• aviationeast@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    that’s only true if you accept stablecoin as currency. Which many don’t because of this and than they can reverse it by forking the code. Alt headline: hackers steal code thought to be valuable by some.

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        14 days ago

        That’s a really reductionist take, I can pay taxes with the currency of my country of residence.

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          14 days ago

          The best way I’ve found to explain crypto currency as someone who dabbled in mining and trading.

          It’s like any other foreign currency. I don’t know what backs the British pound, I don’t know what people do with it, but I do know at any given day the pound vs the dollar fluctuates in price. Some people somewhere prefer the pound.

          All that is true about most crypto currencies

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            13 days ago

            The analogy isn’t strictly incorrect, it’s just misleading. The price of usd to btc has seen more fluctuation in the last 24 hours than gbp to usd has seen in the past year. Crypto isn’t a currency, it’s a speculative asset.

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              13 days ago

              The fact that you don’t consider Zimbabwes dollarinos an actual currency doesn’t take away anything from the argument you replied to.

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                12 days ago

                Honestly not sure what point you’re making. ZWD has been completely stable against USD for a long time. BTC fluctuated by 7 entire goddamn percent. The currency of Zimbabwe is more of a currency than literally any crypto.