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Bitcoin Is Not Sound Money
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, SchiffGold.comHe critiques the American obsession with crypto, warns about leveraged Bitcoin collapses, and explains how banks would treat tokenized gold very differently from tokenized dollars or Bitcoin.
He opens by reminding listeners what "sound money" originally meant and why gold fit that description in everyday commerce:
But number two, when you look at an actual gold standard when people were conducting commerce in gold, if you wanted to buy something you didn't just walk in with a big chunk of gold; you used coins, usually minted by the government, which were easily recognizable as legitimate legal tender. And so you knew that they were real; you didn't have to bother to study it. I mean you could just compare it to one that you already had, make sure it looks exactly the same, you could drop it on the table and make sure it makes the right sound compared to the sound that the coin you have makes.
Peter next points out the U.S. skew in Bitcoin adoption and the economic cost of pouring so many resources into unproductive crypto ventures:
I mean they talk incessantly about Bitcoin and they rarely mentioned gold. But I'm talking about the media in the United States and American citizens because I think Americans are disproportionately invested in Bitcoin. In fact, I think more than half of all the Bitcoin owners in the world live in the United States. And so obviously we're a small percent of the world's population, yet we have more than half of the world's Bitcoin. We have created a lot more Bitcoin companies than other nations have, and so when all those companies go bankrupt, which of course they will, it's going to have a more adverse impact on our economy.




