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  • Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, does not believe in cryptocurrencies, calling them a vehicle for scams and a Ponzi scheme.
  • Torvalds was once rumored to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but he clarified it was a joke and denied owning a Bitcoin fortune.
  • Torvalds also dismissed the idea of technological singularity as a bedtime story for children, saying continuous exponential growth does not make sense.
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[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 144 points 5 months ago

Crypto means cryptography, stop using it to talk about cryptocurrency.

[-] englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that headline is very misleading. Crypto(graphy) is essential for the digital world to exist whereas the other stuff is a pyramid & money laundering scheme.

[-] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 29 points 5 months ago

It's not "misleading," because the vast majority of people understand what the current colloquial use of crypto is.

[-] Screemu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago

Not the nerds on Lemmy.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

A certain irony in a synonym for "secret" being a term everyone's implicitly familiar with.

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