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Posted by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago

Bitcoin tumbles below $70k, wiping out gains since Trump 2024 win(www.reuters.com)
68 points | 63 commentspage 2
the_real_cher 1 day ago|
As long as the government continues to devalue the dollar, crypto is in a great position.

Speculating out several orders:

Once the new head of the fed takes over and pushes interest rate cuts per his bosses request, borrowing will get cheaper, money will flow and inflation will go up. The dollar will devalue. Congress will never stop going into a deficit with their spending bills as no one votes for austerity, requiring more and more money to be printed. Wages will not keep up with inflation as it skyrockets and taxes take an ever greater chunk of the workers check.

If things continue as they have been, at some point, the dollar will not be a good value proposition for average normal people to use for day to day exchange, and they will start to look into other options to maintain economic normalcy.

Crypto currency is poised to take over.

If you take speculation to even further orders beyond that... once people start to switch over to crypto en masse, the government will then start to track people's crypto usage to recoup it's tax money that it's losing.

Then privacy crypto currency will be poised to take over that.

Another interesting monkey wrench. The dollar is somewhat bastioned from inflation by being the worlds reserve currency. But imagine if the world lost faith in dollar and started to use something else like a EU or BRICS currency. I wonder how that would affect the dollars value?

beAbU 1 day ago|
More likely americans will start trading in € or £ cash, on a parallel market. The same way argentinians are doing it now with $.
the_real_cher 1 day ago||
There's no euro or francs in America. But there is uniswap on your phone. Heck I think cash app lets you send crypto.
beAbU 1 day ago|||
Surely there were no dollars in argentina as well, right? Yet now there is.
rsynnott 1 day ago|||
... Are you claiming that Americans can't easily buy euro?
the_real_cher 10 hours ago|||
I don't think the euro is known as a bastion of fiscal stability.
alecco 1 day ago||
BlackRock & Wall Street funds/banks pumped Bitcoin for the past couple of years. They slowly started dumping 2 months ago, before the Epstein emails. I'm sure they had no insider information and it's a total coincidence. /s
gfdklgfdlkjl 1 day ago||
Russia-Ukraine war is being wound down and Russian sanctions will be lifted probably in the next 1-2 months. Crypto is the financial tissue that connects sanctioned entities to non-sanctioned Western banks. What you are seeing is Russians and other sanctioned entities dumping their coins since they won't be needed soon.
ManuelKiessling 1 day ago||
This is quite a wild take — but I‘m willing to not dismiss it outright. Not that I’m in any position or capacity to know anything more than the next guy about these matters. But it has a „so wild it could actually be true“ vibe.
_DeadFred_ 1 day ago||
I wonder if it's more tied to what's going on Iran. I remember in the twenty teens and the people I knew in China we using a bitcoin to family in Vancouver pipeline to get their money out. I have to assume the Iranians were doing something similar (and have heard rumors).
ferfumarma 1 day ago|
When the US dollar definitively loses its status as the reserve currency of the world there is no great competitor to replace it.

Bitcoin has features which make it uniquely appropriate for this: namely that no other currency is so resistant to debasement.

I anticipate it will recover and set new records.