Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed...
by lern_too_spel on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:15AM
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The risk that IMF would be concerned about is that the value of their holdings could go to 0 overnight by a wallet hack, data loss, an unscrupulous government employee, or the world running out of greater fools.
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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed...
by codebolt on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:27AM
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Tether collapse is still the big one.
Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed...
by computerdork on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:43AM
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Yeah, that's my theory too on one reason it hasn't fully crashed (meaning "the world running out of greater fools"). Unlike tulip bulbs or the dot.com crash, bitcoin is a world-wide phenomenon so there is large supply of bitcoin buyers. Yeah, even the dot.com crash was done in the highly regulated US stock market.
Also thinking, since it's extremely difficult to regulate, was wondering if some very clever people with huge holdings have formed a cartel and are doing a lot of price manipulation to prevent it from fully collapsing (maybe even during a rise in price, causing it to drop early to prevent a major run up). But that's just a theory.