People often forget that the sole purpose of Bitcoin, as the first-mover in a new asset class, was to short the USD. And the main use of cryptocurrency to-date, as an emerging technology, is to disenfranchise state governments.
All conversations about their its legitimacy, viability, price, popularity, international political economic SWOT, etc. begin, and end there.
But in order to fully appreciate the breadth of the subject matter, one has to be thoroughly familiar with the legacy of American Exceptionalism, encompassing USD exceptionalism over the past 80 or so years.
What is money? The ontology of the thing, precedes the ethics of the thing.
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