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Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by brianwawok on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:42PM (#12126300)
I would love to hear the line of logic where if we all paid and got paid for everything in crypto currency would have spared you from the housing bust?
Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by aidenn0 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:11PM (#12126613)
I think this is an argument by analogy:

If bad, leveraged, investments in real-estate will not result in large losses, due to government intervention, then the real-estate market gets inflated, as when you have limited downside, your expected returns go up significantly. This also hurts less-leveraged investors (e.g. people who saved a large down-payment) as they get less house for their money, but don't gain any risk-reduction as their risk of negative-equity is much lower to begin with.

If malinvestments in ETH can be rolled-back, then any risks that are reduced by potential future roll-backs[1] will be discounted by investors, which means investors who carefully vet their investments for those risks no longer gain any benefit.

1: I'm not familiar with the fork, so don't know what the roll-back criteria are, but remember, to distort the market a roll-back need not actually happen in the future, just that a significant fraction of investors believe it is likely

Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by tostitos1979 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:56PM (#12126345)
If investors in stupid investments lost their money - all the way from investment banks down to individuals who made bad home purchase decisions, I'm pretty sure homes would cost less today. My point is that interventions have unforeseen consequences which hurt some people (typically the responsible ones).
Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by viycyjcutc on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:47PM (#12126320)
That went way over your head, didn't it?
Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by dang on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @04:04PM (#12132012)
Please don't comment like this here.

Also, please don't create many obscure throwaway accounts on HN. This forum is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some consistent identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community at all, and that would be an entirely different forum.