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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by trendia on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:24PM (#17305738)
This may be true, but the government also has the power to control inflation, which limits the purchasing power of those dollars.

See: Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Germany ~1920

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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by Spooky23 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:37PM (#17305861)
Debt instruments are based on faith and credit.

Those events are indicative of scenarios where the market lost confidence in the faith and credit of those nations. When you can't sell bonds anymore, you implicitly borrow by devaluing the money.

That's where the derogatory treatment of "fiat" money by goldbugs and cryptocurrency advocates falls down. A government can declare that something is worth a dollar, but the market determines what a dollar is worth.

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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by pluto9 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:59PM (#17313139)
> A government can declare that something is worth a dollar, but the market determines what a dollar is worth.

So what happens when the government declares that a candy bar is worth a dollar, but the market determines that a dollar is worth half a candy bar?

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