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Re:S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in... by ur-whale on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:42PM (#25292739)
"Could" being the operative word here.

But then, this is where Bitcoin is genius: the code isn't everything.

There's a whole bunch of built-in economic incentive feedback loops.

And getting to an "Economic Majority" is very unlikely to happen because none of the participants have to gain from that change.

Also: since a bitcoin is divisible to 10e-8, it's going to be a very long while before there's an actual shortage of the darn thing.

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Re:S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in... by itsoktocry on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:06PM (#25297734)
>There's a whole bunch of built-in economic incentive feedback loops.

Is the implication that monetary and fiscal policy also not driven by economic feedback loops? Of course they are; just different ones.

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