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abdullahkhalids ◴[] No.42925423[source]
In the 15 years since Bitcoin went viral, has someone proposed a reasonable social, legal and financial protocol for how a society can adopt a novel cryptocurrency without getting stuck in the phase where the cryptocurrency becomes a speculative asset rather than a common medium of exchange? By novel, I mean not using an existing cryptocurrency that is already stuck in the speculative asset phase.

Surely, if a government wants the people in the country to use a novel cryptocurrency, it has a lot of levers of control which some distributed libertarian minded community simply doesn't.

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1. wmf ◴[] No.42926284[source]
Stablecoins/CBDCs aren't speculative.
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2. CalChris ◴[] No.42927650[source]
https://chainsec.io/failed-stablecoins/