bitcoin account at an ATM using a debit card, I was taken aback by the fact I was paid to write by PEOPLE rather than by corporations (who are the ones usually paying me to type a lot). It was a refreshing experience.
Hehe, I highly doubt you were mining BTC with GPU's in 2009. xD
didn't you read, she murdered her GPU! You can't mine with a dead GPU!!
All jokes aside, people and corporations are hardly different, its about purpose and intent, right now, you could almost buy votes because the platform offers curation rewards. Everyone wants a piece of the pie and will upvote you if your post breaks a certain dollar amount, and it reaches their feed!
There was an attempt. GPU died. I learned that some things are better left to people in cooler countries.
LOL rolling my eyes