Yes to both questions. But Saif didn't write the Holy Sacred Book, he just put his very valid opinions together. Which I share to a very large extent. I just think that you can have money that's currency, and money that's store of value, that they don't *need* to be conflated and that in BTC's case, they clearly aren't.
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Why trade an abstraction of the thing, when you can trade the actual thing itself?
I’m not sure the reasoning: do you think the currency has to bleed value to encourage people to spend it? Or do you think there is a technical limitation of bitcoin?
The second. The first, as you said, is what Keynesians believe, and I don't share it.
Ok I misunderstood your position then, I thought you were saying bitcoin can’t be a medium of exchange because it stores value.
Technically I don’t think we need currency to scale bitcoin. Fedi mints, LN, or something else can do this much better.
And I can’t say that I’ve ever not been able to make a transaction that I wanted to make because I couldn’t , because fees or something prevented me. I have however passed on using Stablecoins because of the high slippage and difficulty getting rid of the excess change