• then_three_more@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That doesn’t help with the buying things part though.

    Why would anyone buy anything with it when tomorrow they could have bought ten of the thing they bought today?

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      2 days ago

      Why would anyone buy anything with it when tomorrow they could have bought ten of the thing they bought today?

      Because people need things and to get them they have to buy them?

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        2 days ago

        They’d be insane or desperate in extremis to use bitcoin though, given the volatility of the “currency”.

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          1 day ago

          In the short term, maybe.

          But if Bitcoin is always going to go up in value, why would it make sense to spend your USDs buying goods and services instead of using them to buy Bitcoin and increasing the value of that capital?

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              19 hours ago

              No we aren’t…

              We’re back to: people would spend it in order to buy things

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                13 hours ago

                But if they’re not buying things to buy bitcoin because they want to get returns off their bitcoin then they’re literally doing the exact opposite of buying things with bit coin

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                  7 hours ago

                  But if they’re not buying things to buy bitcoin because they want to get returns off their bitcoin

                  I just explained why they would buy things. I said it twice, actually.