Re:$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours
by immibis on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:38PM
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Deflationary currencies cannot be deflationary forever. Think for 5 seconds: if that was true, then the person who sold the pizza for bitcoin will eventually have enough value to buy everything on the planet. So will the person whose CPU was mining to keep the pizza warm. Can there be two planets of value on the planet?
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Re:$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours
by matheusmoreira on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:41PM
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The value on the planet is not increasing as a result of bitcoin. Available bitcoins with which to buy valuable things are decreasing. There is a finite amount and people constantly lose bitcoins which takes them out of circulation.
Re:$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours
by immibis on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:14AM
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People speak of the value of bitcoins increasing, as if it's some kind of universal law. If it was a universal law, you could just hold onto 1 BTC for long enough and then buy the entire planet. It's not.
Re:$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours
by matheusmoreira on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:46AM
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It's not the value of BTC that's increasing. It's the value of USD and all other fiat currencies that are decreasing. Governments print trillions of them while fractional reserve banking and loans create even more. If you have a steadily decreasing supply of bitcoin and a steadily increasing supply of fiat, it's only reasonable to expect that more fiat will buy less bitcoin over time.
Re:$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours
by immibis on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:10PM
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This is false. 10000 bitcoins used to buy $10 or a pizza. If USD's value was decreasing, 10000 bitcoins would buy $100 or a pizza. But no. Actually 10000 bitcoins buys $300,000,000 or 30,000,000 pizzas.
Re:$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours
by matheusmoreira on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:49PM
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It's not false, it just means there must also be other factors influencing the price.