It’s not EU wide.

That’s as Mexican as Twinkies are French

Oh right, 20 years ago 👴

None of the other people in the Nordics are surprised that the native speakers can’t tell the difference. We can’t either after all

*in English.

They still suck at many other languages, like Finnish.

Which one do you use/have?

Congrats, that’s 1 out of how many people do you know?

No, it didn’t

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_exchange_rates_of_Argentine_currency

You can even see through exchange rates that it’s otherwise been relatively stable too:

(Pictured: not even a crash apparently, just a change to the currency type by pegging it to the dollar).

You mean all crashes then? The 3 that have happened in over ONE HUNDRED YEARS?

You can’t be fucking serious to compare that fluctuation with Bitcoin’s

The Argentine peso crashed and then stayed down. That’s actually a sign of stability, because it’s remaining at a constant, not jumping up and down wildly.

It didn’t crash only to go back to original value to the decrease by half and undulate like a wave, like Bitcoin and other crypto does.

after learning that in China 200 years ago people used non-uniform money, that is, all kinds of coins, some literally ancient still in circulation, and somehow that worked

I’m talking about valuation pegged paper money, not hard value currency. This old strawman is getting old too.

The coins worked because they were still tangible material with assigned value (ie metals value by weight or marking).

The local bank paper money was different, and pegged to hard value materials (gold standard).

Cryptocurrency works like the second because, like the paper money, crypto doesn’t have inherent tangible value (technically even less than paper since it’s completely intangible).

It doesn’t work like the fucking Chinese coins (which, btw, still relied on a very centralized government existing anyway) because you can’t hold or do anything with 0s and 1s, nor can you physically keep it around.

Yeah, because the last time humans tried decentralized money it also caused a ton of problems.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency isn’t inventing anything new, it’s just doing the same old localized bank notes system again, but with computers™

Even if crypto had any actual physical value, and solved the stability problems, lack of inflation, etc, it would still end up having control issues, because those already wealthy in a lot of it could manipulate the value easily by simply exchanging it or dumping it.

So basically you’d just end up with the problems of current currencies + all the problems crypto has, which were the same problems localized notes had 200 or so years as well.

So - inflation and cheap and fast transactions are what would make BTC less volatile.

Yeah, and we have that…

It’s called fiat currency 🙄

It rebounding and crashing by hundreds in value like a meth head on caffeinated cocaine laced with LSD is what doesn’t make it a currency.

No one wants a shit currency where one day a donut costs 1000 and the next 2000 and on the weekend it’s either 599 or 3999.

That’s why it’s at best a speculative asset, except it’s dumber than that because it’s intangible. It’s like the long term stupidity of fiat mixed with insane instability, all while using way more resources.

1 Bitcoin used to be with less than a dollar.

Now it’s thousands of dollars.

It’s also lost thousands of dollars in value.

It hasn’t even been 2 decades.

There’s never been ANYTHING that volatile and unstable aside from maybe fucking tulips.

Currency has stable and usable value.

Bitcoin has neither of those.

Ah, time for new lingo to pop up.

I propose we go with “no zucchinis”

It’s both innuendo, and can convey the word for Zionist

Don’t remember cows using hairspray

laughs in brain memory storing everything I’ve seen

I’m wondering what I’ve done wrong with KDE Connect as I could never get it working on any device across 3 different smartphones