Oddbean

IMO Bitcoin will die when fiat dies Right now, much of the usability of Bitcoin is built on people being able to easily transfer it into fiat to pay their suppliers Even if your supplier is Bitcoin friendly, is their supplier? You need a whole circular economy to keep using Bitcoin in the absence of fiat conversion (or assuming that in the event of fiat collapse much of the world returns to metal disks, you need a ready conversion mechanism between Bitcoin and metal disks)

You must live in the Western bubble. Dig outside the USA where Government has less control of the peoples brains (yes, it's true). BTW - there are hundreds of these videos and 1/2 the world population is represented in this one video. https://youtu.be/d5AvBsxRMYk?si=xJ567rdkq1nmkBeO

Tru this …but BTC is very portable (even more so than other “hard assets”…full disclosure: I’m a fan of all self custodied hard assets) …this in theory allows u to leave where u are for greener pastures…presumably where BTC has value Jus one idgit’s opinion https://m.primal.net/KySN.jpg

Your assumptions make no sense. They can switch to a metal that almost no one accepts as payment anymore but they can't accept Bitcoin? That just doesn't make sense. Why is the assumption that metals would be what everyone defaults to in a digital world? Your thesis is that suppliers in a global economy will choose to fuck around with metal coins instead of adopting a digital currency that is already being used globally. We already did that once and ended up with fiat. People didn't have Bitcoin as an option.

You'd still need to create a circular economy with metals again anyway. I think the more likely case is that people choosing to deal with archaic metals would be the ones trying to figure out how to swap into Bitcoin to pay their suppliers, not the other way around.