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Re:Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany,... by estebank on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:01PM (#43313771)
> Now he can push for more inflation, bitcoin will be the only hedge against it, boom, trillionaire.

That's assuming that Bitcoin gains value disconnected from the US dollar/economy. That's not a given.

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Re:Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany,... by daxfohl on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:08PM (#43313839)
If it doesn't, the trillionaire class can eliminate the fed and require all taxes to be paid in bitcoin.
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Re:Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany,... by creato on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:20PM (#43313987)
At 7 transactions/second? Good luck.
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Re:Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany,... by bloomingkales on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:33PM (#43314100)
You just need liquidity to hide the transaction time. As in, all transactions are instantaneous because they are all instant loans, where the reconciliation of the actual transaction happens slower in a back channel.
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Re:Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany,... by surgical_fire on Sunday March 09, 2025 @06:22PM (#43314529)
With Crypto volatility? That's a reconciliation nightmare.
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