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Well, fiat currencies have economies running in them where bitcoin mostly has speculation, so yeah, there's a difference.



And they used to be running on bartering, gold and silver.

Things change.

I wonder how "running" cyprus is now :P

I'd say the fundamentals could be found looking in the weaknesses in government/central bank fiat and the controls put in place on how freely people can obtain and receive goods/services.

But yeah, this is a bubble, but if you look at the fundamentals that governments/central banks are running on now, it just takes one country with a overly bloated private banking sector and dieselboom to apply his templates… :P


cyprus doesn't have its own currency, which is why they had to resort to doing what they did

they could have otherwise printed a bunch of money and deflated their debt, which is what the US gov does




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