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2023-08-03 20:52:41

salzburgboy on Nostr: Hey #asknostr - I have a Bitcoin / Austrian Economics fundementals question. I get ...

Hey #asknostr - I have a Bitcoin / Austrian Economics fundementals question.

I get the hardmoney aspect of Bitcoin, 21million hardcap etc etc etc. preaching to the converted here.

Governments printing money, devaluing currency -> BAD. I get all that.

But then a pandemic or world-war comes along and the economy grinds to a halt or interests rates skyrocket... we've seen Govts print truckloads of money to "get us out of the hole and keep the economy going".

What would've been the solution if we had hardmoney like USD-backed-by-BTC/Gold ? We couldn't have printed our way out of the economic hole because of the 21Million hardcap or the grams-of-gold-per-dollar.

Peter Zeihan, who isn't a favourite of mine, raises some interesting points about the amount of currency available when economic activity picks up
about 2:48 into this video

https://youtu.be/-rANSHB4q1Y?t=166

Maybe LynAlden (npub1a2c…w83a) could share her views?

Thanks so much.
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