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Re: Is TERRA/Luna kickstarting a new Bitcoin Standard?
by
RealMalatesta
on 15/05/2022, 16:30:46 UTC

TL;DR: if you want a Bitcoin Standard, forget about dollars Wink
I don’t know where you got the idea of a dollar related bitcoin standard; maybe I wasn’t clear about this.
My idea of the bitcoin standard is precisely what you described with your El Salvo coins—issued with Taro over LN.
Of course, this ElSalvo token must enable some unique feature To justify its existence and use instead of bitcoin itself.
I do agree that "crypto based" is a better term for that. I am not entirely sure if it will work though, I mean it is definitely something that is quite good if it works, but are we sure it would? We need to build a whole economy around it to make it worth something and I am not sure if we could build that.

Otherwise, if it’s going to be like an experiment then it will not reach to a level where it would work and that is why I hope that El Salvador doesn't go too deep into this. They are already a poor nation and if they spend too much on building such a thing (or even the city they are planning) that will require too much money and if it doesn't work it will be using money from a poor nation to make it even poorer.