Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by silentsea90 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:03PM
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The biggest use case for Bitcoin is of it being an escape from arbitrary printing of money by central banks. The richer your home country, the further you are from intuitively grasping how catastrophic printing is in the long run.
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Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by WalterSear on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:09PM
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Bitcoin's price is primarily driven by market manipulation fueled by arbitrary Tether-tron printing. Tether-tron is used entirely internally by a criminal syndicate in order to create fraudulent chinese 'cookie cutter' exchanges, in a manner similar to casino chips - ie - "Here's $100 million for your new exchange, that you can only use to buy crypto within 'the family', incidentally pumping up their prices along the way'".
This is in addition to the arbitrary Tether-eth printing that you ought to be well aware of.
Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by Aunche on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:28PM
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Bitcoin isn't immune to money printing at all. The value of Bitcoin comes from people using it as a speculatory vehicle rather than a medium of exchange of goods and services. If the price of a commodity like rice hyperinflates, this does nothing to the price of Bitcoin because nobody uses Bitcoin to buy rice. As a result, the price of Bitcoin would inflate at the same rate as the underlying fiat used to exchange Bitcoin.
Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by silentsea90 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:39PM
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Price of Bitcoin inflating at the same rate as fiat printing = Bitcoin deflating while fiat inflates. That's good right?
Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by Aunche on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:06PM
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My point is that there is no reason for the price of Bitcoin to inflate alongside actual commodities, which is validated by the fact that BTC fell while inflation rose. Gold similarly has a low correlation with inflation.
Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by silentsea90 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:42PM
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In the short term, absolutely no asset class is immune to fed monetary policy ie interest rates, QE/QT. In the long run, fiat has only lost value relative to all hard assets (gold, RE, Bitcoin etc) I'm not sure how what you're saying is an indictment of Bitcoin or gold.
Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by dybber on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:12PM
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Why is it catastrophic then? Isn’t it exactly this property that allows us to have a more or less stable currency?
Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by silentsea90 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:15PM
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Stable against what? TVs? Food? Healthcare? Education? Real estate?
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Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by aNoob7000 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:07PM
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The problem with Bitcoin is that it is a pain to transact any business with it.
Re:The endless search for a crypto use case
by silentsea90 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:21PM
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I agree but please expand on the pain so I can respond.