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by amasad 2673 days ago
Money over IP is quite impressive. Something ideological must be clouding your judgement if you can't see it.
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I don't understand what you mean, are you saying normal electronic bank transfers actually involve someone moving a bag of coins from my bank to Ireland?
I mean an internet-native money is something groundbreaking. The kind of thing that your average forum troll will off handedly dismiss.
"Money over IP", so like Credit Card? PayPal? and many other money services?
The companies you mention are only money services to politically aligned customers.
Nope. I mean money as in actual wealth. As in a store of value money.
You mean value that fluctuates "randomly" on the daily in what was proven to be a manipulated market? A market plagued by corrupt, insecure or amateur on-ramps like Quadriga, Bitfinex or MtGox? Anonymity goes out the door as soon as you get verified on one of these on and off ramps.

You cannot have a store of value if the only value that is created is a speculative agreement. The same critique that went behind fiat currency no longer being backed by gold applies just the same to cryptocurrencies. Turnkey solutions like stablecoins essentially mean you are now forced into using them as a pseudo bank and counting on them to not be handling fractional reserves at any point in time.

Crypto can have its uses in time, but it is not the emperor's new financial panacea that many people hope it is.

Regardless, the project is pretty cool and so is its execution.