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Comment by dylkil

4 years ago

It can. The biggest success of crypto has been putting public/private key pairs in the hands of 10s of millions of people.

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thesuperbigfrog  4 years ago

>> The biggest success of crypto has been putting public/private key pairs in the hands of 10s of millions of people.

I would argue that the biggest successes of crypto are selling GPUs and facilitating malware ransom payments.

GPUs have sold like crazy and you are lucky to get a high end one with the current demand. Everybody and their pets are running mining rigs. Good luck getting a nice GPU for machine learning or graphics rendering.

Previously malware authors had to rely on gift cards or similar means to get paid. Now they have variety of cryptocurrencies to choose from and they can even trade cryptocurrencies to launder the paid ransom funds.