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Re:Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It's time to ban cryptocurrencies by ben_w on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:00PM (#27963744)
Even if it functioned as a perfect replacement for all existing currency[0], it wouldn’t steal or create jobs, merely change some titles while the tasks (and likely the employers) remain the same. And the point of this website is to shake up the status quo specifically where tech meets business and finance, so we’d like it better if it actually did that.

[0] which it can’t partly for the same reason the U.K. dropped out of the ERM, partly because inflation is economically useful, partly because it replaces one-man-one-vote with one-computational-resource-one-vote and therefore is explicitly plutocratic instead of democratic, partly because no sane government would expose itself to the risk a different nation that chose not to use crypto would perform a 51% attack against it and the only defence against that is an arms race to control more than half of humanity’s compute resources even if that means a von Neumann manufactured Dyson swarm, partly because the transaction rate means that scale can only be achieved with intermediary layers that end up looking indistinguishable from the existing banking sector

Re:Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It's time to ban cryptocurrencies by trident5000 on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:10PM (#27963897)
"inflation is economically useful" is not proven (and at high levels is destructive and demotivating - look at socialist countries that blow up from hyperinflation and have no productivity) - its just the status quo. The idea that people dont spend in a stagnant/deflationary monetary environment is nonsense. People still want above average returns (investment) and will still spend on necessities and non necessities.

Im not sure of the rant you're going on. There is no argument that the govt is adopting bitcoin over the dollar. Its a private value store that can be transacted with as they wish.

-- Posting my response to below here since I hit a max:

Thats a perception and its not econ 101. If you take the feds balance sheet and divide it by the SPY, its flat over the past 10 years. Inflation does not drive growth. Production in the US is not up. Only the numbers are. Zimbabwe stock market is a top performer. Their production is trash.

You could make the argument were in the drowning phase as deficits widen relentlessly and asset prices are going parabolic.

I have heard basically nobody suggest the US govt is going to adopt bitcoin as the standard currency. Value store is the dominant narrative.

Re:Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It's time to ban cryptocurrencies by ben_w on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:26PM (#27964163)
"inflation is economically useful" is not merely proven, it’s 101 econ, so fundamental is it that even people like me know about it. Trying to criticise it by comparison to hyperinflation is only a tiny bit worse than saying “water isn’t needed for life because people can overdose on it”.

> There is no argument that the govt is adopting bitcoin over the dollar.

On the contrary, roughly 75% of the time this topic comes up I see bitcoin supporters absolutely advocate for that.

Re:Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It's time to ban cryptocurrencies by ben_w on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:47PM (#27965905)
Response to edit alone: Cryptocurrencies also suck as a value store, way too volatile.

If you’re going to argue with multiple nobel laureates about their own field of expertise WRT evidence for inflation being useful, we’re done here.