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Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk by fileeditview on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:33PM (#26092190)
But is it better to see your crypto devalued by some big dump? Would probably be easy for a nation state to do this if it wanted to..

All this independence from states seems totally overrated to me. They can tax your crypto. They can participate in the crypto market.. many possibilities.

Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk by nostrademons on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:40PM (#26092287)
If a nation-state dumps crypto then they no longer have it. If crypto was overvalued to begin with they can just buy it back later, cheaper. If it was fairly valued and they crashed it unfairly, they just lost a whole lot of crypto and don't get to play in that market anymore. Same way that speculators get flushed out of the stock market: eventually you run out of money and lose the right to play unless you start making a series of good calls.

This feedback mechanism doesn't exist when money can be created out of thin air. Then, if you run out of money, you just print more.

Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk by rafale on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:38PM (#26092263)
They can also enslave and kill you... Should they attack bitcoin, it would be acknowledging it's raison d'être.
Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk by rybosworld on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:38PM (#26092255)
People have been making some variation of this claim since bitcoin was $0.01.

There haven't yet been any successful attempts at destroying it, which I think is what you're implying. Not to say it can't happen, but then if we prepared for every single possible scenario we'd all be quite exhausted.

Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk by fileeditview on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:57PM (#26093257)
I guess the reason it didn't happen is that there is no need for it. Probably they laughing their ass off by profiting from it. Not sure how it works in the US but e.g. in Germany you have to pay taxes on crypto earnings. Sure you can just hold forever but what does it help you then?
Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk by mamon on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:03PM (#26092612)
Bitcoin exists for just over a decade now. Give governments and financial regulatory bodies some time to catch up and they will destroy it, maybe creating their own cryptocurrencies in process.