shorting a currency using borrowing is a completely normal defi operation, but it's usually done via collateral and not credit. I always liked the idea that extending credit is not really possible within the confines of a blockchain or smart contract platform. only collateralized lending protocols can exist. so if you are a person who uses a very broad definition of usury, it means that usury doesn't really fit into defi.
“It's hard not to follow the incentives, and there are incentives to short fiat.
To not follow the incentives you'd have to break your mind and become what the communists wanted people to become, an incentive non-following creature. Such a creature would end up taken advantage of, enslaved, abused and poor.
Shorting fiat also involves liquidation risk, so you're paying a price for it in the risk and the higher your leverage, the greater the risk.
Perhaps the idea that borrowing fiat to buy bitcoin is unethical is a psyop sowed by the powers that be to keep us from stacking more? Just a thought.
I tend to view it as a game. The goal is to maximize your score, which is the amount of sats stacked. If you don't play it well, others will and you'll be their victim.”
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