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by TheColorYellow
1595 days ago
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What actual digital currency markets have existed in Argentina or any other weak state prior to Bitcoin? All of these dark markets where cash only markets before, precisely because prior to Bitcoin you always needed a reliable state sponsored intermediary for online transactions. This is not a tick. |
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If you're converting your crypto back to fiat you're still needing a reliable state sponsored intermediary at some point in the pipeline. Most people don't really trade flash drives with coins anymore, they use Coinbase or something that has their government ID on file. And it's not like the conversion rate from Argentine pesos to Ethereum or whatever is very favorable — it's the same as the conversion to dollars. You can argue it's more stable than Argentine pesos but that's a really low bar to clear with 50% yearly inflation. Dollars also are more stable and don't require any technology or technical knowledge.
What it has mainly enabled is for people in these "weaker states" to take advantage of public goods like electricity subsidies to "mine" (read: verifiably waste energy) whatever FotM crypto and dump it for the next cycle. I'm not sure why it's controversial to dislike rewarding people for wasting a very disproportionate amount of energy in a public way.