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JackTheMimic 1 year ago
Wow, what a long winded way of saying "make my job easier and I don't study economics." People using this scare tactic of "Fees will be thousands!" Don't understand economics. People saying Lightning isn't a good layer-2 are not thinking institutionally. Banks if they want to survive the fiat collapse will become Lightning node runners. Becoming the bridges between vendors and customers. They already have the infrastructure and relationships. Diatribes like this are when coders get lazy and forget they aren't the only important piece of a monetary technology. This is the equivalent of a banking App dev saying that the dollar will fail if he can't get his preferred coding convention to be used in the codebase of Wells Fargo's new widget. Childish.

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The "fiat collapse" can only happen, if there are enough people (regular people) using Bitcoin, thus forcing states/institutions to also use Bitcoin. Majorities of voters (motivated by their incentive to preserve the utility/usability/legality of their Bitcoin holdings) will have to basically force pro-Bitcoin policy. Otherwise, institutions/states won't be under any pressure to even care about Bitcoin. They'll just happily continue using fiat currencies as a tool to get more leeway for setting policy.
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JackTheMimic 1 year ago
The fiat collapse literally will happen even if Bitcoin's code base vanishes from the earth. The collapse of Fiat currencies in their current use is not the only fiat death spiral in history. Again, study economics. Bitcoin is simply an alternative like gold but without all of the flaws physicality brings (mobility, transactibility, and confiscation risk). The point you are missing is bitcoin doesn't HAVE to succeed for the dollar to die. Bitcoin is just the lifeboat for that sinking ship. People holding, using, and trading in an alternative is what makes Bitcoin replace the dollar. The dollar collapsing is the inevitability. Political and institutional adoption of bitcoin will just make the collapse WAAAY less severe(for bitcoiners).