Except there’s nothing to make bitcoin valuable at all to most normies in a post-fiat world. Being able to buy and sell goods online when there’s no one getting paid to truck it out to me or worst at a post office to handle it for me until I come and get it doesn’t really work. Having someone show up and ask to get some diesel from a farm tank in exchange for some bitcoin? Or rather “part” of a bitcoin? Or some shitcoins? Good luck getting that trade to go through.
Maybe, just MAYBE there’s would be a chance for bitcoin to slip in as a dominant currency if it was the only game in town but with all the other coins like monaro, etherium, etc etc etc all eating each other to try and be worth something? There’s nothing to back up any shitcoin at all, or bitcoin. Don’t care if you bought it online or mined it yourself in your basement, it only has use as a medium for exchange if both parties agree to it, and most people simple don’t want or need to take these digital coins.
To say it has no value relates to its lack of a physical state. Gold has value outside of being used for currency as it can be made into jewelry, tooth fillings, plate electronics for anti-corrosion and thermal characteristics, or just sit on your desk and keep your papers from flying off when the door opens. Fiat currency, if it goes completely worthless, could be burned for heat/cooking in the case of paper bills and melted down in the case of coins and made into something else. Bitcoin and digital currencies have none of these possibilities. They’re merely a digital token to be used for exchange and that’s it. No use outside of that, no way to use them for something else and if the network is compromised or taken down, then completely worthless is the proper description. It’s like an online game that shut off its servers. I had one billion VDollars in 10Six, then the owners shut the game down, now I have none, that kind of a deal.
I see you’re not starry eyed and can actually see some of the draw backs. That’s great, many pushing crypto see it as digital Jesus here to save the world with no flaws, and that’s just not the case.
As for the humanure lol, of course it has value! You can add a paper bag and leave it aflame on a doorstep for the entertainment value! In seriousness the food you consume gives you value and is a consumable good, and after you’ve consumed it, that’s end of transaction. You get your nutrition and calories and heal and repair your body with it, and excrete the waste and have no obligation to use it further. Most things you buy you expect to use more than once. We don’t have one time use tv’s for example. Repurposing items to extend the life of the resource is beneficial both for the environment(which if I’m honest is something I worry about the least) and for economical reasons. Using scrap metal to weld a plate on my tractor instead of going out and buying a new piece of steel is simply cheaper. When preparing for a “shit hits the fan” scenario, having everything be useful in more than one way is the only way to go. I can trade my alcohol I brewed at home for flour at a nearby Mennonite colony, distill it and use the alcohol to fuel my gasoline engines in vehicles, garden tiller etc, or I can simply drink it like I do. Raw goods have value in their initial state and can be used for trade or in other ways. Bitcoin simply can not. It’s an exchange token, nothing more. When prepping for the world going to hell, I don’t spend much time having a stash of digital tokens to order stuff from abroad since I can’t count on there being distribution networks to get me said goods, electricity to power the network or even my local area. And I can’t count on local people taking it since no one was taking it before things went to hell. Having goods and bullets stocked and prepared to me is a far better bet than gold or bitcoin. You can’t eat gold, you can’t eat bitcoin, but you can trade a side of beef for flour eggs and potato’s.
Using bitcoin instead of USD for online exchanges may be in the cards but for day to do transactions on the local level, adoption will be painfully slow in rural areas, if it is at all. Look how long it took just to get interac/debit machines widespread. Cities are one thing but most of the world isn’t in a city.
Except there’s nothing to make bitcoin valuable at all to most normies in a post-fiat world. Being able to buy and sell goods online when there’s no one getting paid to truck it out to me or worst at a post office to handle it for me until I come and get it doesn’t really work. Having someone show up and ask to get some diesel from a farm tank in exchange for some bitcoin? Or rather “part” of a bitcoin? Or some shitcoins? Good luck getting that trade to go through. Maybe, just MAYBE there’s would be a chance for bitcoin to slip in as a dominant currency if it was the only game in town but with all the other coins like monaro, etherium, etc etc etc all eating each other to try and be worth something? There’s nothing to back up any shitcoin at all, or bitcoin. Don’t care if you bought it online or mined it yourself in your basement, it only has use as a medium for exchange if both parties agree to it, and most people simple don’t want or need to take these digital coins.
To say it has no value relates to its lack of a physical state. Gold has value outside of being used for currency as it can be made into jewelry, tooth fillings, plate electronics for anti-corrosion and thermal characteristics, or just sit on your desk and keep your papers from flying off when the door opens. Fiat currency, if it goes completely worthless, could be burned for heat/cooking in the case of paper bills and melted down in the case of coins and made into something else. Bitcoin and digital currencies have none of these possibilities. They’re merely a digital token to be used for exchange and that’s it. No use outside of that, no way to use them for something else and if the network is compromised or taken down, then completely worthless is the proper description. It’s like an online game that shut off its servers. I had one billion VDollars in 10Six, then the owners shut the game down, now I have none, that kind of a deal.
I see you’re not starry eyed and can actually see some of the draw backs. That’s great, many pushing crypto see it as digital Jesus here to save the world with no flaws, and that’s just not the case. As for the humanure lol, of course it has value! You can add a paper bag and leave it aflame on a doorstep for the entertainment value! In seriousness the food you consume gives you value and is a consumable good, and after you’ve consumed it, that’s end of transaction. You get your nutrition and calories and heal and repair your body with it, and excrete the waste and have no obligation to use it further. Most things you buy you expect to use more than once. We don’t have one time use tv’s for example. Repurposing items to extend the life of the resource is beneficial both for the environment(which if I’m honest is something I worry about the least) and for economical reasons. Using scrap metal to weld a plate on my tractor instead of going out and buying a new piece of steel is simply cheaper. When preparing for a “shit hits the fan” scenario, having everything be useful in more than one way is the only way to go. I can trade my alcohol I brewed at home for flour at a nearby Mennonite colony, distill it and use the alcohol to fuel my gasoline engines in vehicles, garden tiller etc, or I can simply drink it like I do. Raw goods have value in their initial state and can be used for trade or in other ways. Bitcoin simply can not. It’s an exchange token, nothing more. When prepping for the world going to hell, I don’t spend much time having a stash of digital tokens to order stuff from abroad since I can’t count on there being distribution networks to get me said goods, electricity to power the network or even my local area. And I can’t count on local people taking it since no one was taking it before things went to hell. Having goods and bullets stocked and prepared to me is a far better bet than gold or bitcoin. You can’t eat gold, you can’t eat bitcoin, but you can trade a side of beef for flour eggs and potato’s. Using bitcoin instead of USD for online exchanges may be in the cards but for day to do transactions on the local level, adoption will be painfully slow in rural areas, if it is at all. Look how long it took just to get interac/debit machines widespread. Cities are one thing but most of the world isn’t in a city.