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Re: Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy 

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Decomposed > People's appreciation of the fact that it can facilitate transactions, cannot be debased and is really hard to track.


Hmmmm.
I don't believe there is any such thing as a 'currency' that can not be debased.

Let's say you bought a 'crypto-buck' for $1,000. And two weeks later it is going for, say, $800. Was it debased? Was it a 'loss of market value'? Doesn't really matter. What does matter that what you could have bought with the original $1,000 can now only buy $800 in goods and services.

Or course, that 'crypto-buck' might go up in value to, say, $1,500. In which case I would have to describe it more as 'an investment' with the capacity for making profit or losing money. But NOT a good vehicle for making financial transactions.

Just my opinions here though.
Zim.




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Re: Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy
By: Decomposed
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Sat, 12 Nov 22 2:25 AM
Msg. 37317 of 60008

Zimbler0:

Re: “What might give any crypto-currency 'Real Value' ?”
People's appreciation of the fact that it can facilitate transactions, cannot be debased and is really hard to track.

Ultimately, "value" is a purely psychological concept. Nothing has "value" if nobody appreciates it and everything with value will revert to zero value when, one day, humanity becomes extinct. It's important to understand that - and its irrelevance to those of us who are alive today - in order to appreciate the flaw in the point I assume you are making.






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