• Lime Buzz@beehaw.org
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    11 hours ago

    Sure, it has no real backing beyond that though, it’s just paper and maybe plastic or other fabric and numbers on a screen/in a database at the end of the day.

    That’s my only point really, that if not for the backing by the state or people’s belief in it, it would hold no value.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s backed by the full faith and credit of the US government. And personally, I do not have very much faith in the US government and have not had much faith in it for a very long time. The other thing that backs it is the barrel of a gun, which they will point at you if you do not wish to use it.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah, but that’s the crucial difference that fully explains why people use dollars and don’t use crypto widely (and likely never will).