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Hence the "would solve", but as you identified the US prefers to favor their internal ancient financial structures that aren't fit for current global needs. And
by gchamonlive 2mo ago
Hence the "would solve", but as you identified the US prefers to favor their internal ancient financial structures that aren't fit for current global needs. And it's not like it's doing so in order to prevent someone to acquire strategic leverage, because this tech would benefit everyone equally, but to maintain its stronghold over the world's financial systems (like hackerone) just to extract profit. This is very Roman of the Americans, we gotta admit.
- inigyou 2mo agoEven if the US modernized its financial infrastructure, it still wouldn't share the same infrastructure as Brazil, China, Mozambique and the EU. Here's something to think about: All of a country's currency, except for physical cash, is stored inside that country. You may think an American can have a Revolut account holding Australian dollars, but Revolut just has a really big account at some Australian bank, and that bank is where the dollars really are. When you go to Europe and use your American Visa card to buy something, the system finds someone with accounts in both continents to be the counterparty. USD travels from your American bank to the exchanger's American bank, and from the exchanger's European bank to the merchant's European bank. How would you extend this system outside a single government? It's like saying all cryptocurrencies should share one blockchain - it's all well and good to say, but how will you actually make that happen?
- gchamonlive 2mo agoUnfortunately I think you are right, this is kinda Capitalist Realism but applied for imperialism: it's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine that the US (or any regional power for that matter) to cooperate with their neighbors. I think this applies however only to the US. It's possible that Europe, India, Brazil and other powers to form a infrastructure chain around US to make financial cooperation easier between international economical partners.
- inigyou 2mo agoIt's not even about capitalism. You're asking Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero to cooperate. What do the technical details of that cooperation actually look like?
- gchamonlive 2mo agoI disagree, they don't cooperate just because they operate immersed in competition. Take out competition for instance by state sponsored cooperation treaties and see the technical limitations dissolve by creating the right incentives.
- inigyou 2mo agoSo what's your plan to merge Bitcoin, Monero and Ethereum into a single currency?
- gchamonlive 2mo agoI don't need to have this plan to study the VC incentive structure that powers their market competition and is responsible for the market fracture. I might even be wrong in my assessment, but not because I lack this hypothetical plan you are asking.
- inigyou 2mo agoIf other people are telling you that it's technically impossible and you can't even come up with a sketch of a technical design that works, that is a clue that it may be technically impossible. No country will intentionally make its economy completely reliant on another country unless things are completely in the shitter (like Zimbabwe switching to US$). Even Visa/MC are a problem in Europe and they only act at the highest layers of the stack - there are plenty of ways to transfer money without relying on Visa/MC but cutting them off would already be a huge disruption.
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- nonethewiser 2mo ago> Hence the "would solve" Yes exactly. Just like other universal systems.