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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think you may have misunderstood. I'm saying people call it a scam for a variety of reasons, so when someone says it isn't a scam, I'm asking which way of calling it a scam are they saying it's not a scam in relation to.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

In the way that none of those other ways are fundamental to it's intended use by it's creator as an actual currency.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are plenty of things that aren't created by scammers to be scams that people call scams.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 0 points 4 days ago

Which doesn't take away for them to be scams anyway.