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Well, I'm not quite that optimistic. The only way the US crashes is if it stops being the best option out there. If the EU and the euro, or China and the yuan, or India and the rupee become better options than the US and the dollar, then people will stop holding so many dollars, and the US will be in trouble. That is a thing that can happen, even though it hasn't in 80 years.


Exactly, I really like your style and thinking, AnimalMuppet.

My fear for 10+ years has been that another county or block will start a gold, commody or electronic based currency and the world will flood to the backed currency dumping USD as fast as possible. Bitcoin ALMOST became that black hole of USD before Adam Back's Blockstream was able to sucessfully hijack the BTC GitHub repo and inject hacks like SegWit and RBF that essentially killed BTC as a currency.

USD doesn't have to die, just something slightly better has to come along.




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