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Most of the world's currencies are tied to the value of the US dollar, and the US dollar hasn't been on the gold standard since forever.

Those daily numbers make it seem like it's just free money. It still feels to me like it's really a full time job, though. Am I wrong?

Like, how much time do you spend on average in a week...

"Bitcoin is dirty energy" is an odd turn of phrase.
IDK what an expanded explanation of his meaning would reveal, but in a vacuum, that's just a weird sentence.

Assuming by "dirty" he means...

Calm down, peeps. No need for the personal judgement.

We're all idiots, here, after all. Maybe more informed than others here, but not world-class experts on any of this.

That makes sense. Thanks.

Thanks for the info. I see the comparisons with irl monies and the bare bones fact that crypto is simply not all that different from irl monies is better understood by me.

I still don't see it as...

So long as people are investing in crypto with the actual long-term plan to convert that crypto back into real world monies, I can't really take the value seriously. As long as the value of crypto...

Please do not post links to external websites until you've established yourself as a human who is participating in other conversations on FTR.

Can you liquidate that value?

People talk about bitcoin like it has no real value. As someone who owns bitcoins, can you use them to purchase anything? or can you sell your bitcoins for real...

All value is perception.
The value of any currency is merely what someone has convinced us and what we can convince other people it's worth.