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Защо Bitcoin Не е като PayPal или Venmo
Bitcoin is an entirely new paradigm of money, not a simple secondary payments layer built to increase ease of access like PayPal or Venmo.
This is an opinion editorial by Mark Maraia, an entrepreneur, author of “Rainmaking Made Simple” and a Bitcoinсв.
Bitcoin is not like PayPal or Venmo. This would be obvious to anyone who understands money. As Shakespeare might say, “Ay, there’s the rub.” Almost no one understands money. We are never taught about how fiat money actually works at home or at school or at work … even when you work on Wall Street or you run the country. I’m confident very few politicians could pass a simple exam on money. I’m almost sure none of our federal employees could. And I’d hazard a guess that very few CEO’s or CFO’s of Fortune 500 companies could either.
Снимка от Marques Thomas on UnsplashНе знам за нито едно проучване, което да оценява разбирането на населението като цяло за парите или нашата банкова система. Определено не го учим в училище. Прости въпроси като:
“What is fractional reserve banking?” “What was the base layer of the global monetary system until 1971?” “What is the base layer of the US money supply now?”…are complete mysteries to 99% of the population. But not to Bitcoinтели.
Bitcoin is the base layer of a new digital and decentralized monetary system that favors никой. Тя позволява на две партии, въоръжени с нищо повече от a мобилен телефон to send value via the digital rails of Bitcoin from the U.S. to anywhere in the world, almost instantly, with no middle men. That’s why governments hate it so much!! Venmo and PayPal are not and will never be the base layer of a new digital and decentralized monetary system. Venmo and PayPal are second or third layers in our centralized fiat monetary system. They make life easier for many, but they come at the cost of centralized control and state financial surveillance and repression. All this talk of CBDCs makes me sick. Why? Because a CBDC не е нищо повече от монета за наблюдение.
Снимка от Zlaťáky.cz on UnsplashНякога в своята история златото е било основният слой на аналоговата и централизирана парична система. Държавните валути - сега всички фиатни - бяха изградени като втори слой върху златото. Тогава през 1971 г. Ричард Никсън извади паричен магически трик, чийто ефект усещаме и до днес. Той едностранно прекъсна останалата връзка на долара, който можеше да бъде заменен за злато. (Забележка: Тази способност имаше са взети от американски граждани в началото на 1900 г. Това, което Никсън прекъсна, беше способността на друга страна да получава злато в замяна на щатски долари.) Така започна паричен експеримент, който продължава и до днес.
Why was that a magic trick? Because, presto chango, the dollar — not gold — was suddenly the new base layer of our monetary system as of that moment. Everything in our monetary and banking system today is built on top of that. I’m confident no other country would have approved the idea of an “unbacked dollar” becoming the world’s reserve currency at Bretton Woods if they knew that a short 27 years later the link to gold would be severed. It was a classic bait and switch or as most bitcoin call it — a rug pull.
Снимка от Pavel Brodsky on UnsplashThe latest example of why it’s important to differentiate between the payments use case that compares bitcoin to PayPal and Venmo, and the true sound money narrative that bitcoin is actually about, is колапсът на FTX.
Too many people are led astray by claims that there are “superior” unsound cryptocurrencies which promise faster, cheaper payments. What they might not realize is that these promises are only made based on the centralization and lack of security that these altcoins are built on. Many who fell for this, invested on exchanges like FTX and may have ignored the Bitcoin Maximalist mantra of лишаване от свобода. Had attention been paid to the real underlying promise of bitcoin — that it is sound money that cannot be controlled by anyone, given self-custody — it is highly unlikely that they would have had assets on a cryptocurrency exchange like FTX.
Като мой любим духовен текст likes to remind me, “We’re in a prison of our own making.” What’s the “get out of jail free” card? Buy or get paid in bitcoin. Преминете към a bitcoin стандарт.
Това е публикация за гости от Марк Марая. Изразените мнения са изцяло техни и не отразяват непременно тези на BTC Inc. или Bitcoin Magazine.
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