• Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Even worse fate for cryptobros than Bitcoin deleting itself: people actually realizing that digital hashes don’t have real value.

    Mind you this applies to regular money too.

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      1 year ago

      Real money is backed by a country’s respective economy - its an IOU from the government

      Bitcoin is an IOU backed by nothing

      That’s pretty rudimentary but it explains it

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      1 year ago

      Mind you this applies to regular money too.

      No, you can use regular money to pay taxes and demand that it be accepted for all debts private and public. The same isn’t true of Bitcoin

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        1 year ago

        Oh you can definitely demand people take your bitcoin. You’ll just look like a huge twat while doing so and people will rightfully laugh at you ;)

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        1 year ago

        This is such a dumb argument cause it literally takes seconds to convert BTC to fiat. You can buy whatever you want with bitcoin.