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by rawtxapp 1944 days ago
Same here, it took me a while to understand why anyone would get an over-collaterized loan until it just clicked, then I was like this is the future, it doesn't make any sense to sell the most valuable and appreciating asset ever, but you can still use the money from it.
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> sell the most valuable and appreciating asset ever

What happens when it stops appreciating? Or is the premise that bitcoin will alway outpace interest rates?

In the short term it could do anything, in the long term you'd expect it to constantly appreciate.

It's a scarce/deflationary/limited supply asset which is compared against an endless money printer.

The 2008 financial crisis in a nutshell
Margin call.