marsrover

> Is this a game, or something useful, a currency system?

Do you not think the current economic system is a game? Because it is.

> single decentralized exchange...

Uniswap had no liquidity issues for blue chips with the recent crash.

Clearly there can be more liquidity in the market, but that’s not the argument.

> detractors don’t understand

Why would I think differently when they never do?

Assuming the rest of the response isn’t directed at me.

I appreciate your concern but my behavior is pretty consistent with what it always has been.

> The prices of these coins can and does get manipulated all the time.

This is known.

> Real people will get burned, badly.

Welcome to the game, there is a learning curve.

> You can't even depend on these exchanges to actually handle high trading volume when there are price crashes.

If they're centralized, you mean.

> It's honestly a joke that anyone trusts this system as it currently stands.

It's easy to distrust a system you don't understand.

> Anyone who seriously believes in a future of cryptocurrency should be calling this crap out

If you interacted with anyone in crypto you'd realize that they do.

> The problem: very few people actually believe in cryptocurrency, most are looking for a quick buck instead.

Why is that a problem? The ecosystem needs technologist and "market makers" (including individual traders in this) to function.

I think everybody has their own breaking points but mine was today. If I hadn't of spent so much of my life here I probably would have just left and been done with it.

> What about adults that take advantage of other adults?

Well, there's a pretty big universe of meaning.

> Subprime

What is more wrong? Banks lending to people they know they can't afford it because they think the risk/reward ratio is worth it? Or governments not letting them feel the effects of the markets reaction?

> Insider trading

Honestly who gives a shit? This is the type of thing that would be quickly priced into the market.

> Organised crime

Are we talking about selling drugs? Or murder? Or sex trafficking. Because I have very different opinions between the first and the second two.

> why even have police

See above.

It is when it's a zero sum game.

Adults should be allowed to make adult decisions. Thats the argument.

If you think that's not an argument in either direction, I don't know what to tell you.