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Millions are involved precisely because of the appeal of get rich fast and ponzi schemes. Tens of thousands are invoved because of its technological promise an
by qualifiedai 3y ago
Millions are involved precisely because of the appeal of get rich fast and ponzi schemes.
Tens of thousands are invoved because of its technological promise and appeal which you've described.
This imbalance is the main problem crypto industry needs to solve before it truly reaches its potential.
- david_shi 3y agoThis is definitely true in the West. I said millions because of every day crypto usage in countries like Argentina and Turkey, where inflation makes it challenging to save money, and in countries where there are high remittance rates. More builders are definitely needed to improve the crypto user experience across a range of categories.
- democracy 3y ago...another fairytale about people in poor countries using crypto )))) Nothing beats good old USD or EURO as an asset if you live in a country with hyperinflation.
- toenail 3y agoDid the USD or EURO gain +7000% in the last decade? Didn't think so.
- lottin 3y agoIf it did, your salary must have shrunk by 87.5% (or the company that you work for would have gone out of business).
- toenail 3y agoBecause in reality all salaries went up exactly the right amount to compensate for inflation? Hm, the system doesn't seem to work like that.
- lottin 3y agoIf you think that a business can remain in business after its revenue shrinks by a factor of 8 without wage costs adjusting accordingly, you need a reality check.
- david_shi 3y agoUSD and Euro are great assets to hold if you have the ability to access banking services that support them, which isn't universal. Are you questioning the data? https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202468/global-cryptocurrency-ownership/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202468/global-cryptocur...
- lottin 3y ago"The data" that you link to doesn't support your assertion that people in third world countries use bitcoin to protect themselves from hyperinflation. Also USD and Euro are NOT great assets to hold. People only hold cash because they need it for transactions purposes.
- democracy 3y agoIt is the best asset to hold if you local currency goes -5% every day. Easy to buy (officially and not), easy to liquidate, can be used as unofficial currency for trade
- lottin 3y agoNot by any stretch of the imagination. A highly volatile asset isn't suitable for storing value reliably. This is because the chances of you having to liquidate your position at a loss are very high.
- kragen 3y agoi trade bitcoin with other people here in argentina several times a year; it's by far the easiest and safest way to send money either into or out of the country, and it's widely used by money changers remember that this is a country where the police take dollar-bill-sniffing dogs onto river ferryboats to prevent people from taking usd or eur across the river to their bank in uruguay someone in a [dead] comment said, 'The most traded crypto assets in Argentina, by far, are dollar-pegged crypto-currencies.' this is absolutely correct, and from my point of view it's a total plague. also virtually everybody has their bitcoins in binance. but most of those people will still buy and sell bitcoin if that's what you want
- upbeatduhconsi 3y ago[dead]
- chemicalnovae 3y agoIsn't crypto used in these places simply a more convenient form on pinning to the USD than due to any inherent properties of the crypto itself?
- solumunus 3y agoConvenience is a property.