Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to...
by lottin on Saturday July 05, 2025 @03:54AM
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Generally speaking it has been successful, more so than the gold standard. It's true that sometimes states fail, but that's not something a monetary system can prevent from happening, or insure against.
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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to...
by immibis on Saturday July 05, 2025 @04:20AM
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And the Bitcoin blockchain is just another state, with just another monetary system, which you can diversify into or not, and it can fail or not.
Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to...
by lottin on Saturday July 05, 2025 @04:52AM
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A blockchain is not a state. A state is a political entity that rules a territory through the monopoly of violence.
Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to...
by lottin on Saturday July 05, 2025 @12:31PM
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Sorry to say, but you're deluded. A blockchain is made of "information". Information has no coercive power. A blockchain can't enforce laws. It can't stop illegitimate violence. It can't perform any of the functions of a state. Not even remotely.
Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to...
by samdoesnothing on Saturday July 05, 2025 @07:02AM
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Leaving the gold standard has been so successful, as evidenced by the inflation crisis leading to rising cost of living and housing shortages in every western country.
Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to...
by lottin on Saturday July 05, 2025 @07:27AM
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Inflation and a rise in the cost of living are different things. Inflation means an increase in the (nominal) price level, whereas the cost of living is measured in real prices, specifically real wages.
Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to...
by samdoesnothing on Sunday July 06, 2025 @07:14AM
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Inflation is an increase in the money supply, which is why it's called inflation - the money supply inflates. I know a lot of government economists like to define it as rising prices because then there is no word for increasing the money supply which is very convenient for them and the governments they work for.
Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to...
by lottin on Monday July 07, 2025 @01:24AM
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No, it's not just government economists. It's the standard definition in economics. But that's beside the point... the BIG mistake you're making is confusing an increase in nominal prices (inflation, or whatever you want to call it) with an increase in real prices (a rise in the cost of living).