herein lies the issue
btc doesn't have history of use
we're just getting started
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But there ARE other hard currencies and millenia of use and debasement of those to study. BTC is the hardest currency yet, but... It's still used to do the same things. It's NOT that different than gold/silver/cows/beads. The way it can be used is easier/faster/more secure, but, it's still just a store of value that is all the good things that hard money is. So, yeah, we're just getting started, but... It's not like there's no precedent.
and that historical precedent shows the promotion and develppment of bad stuff
it's not the money, it's what bad people do with it
"Those pollutants and malfeasance are only able to proliferate through fiat policies"
only
because that's all there is
Not all the time. Currently, yes, but, that has not always been the case.
No? Aside from waging war to gather resources, it costs a lot to do bad things that most people don't want done. You can ONLY do that by debasing hard money or sliding into fiat. Hard money puts very firm limits on the badness that can be done at one time. EVERY time a civilisation/country starts to dabble in wholesale war, it can only be accomplished through evil means, usually starting with devaluing the money to increase supply. BTC can effectively put an end to that, but... That's not going to stop the current System yet.