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@[email protected] to World [email protected]English • 4 months ago

El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment

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El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment

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@[email protected] to World [email protected]English • 4 months ago
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  • Cowbee [he/they]
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    I had a Libertarian try to tell me that this was going to revitalize El Salvador just a couple of weeks ago, lmao.

    • Dessalines
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      Not the greatest idea to transition to a currency where every single transaction requires the same amount of energy to power a mansion for a week.

      • @[email protected]
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        Not promoting just saying that this is misinformation. Transactions are done in bulk and on the lightning network at a tiny fraction of what you suggest.

        Edit: BTC itself can only process 8 or so transactions per second(hence the high energy demand per transaction), the actual number of monetary lightening network transactions (grouped up into a these large BTC transactions) is close to a million.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
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        Didn’t know it was that bad. Knew it was bad, but that’s depressingly bad.

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      It’s absolutely bonkers to me that Libertarians think BTC is a better option that fiat bills.

      This shit has the have been astroturfed or otherwise psyop’d.

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      Well their reserves doubled in value

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