3 ms·

> This statement is all kinds of amazing: > Casual use of the phrase "whenever there's a catastrophe in crypto", since there really is one every few days in s

> This statement is all kinds of amazing: > Casual use of the phrase "whenever there's a catastrophe in crypto", since there really is one every few days in some sense crypto's resiliance against so many catastrophies is amazing. if this was USD we would be at WW10 and two October revolutions by now

sgt101 4y ago
Yeah, but notice, it isn't.
- medo-bear 4y ago
  there is a crisis in the usd though. it is fast losing its status as world reserve currency and coincidentally today we are at a footstep of ww3 ;)
  - sgt101 4y ago
    Well - define fast. It's amazing to me that USD has been the world reserve currency for so long. Historically only silver has done better.
    - medo-bear 4y ago
      > define fast as in the order of things in the world is changing so fast we have little time to analyze root causes. some examples we went from being too scared to visit family because of a flu virus to pumping our chests against a super power in a blink of an eye the us just approved a massive military package to ukraine that dwarfs anything given to israel and at a time us has trouble getting baby formula forget crypto ... the world economy is on the verge of total collapse and this all is tied to the is dollar because ... well ... of its current status as world reserve currency
      - Axsuul 4y ago
        None of these things matter at all. Thanks to the US military, USD as the reserve currency remains.
        sgt101 4y ago
        Agree - the power to open markets, guarentee acccess and obtain resources is what underpins it. As the Russians are showing us, no one else has a fraction of that capability.
        medo-bear 4y ago
        whether we like it or not the us ability to carry on unchallanged has noticably diminished in comparison to the period from 1990 to 2010 also ... if ukraine-russia conflict is showing us anything it is that the natural resources question is far from certain. if we are to learn from history we would hastily take note that it is the question of resources that brought about the first world war
        medo-bear 4y ago
        of course it matters. it devalues the us dollar as a stable reserve
        Axsuul 4y ago
        How does Ukraine aid devalue USD? If anything, it helps keep it in power by weakening Russia and furthering the US hegemony.
        medo-bear 4y ago
        its a massive investment and if you look at it this way you have to ask, is ukraine such a sure bet and what are the consequences of that investment going south. and the failure to ask these questions is indicative that too many people see the usd as being in unlimited supply, which by itself devalues the usd
  - spiralx 4y ago
    Reducing the use of the USD as a reserve currency has been US policy for a while now. It only accounts for 60% of global reserves right now and has been trending down for a long time.
mb7733 4y ago
> in some sense crypto's resiliance against so many catastrophies is amazing. if this was USD we would be at WW10 by now Because USD is actually used as a currency...?
oblio 4y ago
I think the kids call this "copium". The only reasons crypto is so "resilient" is that there are so many of them to fail and most of the money invested is from speculation and crime and both sources kind of expect to lose it.
Tao332 4y ago
It's not resilient. It's worthless. The same grift keeps working on bigger fools and it hasn't been outlawed yet. Ergo, it stays and cycles from one catastrophe to the next. > if this was USD we would be at WW10 and two October revolutions by now This is the farthest reach I've ever seen someone make to state a positive about crypto.

sgt101 4y ago

Yeah, but notice, it isn't.

medo-bear 4y ago
there is a crisis in the usd though. it is fast losing its status as world reserve currency and coincidentally today we are at a footstep of ww3 ;)
- sgt101 4y ago
  Well - define fast. It's amazing to me that USD has been the world reserve currency for so long. Historically only silver has done better.
  - medo-bear 4y ago
    > define fast as in the order of things in the world is changing so fast we have little time to analyze root causes. some examples we went from being too scared to visit family because of a flu virus to pumping our chests against a super power in a blink of an eye the us just approved a massive military package to ukraine that dwarfs anything given to israel and at a time us has trouble getting baby formula forget crypto ... the world economy is on the verge of total collapse and this all is tied to the is dollar because ... well ... of its current status as world reserve currency
    - Axsuul 4y ago
      None of these things matter at all. Thanks to the US military, USD as the reserve currency remains.
      - sgt101 4y ago
        Agree - the power to open markets, guarentee acccess and obtain resources is what underpins it. As the Russians are showing us, no one else has a fraction of that capability.
        medo-bear 4y ago
        whether we like it or not the us ability to carry on unchallanged has noticably diminished in comparison to the period from 1990 to 2010 also ... if ukraine-russia conflict is showing us anything it is that the natural resources question is far from certain. if we are to learn from history we would hastily take note that it is the question of resources that brought about the first world war
      - medo-bear 4y ago
        of course it matters. it devalues the us dollar as a stable reserve
        Axsuul 4y ago
        How does Ukraine aid devalue USD? If anything, it helps keep it in power by weakening Russia and furthering the US hegemony.
        medo-bear 4y ago
        its a massive investment and if you look at it this way you have to ask, is ukraine such a sure bet and what are the consequences of that investment going south. and the failure to ask these questions is indicative that too many people see the usd as being in unlimited supply, which by itself devalues the usd
- spiralx 4y ago
  Reducing the use of the USD as a reserve currency has been US policy for a while now. It only accounts for 60% of global reserves right now and has been trending down for a long time.

mb7733 4y ago

> in some sense crypto's resiliance against so many catastrophies is amazing. if this was USD we would be at WW10 by now Because USD is actually used as a currency...?

oblio 4y ago

I think the kids call this "copium". The only reasons crypto is so "resilient" is that there are so many of them to fail and most of the money invested is from speculation and crime and both sources kind of expect to lose it.

Tao332 4y ago

It's not resilient. It's worthless. The same grift keeps working on bigger fools and it hasn't been outlawed yet. Ergo, it stays and cycles from one catastrophe to the next. > if this was USD we would be at WW10 and two October revolutions by now This is the farthest reach I've ever seen someone make to state a positive about crypto.