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Why don't we get these kinds of responses when there's large-scale credit card fraud? "Hey people, it's just money, this shit happens. Go make more and quit cry
by fusiongyro 14y ago
Why don't we get these kinds of responses when there's large-scale credit card fraud? "Hey people, it's just money, this shit happens. Go make more and quit crying."
I'll posit it's because the system we inherited—fiat currency insured by governments, poorly secured and handled by credit card companies—works just fine. Nobody would build it this way from scratch, but looking at the endless stream of fiascos with bitcoin, it's obviously better than the alternative. Bitcoin is a bad solution to a non-problem.
- sgornick 14y agoWith bitcoin, the muggings like this incur a 50% or 100% loss, impacting those who extended trust to the wrong place. With fiat, the muggings when using a payment card incur a 3% loss each time the currency is used, impacting every person on every transaction.
- Cushman 14y agoBecause it's completely different? Credit cards are designed to be accountable and refundable. The credit card is sold with a guarantee that it cannot be used to steal money from me. They can do this because credit is not "real" money; it's credit. Bitcoin is designed to be easy to steal because cash is easy to steal.
- fusiongyro 14y agoIt's an amazing technical achievement, it's just not necessary or desirable. There's no music format that replicates vinyl's degradation with each performance. This is not just because it would be hard, but also because it would be undesirable. We just don't need a currency that solves non-problems and brings back solved ones: it's undesirable.
- Cushman 14y agoPerhaps we don't, but that is the purpose of Bitcoin: To be digital cash, with all that that entails, for better or worse.