• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Do you really think that paper money covered in colonizers and other slavermasters is going to last forever?

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Found the diamond hands.

      Crypto currencies are still backed by and dependent on those same currencies. And their value is incredibly unstable, making them largely useless except as a speculative investment for stock market daytraders. BitCoin may as well be Doge Coin or Bored Ape NFTs as far as the common person is concerned.

      I hope your coins haven’t seen a 90%+ drop in value in the past 4 years like the vast majority have.

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        29 days ago

        Cryptos obviously have serious issues, but so do fiat currencies. In fact all implementations of money have one problem or another. It’s almost like it’s a difficult thing to get right and that maybe it was a bad idea in the first place.

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      1 month ago

      lol

      Forever? No, of course not.

      But paper currency is backed by a nation state, so I’m betting it’ll be around a bit longer then a purely digital asset without the backing of a nation, and driven entirely by speculation.

      I’m not even anti-crypto. It was novel idea when it was actually used entirely as a currency, but that hasn’t been true for quite some time.