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Also, you said:

Number one, I am a cis-gender female, and as such I do not have 'stones', so you can bin that misogynistic framing that having testicles somehow imparts courage.

There have been a very large number of replies over the last 10 plus years here (as shown by other DUers, some who far pre-date me with my 6 and a half years on DU) who said it was dead, worthless, a scam, a tulip bubble (I have show repeatedly why that is a fatally logic-flawed analogy), etc etc, with many of them exhibiting little no knowledge of how crypto (not just currency, but blockchain tech in general) actually works. Many even preface their doom with 'I do not understand crypto and blockchaim at all' admissions.

Over the course of that decade plus, those doom-casters (whether old school or later-on joiners) have been consistently wrong when you look at the long arc. Over, and over, and over.

Their positings have been shown to be faulty for many years, yet the same projections are just doubled-down upon, then doubled down upon again, and again, and again, in, as I already stated, a Martingale-style fashion. They simply repeat the same thing over and over, and when they were shown to be wrong multiple times, over the span of many years in some cases, they just keep on going, in hope that the next time they will finally become permanently right.

At some point, the doom-casters lose their credibility, over their long runs of predictive failure, yet they know they are dealing with an audience here on DU that is (partially) far too often ready to just accept the endless incorrect claims, as well as giving out pats on the back to those doomsters, as the doomsters are fulfilling that part of the DU audience's preconceptions and wishes. The failed doomster prediction-makers are thus free to just continue the endless double-downing, no matter how many times they are shown to be in error.

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