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sushisection t1_izc6lcg wrote

Reply to comment by thisischemistry in Ethereum’s energy switch saves as much electricity as entire Ireland uses | The success of The Merge concept may now serve as a roadmap to enable a switch from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake in Bitcoin. by chrisdh79

thats cool and all, until the economy collapses and you try to pull money out of the bank and the bank says "sorry, no more access to your money".

its a very entitled and privileged perspective to think that nobody should have access to a decentralized, global currency to store some of their wealth in case their country's economy takes a downturn. or in case their nation's leader starts a war and the world sanctions the central bank, locking millions of people out of their money like what happened to russia.

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thisischemistry t1_izc858v wrote

You do realize that you don't need crypto for that purpose, right? In fact, crypto is a very bad asset to hold in that manner because its value is so unstable. You're much better off holding on to some durable goods that have value even when society collapses rather than a few bits of data which can collapse right along with society.

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