Re:Web3 is centralized
by hinkley on Sunday January 02, 2022 @01:16PM
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Strictly speaking, if the issuer of the currency didn’t get fully on board with the transition, wouldn’t it be mayhem?
If I am a private financial institution, I’m having a grand old time converting the first 1% of dollars to crypto. I can still spend all of that money on salaries and construction and mega yachts. But when we are at 50%? You have half the dollars in the world. You can’t possibly spend them. This isn’t income any longer, it’s a liability. The only way to get to 90% is if you trigger hyperinflation.
Eventually to beat fiat currency you actually have to win the government over. They collected gold coins and issues dollars, because it’s fiat currency and you can do that. How do you collect all of the silver and not issue fiat currency? How do you collect all the dollars and not do the same?
Magic thinking. It’s all magic thinking, and I’m too old for this shit.
If I am a private financial institution, I’m having a grand old time converting the first 1% of dollars to crypto. I can still spend all of that money on salaries and construction and mega yachts. But when we are at 50%? You have half the dollars in the world. You can’t possibly spend them. This isn’t income any longer, it’s a liability. The only way to get to 90% is if you trigger hyperinflation.
Eventually to beat fiat currency you actually have to win the government over. They collected gold coins and issues dollars, because it’s fiat currency and you can do that. How do you collect all of the silver and not issue fiat currency? How do you collect all the dollars and not do the same?
Magic thinking. It’s all magic thinking, and I’m too old for this shit.