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diff --git a/content/entry/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts.md b/content/entry/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts.md index ff901cd..0e4d70d 100644 --- a/content/entry/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts.md +++ b/content/entry/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Clearly, a lot of work went into it. The information is high quality with plenty For those of you who have followed my journal for a while now, you know I've become increasingly critical of cryptocurrency over the years. I wasn't always so critical. In fact, I used to be a total sucker. ## Bitcoin -My cryptocurrency journey started years before I ever conceived of this journal. I was disappointed that I missed the opportunity to "invest" in [Bitcoin](https://bitcoin.org/) earlier, so I decided to invest in it. At the time, I was under the impression that altcoins were just Bitcoin clones. They weren't the original, so why bother with them? +My cryptocurrency journey started years before I ever conceived of this journal. I was disappointed that I missed the opportunity to "invest" in [Bitcoin](https://bitcoin.org/en/) earlier, so I decided to invest in it. At the time, I was under the impression that altcoins were just Bitcoin clones. They weren't the original, so why bother with them? ## IOTA Some time later, I realized that blockchains didn't scale. So I became enamored with [IOTA](https://www.iota.org/)'s cryptocurrency based on "the tangle", which is really just a decentralized acyclic graph. I naively believed all their false promises and dumped money into it. I even tried to get other people to invest. I ended up losing big time because I didn't pull out, even after the price dropped. I thoroughly read the white paper, having more understanding of the technology than most other "investors", and I started asking questions. @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ I would say the two overarching lessons I learned from my experiences in cryptoc * Always question your own motives # GNU Taler -Assuming people come to their senses and cryptocurrency loses its value, there will still be a need for anonymous online payments. [GNU Taler](https://taler.net) is working on that. +Assuming people come to their senses and cryptocurrency loses its value, there will still be a need for anonymous online payments. [GNU Taler](https://taler.net/en/) is working on that. It's not another cryptocurrency ponzi scheme. It doesn't try to fulfill the anarchist/libertarian fantasy of a fully decentralized, unregulated digital payment system that promises the world but delivers next to nothing. |