Will Bitcoin Replace the Dollar

Eurodollar University
19 Sept 202319:50

Summary

TLDRThe video script explores the potential of Bitcoin to replace the euro dollar system, emphasizing the need for a more efficient and sustainable currency standard. It discusses Bitcoin's advantages, such as eliminating the need for banks and its limited supply promoting economic efficiency. However, it also highlights challenges, including Bitcoin's volatility and focus on being a store of value rather than a medium of exchange. The speaker expresses hope for Bitcoin's success, urging a shift in focus towards improving its utility as a medium of exchange and addressing issues like elasticity to truly compete with the euro dollar.

Takeaways

  • πŸ˜€ The speaker suggests that Bitcoin's potential lies in its ability to replace the euro dollar system, which has been unstable since 2007.
  • πŸ’‘ Bitcoin represents a hard money advocacy, appealing to those who believe in limited currency supply to promote economic efficiency.
  • 🏦 The script argues that Bitcoin's innovation eliminates the need for banks as intermediaries, as it operates on a transparent, shared ledger system.
  • 🌐 The euro dollar system is criticized for its extreme elasticity, which has led to financial instability and a lack of focus on intermediation.
  • πŸ’° The speaker highlights Bitcoin's role in addressing the euro dollar's issues, such as asset bubbles and economic crises.
  • πŸ”‘ A key advantage of Bitcoin mentioned is its potential to reduce financialization and inefficiencies by forcing users to earn access to money.
  • πŸ”„ The script discusses the importance of elasticity in currency and questions whether Bitcoin's limited supply can serve as an effective medium of exchange.
  • ⏳ The speaker expresses frustration with Bitcoin's focus on being a store of value rather than a medium of exchange, which they see as a missed opportunity.
  • πŸ“‰ The volatility of Bitcoin is noted as a significant issue, leading to the rise of stablecoins as an alternative.
  • 🌟 Despite criticisms, the speaker maintains high hopes for Bitcoin and digital currencies, provided they can address the issues of elasticity and functionality.

Q & A

  • What is the main issue with the euro dollar system according to the script?

    -The main issue with the euro dollar system is that it has become too elastic, leading to a breakdown in its function as a reserve currency. This has created an opportunity for a competing currency standard that could potentially perform better.

  • What is the allure of hard money advocacy like Bitcoin and gold as mentioned in the script?

    -Hard money advocacy is appealing because it suggests that with a limited supply of currency, people must compete and earn their money, which theoretically leads to a more efficient economic system without waste and asset bubbles.

  • Why does the script suggest that Bitcoin could be a solution to the euro dollar system's problems?

    -Bitcoin is seen as a solution because it represents a hard money approach, aiming to eliminate the issues associated with extreme elasticity in currency, such as waste and inefficiencies, and to promote a more sustainable economic system.

  • What is the significance of Bitcoin's ability to function without banks as discussed in the script?

    -Bitcoin's ability to operate without banks is significant because it demonstrates a shift from traditional banking systems to a more transparent, shared, and accessible ledger system, which could potentially increase efficiency and reduce the need for intermediaries.

  • How does the script view the role of intermediation in the economy?

    -Intermediation is viewed as a crucial function in the economy, responsible for the redistribution of money and credit. The script suggests that when intermediation is done properly, it can lead to a more productive and efficient economic system.

  • What is the script's stance on the limited supply of Bitcoin and its impact on the economy?

    -The script suggests that Bitcoin's limited supply could heighten intermediation and efficiency, potentially eliminating the business cycle. However, it also acknowledges the historical tendency for people to seek elasticity in monetary systems when they become too restrictive.

  • Why does the script argue that Bitcoin should focus more on being a medium of exchange rather than just a store of value?

    -The script argues that Bitcoin should focus on being a medium of exchange because it will demonstrate its usefulness and utility, which is essential for widespread adoption and success. Waiting for the dollar to fail as a store of value is seen as a passive approach that misses opportunities for growth and development.

  • What is the issue with Bitcoin's price volatility as mentioned in the script?

    -Bitcoin's price volatility is an issue because it hinders its use as a stable medium of exchange, leading to the proliferation of stablecoins as an alternative. This volatility is seen as a barrier to Bitcoin becoming a widely accepted currency.

  • How does the script view the potential of digital currencies to replace the euro dollar system?

    -The script views digital currencies, including Bitcoin, as having the potential to replace the euro dollar system if they can demonstrate better performance as a medium of exchange, address issues of elasticity, and adapt to a dynamic economic environment.

  • What is the script's final verdict on Bitcoin's future and its ability to replace the euro dollar system?

    -The script maintains a hopeful outlook for Bitcoin and digital currencies, provided they can overcome challenges related to elasticity, volatility, and the need to serve as a more effective medium of exchange. The potential for Bitcoin to replace the euro dollar system is seen as possible but not guaranteed.

Outlines

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πŸ’‘ Bitcoin's Potential to Replace the Euro Dollar System

The speaker begins by questioning whether Bitcoin could surpass the dollar, suggesting that a more pertinent issue is whether it could replace the euro dollar system. The euro dollar system, which faltered in 2007, has created an opportunity for a new currency standard. Bitcoin, with its hard money characteristics, is seen as a potential contender due to its limited supply and the need for economic efficiency. The speaker also touches on the allure of hard money and the inefficiencies of the current financial system, hinting at the possibility of eliminating business cycles through hard money policies like Bitcoin.

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πŸš€ Bitcoin's Advantages Over Traditional Banking

The second paragraph delves into the benefits of Bitcoin, particularly its ability to operate without the need for banks. The speaker explains that the current financial system largely relies on ledger money, where banks act as intermediaries. Bitcoin, with its blockchain technology, offers a more elegant solution by providing a transparent, shared ledger accessible to all, thus eliminating the need for banks. The speaker also discusses the problem of intermediation in the euro dollar system and how Bitcoin's hard money approach could potentially address these issues by forcing economic actors to earn their access to funds.

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🌐 The Need for Elasticity in Currency Systems

In the third paragraph, the speaker addresses the concept of currency elasticity, arguing that a limited supply of currency, like Bitcoin's, could heighten intermediation and efficiency, potentially eliminating the business cycle. However, historical monetary systems show that strict money standards are rarely maintained as people always find ways to create elasticity. The speaker points out that Bitcoin's focus on being a store of value has overshadowed its development as a medium of exchange, which is crucial for its success. The speaker also criticizes the belief that Bitcoin will succeed simply by waiting for the dollar to fail, emphasizing the need for Bitcoin to prove its usefulness as a medium of exchange.

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πŸ”„ The Importance of Medium of Exchange in Currency Systems

The final paragraph reinforces the importance of a currency's ability to act as a medium of exchange. The speaker argues that Bitcoin's limited supply and price volatility have hindered its adoption in this role, leading to the rise of stablecoins. The speaker, who is a trustee of a stablecoin, suggests that Bitcoin needs to focus more on becoming a useful medium of exchange rather than solely a store of value. The speaker concludes by reiterating their high hopes for Bitcoin and digital currencies, provided they can perform the necessary functions and adapt to a dynamic economic environment, which is crucial for replacing the euro dollar system.

Mindmap

Keywords

πŸ’‘Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer Bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. In the video, Bitcoin is discussed as a potential replacement for the euro dollar system due to its hard money characteristics and the issues faced by the current financial system post-2007 financial crisis.

πŸ’‘Euro dollar system

The euro dollar system refers to the offshore market where US dollars are deposited and lent outside the United States. It is characterized by its elasticity and adaptability. The video discusses how the breakdown of this system in 2007 opened the door for a competing currency standard, like Bitcoin, to potentially replace it.

πŸ’‘Hard money advocacy

Hard money advocacy refers to the support for a monetary system where the money supply is limited and not subject to inflation by a central authority. The video suggests that hard money systems like Bitcoin, which have a capped supply, promote efficiency and competition, as opposed to elastic money systems that can be inflated at will.

πŸ’‘Business cycle

The business cycle refers to the periodic but irregular fluctuations in economic activity that an economy experiences over time. The video posits that a hard money system like Bitcoin could potentially eliminate the business cycle by reducing the waste and inefficiencies associated with elastic money systems.

πŸ’‘Intermediation

Intermediation in finance refers to the process by which financial intermediaries, such as banks, channel funds from savers to borrowers. The video discusses how the euro dollar system's excessive elasticity led to a breakdown in intermediation, which is a crucial function for a healthy monetary and economic system.

πŸ’‘Money creation

Money creation is the process by which new money is introduced into an economy, typically by a central bank or through fractional reserve banking. The video criticizes the euro dollar system for mixing up money creation with intermediation, leading to an imbalance and the proliferation of bad financial products.

πŸ’‘Medium of exchange

A medium of exchange is an item that is commonly accepted in trade for goods and services. The video emphasizes the need for Bitcoin to become a more effective medium of exchange rather than just a store of value, in order to truly compete with and potentially replace the euro dollar system.

πŸ’‘Store of value

A store of value is an item that can be stockpiled and saved for future use without a significant loss in value. The video points out that while Bitcoin has been positioned as a store of value, this focus has hindered its development as a medium of exchange, which is essential for it to replace the euro dollar system.

πŸ’‘Elasticity

In economics, elasticity refers to the responsiveness of an economic variable to a change in another variable. The video discusses the need for currency elasticity, suggesting that a completely inelastic currency like Bitcoin might not be able to adapt to a dynamic economic environment, which is necessary for it to succeed as a global currency.

πŸ’‘Deflation

Deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services. The video briefly touches on deflation as a potential downside of a fixed money system like Bitcoin, where a limited supply could lead to a decrease in prices over time, which can have negative economic consequences.

Highlights

The euro dollar system's breakdown in 2007 has paved the way for a competing currency standard.

The euro dollar's elasticity was initially adaptive but became too loose, leading to the allure of hard money like Bitcoin.

Hard money advocates believe in earning money through competition rather than it being freely printed.

A limited currency supply promotes a more efficient economic system, potentially eliminating asset bubbles and business cycles.

Bitcoin aims to eliminate the inefficiencies and political extremes associated with the euro dollar's extreme elasticity.

Bitcoin's transparency and shared ledger system could replace the need for banks as intermediaries.

The dollar system has been largely virtual and distributed for over a century, contrary to popular belief.

Bitcoin's innovation addresses many inefficiencies within the euro dollar system.

The limited supply of Bitcoin is seen as a way to heighten intermediation and efficiency in the economy.

The euro dollar system's problem was the mixing of money creation with intermediation, leading to financialization.

Bitcoin's proponents argue for a hard money system to avoid the waste and inefficiencies of an elastic currency.

The public's appetite may swing towards hard money systems like Bitcoin as a reaction to the euro dollar's issues.

Bitcoiners often view the Fed as the culprit for printing money, which is a misconception.

Bitcoin's focus on being a store of value may be misguided; it should prioritize being a medium of exchange.

The euro dollar became dominant not because of its store of value but because it was an effective medium of exchange.

Bitcoin's price volatility has led to the rise of stablecoins, indicating a need for a more stable medium of exchange.

Human history shows that strict money standards are unsustainable as people always find ways to create elasticity.

Bitcoin's success may lie in becoming a more elastic and useful medium of exchange rather than just a store of value.

The speaker maintains high hopes for Bitcoin and digital currencies to replace the euro dollar system.

Transcripts

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will Bitcoin overtake the dollar the

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more appropriate question is whether or

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not it can replace the euro dollar

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because ever since the euro dollar

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system broke down in August of 2007 it

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has left the door wide open for some

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competing currency standard that can do

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a much better job at the roles of a

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reserve currency now the euro dollar

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represents maybe the other side of the

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spectrum from Bitcoin not maybe it

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actually is in that it is highly elastic

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in fact it was too elastic now while

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that solved a specific set of problems

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early on it was adaptive it was

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responsive it was flexible to the

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dynamic World in which it was trying to

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serve

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you can see the Allure of the hard money

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advocacy like Bitcoin like gold in the

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breakdown of the system the crisis the

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aftermath of 2007 and 2008. now hard

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money advocacy I think we are all hard

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money Advocate Advocates at heart

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because what it basically says is that

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when you have a limited supply of

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currency you have to compete for you

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have to really earn your money it's not

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just given out freely by the printing

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press wherever that printing press might

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actually reside and because we all have

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to earn our money we have to earn access

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to money that means that the economic

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system itself is much more efficient

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we're not wasting time and effort on

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financial sometimes useless Financial

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tasks we have more time and more focus

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on the most productive efforts that

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create first of all we have a more

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productive and sustainable economic

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system and one that is in theory free

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from the Affliction of asset bubbles and

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if we don't have acid bubbles in all

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this waste and stupidity during the boom

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part of the cycle then maybe we don't

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have the major crisis that leads to the

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downturn maybe we don't even have the

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business cycle to begin with can we

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eliminate the business cycle altogether

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with strictly hard money that's the

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attempt that's what Bitcoin is really

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focused on to eliminate some of the

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stupidity and as well as the political

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extremes that go along with extreme

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elasticity in the euro dollar format and

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to get the economy back on track with a

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useful sustainable hard money like

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currency system the question is whether

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bitcoin's on the right track and whether

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it can actually Dethrone the euro dollar

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system and in whether in doing so it can

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replicate all of the things that the

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euro dollar actually did well because

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there were quite a lot of them

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now we're going to talk about Bitcoin

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today but I want to do mention I do want

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to mention that my own perceptions and

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my own views are have been developed

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through studying the euro dollar system

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as it actually is and that's something

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that we offer at euro dollar University

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through our memberships we go through

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the history the details how it works how

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it's supposed to work how it hasn't

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worked we talk about intermediation

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which is a huge part of our discussion

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here all the information about euro

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dollar University memberships if you

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want to know how the euro dollar system

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works you want to know a little bit of

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something about monetary Theory check us

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out at our website eurodollar.university

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now like a lot of people I began my

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career thinking extreme quite a lot

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about hard money and all of its positive

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attributes in fact I want to read you an

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article I wrote more than a decade ago

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it was that long ago specifically about

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Bitcoin Believe It or Not here's what I

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said it cannot in my opinion simply be a

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historical accident of pure coincidence

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that such massive and productive

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Innovation seem to have diminished or

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disappeared during the exact same period

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where meaning and money was so highly

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diminished by monetary quote-unquote

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Innovation talking about the euro dollar

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system

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the less meaning contained in modern

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currency the greater the incentive to

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chase the easy Buck rather than face the

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double spending problem through hard and

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Innovative work that pays off in

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economic advancement I have said many

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times that there has to be a hefty

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opportunity cost for a generation of day

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Traders and house flippers the

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accumulation of so much talent and

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intellectual capacity for exclusive use

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in and on Wall Street where money to

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again hold meaning Wall Street and

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governmental economics would be

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Curiosities a sideshow distraction to

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the new Giants of industry and

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Innovation Innovation is not dead it is

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simply buried in a tsunami of

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meaningless tokens euro dollar tokens

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and I fear the opportunity cost of

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delaying its arrival grows exponentially

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that was written on March 8th of 2013

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and here's the final line in that

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article it would be easy to Simply blame

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the CPI but I have high hopes for

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Bitcoins and I still have high hopes for

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Bitcoin to this very day I believe it

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was an elegant attempt at a solution

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given the set of problems that we were

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dealing with and still dealing with

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because as I said at the introduction

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the euro dollar opened the door wide for

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a competing currency system let's step

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back let's let's talk about the good

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parts about Bitcoin because there are

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several and there are several very key

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ones first of all

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we don't need Banks I know that's that's

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hard for many people to grasp and that's

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it's a concept that might be too

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difficult at least at first most people

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don't realize that we have been on a

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virtual distributed Ledger system

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narrowly distributed Ledger system for

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decades

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the dollar system that everybody thinks

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that they've been using is physical

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currency like we're using printed

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currency from the Federal Reserve or the

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federal government that's just not the

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case and it hasn't been the case in

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large part for over a century we've been

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using Ledger money for a long time

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except Ledger money in this format is

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where banks are given a special present

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place and privilege because we're led to

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believe that these are storehouses of

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physical government money when you think

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of a bank what do you think of you think

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of a solid fortress-like building with

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this massive Vault that that it takes

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thieves Hollywood style as a scripts to

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try to break into to steal cash let's

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know what a bank is and Bank these days

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is nothing more than a glorified

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bookkeeper they keep track of who owes

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what to whom and how much that's really

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what they do and their ledgers fit

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together with your individual ledgers

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that piece together with other

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individual ledgers and that bank Ledger

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fits together with a system-wide ledger

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through all of these Financial utilities

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throughout the euro dollar system when

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wouldn't it be much more elegant to have

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just one Ledger that we all share that

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we can all access that's completely

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transparent that's what Bitcoin gets

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right and gets right in Spades the idea

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that we don't need Banks to keep track

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of who owes what we could do that

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ourselves we have the technology and

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capability and Bitcoin

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by God it has demonstrated that for a

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very long time so that's one point in

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there in bitcoin's favor and it's one

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that I wrote about several times over a

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decade ago one of the reasons why I

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hired high hopes for because block

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blockchain technology is an incredibly

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elegant solution to many inefficiencies

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that riddle the euro dollar to this day

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the other good point about Bitcoin as a

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limited Supply is again the problem we

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have of intermediation and that in the

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euro dollar system especially its later

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years as I said before it got to be way

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way too far people think that I'm an

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advocate of the euro dollar because I

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talk so much about it but really what

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I'm trying to do is explain what it

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actually is and how it used to work and

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how it works nowadays so that we can

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realize that we do need to replace the

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system we should replace it with a

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system that focuses back on

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intermediation the real problem of the

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euro dollar in theoretical terms was

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that it mixed up money creation

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capacities which not the fed or federal

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government this global banking card town

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which is even worse than the federal

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government a global banking cartel that

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wrestled or actually actually gained the

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control of the money printing in the

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global system because it was neglected

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for a long time

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so we have Global banks that are

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essentially money printers that realize

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that they could just start printing

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money and as they printed money

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intermediation fell apart and what is

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intermediation intermediation is the

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redistribute redistribution of money and

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credit money through credit through the

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global through any economic system

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which is something that is very vital

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and necessary to happen because in any

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economic system you're going to have

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winners and losers you're going to have

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more successful companies businesses and

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individuals and this has become more

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successful guess what money tends to

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flow in those directions not to depend

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money does flow in those directions and

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it can pool with those successful people

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who if they use it as a store of value

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it doesn't circulate it leaves less

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money for circulation throughout the

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economy which requires a high degree of

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financialization to recirculate it which

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is not a bad thing

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of intermediation is a good thing if

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it's done properly if it's done for

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productive purposes which is usually hey

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I don't want to lend money to somebody

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that I'm going to lose it because I'll

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be out of business if they're out of

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business so intermediation is a very

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crucial function to any monetary and

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economic system and when you have more

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money creation and money creation is

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done by those who are supposed to

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intermediate the system sometimes they

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just completely forget to intermediate

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that's really what was what went wrong

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with the euro dollar system that's where

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subprime mortgages came from in ninja

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loans and all of the bad financial

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products that we associate with the

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bubble era that was all about

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intermediation going down money creation

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taking over so Bitcoin quite rightly in

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Bitcoin uh Bitcoin proponents surmise

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that look we need intermediation to be a

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big thing again so strict money hard

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money let's make people earn their earn

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access to funds so in in doing so they

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have to earn it we don't have we're not

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funding and just printing money creating

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all sorts of waste and inefficiencies

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like day Traders and house flippers what

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seems like a generation ago now and

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there's all sorts of ways in which

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financialization that really I think

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showed up in the 1990s and early 2000s

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it really goes back to the 1980s too

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that people began to to Really zero in

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on as symptoms of this wider deeper

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problem so the euro dollar way too

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elastic fixing or mixing up money

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Creation with intermediation and it

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would make sense that the pendulum might

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swing a pendulum of public appetite an

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opinion would swing to the opposite

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direction let's think about a hard money

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system where we don't have those

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ridiculous stupid absurd costly excesses

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we won't have a crisis if we have hard

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money at least that's the thought

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the question is first of all whether

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that's a sound Theory then whether or

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not Bitcoin can execute the the the

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attempt

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again let me say here as I offer some

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criticisms that I do so from a

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perspective as I wrote over 10 years ago

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I would love nothing more than Bitcoin

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to succeed

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um I think the euro dollar needs to be

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replaced and I'm on record in numerous

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places and for a long time saying I

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believe digital currencies are indeed

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that solution and it would be great if

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Bitcoin could provide it because Bitcoin

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is the first one out of the box the

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first real one out of the box it's the

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biggest brand on the planet as far as

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digital currency projects are concerned

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so it makes sense it's the furthest

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along it's got the most it's been Road

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tested over and over again despite

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repeated challenges

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Bitcoin has the path you would think the

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the easiest path to success but that

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path is not easy they have a leg up on

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all their competition but I think there

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are some things that bitcoiners need to

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realize in order to in order to make

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theirs make their answer make Bitcoin

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itself more likely to succeed and when

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it does succeed assuming it does it'd be

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more effective and then sticking around

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and Performing all of the all of the

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goals and meeting all the goals that we

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wanted to for the commercial and

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economic system

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and it starts with bitcoiners hate the

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fed and they hate the FED because they

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think the FED printed money and that has

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become sort of a unchallenged belief an

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article of faith that has driven many

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bitcoiners toward Bitcoin the idea that

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the FED has printed so much money it's

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going to destroy the dollar therefore

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Bitcoin is going to take over from the

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dollars ashes and I think in believing

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that why that's why that's potentially a

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big issue is because instead of

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realizing that Bitcoin needs to be a

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more effective medium exchange this view

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has prioritized Bitcoin as a store of

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value and so bitcoiners take the the

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position that they just have to wait

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around for the dollar to destroy itself

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and then Bitcoin will sort of

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self-evidently arise from those ashes

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when I think that instead realizing the

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FED never printed the money and the FED

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still hasn't printed money and money

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actually comes from the banking system

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which is even even easier sale in my

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opinion tell people that um not only

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have we have a distributed virtual

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currency Ledger it's maintained by a

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global cartel of banks a a decentralized

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system becomes even more desirable

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however

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because it's been so focused on being a

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store of value it hasn't really

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developed as a medium of exchange which

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has led to this other odd sort of

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assumption that is taken as an article

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of faith that if you develop a store of

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value it will then become a medium

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exchange when there are numerous

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examples when that's not the case the

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euro dollar itself is a prime example

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the euro dollar took over the entire

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world despite the fact that it is at

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best a horrible medium a horrible store

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value it's a terrific meaning of

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exchange it's a horrible store of value

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in fact it doesn't really have a store

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value the store value in the euro dollar

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system is financial markets so the euro

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dollar took over based on being a the

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best medium exchange that could be

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offered at that time

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Bitcoin focuses on store value think and

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I think they get that backwards focus

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more on you and making Bitcoin a useful

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medium of exchange and less on store

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value because if you're waiting for the

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dollar to go to zero you're going to be

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waiting a long time and you're missing

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all of this opportunity to demonstrate

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usefulness of the of the token and

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especially during this period of time

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when people are searching for answers

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make it a better meeting of exchange and

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stop focusing so much on store of value

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which brings us to the question of store

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value because of the limited Supply

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and this is an age-old question about

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elasticity do we need an elastic

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currency as I said the theory is that

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you don't have an elastic currency

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because limited supply of any currency

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or money heightens intermediation

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heightens efficiency maybe even

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eliminates the business cycle altogether

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and again it sounds great in theory but

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when you study monetary history look at

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it in practice first of all what you see

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is that there has never been a truly

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hard money standard not a strict money

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standard in existence because people

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will always if if a monetary system

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becomes too restrictive people will

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always find a way to create elasticity

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to find ways around it the euro dollar

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being the prime example triffin's

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Paradox drove these Banks to create a

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offshore

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virtual Ledger system that they

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controlled and they created so they

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circumvented the somewhat hard money

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standard of the Bretton Woods era by

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creating this euro dollar ledger so I

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again I think there needs to be some

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attention to elasticity uh the fact that

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human beings if if a monetary system is

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too restricted people will look for

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Alternatives so need to be a better

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useful medium exchange a better

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elasticity and there are all sorts of

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other problems uh bitcoin's price has

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been exceptionally volatile which has

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given rise to the birth and the

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proliferation of stable coins full

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disclosure I am a trustee of a stable

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coin

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so that along with with issues about

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Bitcoin Supply about how elasticity how

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inelastic Bitcoin is how how it's not

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paid too much not paid nearly enough

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attention to becoming a useful medium

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exchange and what you left with is

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Bitcoin has so many of these positive

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attributes you're just frustrated that

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it can't complete complete the final few

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steps to really becoming a potential

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answer to the euro dollar breakdown and

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there's more there's more behind all of

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these things obviously you can't fit

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this in just a single YouTube video but

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again back to what I said from the very

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beginning I have high hopes for Bitcoin

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and All Digital currencies assuming that

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they can actually perform these

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functions they need to be able to

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respond to a dynamic environment which

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fixed money systems aren't going to be

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able to do fixed money systems also have

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several inherent downsides to them

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deflation being a huge part of it and we

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can spend a whole video on just that too

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but by and large it's some elasticity

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that that allows the coin that allows

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the currency to become a useful medium

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of exchange I think that's the big part

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that's missing for me once Bitcoin

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becomes if it can if it can can become a

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useful medium exchange then building

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upon all of these huge attributes that

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have been that have been tested and

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built and and developed over the last

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what has it been 16 years 15 years now

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almost 15 years January 3rd 2009

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and Bitcoin could possibly be the the

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replacement to the euro dollar system

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but these are serious issues including

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you know again elasticity is a big one

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medium of exchange it's not just enough

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to say we're going to be the Survivor

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after the dollar explodes and goes It

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goes to zero it's completely worthless

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because waiting for the dollar to go to

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zero you're gonna waiting too long and

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you're wasting all this time along the

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way the dollar isn't going to go to zero

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because as the euro dollar is the only

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viable alternative to itself the only

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the only variable option currently

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there's always going to be some use for

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the euro dollar therefore the dollar

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denomination so making it better more

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elastic potentially medium of exchange

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and there's a whole argument there I

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understand but elasticity that's a huge

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part of becoming a medium exchange and

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doing that that then really takes

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advantage of the situation that we find

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ourselves as I wrote in March of 2013 I

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still have High Hope for Bitcoins and

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that's the big one you know it's medium

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of exchange first and foremost the

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dollar the euro dollar took over the

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world by being the best medium and the

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one that can supplant it and the one

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that can show it's a better medium

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exchange a more stable more productive

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medium of exchange that's the one that

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actually takes over and supplants the

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euro dollar system

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I did a video almost a year ago about

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whether or not we actually need Banks

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and whether or not there was a place for

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cryptocurrencies and digital currencies

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to replace them you could check that out

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at the link below me as always I thank

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you very much for joining me a huge

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thank you you're at all University

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members and subscribers until next time

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take care

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