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Comment Re:One more Shitcoin! (Score 1) 70

Gold was money; Gold was equivalent to the USD when the USD was sound. In other words, a sound money is not something that could be defined in fiat terms.

An unsound money, is a money that could be debased, at will, through inflation.

Here is the reason Gold was sound money: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fingoldwetrust.report%2Ft...

Visa is a payment network; Visa is not a money.

Comment Re:One more Shitcoin! (Score 1) 70

You are a loser...

Indeed, Gold was centralized until the money became pure fiat. This process happened between WWI and 1971.

A similar process happened with the fall of the Roman Empire: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdrew_macma...

Bitcoin is the closest thing we have to a perfect sound money. This makes Bitcoin 1000x better than Gold. A sound money should be hard to produce. In other words, a fiat currency that could be printed to infinity with a simple keyboard, can't even compete with Gold, and Gold is obsolete... "Proof of Work" is what makes Bitcoin Sound, and state level resistant!

F.A. Hayek in 1984: "I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop."

Comment Proof of stake = Regular database model (Score 4, Informative) 195

Proof of stake is viable only with full centralization.

In a PoS system, participants are incentivized to compute the most advantageous state for themselves, because it costs nothing to do so.

This is solved, in the current implementations, with a node more equal than the others. In other words, the security model is the same as our regular centralized databases.

Comment Re:So who's going to buy IBM? (Score 1) 73

It makes sense, only if they don't have the proper engineering knowledge. Otherwise, this is the same as trying to sell an airplane propeller, as the final and only product, while ignoring everything else composing the plane.

Cryptocurrencies are not the significant application. As a matter of fact 99.99% of these cryptocurrencies are not decentralized, and are only reinventing the concept of database.

Comment Most people can't understand money (Score 1) 93

Why do you think Gold was money for 1000+ years?

WWI was the end of the Classical Gold Standard; 1971 is the real beginning of our today fiat currencies.

Here is the economic consequences: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse...

Comment Sound money: Gold and The Gold Standard! (Score 0) 93

Bitcoin is the digitization of the Gold Standard!

"Here's what I continue to tell people: name to me a business that was analog and got digitized, and the digital version is smaller than the analog version. It doesn't happen. It's because digitization brings all kinds of advantages. It's a market-expanding technology." Pompliano

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