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minus-squarekonki@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoThe reason that you and everyone else believe in it is primarily because you need it to pay taxes, so the belief is not arbitrary.
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoThinking of how I got here, reductively speaking: be born see parents buy food they use money i grow up need food i use money
minus-squarekonki@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoI agree, but that leads to an infinite regress of your parents observering their parents, etc. My argument is really about the start of this chain.
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoAh I see! Convenience ought to have helped too! Though yes when the person with that monopoly on violence thing asks, you do.
minus-squareArcka@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoLots of people don’t have to pay taxes.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoYou don’t need Bitcoin to pay taxes, yet belief in it continues to grow.
minus-squarekonki@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-214 days agoThat is true, but Bitcoin, like all other crypto"currencies", is a Ponzi scheme. Its value is driven purely by speculation, and the hope that it can be passed on to a “greater fool” for profit. This is true for a lot of financial assets, by the way.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoYou don’t think secure time stamps are useful?
The reason that you and everyone else believe in it is primarily because you need it to pay taxes, so the belief is not arbitrary.
Thinking of how I got here, reductively speaking:
I agree, but that leads to an infinite regress of your parents observering their parents, etc. My argument is really about the start of this chain.
Ah I see!
Convenience ought to have helped too! Though yes when the person with that monopoly on violence thing asks, you do.
Lots of people don’t have to pay taxes.
You don’t need Bitcoin to pay taxes, yet belief in it continues to grow.
That is true, but Bitcoin, like all other crypto"currencies", is a Ponzi scheme. Its value is driven purely by speculation, and the hope that it can be passed on to a “greater fool” for profit. This is true for a lot of financial assets, by the way.
You don’t think secure time stamps are useful?