[redblacktree]

> I'm hopeful for a future of monetary pluralism.

My big concern about monetary pluralism is what happens to US citizens, when their day-to-day currency stops being used as the reserve currency for the world? I have trouble imagining any way in which that turns out good for me, as someone living and working in the US. Anything you can do to assuage my fears, since you seem to be educated on the matter?

[PragmaticPulp]

As much as we hear about things like M1 money supply, the vast majority of wealth doesn’t exist in the form of cash. Investors hold companies, stocks, real estate, and so on. Fluctuations in money supply (or demand for currency) have exaggerated significance in online crypto discussions because crypto proponents find that angle more favorable to their “buy crypto” argument, not because it’s the full picture.

The global reserve currency issue is worth watching, but remember that it isn’t a binary on/off switch where everyone changes overnight. Likewise, it’s not really true that USD is the global reserve currency so much as one of the most trusted. Again, crypto proponents like to suggest the collapse of the US currency is imminent, but the global market believes otherwise. Likewise, crypto proponents want you to believe that Bitcoin is the logical alternative, but again that’s missing the point that part of the reserve currency math depends on things like stability, resistance to manipulation, and backing of a powerful government.

[spiralx]

For one the USD is only the largest reserve currency used internationally: GBP, EUR and JPY are also used as reserve currencies. For another the US has been trying to reduce the role of the dollar as a reserve currency because it actually has significant downsides and fewer benefits than is popularly portrayed - this even has it's own term, "exorbitant privilege". Here's Ben Bernanke talking about it:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/01/07/the-d...

TL;DR: the USD's reserve currency status is very much exaggerated.

[redblacktree]

Thank you, that was interesting reading. Not sure why you were downvoted.

[spiralx]

No problem, this is another article on the subject I'd bookmarked:

https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/the-reserve-currency-myth-t...