Bitcoin as a catalyst for de-dollarization? is it possible ?
I am looking for ideas on how can we leverage its decentralized, censorship-resistant nature to accelerate the shift towards a more equitable global financial system.
Let's discuss!
Money is so ingrained into people's lives that they think it has true value. The fact is that it represents people's work and efforts. The funny part is that without it no one works together. We need a currency that lets us better work together. A currency with a fixed amount will increase the competition to get it therefore increasing disparities. Another funny thing about people is that we dislike to share so those who have will be less likely to share since they know that it's going to be so much harder to get it back. It can't work to make a better world.
Bitcoin is the start but we'll see a better coin with better properties that will make it a true replacement for the Dollar in the future.
For now, its role is and will continue to develop as a digital replacement for gold as a store of value.
I can't see why. So far it seems like the dollar and the power it wields is an enormously positive force of accountability and peaceful coercion. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency became much less effective as vectors for crime when they instituted standard KYC policies at the exchange level. Bitcoin would be safer for its users and society if it looked more like the dollar.
Bitcoin itself can't operate as a standard of trade for multiple (plainly apparent) reasons:
1. The Bitcoin ledger is effectively unusable outside of L2 networks due to gas fees and tx latency
2. Mining difficulty spirals will kill Bitcoin long before the dollar collapses
3. There is nothing protecting Bitcoin from petty private interests because it is all petty private interests
To your point, transaction fees, latency, and the lack of ability to trust unconfirmed transactions thanks to feature added to the protocol called "replace by fee" has crippled the usability of Bitcoin.
On the other hand Bitcoin has worked out as a nice investment vehicle over the past 10 years, although you don't actually need to possess or use Bitcoin to take advantage of that.
A brighter future is one where global trade is minimized.