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Holding $,€,£ etc. is gambling even if you don't realize it.
by KillerWhale 9y ago
Holding $,€,£ etc. is gambling even if you don't realize it.
- webXL 9y agoWhat’s a truly risk-free alternative though?
- bovine3dom 9y agoEntropy. It's guaranteed to go up.
- axplusb 9y agoIn a closed system, hence not the Earth.
- KillerWhale 9y agoLife itself is a risk which includes everything in it.
- simias 9y agoThat's a rather ridiculous reductio ad absurdum. The euro/USD exchange rate has varied between roughly 1 and 1.6 over the past 10 years. That's including the 2008 crisis. Meanwhile over the last year alone the BTC/USD exchange rate varied between about 500 to 3400. My 10 euro bill is extremely unlikely to suddenly massively increase or lose in value. That's the difference.
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- elmar 9y ago> The euro/USD exchange rate has varied between roughly 1 and 1.6 over the past 10 years. This low range variation is only possible because of government monetary intervention that doesn't exist on CryptoCurrency.
- eutropia 9y agoOr the spectacular (billions and billions) amount of real world objects and services traded for those dollars and euros at the margin, every single day, continually acting as feedback for their value.
- matthewbauer 9y agoI don't think that's true in this case. EUR/USD is a floating exchange rate.
- Zarath 9y agoIt is true to an extent, this is why central banks inflate, perform liquidity swaps, etc.
- elmar 9y agoHow Does the Government Regulate Exchange Rates? https://www.thebalance.com/how-does-the-government-regulate-exchange-rates-3306087 https://www.thebalance.com/how-does-the-government-regulate-...