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> cash decays every time it changes hands. Is it all a negative sum game

Currency trading is negative sum. (Zero sum less friction.) So are most derivatives.

One must encapsulate broader effects to find a net gain. Incorporating crypto’s benefit to the poor is such an attempt.



>Incorporating crypto’s benefit to the poor is such an attempt.

What benefit is that? Not speculative, maybe in the future benefit, but current, concrete, demonstrable benefit.


> What benefit is that?

I don’t see one, but that’s a separate discussion. The narrow one is that every crypto-trader’s gain comes at another’s loss. Cash in and out of the system is entirely conserved across all timelines.




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