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Re:Bitcoin price hits $40k less than three weeks after shatt... by newsclues on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:14PM (#25675779)
“Crypto is way more than payments, it's an entirely new financial system outside the control of existing governments and corporations.”

And yet, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, are valued in US Dollars or other established currencies, and traded/exchanged for “real currencies” to spend as you’ve dismissed the importance of transactions.

Governments can regulate crypto, and corporations will form to control them.

Re:Bitcoin price hits $40k less than three weeks after shatt... by alwillis on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:43AM (#25682831)
And yet, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, are valued in US Dollars or other established currencies…

This is no different than a dollar being priced in gold terms or the pound sterling being priced in terms of silver when paper money was relatively new.

A dollars were originally redeemable for $20.67 [1] and then later $35 per ounce of gold [2]. This ended when we got got off the gold standard in the 70's.

As bitcoin becomes the dominant non-sovereign store of value, we’ll slowly start to reprice things in terms of satoshis (sats), the smallest denomination of bitcoin [3].

Sats are already the standard on Cash App and other apps and services that exchange fiat for BTC. It's just a matter of time before all fiat is priced in terms of sats.

[1] http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/1900mar14....

[2] https://livingnewdeal.org/glossary/gold-reserve-act-1934/

[3] https://medium.com/in-bitcoin-we-trust/talking-in-sat-rather...

Re:Bitcoin price hits $40k less than three weeks after shatt... by newsclues on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:46AM (#25683685)
Why would people refer to prices in satoshis rather than dollars/euro/etc, if the technology and culture to price and conduct normal transactions with crypto currency.

I don’t tell people my car is worth 20 gold coins....

Re:Bitcoin price hits $40k less than three weeks after shatt... by alwillis on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:31AM (#25685631)
Pricing things in Sats will become more common once BTC is the dominant financial asset.