[aphextron]

>Currency is currency BECAUSE its sponsored by government. And the payments system only works because you are indemnified. By the FDIC. By Chase Credit Cards. That is, the evil banks. How so for btc?

I'm not sure that's true. What makes a currency is it's usage. If enough people agree to the value of something, it's irrelevant whether a government sponsors it. You see this all the time with small towns using local "currencies" for specific usages [0]. It's the same idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...

[paulgb]

I clicked a bunch of links from that list but couldn't find a single example that backs your point. Most of the local scrips seem to either be defunct/broken links or backed by a trusted institution who promises conversion back to the US dollar (BerkShares, Detroit Cheers).

[kamaal]

That's only the positive side of it.

For all this talk of inequality, why don't poor all over the world just throw their national fiat currencies under the bus and start all over from scratch? Sure doing this every few decades should ideally reset the wealth counter to 0 for most of the top 1%.

That is where fiat currencies come in. Because you don't want extreme situations in either case. Do you seriously want a certain large section of world population holding the entire global financial ecosystem at gunpoint and dictate its terms?

Pay x% taxes as we demand or we fork the blockchain and reset it all to 0.