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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages SuperGrok Premium Lists Bookmarks Communities Profile More Post tk @heettike Article Reply See new posts Conversation GRITCULT @GRITCULT Subscribe Crypto's Casino Problem Isn't What You Think 17 21 77 6.5K A crypto optimist's response to "I Wasted My 20s Building a Casino" You think crypto is a casino? Then what do you call: The stock market where retail gets front-run by HFT algorithms. The housing market where BlackRock outbids families. The job market where wages haven't tracked productivity in 50 years. If everything's a casino, maybe crypto isn't the problem. Crypto isn't the casino. It's a mirror. And what it reflects back isn't pretty: speculation, extraction, zero-sum games, hypergamblification. A builder saw this reflection after 8 years in the industry and concluded he'd wasted his 20s building a giant casino. Crypto didn't create these. TikTok runs on loot-bo

@GRITCULT: Crypto's Casino Problem Isn't What You Think A crypto optimist's response to "I Wasted My 20s Building a Casino" You think crypto is a casino? Then what do you call: The stock market where retail gets front-run by HFT algorithms. The housing market where BlackRock outbids families. The job market where wages haven't tracked productivity in 50 years. If everything's a casino, maybe crypto isn't the problem. Crypto isn't the casino. It's a mirror. And what it reflects back isn't pretty: speculation, extraction, zero-sum games, hypergamblification. A builder saw this reflection after

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