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> You can tip people with normal money.

If the powers at be allow you to (PayPal, banks, credit card companies)

If Mastercard doesn't like you or your wares (porn or dissent) good luck!

> Private transactions are great if you are a criminal, I'll give you that.

Tired old trope. You don't have to be a criminal to enjoy privacy.

> Tell me one "dapp" (or "extremely wasteful programs that run on a CPU that is orders and orders of magnitude slower than an actual one) that is doing something useful. I haven't found one yet and I've been searching for some years now.

I have, read above. Decentralizing. Exchanges, payment processors, distributed DNS, distributed CDN, distributed royalties.

>With NFTs you don't own anything, unless there's an actual contract that comes with it. Also you buy a hyperlink that points to central storage. Also money laundering and wash trading are rampant.

Tired old trope. It's simply a non-fungible token that can represent your ownership of an asset. You can own a Handshake domain using NFTs. There are other uses other than a hyperlink pointing to artwork. Yes others can access your domain and artwork, but you own it and you can sell it. In regards to your domain that's how you prove you own it and can admin it.



There is a reason tired old tropes become tired old tropes.




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