Dear God, Cthulhu, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Shiva, Tiny Baby Jesus in His crib
All I ask for the next 2 years is universal healthcare, Henry Kissinger to die an embarrassing death, and this to be true
I like your wishlist! The fact nobody mentions that the devil still lives among us is sad. I hope he gets accidentally castrated by a dull knife in times square during the live NYE broadcast.
One can only hope
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.
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
So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?
There’s literally no difference. We could be trading with sea shells if we found utility in it.
Yes. A diamond is just a rock somebody found. Same for gold. They have value because they are scarce and people think they are pretty (up until the last couple of centuries when we developed industrial uses for both). Nobody has ever needed a diamond or a hunk of gold to survive, yet they have value because we say that they are valuable.
So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?
Yes. That’s how value works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value
The paradox of value (also known as the diamond–water paradox) is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market.
water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market
Water doesn’t command a higher price in the market than diamonds so far!
Pretty much.
Yup. One of the original tokens people used as money was kaori shells. They held value because they were considered pretty decorations, were limited in the number that entered society and were easy to serve as a intermediary trade good. All you need for a currency is for people to treat it as a currency. The other bit that usually ends up being a factor is scarcity. You can either create scarcity artificially for things like coins or bills where you make replicating them a crime or you choose a natural resource where new stuff coming in does slowly enough it doesn’t destabilize the system. If ever there is a sudden glut of new currency stuff entering the system the currency gets devalued because you are tying it to stuff you need to survive like food, shelter and tools which are finite and have actual concrete value.
Gold for instance historically was not particularly super useful but it doesn’t corrode, can be infinitely reused, enters the system at a trickle and is nice and shiny so people like it. It is functionally just like trading seashells.
Yes the physical form it takes doesn’t matter but the back end does
Care to expand on your thought?
The USD could be crypto, it could be paper, it could be a rock
It wouldn’t change it’s meaning
Well, one thing is taxes, which are payable in the local government’s fiat currency, which ensures that there’s always demand for the fiat currency, assuming a responsible monetary policy.
There is a difference. For instance let’s say UK rejoins EU and has to adopt the Euro. The pound gets depreciated as people switch currencies. It’s the responsibility of the government to make sure people can exchanges their pounds for euros at a fair rate.
You can’t do that with crypto currencies because there’s no authoritative body who will be willing to take the worthless currency and exchange it for another currency without any initial value being lost.
There are plenty more example where the lack of an authoritative body (which is what people consider the benefit of crypto) is actually not good for the user.
Uh, I mean, I can exchange BTC for USD all day, not sure why you’re not able to
You’re saying if the GBP starts to lose value the UK government will start exchanging the now-worthless currency for another more valuable currency like USD or EUR to keep its value up? Where do you think the UK government will get all this foreign currency? Wouldn’t they run out of money and go bankrupt at some point?
No. I said that if the country is going to switch currency, from example pound to euro, then the government will facilitate that switch even though the pound is going to become worthless. But you are kinda hitting the nail on the head. The government will make sure they have Euros to exchange to and they will “take a loss” when people bring their pounds for exchange (I won’t get much into the will they go bankrupt question because the US has 32? trillion in debt and the US hasn’t gone bankrupt so I’m not sure if countries even can go bankrupt).
Now apply those two question to crypto and answer them. Let’s say one day people want to switch from bitcoin to something more viable (which is a very realistic thing to happen because the underlying tech can depreciate) who is going to facilitate that currency exchange? Who is going to stock up on this new currency and who is going to buy the now worthless currency?
I am sorry but I sense that you are speaking out of ignorance of how markets work, I do not mean to be condescending at all, I wanted to meet your points but it would have been a wild goose chase of squaring out the faulty premises and conclusions. Here’s an article on bankrupted nations in recent times: https://www.tbsnews.net/world/6-major-countries-went-bankrupt-recent-times-453426
Neither do I but nothing about your comment comes even close to my point was making. The bankruptcy aspect is just a minor detail that can be easily dismissed by common sense, no government is going to change currency if it bankrupts them. If it does then it’s just bad governance.
That’s all I’m going to say on that topic.
Real money is backed by a country’s respective economy
True.
its an IOU from the government
False.
An IOU from the government is a bond.
I understand that’s a bond
The dollar is representative of the work you contributed to the economy
The dollar is representative of the work you contributed to the economy
If that’s true, nobody on Social Security Disability would be getting money.
Zimbabwe fucking enters the chat
And NFT’s are the receipts.
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
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 ;)
Well maybe you can but I don’t have a mall katana ;)
This is such a dumb argument cause it literally takes seconds to convert BTC to fiat. You can buy whatever you want with bitcoin.
Incorrect. You can not buy how little I care for any amount of Bitcoin.
All cryptocurrency isn’t stiricrly based off of magic and mysterious bitcoin code.
Even if there was code that made the coin erase itself, it would have been found and fixed (or abandoned for a new and better blockchain coin a’la Ethereum or Monero).
God I wish
If it were true it’d be removed before then anyway.
Yup. This is the basis for a trustless system - you can reasonably bank on the idea that, if there were some self-deletion clause, a bunch of people with vested interests would go ‘huh. let’s change that so that our bitcoin still has value.’
“cOdE iS lAw” “uNcHaNgAbLe”
I want proof, where’s the source code?
Due to the quality of the facts, I assume proof will be hard to find.
This is what we get for going to the bargain facts store
deleted by creator
This is a satire account
source is on github but good luck finding that line for yourself
If someone says something that a lot of people want to be true with no evidence… it ain’t true.
I want that to be true. I’ll take your word for it. 😊
This would be a very banksy move if it ended up happening.
April fools!
Gettin in early.
Well there is a limit of mining, every new digit is 16 times harder to make, there are just 2 or 3 digits left.
This was made with growth and inflation in mind so the currency last like 60-80 years but they didn’t predict giant farms using entire powerplants of energy, so basically 50 years of bitcoin was shortened to the last 5. The thing is profitability as miners have to make an entire 28 bit hash at random wasting dozens of GPU in exchange of less money of what they cost so the prizes must be risen even more making it even more centralized (also lowering the price for every other holder)
This is almost poetic As bitcoin approaches its end only the top miners are allowed to continue increasing the risk of the death which is 51% attack, if some of the final miners will unite and reach 51% at this point they can cash out the entire currency and make it look that the price falls to zero.
Please tell me someone here can point out the actual source for this fun fact.
I think it’s made up.
If you look closely, “Low Quality Facts” is the source.
that could be most things that have to do with crypto
Even if true. Bitcoin isn’t Bitcoin anymore. That’s why there’s BTC classic and so on.
Yeah. I fail to see how it could even be true on a conceptual level.
If it were true, what would happen on that day, or probably a few days prior, is that there would be many new Bitcoin forks that use the same transaction history (and thus the same balances) as Bitcoin. After possibly a short scramble and chaos, one or potentially multiple of those forks would then be seen as the Bitcoin while the rest fade to obscurity.
Cryptocurrencies, especially big ones, fork all the time. All it takes is an individual who wants to make a fork. Yes, that means if you have any currency on that chain before the fork, you’ll have that same amount on both currencies after the fork. In the rare case where both blockchains after the fork hold any value/respect though, this gets EXTREMELY funny if someone had an NFT on that chain before the fork. Now they have two NFTs (one on each side of the split) and could sell them to separate people, or keep one and sell one, etc.
For clarity: when I wrote “fork” above I was talking about “hard forks” specifically.
Bitcoin is still Bitcoin. Bitcoin classic, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin gold… All are just garbage scams forking off Bitcoin
I prefer Diet BTC or BTC Zero.
I’m more of a Cherry BTC type
Vanilla BTC is to die for
