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Bitcoin breaks above $20k

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Re: Bitcoin breaks above $20k

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>So billions of dollars of institutional trading means BTC is widely accepted, engaged with, and in use by people and organizations in commerce. So, you said it's a currency. This is a straw man. USD is a good currency because it is widely accepted, engaged with, and in use by people and organizations in commerce. BTC is not a good currency because it is not widely accepted, engaged with, and in use by people and org…

BTC is widely accepted globally, engaged with, and in use, as currency, by people and organizations in commerce. I've given examples of major institutions that prove all of the above is true. Do you have a single reason to believe it's a hobby currency?

The example you gave has organizations converting to USD, a real currency, before doing any transactions. They're catering to your hobby money but using real money instead.

Re: Bitcoin breaks above $20k

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The distribution and difference in hash power speaks otherwise.

That’s not how it works. Miners follow the chain with the most users and highest economic share. Check this article if you want a more accurate depiction of how it went: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-independence-da...

That's over a year ago. Any remaining miners on bitcoin cash have jumped ship: https://bitcoinist.com/miners-abandon-bitcoin-cash-for-bitco...

Re: Bitcoin breaks above $20k

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Producers are subservient to consumer demand. No amount of production can force a consumer who refuses to change their consumption into buying an alternate good. If a town demands exclusively kosher bread, bakers cannot survive by baking non-kosher bread to sell to them. Block producers (miners) must find buyers for the blocks they produce, if they don't find buyers, they go bankrupt. >changes to update the Bitcoin p…

>Block producers (miners) must find buyers for the blocks they produce, if they don't find buyers, they go bankrupt. In a buyers market. With the small block size, bitcoin is a seller's (miner's) market and refusing to upgrade preserves their market power - hence the tragedy of the commons. >You've got it backwards, changes to Bitcoin need to be accepted by block consumers (node operators). The number of bitcoin node…

>In a buyers market. With the small block size, bitcoin is a seller's (miner's) market and refusing to upgrade preserves their market power - hence the tragedy of the commons.

The produced good (SHA256 hashes and the transferable UTXO set of bitcoin nodes) is an excludable, rivalrous good. Hence it doesn't suffers from tragedy of the commons problems. This is the foundation of excludability in economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excludability

"seller's" or "buyer's" "markets" are weak concepts that don't control which goods are produced. If an agent market sells or market buys that doesn't dictate which goods are produced.

Again, no amount of production nor no amount of consumption can get a consumer or producer to shift their consumption or production to a good they do not want.

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