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Originally Posted by jbouton
So we understand that pegging to bitcoin is an elastic duty.
Currency... BY NATURE... must be allowed to breath (elastic, using your own words) and fulfill the ever changing liquidity requirements of a Developed Economy. That is it's critical ability and usefulness... that is WHY we have Currency as opposed to having everyone walk around with Sea Shells in their wallet.
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Originally Posted by jbouton
But wouldn't pegging to bitcoin cause the production rate of blocks to spike like as if we pegged to gold and the production of gold mining ramped up?
No... of course it would not, it could not. As I thought we were all aware, the Block production is carefully regulated by the Difficulty Algorithm which keeps the Block time Approximately at around 10 minutes each. This controls the inflation rate of Bitcoin and keeps it VERY predictable. This is one other feature of Bitcoins nature that makes it so appealing as it CAN NOT be manipulated or controlled by centralization.
Gold, IS NOT rare... at best I would consider it 'MARGINALLY' rare and our belief in it resembles belief in the value of sea shells. Of course, gold has other usefulness, such as electronics and the vanity of self adornments, jewelry.
The price of gold goes up, production goes up-the price goes down, then production goes down. It is the very definition of a exploitable and controlled commodity that citizens are at the mercy of, and given the issuance of 'Paper Gold' makes the asset 'fractional' by nature... like Fractional reserve banking.
for decades, we've been on the 'Oil Standard', and that era is going to come to an end at some point... probably within our young folks lifetime.
Let's be perfectly clear, I am NOT suggesting that the World go on a 'Bitcoin Standard'. However, I do suggest that Private Citizens go on the Bitcoin standard... As should Small sovereign nations that find themselves under the control of The International Monetary Fund... where Countries are offered the enslavement of free flowing liquidity in exchange for allegiance and obedience.
A Bitcoin backed Currency/standard is not advantageous for the apex economies that are used to controlling and economically enslaving others different than themselves... it's a REAL threat to those in control.