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by Kbelicius 1297 days ago
What is the difference?
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It creates risk and slows things down because you can’t trust your counterparties
So it is transferring value just somewhat different?
Not exactly. Credit creation creates an asset and a liability. The creation of credit facilitates the ability to create liabilities in excess of the underlying asset (e.g fractional reserve banking).

By introducing the ability to transfer a scarce asset globally you resolve the requirement for credit, as no one ever needs to redeem.

Credit is a hack, Bitcoin is the fix.

That still sounds like you are transferring value just in different ways.