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<br> It’s true that Bitcoin is accepted by a lot of, by a substantial, let’s say a non-trivial number of stores and other places in payment. So like they may even agree, they may be long-term bullish on crypto and say like by 2100, fiat currencies are going to… The long-term prospects, they think, of crypto are much better than the long-term prospects of state fiat currency, with debts being accrued, no sign that America’s debt is going to be paid down. 15:55 Trevor Burrus: When you talked about competing against national currencies, doesn’t it matter that the state of national currencies that… 08:16 Trevor Burrus: Because it would be worth enough and with Bitcoin you’ve figured out… 10:33 Trevor Burrus: Does that exist, are you saying? 08:01 Trevor Burrus: Well, couldn’t I give… 10:58 Trevor Burrus: And just to add onto that, and if that’s true, is it different than going to Europe and swiping my card and having it paid, having it, it doesn’t matter, I earned American money and turned it into Euros on their side. This means that, if you’re looking to sign up for an account, you m<br>b<br>erified.
06:46 George Selgin: The argument you hear a lot from part of the Bitcoin community is simply that, of course, this is a successful new money, because look how much it’s appreciated. So what we want to look for in deciding whether something is catching on as money is lots of shops accepting it, lots of prices being quoted in it and that sort of thing. I mean, I’m thinking of, George, like your work in private and alternative currencies going way, way back to very pre-crypto days where there were lots of issuers of currency. So we’ve been talking about Bitcoin but there are lots of different cryptocurrencies and people are creating ones all the time, some for good technical reasons or at least plausible, others as potential cash grabs and so on. During the ascension and adoption of crypto, many people launched ICOs (Individual Coin Offerings, akin to offering a new stock) without any supervision or regulation. And this is similar because there’s not only the short-term volatility of crypto, in terms of its relationship to fiat currencies in various countries, but policy in the US and many other countries right now is such that you have to record its, it’s treated like property, and so it would be a bit like using bits of housing as a medium of payment that the tax authority will say, if in the time that you’ve held this you’ve earned some in terms of dollars, you have <br>e<br>re that as tax.
And the emergence of the sort of cards that you’re talking about and payment providers who are willing to do the instant conversion into dollars is part of that process of making it attractive for third parties, including merchants, to accept crypto, although they don’t really accept it, it’s a payments processor that does it. 10:35 Aaron Ross Powell: The credit cards or debit cards do. 09:24 Aaron Ross Powell: How does the specifics of the tech behind all this play into that? 10:04 Aaron Ross Powell: So we could have, and I think we have, there’s nascent versions of this, like a credit card where I fill it up with Bitcoin, and then I go to buy something blog post from ibonny.kr you and you don’t accept Bitcoin, you accept dollars, but at the moment that I swipe, my Bitcoin are behind the scenes converted into dollars and transferred to you at some standard rate and then you could convert it back or you can take the dollars and we could do that with all sorts of different coins and it happens instantaneously. And that’s just an extremely naive argument as far as it goes, because we could name all kinds of equities and other assets that have appreciated, some of them more rapidly than Bitcoin, that nobody would say are therefore succeeding as a<br>n<br>ve means of exchange.
So I don’t want to downplay the fact that it has caught on to some extent and more so than most other cryptos, but it’s still a long, long way from qualifying for the standard economist definition of a generally accepted medium of exchange. And you’re going to have some that’s only a relative few that become a widely used medium of exchange, and of course, it’s possible that among all these new alternatives, these cryptos, that none of them will ever be able to gain a status such as allows it to compete with any established national monies, because those all have a substantial head start. So there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s not a problem to have a lot of alternatives but yes, there’s a network factor in there that ultimately means you’re going to have a horse race where only a few become very important; in any one area, there may be only one that’s particularly important. Does that create a problem as far as the long-term acceptance of cryptocurrency that there are a lot of them? At ProMxs, our team of experts is available to provide advice and guidance on trading cryptocurrency. Although more peer review is needed, the effort seems to be proceeding positively with experts currently agreeing that it<br> safe to enable graftroot by default.