Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dandanua 1868 days ago
1. Print fake money

2. Buy crypto with them and create a huge hype

3. Sell crypto for real money

4. Profit

5. Receive your Nobel prize in Economics

1 comments

A bit like the stock markets right now.
Not really.

Stocks are overvalued, but are backed by real-world items with an actual value.

A stock's value is bounded below by its breakup value. So if people lost interest in IBM, at some point the stock would be worth buying just for its property and IP.

But there's nothing preventing any cryptocoin from going to zero, except sentiment.