Re:Tech experts urge Washington to resist crypto industry’s ...
by AlexandrB on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:46AM
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> With fiat you still have those technical limitations (someone could create indistinguishable counterfeit money and dump it on the market).
I think there is more than technological limitations to making this happen. Not only is counterfeiting considered a major crime by the state (who has a monopoly on violence), but the amount of "money" in circulation that has a physical representation is dwarfed by "money" that does not. Even if you doubled the physical currency in circulation you'd only increase the "monetary supply" by 10% or so. Plus there are huge logistics issues with moving that much weight/volume without getting caught.
> Someone can get power at the Fed and decide to double the money supply over night.
I think that if the function of government breaks down to this extent, I will have bigger problems than currency devaluation.
I think there is more than technological limitations to making this happen. Not only is counterfeiting considered a major crime by the state (who has a monopoly on violence), but the amount of "money" in circulation that has a physical representation is dwarfed by "money" that does not. Even if you doubled the physical currency in circulation you'd only increase the "monetary supply" by 10% or so. Plus there are huge logistics issues with moving that much weight/volume without getting caught.
> Someone can get power at the Fed and decide to double the money supply over night.
I think that if the function of government breaks down to this extent, I will have bigger problems than currency devaluation.