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Re:Coordination, Good and Bad by seibelj on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:01AM (#24450218)
You are immediately going from 0 to 100. A new currency begins with marginal uses and then expands. Give it some time before bitcoin buys nuclear weapons!
Re:Coordination, Good and Bad by freddie_mercury on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:24AM (#24452226)
That's actually the opposite of how real world currencies work. They do not start with marginal cases and expand. In almost all cases they start with the most important cases -- the government says "you must pay taxes in currency X or suffer consequences".

This is pretty well established in the history of currencies.

Re:Coordination, Good and Bad by seibelj on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:38AM (#24452323)
Crypto is an emergent currency voluntarily used by a global group of people. It is nothing like government-backed fiat currency.