> an unstable society or one facing high inflation
What are the chances that in an environment where the USD is not usable, there is an available network and electricity that makes bitcoin usable?
What are the chances that in an environment where the USD is not usable, there is an available network and electricity that makes bitcoin usable?
Users of USD or EUR worried about inflation and getting into Bitcoin are really worrying about the wrong kind of tail risk. Users of other non-hard currencies have more of a point.
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Your take is like claiming a major AWS outage didn’t happen because you personally didn’t get on the Internet that day.
If Fed/ACH going down for a few hours bothers you a lot but electricity/mobile network reliability doesn't faze you, you must be living in a truly unique place.
I personally have fiber, cable, and LTE feeding my home gateway. This might seem like overkill to non-tech folks, but I recommend it to anyone whose productivity/career is highly reliant on being online.
I realize this isn’t necessarily a typical home setup, but I also think most people are horribly unprepared for many potential situations.
This isn’t a claim that I have zero downtime at home. It’s only to say that if my Bitcoin node is offline then any hope of relying on fiat banking was abandoned much earlier.
Even if I had a setup like yours, I'd give up on bitcoin before "fiat banking." You can't buy gas for your generator with bitcoin.
I don’t mean this flippantly.
One of the cryptocurrency is going to win out for day-to-day usage; the question is which.
As Andreas likes to say: “email used to be a multi-step series of memorized commands from a green terminal in a University.
Now my Mom can do it with a touch of her finger.”
I believe we’ll get that in the near-ish future.
I don't know why you're so confident about this? It's entirely feasible that none of them are ever usable for day-to-day transactions.
Personally, I haven't seen any evidence that Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) is ever going to enter the mainstream. Even if it did, I don't see any benefit to using it over USD for the vast majority of people.
The post you replied to said unstable or high inflation, not unusable. An unstable dollar will not instantly bring about the apocalypse, there are plenty of real life examples of unstable, high inflation currencies. The currencies took years to fully fail.
Not to mention, a few years of hyper-inflation don't even imply that the currency will fail.
In the 70s UK inflation was 10-20%.
that type of inflation is clearly bad for keeping cash, but not going to cause the collapse of civilisation. From about 73 - 80 US inflation was in the region of 10% per year.
Bitcoin is heavily resource intensive. In an environment that is already resource pressed either due to political instability/natural disaster/inflation/whatever, what are the chances that the resources are going to be found that can actually operate bitcoin, and won't be better utilizied elsewhere?