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Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by colanderman on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:59PM (#29322569)
Arbitrary knees in exponentially-growing metrics lined up with the introduction of fiat currency due to carefully chosen Y-axis scales by someone who makes money when you invest in Bitcoin.

(Some of those graphs -- especially the first one -- probably have interesting stories behind them, which may or may not relate to fiat currency. But all we get from that page is a Hayek quote structured to suggest he too would love Bitcoin so...)

Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by abecedarius on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:52PM (#29326478)
Well, Hayek did write a whole book in favor of private currencies... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denationalization_of_Money
Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by colanderman on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:43PM (#29326727)
Fair enough.