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Well yes, but it's cheating.

I want to hear about people's experiences with non-bitcoin currencies to get a sense for what happens in the mind and life when units of account switch.

I feel like there's a kind of caterpillar->->butterfly metamorphosis that happens where that middle stage is a bizarre undefined slurry. It's like you can imagine any currency priced in any other, at **this** moment in time, but there is something confusing about the transition point between those relationships.

An American probably has a very hard time grokking a chart where the USD value is fluctuating against some other "fixed" unit of account (not really fixed because nothing in economic relationships is, but the USD _feels_ fixed when viewing the price charts of everything else. this is my whole point)

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Bill Cypher 3w ago

I kind of feel like the in between is a truer state. The real question always is "how hard do I have to work for a dozen eggs?" or a ribeye or whatever other useful good.

Any unit of account hides that behind a layer of obfuscation. By muddying your default ruler view so you have to convert always it is easier to see through to the true question.

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