• Zahille7@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The physical value of it is what gets me. Or rather, lack of physical value.

    Cash is real. We can hold it in our hands, see it with our eyes and so on. Similarly with a debit/credit card, you know what that physical card in your wallet represents, and you know what the amount tied to it is/means.

    Cryptocurrency is literally just digital code made to be similar to money. But there’s no physical value tied to it. It doesn’t represent anything other than it’s code. If the world’s economies and governments were to suddenly fall tomorrow, we’d still have cash and other physically valuable objects to trade and barter with. You most definitely would not be able to walk up to someone with a hard drive of Bitcoin to trade for anything.