Bitcoin Adoption, Not China's Central Bank, is What Underlies Legitimacy

Bitcoin Adoption, Not China's Central Bank, is What Underlies Legitimacy

The bitcoin 'China Syndrome' fills the news these days with attempts by Chinese authorities to steer bitcoin legitimacy. This gives us an excellent opportunity to contemplate and reiterate the core attributes of bitcoin's overall strength. Bitcoin shows that national fiat money systems are an artificial construct. The debates around regulation are really restrictions on getting into or out of the US dollar rather than getting into or out of bitcoin. Dollar and other national currency endpoints will always be regulated. Aside from the fact that bitcoin survives and outlasts political....


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