Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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The_Knight_of_sunset is going to do a post soon and your discussion topic might parallel his topic. His topic based on Monomial’s from a few days ago deals with free energy and gold. If there’s free energy and gold available all over the earth to mine using the free energy, won’t gold go down in price. Before the free energy comes in to play, I think Bitcoin and gold will do well.
With Trump 47 (#19 for those who disregard presidents under the 1871 corporation) the debt has to be dealt with. Do we get a “cold turkey” 1929 great crash and a bankruptcy to discharge debts and a great revaluation? If yes, then Bitcoin if mass adapted will do alright and America’s growth in tech, oil, and farming, then Bitcoin should balance out well with growth and prosperity free from speculative debt-based endeavors. Other cryptocurrencies and blockchains that have utility, real purpose for tech or other commerce reasons will do well, and this fits in with the Austrian School of free market economics that competition is good and decentralized currency works best.
It would be nice to have an expert economist use the Looking Glass and tell us how the future goes.