• Mandy@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Not controlled by countries and also making it so extremely volatile that it can loose its value literally in seconds

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      1 year ago

      It’s that there is significant institutional support to keep the current monitory regime in power. There have been plenty of volatile state controlled currencies too.

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        1 year ago

        You so realize how Looney you sound right

        Name me a single currecny that has ever been able to loose its value in literal seconds, just one, go on ill wait

        only your fake funny code coins are able to that arent they

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          To be honest I don’t know if any currency that was both able to speculated online as well as having no official reserve currencies or ties to a major world economic zone. That combo is volatile, more so than the unpegged currencies of the past or the pegged currencies of today.

          Again there work towards that happening hence why there is some stability.

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            1 year ago

            lmao, crypto has never worked towards that, it has only gotten worse by the year and is an absolute shitshow now bitcoin, the originator of this trend is just as volatile, 30k for a single coin, seriously? it just takes one person with a lot of them to tank its value in seconds

            “pegged” currency as youd like to call it cant be crashed that easily nor that fast

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              1 year ago

              Currency pegging is a term in monetary theory. Stable coins are examples of currency reserves in the crypto space.

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                1 year ago

                sure, except there are no stable coins, when, again, all of them can be crushed in a matter of seconds

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                  Again no, stable coin is a term, but I see how it could be confused. It’s in reference to a token backed by some other store of value. So an agreement that x number of a cryptocurrency can be exchanged for x number of dollars/yuan/etc.

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                    1 year ago

                    i am aware, yet i have yet to see a single one actually stay stable and not crash than again, im not a crypto gal and making sure i never will be