Bitcoin has shown itself to be reliable and steady through the years. We’ve got ways to keep our assets safe from malware, like face verification, 2FA, and email checks.
It’s been used for payments on various goods over time, which is pretty innovative, but the understanding and overall use of Bitcoin still haven’t really spread enough. So, here’s my question: do you believe Bitcoin could eventually outshine the dollar in terms of relevance?
Will Bitcoin surpass the dollar's importance in the future?
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quantumbearHero Member
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#2Jan 25, 2018, 10:39 PM
Definitely you are referring to custodial exchanges and not noncustodial wallets. Not your keys not your coins.
Although some wallets like Electrum and Blockstream Green has 2FA verification. The noncustodial wallet providers will have a server which will have your second or third key.
We do not know the future, but if bitcoin takes over United States dollar, it will be good. For now, I do not think that it can but I know bitcoin value will always increase after a long period of time.
With Bitcoin, you only need Bitcoin mnemonic seed, private key to own your bitcoins, and fully access your coins as well as free to broadcast your Bitcoin transactions.
With Bitcoin, if you are your self custodian, you don't rely on any third party with 2FA, face verification like with banks or centralized exchanges. It's unnecessary and it's risky too.
With Bitcoin wallets for example Electrum, you can have 2FA wallet with 2FA is from TrustedCoin but you can always import the wallet mnemonic seed and disable 2FA if you no longer want to use it from Trustedcoin.
Remove 2FA in Electrum and use Standard Wallet instead.
raven_protoFull Member
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#4Jan 26, 2018, 05:55 AM
Bitcoin doesn't prevent you from malware attacks, actually it's vulnerable against malware attacks.
What you mentioned above are tools to hold Bitcoin, thank to the creators who create exchanges or wallets.
Well I think Bitcoin won't replace Dollar in the future because for most people, Bitcoin isn't the best currency to be used for daily transaction, not to mention government is high likely won't support it.
Checking your addresses many times before broadcasting and finalizing your Bitcoin transactions.
How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V.
With Bitcoin, there are attacks like Address Poisoning Attacks and Dust Attacks which must be known by Bitcoin users.
Bitcoin Address Poisoning Attacks.
What are Address Poisoning Scams?
Dust Attack, what it is, why it is dangerous and how to prevent falling to it.
It doesn't need to.
It just needs to be accepted as an alternative to the traditional system.
quantumwolfFull Member
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#7Jan 26, 2018, 03:51 PM
I don't think bitcoin can take over united states dollar, because dollar is a legal tender and at the same time the fiat currency of united states of America.
Bitcoin was created to serve a special purpose which is decentralization and a store of value.
Though bitcoin is digital currency with it's price in dollar but the purpose is entirely different, because dollar itself is a centralized currency controlled by the US government and there will ever be a time when US government will stop making use of bank and their fiat currency even though bitcoin is in existence.
I believe it can, but not for the reasons you mention, which are more technical in nature, but because more and more people are going to realize the value of bitcoin. People are not aware that saving in dollars means losing money, supposedly 2 or 3% per year, but it is closer to 7 or 10%. In this regard, bitcoin wins hands down. In addition to the ease of being able to transfer it without censorship and the difficulty of confiscating it. Those with money will increasingly seek out bitcoin, while reducing their exposure to fiat currencies to a minimum.
I don't think the question should be put that way: rather, would BTC be able to become such a currency near the Dollar itself? - regulations will make it harder and longer that it should of taken ,but it will happen eventually..
Saying may not be enough to convince them but if you can give them reports based on data, they will have more reasons to believe you.
Bitcoin is inflationary but less inflationary than fiat currencies.
Bitcoin purchasing power has increased with years while fiat currency purchasing power has declined over years.
Purchasing Power of the U.S. Dollar Over Time
How is the 21 Million Bitcoin Cap Defined and Enforced?
If they don't like reading, they can see two charts.
Don't think 2FA, email and face verification will help in all kinds of attack, you don't know about clipboard attack, if you don't crosscheck the address before sending, you lose your asset by sending to the wrong address. Using custodial wallet means giving them the right to protect your asset so they request all that to ensure security, while for non custodial wallet, you don't need KYC or any form of verification, just you and your keys.
Bitcoin is well functional, we've seen adoption based on currency value and we've seen more as investment choice depending on individual preference. Fiat can't be replaced traditionally by Bitcoin, both can coexist with Bitcoin as the alternative, government is the strength behind fiat and they won't tolerate such replacement.
Nothing special about this. Even bank applications makes use of this.
you didn't even mention any reason why Bitcoin can or has the potential to overshadow Fiat.
It is already but many just ain't aware of it.
Many now know that Fiat falls and how it performs in relation to inflation. So they would rather hold Bitcoin or equivalent (not Bitcoin by the way) than investing in Fiat.
Right now I already hear bitcoin more than other currencies in the world from poor countries. So it is totally possible however will we really believe that us will completely be unheard of? The us dollar may decline but it might not completely be irrelevant though it is possible for bitcoin to be the more relevant one than the two in the future.
No, Bitcoin is now heavily used for investment purposes rather than as currency for payment that was supposed to be a rival to USD.
USD and Bitcoin already co-exist that benefits to each other. Theres no way the government that has access to unlimited supply of USD will allow Bitcoin to overshadow it.
Bitcoin is now being regulated so theres no way it will happened.
BasedTokenFull Member
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#15Jan 31, 2018, 02:08 AM
The US dollar plays two major roles in the world economy. It is both a major part of global foreign exchange reserves and the primary currency in global trade transactions. Which role of USD are you referring to or both?
Theoretically, bitcoin could also take on both of those roles instead of the USD, but would it be easy for the US and the world to let bitcoin replace those roles for the USD? That's the problem, because if the world agrees, bitcoin will easily replace the role of the USD, but if not. Bitcoin is unlikely to replace and surpass the importance of the USD in the economy.
chrischainFull Member
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#16Jan 31, 2018, 05:03 AM
Bitcoin would still be used for services, though, even more than now probably, but it wouldn't "kill" the dollar, that's for sure, here I can agree.
For now, the possibility is still small, even impossible, and honestly, I doubt that something like this will happen in the future.
This doesn't mean that Bitcoin's progress isn't good, because regardless, their development is truly excellent at the moment. However, defeating FIAT is clearly not a goal to be achieved, because from the start, this isn't a competition but rather something that can coexist, where Bitcoin is projected to be an option, not a replacement.
Even if it were possible, the main goal is not that, so we shouldn't expect much in this regard. Besides, many people, including the government, would not want this to happen. Furthermore, I prefer Bitcoin to remain as it is now, where its use is still very flexible.
I think you misunderstood something, actually the main opportunity to surpass the dollar is here. Do you know what is holding it back? Let's see, you know that only 21 million Bitcoins can circulate online, in this respect it surpasses the dollar because the government is printing dollars at will. Also, Bitcoin acts as a safe hedge when the fear of inflation is consuming everyone, Bitcoin is also ahead in terms of censorship resistance.
The main problems are malware, phishing. no matter how strong Bitcoin is, if you, the user, are at risk of privacy, cannot safeguard your keys, then your risk in using Bitcoin is the highest because there is no third party to provide security for your funds. Scalability is another problem, meaning that more than 3/7 transactions per second cannot be done, only 3-7 TPS on‐chain i think.
So in many ways we have already surpassed the dollar. All we need now is widespread self-custody education, improved UX wallets, Lightning and payment channel networks that scale poorly, without compromising regulatory clarity, decentralization, and a mechanism to increase merchant adoption globally.
I think it would be very difficult for Bitcoin to be the currency of the world. It seems like the United States might try to make this happen as an alternative to China controlling the world's next reserve currency, but I would be a bit surprised if they could pull it off. We'll find out in the next couple of years I guess what the strategy will be. If this is truly the plan, we're going to need to see a major buy by the government that sends prices much higher and gives them an early lead against the rest of the world in this game theory.
Bitcoin and the dollar are two different things. Bitcoin is money, while the dollar is a currency. There is a clear distinction between money and currency.
Money is a medium that can successfully perform all three essential functions: it serves as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value.
Currency emerged because we did not have a perfect form of money that could fulfill all three functions. Gold was not practical enough to fully serve as money.
Therefore, currencies were create performed two functions a medium of exchange and a unit.Currencies are not stores of value. In the past, currencies were backed by gold, but today they are printed without gold backing.With Bitcoin, we dont need currencies because we have money capable of performing all three functions of money.When you dig deeper into this issue, you realize that the dollar and other fiat currencies, like banks, become completely unnecessary under the new money standard represented by Bitcoin.
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