A fiat currency will only collapse if you lose faith in the state, your fellow humans and the ability of the judicial system to enforce repayment.
Once that happens you have much bigger problems. Like Mad Max style problems.
A fiat currency will only collapse if you lose faith in the state, your fellow humans and the ability of the judicial system to enforce repayment.
Once that happens you have much bigger problems. Like Mad Max style problems.
It will also collapse if people fear that the government will print too much money.
Really? Name a single one lol. Chivo is a MySQL store. And a garbage one at that. They only use Lightning to transfer value internationally between their own two accounts that they could do instead with an addition and a paired subtraction. Nobody uses Lightning. Nobody's ever used Lightning. Not to mention all the liquidity is provided by 3 centralized entities. [1]
I don't think Monero actually offers the level of security that most folks think it does, and Hydra still uses BTC no?
I did forget to mention ransomware payments, so thank you.
Chivo is one wallet. Agree it’s not great but El Salvador vendors hav implemented Point of Sale Lightning Network. It is an open system and you can use one of many mobile LN wallets. Chivo is probably the weakest. You will find that McDonalds, Starbucks, the local fruit vendor on the street can process an open LN tx. No sweat. “Nobody uses it”. Yeah ok. Those graphs indicate non zero channel balances and nodes.
Monero still has the 650k bounty on tx de anonymization. If you have a way, feel free to claim it.
RW. Sigh.
> “Nobody uses it”. Yeah ok. Those graphs indicate non zero channel balances and nodes.
I didn't see a country come on line in the charts. I see twice as many people using it as 3 years ago and virtually zero increase in usage post-El Salvador.
At the end of the day it's boat anchored to a worthless L1 which would require 75 years and ~1/3 of a trillion dollars to open a channel for everyone on earth.
I think you are being willfully ignorant about this. You said no country uses it: and I said yes they do. You said chivo sucks, I said yeah, but you can use any LN wallet.
I don’t know what more I can say. You are living in the past man, making excuses for the Fed and the State. Things have moved on, and I feel like you will be screaming as more nations adopt this. El Salvador is mining BTC from geothermal power from Volcanos.
[0] https://purse.io
Luckily that never happens.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/venezuela...
It can happen, it has happened, and will happen again.
Anything could happen at any time. But I don't live my life with a pile of weapons, canned peaches and ammo. That's prepper talk.
We have no idea what a hypothetical apocalyptic failed state America looks like. There's no guarantees that there won't be a single entity with more than 50% of the hash power. There's no guarantee that the internet will be up. There's so many things that have to go exactly right to think we'll be trading spreadsheet cells in the apocalypse.
Also, it's completely opt-in, you don't ever need to buy any Bitcoin if you don't want to. It's going to crash and burn, or prosper on its own merits.
My point was that fiat currencies live and die by the trust in governments that issue them. "Full faith and credit".