How Money & Banking Work (& why they're broken today) - Lyn Alden
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In this 30-minute explainer video, Lyn Alden takes a step back through history and looks into the intricacies of money and banking, offering an answer to an ...

An enlightening and high quality video on how money and the banking system work, why they are corrupted and what is the solution.

    • corvus@lemmy.mlOP
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      6 days ago

      Honestly I was expecting far more downvotes. I posted the video with people like you in mind, who still can think critically without the burden of misinformation and ideology.

      • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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        5 days ago

        Honestly I was expecting far more downvotes. I posted the video with people like you in mind, who still can think critically are marks without the burden of misinformation and ideology. not being marks.

        Ftfy

        By the way, if you think you are not subject to ideology, I have several things to sell you.

        For anyone else reading: everyone is subject to ideology. The moment you think you arent, that is when you are most trapped by it.

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      6 days ago

      It’s also skewing the history lesson to peddle cryptocurrency. Not all information is equal.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Bitcoin is one of the most successful open source projects to have ever been created, and it gets downvoted to hell anywhere it gets brought up. 15 years of growth in network size, usage, and capability. Surviving attacks and attempted bans from nation-states. Not a single hour of downtime, not a single hack, reliably transferring money across the globe to anybody with a cell phone and a halfway reliable internet connection in seconds to minutes for pennies to dollars in fees. 100% open source and decentralized, uncorruptible, open to whoever wants to use it, the way currency should be. It’s got a market cap bigger than Sweden’s GDP and is already more reliable and widely accepted than most national currencies. Nobody can make it print money it isn’t meant to print or move money it isn’t supposed to move.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Theoretically cryptocurrencies are interesting, but Bitcoin just isn’t usable.

      Bitcoin and many other currencies have way too many and large fluctuations in value for daily use.
      Bitcoin specifically is not practical for transactions in general due to cost and block size limits. Yes, lightning exists, but maybe your technology is shit if it needs a second overlay network to function.
      Instead of fixing those issues, most other coins are just pump and dump schemes for a quick buck.
      Only very few coins try to do something different and fix some of these issues.

    • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      I absolutely shit on crypto forever until actually reading into it. Alas, new things are too scary for conservatives most people to consider. I’m glad I grew up, being able to recognise Bitcoin as a genuine effort at creating a good thing instead of a fad.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 days ago

    money has to be backed by the state so if bitcoiners really want bitcoin to be used in everyday transactions, i would suggest running for President and replacing U.S. Dollar with Bitcoin for tax payments/legal tender.

    how will the state obtain Bitcoins? by building massive resource wasting mining farms which itll have to issue bitcoin bonds to build, making the state subservient to the private bond markets and interest rate it demands, Greek style.

    there is massive plague and the economy has collapsed? what will the state do? cant give people money or increase healthcare spending because the capacity of the state to mobilize resources is now limited by what the private sector is willing to give it or how much it can mine. oops mass death.

    bitcoiners have to be dumbest creatures alive.