Bitcoin misguided fear money creation

Last Updated: December 17, 2015, 07:54 IST Bitcoin misguided fear government money creation How promising is Bitcoin as a currency? This paper discusses four claims on the advantages of Bitcoin: a more stable currency than state-backed ones; a secure and efficient payment system; a credible alternative to the central management of money; and a better protection of transaction privacy. We discuss these arguments by relating them to their philosophical roots in libertarian and neoliberal theories, and assess whether Bitcoin can effectively meet these expectations. We conclude that despite its advocates' enthusiasm, there are good reasons to doubt that Bitcoin can fulfill its promises and act as a functioning currency, rather than as a mere speculative asset.

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First, the use of transactions as the driver of future Bitcoin emissions is questionable, given the tenuous correlation between transactions and mining energy use. It is well established that energy use is driven by the computational difficulty of the blocks mined whereas the number of transactions per block can evolve (for example, via SegWit) with no direct effect on block mining difficulty. The authors themselves calculate Bitcoin energy use and emissions in 2017 on the basis of block difficulty, not the number of transactions. Without explanation, the authors switch to transactions as the driver for projecting future emissions, undermining their methodological consistency and the integrity of their projections. Photographer Roger Kisby documented the thousands of crypto fans who flocked to Miami for Bitcoin 2021, America’s first major tech conference since the pandemic started. 3For more details on the logic and self-organizing dynamics of the creation of material money, see Chap. 4, Nishibe (2016).