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    22 hours ago

    I live in Dominican Republic, and have never heard of this here. I guess being outside of the regular social networks and mainstream services does keep some of us away from some news. Time to do some digging into this.

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      16 hours ago

      Not all crypto is this scammy. That’s for sure. Monero is actually used as money and people buy items with it on a fairly regular basis. XMRBazaar and MoneroMarket have ~2900 items and services you can purchase directly with Monero and that number is growing at a steady pace. Plus there are business directories like Monerica that have more businesses listed.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah, I think there’s some good crypto out there. It’s just that it’s not a thing in my country. And that worldcoin seems scammy as hell, plus they are expecting people to provide biometrics for it, hell no!

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          Oh, I completely agree. I wouldn’t touch that world coin shit with a 30-foot pole. As for Monero in your country, you could be one of the first.

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      21 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if it suddenly crashes and the mugshots get sold to some surveillance AI tech company.