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This is why you would speculatively buy Bitcoin and hold it long before that happened, at a time when people are happy to accept your fiat currency for Bitcoin. People learning from experience in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, North Korea, would probably feel glad to put some fraction of savings into crypto just in case, knowing that the interim volatility risk of it sitting in crypto is a worthwhile price to pay to have a reserve money supply that does not need to pass back through their original fiat currency on the way to being spent (as precious metals, stocks, bonds, securities, options, etc. all would).



Ok, now lets say you did the Bitcoin thing and your assets are safe. You are still suffering from poor governance and Bitcoin isn't going to change that one bit.


You can take a bus to Colombia and actually buy food or medicine. You call that nothing, so fine, don’t but Bitcoin if that works for you. It’s surprising you don’t think others might possibly disagree.




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