Varför Bitcoin Är inte som PayPal eller Venmo

By Bitcoin Magasin - 1 år sedan - Lästid: 4 minuter
Tor 10 nov 2022 11:39

Varför Bitcoin Är inte som PayPal eller 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.

Detta är en åsiktsledare av Mark Maraia, en entreprenör, författare till "Rainmaking Made Simple" och en Bitcoiner.

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.

Jag känner inte till någon undersökning som bedömer den allmänna befolkningens förståelse för pengar eller vårt banksystem. Vi lär definitivt inte ut det i skolan. Enkla frågor som: 

…are complete mysteries to 99% of the population. But not to Bitcoinförst

Bitcoin is the base layer of a new digital and decentralized monetary system that favors ingen. Det tillåter två parter beväpnade med ingenting mer än en mobiltelefon 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 är inget annat än ett övervakningsmynt.

Vid en tidpunkt i dess historia var guld basskiktet i det analoga och centraliserade monetära systemet. Statliga valutor - nu alla fiat - byggdes som andra lager ovanpå guld. Sedan 1971 drog Richard Nixon ett monetärt magiskt trick som vi fortfarande känner av effekterna av idag. Han avbröt ensidigt den återstående länken till att dollarn kunde lösas in mot guld. (Obs: Denna förmåga hade Blivit tagen från amerikanska medborgare i början av 1900-talet. Vad Nixon avbröt var ett annat lands förmåga att ta emot guld i utbyte mot amerikanska dollar.) Så började ett monetärt experiment som fortsätter till våra dagar.

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.

The 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 kollapsen av 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 själv vårdnad. 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.

Som min favorit andlig text 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. Byt till a bitcoin standard.

Detta är ett gästinlägg av Mark Maraia. Åsikter som uttrycks är helt deras egna och återspeglar inte nödvändigtvis BTC Inc. eller Bitcoin Tidskrift.

Ursprunglig källa: Bitcoin magazine