The market for the digital items plummeted after their glory days in 2021 and 2022, and they’ve proven to be not only an artistic and aesthetic disaster, but a shortcut to financial ruin
Having a currency not backed by a government or different currency is actually something the world could benefit from. Iranian currency was backed by USD, the US caused a shortage of USD there, and their currency value dropped to under 3% of it’s former value. 90 Million people.
That said, I think most of us have only ever used crypto to buy drugs off the internet.
@mattyroses@HK65 starting another blcokchain is not as easy as copy the blockchain unless you convince the majority of people that your fork is better than the previous one
But here you’re talking about a hypothetical where, for some reason, a major government has bought up all blockchain tokens and won’t release them. So nobody’s on the original one anyways.
Having a currency not backed by a government or different currency is actually something the world could benefit from. Iranian currency was backed by USD, the US caused a shortage of USD there, and their currency value dropped to under 3% of it’s former value. 90 Million people.
That said, I think most of us have only ever used crypto to buy drugs off the internet.
Yeah, but a currency practically needs a military and an economy to back it.
Who is going to stop me from fucking with the bitcoin supply if I own the US economy?
That’s the point of crypto - unless you can alter 51% of the blockchain, you can’t.
You misunderstand, if I own the GDP of a world power, what’s preventing me from buying a ton of Bitcoin and fucking with the supply that way?
Crypto nowadays looks like a pump and dump free for all.
How is buying the asset fucking with the supply?
If you mean hoarding it, that’s pretty much all Bitcoin is good for.
The supply of an asset is the volume of that asset available for purchase.
If I buy all of that, supply becomes zero.
The price goes up as you buy it.
You could attempt to corner the market, but in doing so, you’re also going to be massively enriching the current holders.
What point would taking the entire supply do - especially since you can easily just start another blockchain?
You buy enough to raise the price, announce that you’re buying it, schmucks try to get in on the wave, you dump while tweeting diamond hands.
Repeat.
Again, why?
@mattyroses @HK65 starting another blcokchain is not as easy as copy the blockchain unless you convince the majority of people that your fork is better than the previous one
Sure, there’s a large network advantage.
But here you’re talking about a hypothetical where, for some reason, a major government has bought up all blockchain tokens and won’t release them. So nobody’s on the original one anyways.