• EmeraldA
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    1 year ago

    That’s a very nice explanation, thanks! Also nice to interact with people on Lemmy! I was curious, “withdrawing huge amounts at short notice like it was their own money or something”, if that’s what you can do with it, isn’t that exactly what it is, your money?

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      well, precisely. Banks expected depositors would keep their money in the bank. This turned out to be incorrect when interest rates went up.

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        1 year ago

        I see, I misread it then. Slightly off-topic, but I just realized you are the one who wrote the Attack of the 50 foot blockchain and now I feel I’m in the precense of a legend. I’m going to buy your book, because I’m genuinly interested in an in-depth perspective by someone who is anti-crypto. I’m not anti-crypto, but I like to keep an open mind!