Okay, I've gotta talk about the damn Bitcoin thing. I was out at dinner with a friend last night and he was expressing curiosity toward it. Some guy at work was raving about it and how it's the future of the economy or whatever kind of Web3 esoteric bullshit is trending on Paragraph right now. A lot of people try to look at crypto the same way as gold; it's an investment one makes that will appreciate at a rate more stable than whatever index fund Blackrock and the like are pushing these days. But given the general sentiments of the people behind the movement, the bet they're really making is more drastic and insane than that. The US government holds the keys to the kingdom as the world's reserve currency. Every country has American dollars in their treasuries, and it acts as the de facto means of exchange for international trade. Cryptocurrency is a bet on a decentralized monetary system, one where there is no central authority like a treasury that has the means to print it.…
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